The Early Years Classics Program Additional Learning Resources.

Find lessons A - I on this page, by scanning the QR Codes on the lesson plans in our curriculum.

Pair this whole curriculum up with the children’s book "On Market Street” by Arnold & Anita Lobel



APPLES:

ACTIVITIES:

Read: One Red Apple by Harriet Ziefert

Additional Books:

Color: Apple Colouring Page

Write: Apple Worksheets

Cook: Classic Apple Crisp

Phonics Review: a, p, pp

Notebook:

Write or dictate a sentence about buying apples at the market, and what color they are.

  • Draw a picture of themselves with their apples from the market, what they hope to make with their apples or maybe they are under an apple tree.

  • Enjoy the Art Appreciation of “Apples in a Basket" by Helen Augusta Hamburger for more art inspiration.

Art:

Apple Stamping - cut your apples, gather paint on a pallet or a paper plate and have kids create art with apple stamps.

+ Your Early Years Big Book of ABC Poems - Create your own ABC Book to save at the end of this unit. Today write a poem for A is for... using the included templates in this unit.


Poetry:
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree,

Another, on the Roof,

A Half Dozen kissed the Eaves,

And made the Gables laugh.

~Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Emily Dickenson was born December 10th, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was a poet and would often include poems in her letters to friends. The first of her works was published a few years after her passing, in 1890.

Read the book "Emily Writes" by Jane Yolen to learn more about her.

Educational Videos:

 

BOOKS:

Pair with "On Market Street” by Arnold & Anita Lobel

Activities:
Read: The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers

Additional Books:

Let Me Finish by Minh Le

Red Knit Cap Girl and the Reading Tree by Naoko Stoop

Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown

Bunny's Book Club by Annie Silvestro

Color: Books Colouring Page

Write: Books Worksheet

Cook: Caramel Sauce to serve with apple slices

Phonics Review: b, oo, k

Notebook:

Write or dictate a story about a magical book you found at the market.

  • Draw a picture of your magical book.

  • Enjoy the Art Appreciation of "Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass with a Book” by Vincent van Gogh for more art inspiration.

Art:

Book Stack Book End Craft - Go to your local used book store, and search for some old books. Take them home, and hot glue them together, in a stack design of your choice. Place them on your book shelf, as a book end. You can decorate them more if you'd like, perhaps with a foam apple on top.

+Your Early Years Big Book of ABC Poems - Create your own ABC Book to save at the end of this unit. Today write a poem for B is for... using the included templates in this unit.

Poetry:

“Reading"

A Story is a special thing.

The ones that I have read,

They do not stay inside the books.

They stay inside my head.

~Marchette Chute (1909-1994)

Marchette Chute was an American writer. As a biographer, she specialized in English literary figures; she published biographies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare. As a children's writer, she specialized in tales written during the periods described in her biographies, and in rhyming verses for children.

Optional: Read the book “The Wonderful Winter" by Marchette Chute to read a fun story about William Shakespeare. Pair up with our William Shakespeare Spotlight in our Adventures in England, week 1.

Educational Videos:

 

CLOCKS

Activities:

Read: Clocks and How They Go by Gail Gibbons

Additional Books:

  • Clocks and More Clocks by Pat Hutchins

  • Second Is A Hiccup by Hazel Hutchins

  • It's About Time! by Stuart J. Murphy

  • Telling Time by David A. Adler

  • The Clock Struck One: A Time-Telling Tale by Trudy Harris

  • A Second, a Minute, a Week with Days in It: A Book about Time by Brian P. Cleary

  • The Noisy Clock Shop by Jean Berg

  • What's the Time, Mr Wolf? by Debi Gliori

  • The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Color: Clocks Colouring Page

Write: Clocks Worksheet

Cook: Sugar Cookie Clocks

Phonics Review: cl, ck

Notebook:

Write or dictate a story about a magical clock you found at the market, or somewhere else.

  • Draw a picture of your magical clock.

  • Enjoy the Art Appreciation of "Clock” by Marc Chagall for more art inspiration.

Art:

Make your own clock - Using paper plates, balloons, clay and toys, rainbow colours, wooden disks, and more. Use your imagination to build your very own clock! Scan the code to find more ideas for this project.

Pair this lesson up with our Big Ben Lesson in our Adventures in England.

+Your Early Years Big Book of ABC Poems - Create your own ABC Book to save at the end of this unit. Today write a poem for C is for... using the included templates in this unit.

Poetry:

Hickory, dickory, dock.

The mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck one,

The mouse ran down,

Hickory, dickory, dock

"Hickory Dickory Dock" is a popular English nursery rhyme first published in London 1744, with the opening line: 'Hickere, Dickere Dock'. The next recorded version in Mother Goose's Melody in 1765, and uses the name 'Dickery, Dickery Dock'.

Did you know that the rhyme is thought to have been based on the astronomical clock at Exeter Cathedral in England? The clock has a small hole in the door below the face for the resident cat to hunt mice.

Educational Videos:


 

Donuts:

Activities:

Read: If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff

Additional Books:

  • Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller

  • The Donut Chef by Bob Staake

  • Dozens of Doughnuts by Carrie Finison

  • The Hole Story of the Doughnut by Pat Miller

  • Who Needs Donuts? by Mark Alan Stamaty

  • Please, Mr. Panda by Steve Antony

  • Donuts: The Hole Story by David Miles

  • Doughnuts for a Dragon by Adam Guillain + Charlotte Guillain

  • Daisy the Donut Fairy by Tim Bugbird

  • Dough Knights and Dragons by Dee Leone

  • The Great Doughnut Parade by Rebecca Bond

  • Curious George The Donut Delivery by H. A. Rey

  • Hole in the Middle by Coco Simon

Color: Donuts Colouring Page

Write: Donuts Worksheet

Cook: Doughnuts, 1805 Recipe


Notebook:

Write or dictate a story about a magical donut you found at the market, or somewhere else.

  • Draw a picture of your magical donut.

  • Enjoy the Art Appreciation of “Baker” by Boris Kustodiev for more art inspiration

Art:

Donut Art - Create your own donut art! Use your imagination, paint a picture, sculpt one from clay, soap, or cardboard! Scan the code for more ideas.

+Your Early Years Big Book of ABC Poems - Create your own ABC Book to save at the end of this unit. Today write a poem for D is for... using the included templates in this unit.

EGGS

Activities:

Read: Big Red Hen and the Little Lost Egg by Margaret Wild

Additional Books:

  • An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston

  • Chickens Aren't the Only Ones by Ruth Heller

  • The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett

  • When Blue Met Egg by Lindsay Ward

  • The Egg by M. P. Robertson

  • The Cow That Laid an Egg by Andy Cutbill

  • Whose Egg? by Guy Troughton and Lynette Evans

  • Emma's Eggs by Margriet Ruurs

  • Shake a Leg, Egg! by Kurt Cyrus

  • The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci

  • Ten Eggs in a Nest by Marilyn Sadler

  • First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

  • Tillie Lays an Egg by Terry Golson

  • An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni

  • Hurry! Hurry! by Eve Bunting

  • Handa’s Hen by Eileen Browne

Color: Eggs Colouring Page

Write: Eggs Worksheet

Cook: Poached Eggs with Potato Hash-browns or your favorite type of eggs!

Notebook:

Write or dictate a story about a magical egg you found at the market, or somewhere else.

  • Draw a picture of your magical egg.

  • If a dozen eggs cost 75 cents at the market and you have $1, how many cents do you have left over?

  • Enjoy the Art Appreciation by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin and Nursery Rhyme "Humpty Dumpty”.

Art:

Egg Shell Art - Keep your eggshells from making eggs for breakfast. Wash and dry the shells. Using acrylic paint, paint your shells, and allow to dry. Glue them to a piece of card-stock in an abstract pattern.

Pair this up with our Duck Lesson in May's Learning Pack.

Poetry:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme with the first know version written in 1797 and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott's National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs. Its origins are obscure, and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings.

Learn more about England with our Adventures in England, 2 week read, paint, cook unit study.

 

FLOWERS

Activities:

Read: Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Additional Books:

  • Flowers Are Calling by Rita Gray

  • The Big Book of Blooms by Yuval Zommer

  • How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan

  • The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller

  • Sunflower House by Eve Bunting

  • What's Inside A Flower? by Rachel Ignotofsky

  • Wild Flowers of Britain Month by Month by Margaret Erskine Wilson

Color: Flower Colouring Page

Write: Flower Worksheet

Cook: Canestrelli Flower Cookies or Candied Violets

Phonics Review: f,fl

Notebook:

Write or dictate a sentence about buying magical flowers at the market, and their magical powers.

  • If the bouquet of magical flowers costs 50 cents, and you have $1 to spend on flowers, how many bouquets of flowers can you buy?

  • Enjoy the Art Appreciation of Flower Garden by Gustav Klimt and poetry from Beatrix Potter for more art inspiration.

