Tales
Enjoy fairy tales, folk tales, foreign tales, faith tales with a tasty sprinkling of poetry mixed in! All students are invited! Charlotte Mason Form I students will especially enjoy these tales hand-picked for them!
Sources:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19994/pg19994-images.html#Page_21
https://rainydaypoems.com/poems-for-kids/poems-for-kids-by-robert-louis-stevenson/a-good-play-by-robert-louis-stevenson/
Episodes
60 episodes
Hero Receives a Wedding Shock
We continue with two ocean-themed poems by Christina Rossetti. Our Shakespeare play - Much Ado About Nothing - doesn't cease to thrill with a new plot to find out if Claudio truly loved Hero.
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9:32
Beauty in the Sky + Romance Turns Sour
With a poem on Christina Rossetti and a Shakespeare Retelling of Much Ado About Nothing - it's a meaningful Monday! Our play takes a turn for the worse as a truly malicious uncle plots against the two who are to be wed!
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6:26
Poems of Stars, and Merry Tricks in Shakespeare
Christina Rossetti provides us with two poems about stars. Much Ado About Nothing continues with now a merry trick being pulled on the witty Beatrice. Will she fall for it?
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5:38
Can the Sun Hear You? Leonato Can!
Poems on the sun and moon by Christina Rossetti begin this episode, followed by the plot thickening in Much Ado About Nothing. Perhaps Claudio shouldn't have been impatient for his wedding!
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9:33
Wintery Poems and A Shakespeare Comedy
This term, we'll read some stirring poems by Christina Rossetti, full of imagery. We will follow a retelling of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing for the next six weeks! Follow along with us!
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11:11
The Wolf and the Lean Dog
Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!
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3:40
The Stag and His Reflection
Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!
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3:29
The Travelers and the Sea
Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!
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3:11
The Lion, the Bear and the Fox
Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!
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3:38
The Ants and the Grasshopper
Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!
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3:07
The Hare & the Tortoise
Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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2:50
Two Mules and A Game of Cards
Today we read about Two Mules for our Aesop's Fable, and we hear a Christina Rossetti Poem "The Queen of Hearts". Hear about the country with salt problems, on Brilliant Mornings, here:
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5:28
Boasting Didn't Help the Fox
Today we read an Aesop's Fable about a boastful fox, and two poems - one is our favorite, called The Swing, by Robert Lewis Stevenson! Also - FOR 3 DAYS ONLY AMAZING HOMESCHOOL RESOURCES GIVEAWAY including our own ARTIFACT History Magazine for ...
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6:24
Cinco de Mayo May Poems and Two Goats
Aesop helps us figure out what to do when you and a friend or sibling just cannot back down in a disagreement!Today we also have two wonderful poems about May! Please see Amblesideonline.org for more excellent poetry selections! We...
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3:53
April's Almost Gone!
Enjoy an Aesop's Fable:THE SHEEP AND THE PIGOne day a shepherd discovered a fat Pig in the meadow where his Sheep were pastured. He very quickly captured the porker, which squealed at the top of its voice the moment the She...
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2:30
The Complaining Wheels
THE OXEN AND THE WHEELSA pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road. They had to use all their strength to pull the wagon, but they did not complain.The Wheels of the wagon were of a differen...
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3:14
Welcome March!
Today we hear an Aesop's Fable about boys throwing stones at frogs, and two wonderful poems: Written in March, by William Wordsworth To March, by Emily Dickinson
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5:27
The Farmer and the Stork
The AESOP's Fable today teaches us about keeping good company, and our poetry invites us to keep peace with our siblings!
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2:47