Lesson 1: The Fox and the Crow Fable

Teacher: Mellie Lonnemann

Length: 40:12

We’ll begin this lesson with our morning verse followed by an energetic rhythmic clapping activity to wake our minds up. After this, we’ll calm things down with a rhyming story about two little kittens. Next, we’ll get into our fable for the day called The Fox and the Crow. We’ll use this story as a way to learn of some new vocabulary words. We will also learn about words that use -er, -ir, and -ur. Teacher Mellie explains why the words are pronounced the way that they are, despite looking like they should maybe be pronounced in a different way. We’ll finish this lesson by using our main lesson book to draw a crayon picture of the fox and crow to summarize the fable we heard.

·      Morning verse

·      Rhythmic poem activities

·      Rhyming stories

·      Waldorf fables

·      Spelling (-er, -ir, -ur)

·      Drawing activity

·      Sentence structure

·      Vowel rules

Member Feedback: “I love the inclusion of the numerous rhythm and rhyming activities. It keeps students engaged the whole way through!”