Morning Basket: What's Inside Yours?

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  • August 16, 2015 at 4:39 pm
    Tristan
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    Now that we’re adding back in the last major subject this week (biology for oldest, Brave Writer for the rest) it is officially time for me to get our morning basket plans fleshed out.  There are things I know we’ll put in here, like weekly picture study, composer study, and scripture memory work.  Then there are a host of possibilities I’m playing with, knowing I have too many but could rotate things in for a term and out for a term. For example:

    • reading an article from a magazine (we have the Friend, New Era, Ranger Rick, and probably a few others floating around).
    • reading a poem (the same one each day until we learn it or just a selection of poems from a single author over a few weeks)
    • reading a chapter from a read aloud book
    • reading a single story from Aesop’s fables or Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Collier’s Junior Classics, or some other sets we have
    • singing a hymn we’re learning or have learned in the past
    • doing an index card drawing or adding to nature notebooks
    • a for fun science experiment

    You get the idea, anything could be put in this time!

    So here is my question – have any of you already set up your morning basket plans for this year/term?  What made your list this time?

    August 16, 2015 at 5:37 pm
    Katrina in AK
    Participant

    I am still tweaking, but so far, I have Bible reading, Memory Work (Scripture, Poetry, Shakespeare, and Other: things like their address and phone number, days of the week and months of the year), and a rotating read aloud, among three: Missions, Composer Study, and a geography novel.  Composer Study is for the first trimester, then it will be picture study, and then Shakespeare (SCM’s As You Like It).

    August 16, 2015 at 5:49 pm
    Kelley
    Participant

    I haven’t thought about a morning basket, but it makes a lot of sense to have one.  🙂

    August 16, 2015 at 7:17 pm
    Tristan
    Participant

    I just finished choosing our first two artists: Edmund Dulac and John Audubon.  We’ll have to wait for our resources to arrive for this (Dover Art Cards for Dulac and a book of Audubon’s art).  I think we’ll begin with Dulac because his art in the cards I’m getting focuses on his illustrations of Hans Christian Anderson’s stories – and those would make a perfect reading in our basket.  😉

    August 16, 2015 at 9:01 pm
    Wings2fly
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    I am not sure how close it would be to you, but there is an Audubon museum at a Kentucky State Park you should look into.

    This year I am trying a Tin Man Press book to help them learn to better listen and follow directions, called Play By the Rules by Greta Rasmussen.  And we are reading Created for Work, along with composer, artist, and poetry.

    August 16, 2015 at 10:23 pm
    Kristen
    Participant

    I call mine Morning  Time and this is what I have so far; the Pledge on Monday, a prayer for each term (we will start with Luther’s Morning prayer), a scripture reading/memory work 3x/week and a bible reading 2x.  Word of the week. (I put this in a notebook with the definition under it and hung it on the wall. We have to try all week to find a way to use that word in a sentence). Hymn study one term and folk songs another. Poetry (at least one each term to memorize). I always plan so much and then don’t get it covered and I feel “behind” or upset so I am not planning as much this year. Then Artists; Renoir and Grandma Moses, Composers; Chopin and Grieg. I also have handicrafts or games like Hangman planned for fun and certain devotion books interspersed in there. In His Steps is one and the Young Peacemaker (could also fit under habit training or character study).

    August 16, 2015 at 11:59 pm
    HollyS
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    We don’t have a “morning basket”, but I have those type of subjects scattered throughout our day.  Here’s what we’ll be using right away:

    Living Science books for term 1:

    • Trees and Shrubs by Arabella Buckley
    • Bird Watchers and Bird Feeders (vintage science book)

    Laying Down the Rails for Children: Attention is our first habit

    Literature: Wizard of Oz (I’m reading my 8yo’s ELTL selections aloud to everyone)

    Music: Handel–I have a CD to play throughout the term, and we’ll read a couple pages of a Childcraft Encyclopedia story about him.

