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. 

We enjoy an Aesop's fable about how we can destroy all we love by trying to get rich...followed by three lovely poems! 

Our Aesop's fables come from The Aesop for Children by Aesop; by Milo Winter.

Poems:

The Shortest Month, Adeline Whitney

Animal Crackers, Christopher Morley (Songs for a Little House, 1917)

Frigit temperatures today with a layer of snow upon the world? Let's hear some poems about snow, play a game, and hear about a city mouse and a country mouse!

Our Aesop's Fable is taken from: 

Let's hear from some great minds of the past as they describe what our nation's prosperity is based upon, and as they pray for our nation! 

Today, we read an Aesop's Fable from Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book, and two poems that have you observe nature closely! How would you describe the tail of an animal you see? How would you describe the sound your footsteps make on your next nature walk? 

Let's welcome the New Year with some wonderful poems and an Aesop's Fable about doing what you say you will do!

Note: In one of the poems, New Year Snow, by Edith Nesbit, a winding-sheet is mentioned.  A winding-sheet is a burial cloth.  It is compared to a bridal veil.  One takes away the old and dying and the other welcomes the new! 

Hear the story of Mary Chilton, a girl on the Mayflower, presented by Mrs. Karen Christophersen!  

What a necessary phrase! Let's learn a series and use the question "Who will....?" as we continue in learning The Little Red Hen in Mandarin! 

We have two poems about giving thanks, and an Aesop's fable today!  Enjoy this special week!