Additional Learning Resources for the Summertime Reading Program & Copy-work Journal Pages
Pair this journal up with our England and Sweden Adventures.
Program Guide + Books with Read aloud links:
Week 1/ Page 1:
Summer Song by Henkes, Kevin
Activity: Create your own song, or poem about summer. Pair this
journal up with with our 2nd week of our England Adventures all
about the countryside, during summertime.
Additional Connections:
Pair this journal up with our 2nd week of our England Adventures: Tudor Rose Lesson with Pointillism Art project.
Week 2/ Page 2
Plant the Tiny Seed by Christie Matheson
Activity: Plant a seed in your garden. Pair up with our garden life cycle units.
Additional Connections:
Pair this journal up with our 2nd week of our England Adventures: New Forest Pony Lesson, and color the coloring page.
Week 3/ Page 3:
If I Was the Sunshine by Julie Fogliano
Activity: Paint picture inspired by sunshine.
Additional Connections: Pair this journal up with our 2nd week of our England Adventures: Artist Spotlight of Yvonne Coomber and inspired art project.
How do you see sunshine in the art of Yvonne Coomber? How did you paint the sun in your painting? Write or dictate about it in your journal.
Week 4/Page 4:
Summer Feet by Sheree Fitch
Activity: Trace your feet on paper, and paint it as you would like, inspired by this book. What do you think about the idea of putting on your summer feet?
Additional Connections:
Pair this journal up with our 1st week of our England Adventures: Stone Henge and our Sweden Adventures for Mid-Summer's Festival and the May Pole, and more. These lessons have connections to Mid-Summer, and this week is Mid-Summer! Check your calendar for sifting dates, but in 2021, Mid-summer falls on June 26. Learn about the Summer Solstice and it's deep rooted history in Europe.
Week 5/Page 5:
What Lives in a Shell? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Activity: Write a poem about a shell and the animal that lives in it.
Additional Connections:
Further Connections with our England Adventures:
BONUS Research Lesson: Learn more about the mystery of The Shell Grotto in Margate, England.
Find and color the shells on the England Coloring Map, in our England Adventures.
Watch the selection of videos about this special place below.
Pair this with our M is for Mosaic lesson in the Masterpiece Alphabet.
Create your own mosaic art with shells, inspired by this ancient grotto!
Week 6/ Page 6:
Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart
Activity: Go on a search for as many feathers as you can find in your yard, neighbourhood or local park. Bring them back, and create a specail art piece, or scrapbook page in your journal about them.
Additional Connections:
Further Connections with our England Adventures:
BONUS Research Lesson: Learn more about the Birds of England.
Watch videos we found for you below and Document your findings and write about your favourite birds.
Week 7/ Page 7:
Beach by Elisha Cooper
Little Blue Cottage by Kelly Jordan
Activity: Do you have a special beach you love to visit? Write a poem or story about the beach.
Note: Jump ahead to the read aloud at 4:47 in the video below:
Additional Connections:
Further Connections with our England Adventures: Learn more about the beaches of England. Color the England Map in our adventures, and use our list of animals in England as a jumping off point for more learning. What animals live in the ocean and seas around England and Great Britain?
Week 8/ Page 8:
Dalia's Wondrous Hair by Laura Lacamara
Activity: Write a story inspired by this story. What would happen if you woke up with a huge growth of hair like the little girl in this story? What would you like your hair to grow into?
Additional Connections: Further Connections with our England Adventures: English Rose Lesson. Create your own English Rose Inspired Styrofoam Prints, and enjoy the art appreciation series by British Artist Edward Burne-Jones and Poetry from William Morris and their Duo Artist features. What if you grew a rose bush in your hair?
Week 9/ Page 9:
Mouse's First Summer by Lauren Thompson
Activity: Sew your own Watermelon felt toy and grey and purple mice, just like the characters in this book! Rein-act this story with your family with your toys.
Additional Connections:
Look up recipes to make yummy watermelon treats today.
For more inspiration about Watermelons, check out our blog post all about 10 Watermelon Themed Crafts, Recipes and Books your kids will love. Read post here.
Week 10/Page 10:
Magic Beach by Alison Lester
Enjoy listening to this read aloud by the Author, in the actual โmagic beachโ that inspired this book!
