Tales

How do you remember the words for "rat"; "pig"; and "cat" in Mandarin?  Here are some helpful hints and a song to help you understand "The Little Red Hen" in Mandarin! Special guest: Hsuehwen Chou

Explore the folk tale of Hercules and the Wagoner and discuss: does God help those who help themselves?  What do you think of this concept? Is it in the Bible?   We also hear about how people lived in Greece when kingdoms were small, over a thousand years B.C.  Discuss: how was slavery viewed? How was slavery different in the United States? 

From Germany comes a delightfully humorous fairy tale of four animals seeking to form a band, who instead discover a band of robbers.  Will they oust the robbers from their den? Find out on today's Fairy Tale Friday! 

You get to hear my lovely lesson with Mrs. Hsuehwen as we learn the phrase "Hen picked up a seed" in Mandarin.  Remember, we are aiming to understand the basic vocabulary in the folk tale "The Little Red Hen" which you can hear on last Wednesday's episode.  We tackle this one sentence in the tale today.  You can repeat this as many times as you need to so that you begin to...

Today we practice a Charlotte Mason activity on keen listening, and hear "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" by Eric M.;  Luca M. reads our poetry by Christina Rossetti! Thank you to these two incredible readers!!

Enjoy the second half of Beauty and the Beast from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang! Read by Heidi Illian

It's WONDER-FILLED Wednesday! Today we begin the amazing journey of learning the folk tale "The Little Red Hen" in MANDARIN!  Even if you're second language is not Mandarin, this is an amazing opportunity to expand your language learning and expose yourself to a language spoken in China and Taiwan! The brain LOVES, also NEEDS to learn new languages!  This lesson is a bit longer...

Today we jump into a new week with a new Aesop's Fable, "The Monkey and the Dolphin", followed by "The Parents and Boyhood of Ulysses" from Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang.  Enjoy these awesome tales! 

It's Fairy Tale Friday! Today we hear part one of Beauty and the Beast, as told in The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. 

Today we are introduced to just one word in Mandarin - "Hen" in preparation for "The Little Red Hen" Folk Tale!  

Today we enjoy the following... Aesop's Fable: The Bundle of Sticks Poems:  A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson  September by Helen Hunt Jackson