Art:

Painting with flowers - pick a bouquet of flowers from your garden or local supermarket and use them to paint with today! Create a masterpiece. Perhaps use this painting page as a canvas for your poetry copy-work from Beatrix Potter.

Poetry:

We have a little garden,

A garden of our own,

And every day we water there

The seeds that we have sown.

We love our little garden,

And tend it with such care,

You will not find a faded leaf

Or blighted blossom there.

-Beatrix Potter (1886 - 1943)

Beatrix Potter was born July 28th, in South Kensington, London England and was an author, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist who was best known for her many best-selling children's books that featured animal characters, such as Peter Rabbit.

GLOVES, POCKETS & FANS

Activities:

Read: Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley

Additional Books:

  • Victorian Fashion to Colour by Abigail Wheatley

  • The Queens Wardrobe: The Story of Queen Elizabeth II and her Clothes by Julia Golding

  • The Queen's Handbag by Steve Antony

  • If You Lived In Williamsburg in Colonial Days by Barbara Brenner

Color: Gloves Colouring Page

Write: Gloves Worksheet

Cook: Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Phonics Review: g,gl, v, s

Notebook:

Write or dictate a sentence about buying magical pair of gloves at the market, and what their magical powers are.

  • If the pair of magical gloves costs $2 and you have $5 how many dollars do you have left?

  • Enjoy the Art Appreciation of Woman Wearing Gloves by Berthe Morisot for more art inspiration.

Art:

Design your own set of gloves. What are they meant to help you with? Gardening? Dressing up? Protecting your hands from something? Use your imagination and any art supplies you have on hand to showcase your ideas! Pockets and fans were also in fashion during in the 17th-18th century. Create your own paper fans, or sew felt pockets.

Pair this lesson up with our 18th Century Scottish & English Clothing Unit Study. Wait until we get to S is for Shoes to complete the fashion accessories you might buy at the market.

Poetry:

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,

Kitty Fisher found it;

Not a penny was there in it,

Only ribbon round it.

Why did Kitty Fisher hope to find a penny in the pocket?

HATS

ACTIVITIES:

Read: The Queen's Hat by Steve Antony

Color: Hats Colouring Page

Write: Hats Worksheet

Cook:

Phonics Review: h, a, t, s

NOTEBOOK:

Write or dictate a sentence about buying a magical hat at the market, and what its magical powers are. What type of hat is it?

  • If each different the hat costs $8 and you have $10 how many dollars do you have left?

  • Enjoy the Art Appreciation of Girls putting flowers on their hats by Pierre-Auguste Renoir for more art inspiration.

ART:

Design your own hat, by drawing a picture of it on watercolor paper, then add in color with paint. Write a story about it in your notebook.

Additional Books:

  • Tiara's Hat Parade by Kelly Starling Lyons

  • Mrs. Honey's Hat by Pam Adams

  • I Had Ten Hats by David M. McPhail

  • Hats Off to Mr. Pockles! by Sally Lloyd-Jones

  • The Magic Hat by Mem Fox

  • A Good Day for a Hat by T. Nat Fuller

  • Hats of Faith by Medeia Cohan

  • You Must Bring a Hat by Simon Philip

  • Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

  • Harold Loves His Woolly Hat by Vern Kousky

  • The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

  • The Hat by Jan Brett

ICE CREAM

Activities:

Read: Ice Cream: The Full Scoop by Gail Bibbons

Additional Books:

  • Gorilla Loves Vanilla by Chae Strathie

  • Milk to Ice Cream by Lisa M. Herrington

  • Tales of the Dairy God Mother: Chuck's Ice Cream Wish by Viola Butler

  • Ice Cream King by Kristen Keller

  • Ice-Cream Cones for Sale! by Elaine Greenstein

  • Ice Cream Soup by Ann Ingalls

Color: Ice Cream Colouring Page

Write: Ice Cream Worksheet

Cook: No Churn Vanilla Ice Cream

Phonics Review: i, cr, ea, m

Notebook:

Write or dictate a sentence about buying a magical ice cream cone at the market, and what its magical powers are. What flavour of ice cream is it?

  • If each different the hat costs $8 and you have $10 how many dollars do you have left?

  • Enjoy the Art Appreciation of Gelato Vendor by Antonio Paoletti and Melting Ice Cream by Norman Rockwel for more art inspiration.

ART:

Create Ice Cream Stamp Art with the Ice cream scoops and cone template provided. Be inspired by the art appreciation included.