Morning Basket time is the foundation of our homeschool days. Here is our morning basket plan for the Fall of 2022 and our basket is full of greek mythology goodies!
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Welcome to the Wall Dock Way.
My name is Emily.
Today's video is our Greek Mythology Morning Basket.
For Mad Libs and Trivia,
we have National Geographic Kids'
Funny Villain, My Greek Mythology Adventure.
It's very similar to a Mad Libs.
You fill out the little story
with different parts of speech.
There are also fun facts on each page as well.
Then we have Weird But True Know-It-All Greek Mythology.
And last, I threw in these Would You Rather cards
that are part of our new Greek Heroes in Myths study
because I thought they would be a really fun way
to kind of kick off our morning basket each morning.
So, would you rather be called Aphrodite or Venus?
Would you rather be gifted lightning bolts or a trident?
Would you rather be able to make plants grow on Earth
or make star shapes appear in the heavens?
So, just a fun way to kind of start our morning time
with some conversation.
We haven't done poetry in our morning basket in a while,
but when I found this book, I knew I was adding it in
because it is reverso poems about Greek mythology.
So, it's Echo Echo.
And I think this is going to be so much fun.
In case you don't know what a reverso poem is,
it's basically the poem is written
and then it is the opposite.
So, when the world was young is the last sentence here
and it is the first sentence here.
So, this whole book is poems that are reversed like that,
that all have to do with Greek mythology.
For read-alouds, we have the Percy Jackson
and the Olympians series.
We'll be reading all five of these.
The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters,
The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth,
and The Last Olympian.
We also have a ton of options for Greek mythology
to read about the different myths.
I am 100% sure we will not read all of these
in their entirety, but I have them all in our basket
so that we can explore the different myths
in multiple different ways from multiple different books.
So, we will be reading pieces and parts from most of these,
but we will not read them in their entirety.
So, please note that now.
We have the Ancient Myths Collection.
These four are Roman myths,
so we will not be reading those four,
but we will read these.
We have the Usborne Illustrated Stories of Greek Mythology.
Now, I'm definitely sure we're gonna read
the majority of these just because I love
how pretty this book is.
It doesn't have a lot of myths in it,
but which ones it has, we will definitely read
because, I mean, I just wanna read it
because look at that.
We have A Child's Introduction to Greek Mythology,
The Stories of the Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, Monsters,
and Other Mythical Creatures.
The Usborne Book of Greek Myths.
This one is a little bit more advanced than the illustrated,
but it is still just as pretty.
And it also has a lot more myths in it.
We have the DK Greek Myths, Meet the Heroes,
Gods, and Monsters of Ancient Greece.
Just that table of contents.
And we have the National Geographic
Treasury of Greek Mythology,
Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Monsters.
Now, this one we will read in its entirety
only because it is the required book
for Greek heroes and myths, which is our new unit study.
So we will be reading it in its entirety
to go along with that.
And the last Greek myth book,
but it is definitely not the least,
Dolores Book of Greek Myths.
And here is the table of contents for it.
For hands-on activities,
we have this Greek Mythology Parthenon Brain Teaser.
So it's a wooden puzzle and the whole thing comes apart
and she has to try to figure out
how to get it back together.
We have the Greek Myths Magic Painting Book.
I love these for morning time
because the only thing you need is water
and it makes the most beautiful, vibrant pictures.
And then we have the Greeks Myths and Mazes.
You guys, this book is humongous and it's hardback,
which I was not expecting it to be.
These mazes are literally amazing.
Emily is so excited to do it
and there's tons of them in here.
She is planning to do all of these during morning time.
And then the last thing that we are going to do
is have all of our wooden blocks out for her
so that she can build some of the different places
that Percy is going in the book series as he goes,
such as the Gateway Arch and the different museums
and the hotels and things like that.
And then we have a lot more games than usual.
And that is because this is our first morning basket
of the new school year and games are Emily's love language.
And so I really wanted to make sure
that I was making a point to fill her bucket
first thing in the day with them.
So I made sure to infuse
our Greek Mythology morning basket
with a lot of different games that we could play
that play in less than 30 minutes.
So they're mostly quick play games.
The first one I have is Top Trumps Greek Mythology.
Top Trumps is a war-like game
where you are playing against different things.
So strength, magic, terror, audacity,
and top Trump reading for the different gods and goddesses.
And then there's always fun facts about them as well.
This is a printable version of Greek Mythology Spot It.
It comes with Greek heroes and myths.
So we will be playing this
since Spot It is one of our favorite games
and it's a quick play.
With two people, this game plays pretty quick.
With more, it could go a little bit longer,
but Zeus on the Loose is so much fun
and it's gonna sneak some math in
because what you're trying to do
is get Mount Olympus to 100
and you do that with all of these different numbers.
As you're laying the numbers down,
Mount Olympus is basically your discard pile
and so you have to keep track by adding and subtracting
all of the different numbers and specialty cards.
So sneaking in some math into our morning basket.
Bingo with the Greeks.
This is Greek God and Goddess Bingo.
This is part of Greek Heroes and Myths as well.
Then we have Monstrous, the game of Mythic Mayhem.
It's a card throwing game of Mythic Mayhem
for Olympians of all ages.
Throw your monster, use your monster trap powers,
use your monster's powers,
use location powers, and gain faith to win.
We haven't played this one yet,
but it looks like a ton of fun.
Fight for Olympus, which is a two-player game.
I'm always looking for great two-player games
for our morning basket
because we are typically playing just Emily and I.
So Mount Olympus, the home of the gods, your biggest desire.
With your heroes by your side,
you're ready for the decisive duel.
Can you defeat your opponent and conquer Mount Olympus?
And then last we have Santorini.
This is two to four players,
but it plays really, really well with two players as well.
And you're basically building Santorini
with all of these block pieces.
It is a lot of fun.
As Socrates would say,
wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
