Winter Morning Time Plans
How to Use these plans
Thanks so much for downloading our Winter Morning Time plans. Our hope is that these plans
will guide you as you do Morning Time with your family. While they can be followed to the
letter, they are much better adapted to your family’s preferences and needs. Move subjects
around, add your own special projects, or leave subjects out entirely. These are meant to be
helpful, not stressful.
The poems, prayer, and memorization sheets in this introductory section can be copied
multiple times for your memory work binders. Feel free to print as many as you need.
Companion Web Page
For links to all the books, videos, resources, and tutorials in these plans, please visit: Morning
Time Plans Winter 1
Choosing a Schedule
We have included two different schedules for you to choose from. You can choose the regular
weekly grid that schedules to subjects onto different days for you, or you can choose the loop
schedule option.
With the loop schedule you will do Prayer and Memorization daily. Work on each prayer and
Shakespeare piece until your family has it memorized and then move on to the next.
After Prayer and Memorization each day choose one to three other activities from the Loop
List. Skip the ones you don’t want to do and keep track by checking off the subject square.
Subject by Subject
Prayer - Read the entire prayer each day of the week. After a couple of days have children
recite with you what they know. You will be surprised how quickly they learn it.
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Memorization - We have chosen to use the book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare for
memorization. This book is a gem that will help you expand your children’s knowledge of
Shakespeare and your own. There is a good chance that your library will have this book if you
do not wish to purchase it.
The book outlines a method for how to memorize passages. You can also access printable
versions of the passages highlighting Ludwig’s technique at
howtoteachyourchildrenshakespeare.com.
Listen to Ken Ludwig on Your Morning Basket Episode 21.
You can also access Your Morning Basket Episode 2 for more memorization help or try a new
memory technique by listening to Your Morning Basket Episode 24.
Poetry - Read the poem with your family. Enjoy. It’s really that easy! You might also:
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Have them close their eyes and after the reading tell what they pictured in their
mind.
Draw a picture to go with the poem.
Ask what was their favorite part.
Ask what was their favorite word.
For more on poetry listen to Your Morning Basket Episode 8 and download our poetry cheat
sheet here.
Music Appreciation - The link with the hymn name links to the Hymns at Home website where
you can see information about the hymn. Also there are links to a YouTube video that makes it
easy for you to learn and sing the hymn, as well as lyrics, and more information about the
hymn.
The second link in the plans goes to a YouTube video that displays a variation of the hymn in a
different musical style. This is the one you use for music appreciation. Have students listen to
the selection quietly and then use the questions below to compare the pieces.
How Firm a Foundation by Fernando Ortega • Also enjoy this Classics for Kids podcast about
how this hymn and others are used in classical compositions.
Be Thou My Vision by The Web Family with Violin and Harp • This is a very peaceful version of
this hymn. The harp is an ancient instrument. Find out more about it here and here.
The Solid Rock by the Cadet Sisters • This is a female a capella version. How does listening to
the hymn without instruments increase or decrease your enjoyment of it?
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Needed Resources and Supplies
If an additional resource is needed to complete the subject, we have listed it below. Many of
these resources will be used again in future Morning Time plans.
If you choose not to use a particular resource, you can omit that subject from your plans or
make your own substitution. Be sure to check your library for some of these resources as well.
We have included links to these for easy access on the resource page for these plans.
Memorization
How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Poetry
Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold
Nature Study
Coping with the Cold
Math
Moebius Noodles
Books
Use the links on the resource page to purchase our selections, find
them at your library using the printable book list, or substitute
something similar from your bookshelf.
