Description
Bring joy and beauty to your homeschool mornings with this Birds Morning Time Curriculum, a Charlotte Mason-inspired 4-week study designed to help your family explore the wonders of birds through art, music, poetry, and Scripture. Perfect for families with children from elementary through high school, this Charlotte Mason morning time curriculum nurtures truth, beauty, and goodness while encouraging a love for God’s creation.
Each lesson in this Birds morning time curriculum is thoughtfully curated and ready to use- no prep required. Your family will learn fascinating facts about birds, enjoy poetry that celebrates their songs and flight, listen to classical music inspired by birdsong, and engage in gentle lessons that cultivate observation and wonder.
Everything is organized for you, making it simple to print, gather your children, and enjoy peaceful, connection-filled mornings together.
The following are included in your 4-week morning time session:
- 4-week Calendar with each subject scheduled on it
- Prayer and scripture memorization
- Copywork selections from 1 Peter 5:7, Matthew 6:25-33, Ode to a Nightingale, by John Keats, and To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley in primary, elementary, cursive, and a notebook sheet for high school students (and moms)
- Memory Work: Prayer, scripture memory, and poetry memorization
- Living Books recommended reading list
- Artist & Picture Study: John James Audubon with four printable art pieces
- Composer Study: Olivier Messiaen with four classical bird-themed pieces (+ listening links)
- Bird Poetry Study: Four famous bird poems: Ode to a Nightingale, by John Keats, and To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A Bird, Came Down the Walk, by Emily Dickinson
- Hymn Study: His Eye Is On the Sparrow, with sheet music and listening links
- Folk Song Study: The Old Carrion Crow with sheet music and listening links
- 4 Bird-Themed Teatime Recipes: Hummingbird Cake, Birdseed Cookies, Granola Nests and Egg Salad Tea Sandwiches
- 5 Bird-Themed Teatime Reading: The Bluebird, by Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d’Aulnoy, The Golden Bird, by the Brothers Grimm, The Lark and Her Young, by Aesop, and The Raven,by Edgar Allan Poe
- Geography: Seabird, by Holling C. Holling
- Handicraft: Birdseed Cakes
- Art Lesson: Wood Thrush in acrylics
- Nature study: Birds
- Shakespeare: The Ornithology of Shakespeare, by James Edmund Harting
- The Burgess Bird Book for Children, by Thornton Burgess
- John James Audubon’s first three volumes of Ornithological Biography
- And more!
Experience the delight of bird study in your homeschool mornings and watch your children grow in curiosity, attentiveness, and appreciation for the natural world.
Upon purchase, you will receive LIFETIME ACCESS to this session. PLEASE NOTE: The downloadable delivery and forever access of this product makes it non-refundable.
Individual morning time sessions are for personal family use only and cannot be shared among families or a co-op; sharing among families or co-ops is not allowed. Thank you for adhering to our policy.