Activity: Collect some sand from you favorite beach, or back yard sand box, and place it inside a small jar. Write a poem about this sand, and image it's from a magic beach.
Additional Connections:
Spin the globe and find a country with beaches, and learn about it!
Week 11/ Page 11:
Children of the Forest by Elsa Beskow
Activity: Write your own story about tiny little people in your own backyard. What do they do? Where do they live? Be inspired by this lovely book. Pair this and the next page up with our Sweden Adventures.
Additional Connections:
Pair this with our Sweden Adventures: Color the map of Scandinavia, find Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Research more about Elsa Besklow, Swedish author/illustrator of the book we are reading today. Write about her in your journal.
Week 12/ Page 12:
Peter in Blueberry Land by Elsa Beskow
Activity: We are learning a Swedish Proverb today, and reading a lovely book by a Swedish Author and Illustrator. In what ways do you think Peter was trying to show love to his mother in this story? Who helped Peter while he was in the forest? Draw pictures about summer berries such as blueberries.
Note: Skip to 4:04 minutes in the video below to skip the beginning chat to get to the read aloud quickly.
Additional Connections:
Pair this with our Sweden Adventures Learn about Swedish Artist Hilma af Klint, whose Artist Spotlight is found in our Sweden Unit, and whoโs art was inspired by nature.
Make yummy Blueberry and Lemon Streusel Muffins. (Recipe found in our Mother's Day Art & Baking Unit Study.)
Pair this Summer Reading Program up with the following Units mentioned in the above lesson plans:
Our Adventures in England Read, Paint, Cook Unit Study is here!
Itโs part of our Great Britain Series and includes 2 weeks filled with fun adventures in the city and the country with poetry, and artist spotlights from the city and the country, as well as the past and current! Shakespeare, Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Morris are but a few of the classics you can learn more about, plus art appreciation from a range of art movements! Created for kids 3 to 13 and beyond, with something for everyone to enjoy!
The lessons have been written to pair alongside our Wind in the Willows Art + Baking Novel Study Guide, which includes 12 amazing recipes, art projects, language arts connections, coloring pages, additional book lists and more! This study is being released one week after our Adventures in England, so come back to the shop to check it out. At that time, the units will also be available for purchase as a bundle of the two!
Dive into this creatively inspiring Great Britain Series that will be continuing to be released this Spring, 2021. Scotland and Wales are next, with history lessons on the flags, geography, art appreciation, landscape artists spotlights, animal spotlights, traditional recipes, books, and so much more, plus a second Novel Study Guide that pairs with our Scotland Adventure.
My hope is that our World Adventures spark a desire to learn about your own family history, the world, art movements and bring a love for travel in our hearts, all from the comfort of your homeschool.
~Alexandra
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Hej, hej! Dive deep into Sweden with the Build Your Masterpiece Class and learn about the magic of Scandinavia with our read, paint, cook lessons, coloring pages, art projects, handy-crafts and traditional recipes from Sweden, Norway and Denmark in our Scandinavia Series.
Whatโs Included?
Build Your Masterpiece Class Scrapbook, Passport and Stamps
Adventures in Scandinavia Coloring Page with Search and Find List! There are many hidden Scandinavia plants, animals, viking ships, and so much more!
Artist Spotlight: Hilma af Klint โPaintings for the Futureโ Swedish Painter.
Supplies List, Weekly Rhythm
Coloring Pages; S is for Sweden Map, Flag, and Kingdom of Sweden Lesson Plan
Additional Learning Resources via QR Code with book links, read aloud links, tutorials, and a surprise Artist Spotlight!
Magical Mid-Summer Festival in Sweden: Worksheets, Art Inspiration, May Pole Coloring Page, Strawberry Coloring Pages and Daisy Counting.
Traditional Swedish Recipe: Hallongrotta, Thumbprint Cookies and matching coloring page
Art Projects: Art for the Future, Paper Flower Crown.
Art Appreciation: many paintings from Hilma af Klint
Pair this learning pack up with our Christmas Adventures Around the World Advent Calendar and our Adventures in Scandinavia: Hyyge Christmas Special for even more Scandinavia learning.
