Heidi

Tales

Arts EN ↓ 61 episodes

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/  

Author

Heidi

Category

Arts

Podcast website

www.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Feb 16, 2026

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Episodes

Much Ado About Nothing Finale 16.02.2026

Whew! Will the couples in love ever make it out of this journey of lies alive? Today we will see! 

Hero Receives a Wedding Shock 09.02.2026

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.

Beauty in the Sky + Romance Turns Sour 02.02.2026

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!

Poems of Stars, and Merry Tricks in Shakespeare 26.01.2026

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? 

Can the Sun Hear You? Leonato Can! 19.01.2026

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!

Wintery Poems and A Shakespeare Comedy 12.01.2026

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!

The Wolf and the Lean Dog 10.11.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

The Peacock 03.11.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

The Stag and His Reflection 27.10.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

The Travelers and the Sea 20.10.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

The Wolf and the Sheep 13.10.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

The Lion, the Bear and the Fox 06.10.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

The Monkey and the Camel 29.09.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

The Ants and the Grasshopper 22.09.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

The Crow and The Pitcher 15.09.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

The Hare & the Tortoise 08.09.2025

Today we enjoy an Aesop's Fable and poetry from Christina Rossetti!

Two Mules and A Game of Cards 19.05.2025

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: https://www.buzzsprout.com/932794/episodes/3311893-friday-from-indus-to-independence.mp3?

Boasting Didn't Help the Fox 13.05.2025

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 Kids!!!  All 21 resources in language, nature, science, history studies, baking, and preschool resources only $14!! FIND THE LINK HERE:  https://www.as...

Cinco de Mayo May Poems and Two Goats 05.05.2025

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 love the poems we have found there!   Also, we are using  https://www.theitalianexperiment.com  for our guest language of the term (we have one "guest" lang...

April's Almost Gone! 28.04.2025

Enjoy an Aesop's Fable: THE SHEEP AND THE PIG One 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 Shepherd laid his hands on it. You would have thought, to hear the loud squealing, that the Pig was being cruelly hurt. But in spite of its squeals and struggles to escape,...

The Complaining Wheels 21.04.2025

THE OXEN AND THE WHEELS A 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 different sort. Though the task they had to do was very light compared with that of the Oxen, they creaked and groaned at every turn. The poor Oxen, pulling with all their might to dr...

A Golden Egg, Rain, and Holy Week 14.04.2025
Welcome March! 03.03.2025

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

The Farmer and the Stork 24.02.2025

The AESOP's Fable today teaches us about keeping good company, and our poetry invites us to keep peace with our siblings!

Invent Something! 18.02.2025

Let's read an Aesop's Fable about ingenuity, and hear about how a spider used his ingenuity for something not so lovely in the poem, "The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt. 

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