The Breakfast Club is a social gathering where learners will meet every weekday morning with fun, easygoing and silly Mrs. Judy to discuss Highs and Lows of the previous day, get our brains activated with a quick exercise routine, listen to a poem or short story (or longer story in sections) chat about non-partisan current events and we always start with "What is Today!" Students can eat breakfast while listening to engaging and age appropriate poems, short stories, classical or cultural music, and participate in a few minuets of exercises.  This is a 15 minute daily (weekdays) meeting and is an inexpensive, fun and a great way to build friendships, and a gentle way to start each school day with meaning.  Mrs. Judy created this class when her own daughter was homeschooled as a way to start the day on time (motivation!) and make new friends from new parts of the world!


Week 1
Topic/Theme: New Directions
No Cross Words Allowed by Natalie M. Rosinsky
Mary Gorney by Kenneth J. Smith
A Tale of Quiet by Sara Lewis Holmes
Drake of Dreams by Marni McGee
The Ancient Library of Alexandria by Anne Nolting

Week 2
Topic/Theme: What's in a Name
Don't Call My Name by Phillis Gershator
The Power of Bekos part. 1
Bekos part 2.
 by Carol Farley
Carnival Glass by Mary E. Kelly
The Great Spinx

Week 3
Topic/Theme: Friendship
The Woods are not Dark by Ruth Obee
The Pond Thing by Joe Smith
The Final Laugh by Tracy Alan White
Sun-Boy and the Monster Frog part 1 by Margaret Edmiston 
Sun-Boy part 2

Week 4
Topic/Theme: Closing a Chapter
Stephen Bishop's Road to Freedom by Michael Maschinot
Probing the Earth's Deepest Secrets by John Soennichsen
My Father Whistles the Hills by April Halprin Wayland
The Woodland Indians by M.B. Goffstein
What a Man Must Do by Doris Godwin Boyd

Week 5
Topic/Theme: Independence
The Pirate King part 1
The Pirate King part 2
PECAS by Roque Guitterrez
The Feather in Ms. Reed's Class
Euclid by Michael Dahl
History of Popcorn

Week 6
Topic/Theme:  Growing
A Packet of Seeds by Deborah Hopkinson
This Shakespeare Fella by Betty Bates
The Grandfather Barn by Susan R. Anderson
Fire on the Prairie by Velma Skidmore
The Alien Abe Invasion by Karen M. Leet

Week 7
Topic/Theme:  New Beginnings
The Snake by Diane Siebert and The Incredible "Sanitation Sack of Flour" by Richard Bauman
Udi the Rainmaker by Maureen Mayer
Talking about Songkran: Thai New Year and read Songkran by Myra Cohn Livingston
Young Frederick Douglass by Linda Walvoord Girard
Mattie and the Yankees by K.C. Tessendorf

Week 8
Topic/Theme:  Caring
Watching My Mother by Eileen Spinelli
The Gift by Mary Jane Edwards
A Mom with a Mission by Sneed b. Collard  III
Family Resemblance by Holly Gems Timberline
Tough Day at the Office by Julia Jekyll and Sunshine Girl by Marilyn Kierscey


Week 9
Topic/Theme:  Honor
The Pepins and their Problems by Polly Horvath
Honey Hunter by Mary Kay Morel
A Place of Honor by Pat Murphy
The Temple Tiger by Jamie Cooper
Hugie and the Cat by Sheila Kelly Welch
The Bad Thing by Mary Reilly Hoover

Week 10
Topic/Theme: Empathy
Playtime for Smokey by Cynthia Dunn
Poor Arthur by Gene Kemp
The Man Who Sang to Ghosts by Aaron Shepard
Japanese Market at Nightfall by Karen Grim
The Day I Rescued Albert Einstein's Compass by Shulamith Oppenheim

Week 11
Topic/Theme: Family Ties
The Mother Tongue by Nomi J. Walman
Letters to My Baby by Cindy Dow
Language of the Heart by Cynthia Leal Massey
Jas by Richard Wayne Thomsen