We are delighted for you to dive into your read, paint, cook adventures with The Build Your Masterpiece Class in this beautiful and inspiring region, that has truly inspired me! Tag us with your Masterpieces on Instagram, @build_your_masterpiece_class! I cannot wait to see them!
Hej dรฅ,
Alexandra Derry
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The Masterpiece Alphabet Kinder+ Art Basics Program is a hands-on curriculum that inspires children to be creative and spark their inner Artist.
Using the combined subjects of Art & Language Arts, your kindergarten+ students can build an artistic vocabulary while learning the elements of art, through creatively designed lesson plans from A to Z, with childrenโs books to inspire the topic and hands on projects to inspire you as the home educator, to bring art into your homeschool easily, and effortlessly.
โA is for Artist, who creates what they see. B is for Brush that glides paint on with ease. C is for Crayon that adds color to your creations.โ
Whatโs Included:
Lesson Plans from A to Z with book lists, language arts Lesson Guides, Craft ideas, and more!
PLUS: QR codes with additional learning resources such as book links, read aloud links, recipes, craft ideas and more! No need to go to libraries, or buy tons of books! This is a feature loved by so many, and I am grateful to provide that added resource for you and your homeschool! If you find you love one or more of the books on the list, you can find easy to shop links in the QR code pages, which you can easily scan with your iPhone. This technology is so fun for kids, and they can also use this to direct their learning at home too!
Upper and Lower case Coloring Letter Pages with sentences to read, and trace.
Additional Craft Options for you to enjoy with the prinbtables: Create embroidery and felted letters using our letter pages
ABC Flash Cards - They are designed to be colored by you or your child in both upper and lower case letters, to create a mini masterpiece alphabet to treasure and use regularly.
โMy Masterpiece Alphabetโ Student Book Covers - a few different framed covers for your students to choose from
โMy 7 Elements of Artโ Booklet and Poster - Use this as you learn the elements of art with each topic.
Fun Artist Coloring Pages: Learn what it means to be an artist, from painting, sculpting, building, taking photos, writing stories, and reading books for inspiration.
Alphabet Watercolor Wallpaper for your homeschool wall: Print this out and glue together for an easy spalsh of color to your homeschool space!
Alphabet Watercolor Flashcards: 2nd set of flashcards in beautiful colors
Alphabet Watercolor Coins, in color and in a Black and White
Additional Worksheets: These have been added to the main lesson plan, woven with each letter for easy printing as needed. Vocabulary, predictable sentence tracing, mixed-up sentences, and creative writing with the words we feature through-out.
Student Letter Tracing Workbook
UPDATED: The download is a ZIP FILE that has 3 FILES included. Please open all files to utilize all of the resources included. I have added the additional language arts pages to the original Lesson Plans, and things will be a lot easier for printing you desired pages per lesson/letter in the future, as of Sept. 30. 2021. Please note that this program is for a range fo ages, learning together, so you can print the worksheet pages for your children as needed. Thank you so much for your interest in building a masterpiece alphabet with us!
Coming Soon: We have a special Masterpiece Art Journal in the works that pair up perfectly with this program, and will be perfect for you and your kids to continue learning about Art and Artists in Grades K to 6 +. More details coming soon.
Enjoy our read, paint, cook tea time guide with spring inspired recipes, crafts and handmade gift tutorials plus motherโs around the world picture study cards, art journal pages, wildflower counters and flashcards 1 to 12 for preK-K math connections with the Build Your Masterpiece Class for kids 3 to 13.
This Mother's Day Art & Baking Unit Study has been created for you to use in your home or classroom, to celebrate mothers through books, art appreciation and baking with your kids. We have included a large range of art appreciation of mothers with their children from across the world. Mix and match it with our other curriculum, such as our Masterpiece Essentials ABC + 123, The Build Your Masterpiece Class Adventures. Find these in our shop here.
I hope you enjoy celebrating mother's through books, art appreciation and baking with your kids. Also, coming soon are more art studies I know you will love! Stay tuned.
Please tag us on Instagram @build_your_masterpiece_class to be featured! I cannot wait to see your Mother's Day masterpieces! Enjoy building them.
~Alexandra
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