Art Supplies
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Quarry tile or unglazed ceramic tile - Available at most hardware stores
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Crayons
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Watercolor paints
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Tempera paints
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Oil pastels
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Painter’s tape
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Elmer’s School Glue Gel
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Acrylic paint in 1-3 colors
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Paintbrushes
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Fabric or T-shirt for Batik project
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Printable Book List
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
The Poet’s Dog by Patricia MacLachlan
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Illustrated by Susan Jeffers
The Lord's Prayer by Tim Ladwig
Seeing Symmetry by Loreen Leedy
Hymns for a Kid's Heart, Vol. 1 by Joni Eareckson Tada and Bobbie Wolgemuth
American Scenes by Robert Whiteside
The Peregrine's Journey: A Story of Migration by Madeleine Dunphy
The Journey: Stories of Migration by Cynthia Rylant
Printing from a Stone: The Story of Lithography by S. Carl Hirsch
Birdsongs by Betsy Franco
Let's Fly a Kite (MathStart 2) by Stuart J. Murphy
Backyard Birds of Winter by Carol Lerner
Emily by Michael Bedard
Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson
Shapes in Art: Level 3 by Julia Wall
White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton
The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri
In the Snow: Who's Been Here? by Lindsay Barrett George
Annie and the Wild Animals by Jan Brett
Poetry for Young People: Alfred, Lord Tennyson by John Maynard
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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Week 1
Day 1
Day 2
Prayer
Day 4
Day 5
The Lord’s Prayer or The Our Father
Memorization
Poetry
Day 3
How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare • Passage 1 from Chapter 4
“Stopping By
Woods on A
Snowy
Evening” by
Robert Frost
Fine Arts
Music
Appreciation:
“How Firm a
Foundation”
Fernando Ortega
Version
Picture Study:
The Life of a
Hunter
Nature Study
Art: Watch this very basic video
about lithography. If you want a bit
more information, this video is a
good place to start. Begin to sketch
a drawing for your own lithographic
project.
Coping with the Cold: Migration Nature Journal pg. 39
Math
Read the
book, Seeing
Symmetry by
Loreen Leedy
or Go to
MathisFun to
read about
the different
kinds of
symmetry.
Picture Books
Stopping by
Woods on a
Snowy
Evening
Hymns for a Kid's
Heart, Vol. 1
Seeing
Symmetry
American Scenes
The Peregrine's
Journey: A Story
of Migration
Printing from a
Stone: The Story
of Lithography
The Journey:
Stories of
Migration
Chapter Book Reading Suggestions:
Miracles on Maple Hill (1-2) OR
The Poet’s Dog (1-2)
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Math
Music
Appreciation
Picture Study
Reflectional symmetry: This is perhaps the easiest
symmetry to find. Think about shapes with
reflectional symmetry. Hearts, snowflakes (although
they also have rotational symmetry which we will
get to next week), Christmas trees, humans, most
animals, some letters and numbers. Try the Double
Doodle Zoo activities on pages 15-17 of Moebius
Noodles.
Let's Fly a Kite (MathStart 2)
Seeing Symmetry
Be Thou My Vision
The Web Family with Violin and Harp
This is a very peaceful version of this hymn. The
harp is an ancient instrument. Find out more about
it here and here.
Central Park Winter
Art
Lithography is a type of printing that uses the
principle that oil and water don’t mix to produce
inked images. Try the very simple lithography
mentioned in last week’s video with a tile and a
crayon. If you don’t have the supplies, do a simple
crayon resist using one of your sketches from last
week.
Printing from a Stone: The
Story of Lithography
Nature Study
Coping with the Cold: Winter Birds - Do the firstthird activities on pg. 14. Use Nature Journal pgs.
42-43
Backyard Birds of Winter
Reading Aloud
The Lord's Prayer
Miracles on Maple Hill (3-4) OR
The Poet’s Dog (3-4)
Poetry
“The Snow” by Emily Dickinson
Emily
Poetry for Kids: Emily
Dickinson
Math
Talk about Line of Symmetry and do the Symmetry
Artist activity on the computer. Children may need
to take turns making theirs on the computer. Those
who are waiting can use a folded piece of paper
and paint, or a mirror to see symmetry of drawings.
Music
The Solid Rock
Cadet Sisters
How does listening to the hymn without
instruments increase or decrease your enjoyment
of it?
Appreciation
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