Welcome to the Anthropomorphism Morning Time Session!
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Schedule
Recommended Books
Prayer & Scripture Memorization
For Bible reading, we will make suggestions for your morning time reading. However, if you’d prefer a more in depth schedule, we recommend checking out various plans that will help you read the Bible through.
For a one-year plan, we recommend YouVersion’s One Year Bible: https://www.bible.com/readingplans/60. You can also listen to it being read aloud on the app.
Download a two-year reading plan from the Gospel Coalition here:
https://media.thegospelcoalition.org/static-blogs/tgc/files/2010/12/TGC-Two-Year-Bible-ReadingPlan1.pdf
If you prefer to go even slower, Ambleside Online offers three, four, and five-year Bible reading
plans: https://www.amblesideonline.org/L/Lbiblesch.html
This session, we will learn the Prayer by Christina Rossetti and focus on writing and memorizing Matthew 3:16-17.
Artist Study
This session’s featured artist is Giuseppe Arcimboldo. We’ve included four art selections for your kids and teens to use for picture study. They are:
- Spring (1563)
- Summer (1563)
- Autumn (1573)
- Winter (1563)
Composer Study
Our featured composer is Camille Saint-Saëns. We’ve included one of his pieces (with a link) to listen to. It is:
- The Carnival of the Animals
Listen to the piece below:
The Carnival of the Animals
The Carnival of the Animals – Finale Animated short from Disney’s Fantasia 2000
Hymn/Folk Song
Hymn
The hymn for this session is, “All Creatures of our God and King.” It was originally written in 1225 by St. Francis of Assisi, but it was translated into English by William Draper sometime between 1899 and 1919. Draper initially translated it for a children’s festival at his church, and it was later published in a 1919 hymn book. It is one of the oldest hymns still in use today.
Listen to the music and sing along with it below:
All Creatures of Our God and King (2012) | The Tabernacle Choir
All Creatures of Our God and King • Prayers of the Saints Live
Folk Song
Our folk song for this session is “My Grandfather’s Clock“.
“My Grandfather’s Clock” is a traditional English folk song first published in 1876 by Henry Clay
Work, and popularized by Johnny Cash’s rendition of it. The song tells the story of a grandfather clock that was built by the narrator’s grandfather. This clock belonged to the narrator’s grandfather throughout his life, chiming during important events in his history, until it finally stopped working upon his passing.
Listen and sing along with it below:
Johnny Cash – My Grandfathers Clock
Poetry
This session’s featured poet is Lewis Carroll. We’ve included four poetry selections for your kids and teens to read, listen to, memorize, and recite. They are:
- Jabberwocky
- The Crocodile
- The Mouse’s Tale
- The Walrus and the Carpenter
For copywork, we have included Zaner-Bloser style handwriting sheets for primary, elementary, and cursive, as well as college-ruled for older students. The poems we have chosen are:
- Jabberwocky
- The Crocodile
- The Mouse’s Tale
Copywork
Tea Times
In this session, we are giving you four recipes with our hospitality tea: Pancake Men, Gator Butters, Fruit and Veggie Faces, and Fruit Pizzas.
We will also have two Storytime teas, a Mythology teatime, and a fable teatime:
Storytime Tea 1: The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Storytime Tea 2: Wind in the Willows, Chapter IV: “Mr. Toad” by Kenneth Grahame
Mythology Teatime: Tanglewood Tales, Chapter 1: “The Minotaur” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fable Teatime: The Adventures of Reddy Fox, Chapter II: “Granny Shows Reddy a Trick” by Thornton W. Burgess
Shakespeare
For our Shakespeare selection, we have chosen “A Midsummer Night’s Dream“.
Read it from Edith Nesbit’s “Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare” in the following pages. We also recommend reading the actual play together as a family if you can.
Your older kids and teens may enjoy watching a movie adaptation (please pre-screen these first). And if you can take in a live performance, your family will never forget it!
We are including a link below to watch a pre-recorded stage performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”:
Watch a performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream“ by The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival below:
Nature Study
Each Friday morning, you will go through two of our nature cards. They are labeled in the upper right corner with the corresponding week. These are short, factual cards with images to help your child become familiar with objects in the natural world.
As you progress through our sessions, you may find it handy to keep your past nature cards in a binder for easy reference when your children come across a familiar object. These seeds you are planting will grow into a wonderful garden of knowledge for your children in years to come.
As you explore nature outside your home, watch and listen for newly discovered delights.
Handicraft
For our handicraft lesson, we will be creating a felt fox plush!
This activity is more suited for older kids, however younger children can still enjoy with help from someone older. Pick out fun colors or patterns and use buttons or beads to accessorize! You can also use leftover felt scraps to make scarves or hats.
Art Lesson
In this lesson, we paint a picture inspired by Redwall: Matthias with Martin the Warrior’s sword, Ratdeath.
Supplies needed:
- 8×10 inch canvas
- Acrylic paints (red, green, white, brown, tan, yellow, black, gray)
- Assorted paint brushes
- Paper plate, paper towel, cup of water
History & Geography
There is no History or Geography for this session.
Solfa
Charlotte Mason incorporated solfa lessons twice a week for about 10 minutes each. These lessons are intended to be repeated and you can stay on any lesson for as long as you like. Here is the YouTube channel Lara and her boys enjoy and recommend for practicing solfa, Children of the Open Air:
Brush Drawing
Brush drawing builds motor and observation skills. We have included a link to videos by Bestowing the Brush below, which are great for all ages to learn together:
