We’ve dubbed our morning circle time “Council of Oaks” because it is a gathering of Oaks. Here are some resources we might use in February.
(Each of these links is an Amazon affiliate link that supports the work we do at Educating Oaks and in our homeschool. I have read them all, so I can recommend them. You can look for them wherever you wish, even in your local library.)
Poets: Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou
- Hughes’s Poems online: Poets.org, PoemHunter, Poetry Foundation
- Angelou’s Poems online: Poets.org, PoemHunter, Poetry Foundation
Poem to Memorize: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar Act 4, Scenes 1, 2 and 3
Folk Song: We Shall Overcome
- “We Shall Overcome” by Anonymous
- Youtube video of Speech by Martin Luther King
- YouTube Video of Song by Mahalia Jackson
Hymn: Blessed Assurance
- “Blessed Assurance” by Fanny Crosby
- YouTube video sung by the Gaithers
- YouTube video sung by Randy Travis
Scripture Memory: Philippians
Philippians 3:1-6 ESV and 3:7-14 ESV (3:1-6 KJV and 3:7-14 KJV)
Artist: Winslow Homer
- Snap the Whip
- The Fog Warning
- The Northeaster
- Prisoners from the Front
- The Gulf Stream
- The Life Line
Composer: Duke Ellington