    Singing: Hymn 3 days per week, Spanish song once a week, and a folksong once a week.  We’ll be using songs by Jose-Luis Orozco for our Spanish songs.

    Shakespeare: I think we’ll start with Poetry For Young People’s Shakespeare book and move on to A Midsummer Night’s Dream later this year.

    Paper Sloyd (for everyone) and practical geometry (for the older two).  We’ll be using public domain books to cover these subjects.  Our first paper sloyd project is a paper envelope…I tested out the instructions this evening and I think they’ll like this subject!

    Family Time Fitness for a fun mid-morning break

    We’ll be using ELTL this year and it contains picture study, poems, and fables.  I’ll have them read some of these aloud.

     

     

     

     

    August 17, 2015 at 5:31 am
    Tristan
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    Holly – I have tried mixing it through the day in the past and sometimes it works while other times it is just difficult to get all the kids back together (because they are all working on individual subjects and not all at a good stopping point at the same time).  So this year we’ll try a morning basket (though I still don’t have a container chosen, so the name may change…LOL).  We may end up using the basket twice a day (morning and then after lunch) depending on what all ends up in it.  Who knows?!

    Kristen – YES.  If I plan too much I feel bad if we don’t get to it.  Thinking specifically of composers, artists, etc.  Now my goal is 1 in each semester.  Anything more than that is a bonus.

    Wings2fly – I looked the museum up, it is a 6 hour trip from us before you add in stops with the kids for the bathroom…lol.  Oh well.

    August 17, 2015 at 12:46 pm
    HollyS
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    Tristan, we use plastic dishpans for our “baskets”.  Walmart has them for less than $2 each.  This year I have a basket for each subject (history/geography, science, language arts, fine arts, etc.).

    August 17, 2015 at 1:00 pm
    MissusLeata
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    I don’t have a basket….just piles of books… 🙂 But if it was in a basket, we’d have a hymn book for the morning hymn we sing and the Apostle’s Creed, Picture Study, a book of poems, our literature book, Bible and LDTR4C for our morning time.  On our history day, we also look at The Things They Left Behind while we do our history reading from that stack.

    August 17, 2015 at 4:27 pm
    MrsB
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    I really like the idea of reading from a magazine. We have tons of the Answers mags from AIG, an it would be great to read those to the kids.

    Child-Training Bible
    Catherine Vos Bible Stories
    Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost
    Genesis: Finding Our Roots
    Exploring the Holy Land – Geography
    Laying Down the Rails for Kids
    Dinosaurs of Eden
    Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
    Burgess Animal Stories (we finished half last year)
    Among the Pond People

    We read the Vos Bible stories daily, the CT Bible is for when behavior issues come up. Poetry is done 4x a week, Genesis and Georaphy are done 2x a week, Habits – 1x a week, and we cycle through the other books as needed. Today was a big reading day, so I read from each one at various times…so technically, not a “Morning” basket. 😀

    We do Robert Frost poetry 4x a week,

    August 17, 2015 at 6:11 pm
    Monica
    Participant

    We’re starting in a few weeks.  Morning readings planned are:

    -Halliburton’s Book of Marvels – 1 chapter per week
    -Scripture Memory – 1 verse per week
    -The Bible Tells Me So:  A Year of Catechizing Directly from Scripture
    -Stories of America Vol. 2, Stories of the Nations Vol. 2
    -Sassafras Anatomy
    -Favorite Poems Old and New
    -Squilt Composers Romantic Era
    -Literature selection (still TBD – suggestions?  Ages 6-13, boys and girls)

    August 17, 2015 at 6:45 pm
    Tristan
    Participant

    Literature selection – there are so many wonderful possibilities.  Peter Pan, The Green Ember, A Nest for Celeste, Swiss Family Robinson, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, all the Narnia books, The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Penderwicks, The Moffats, The Saturdays, My Side of the Mountain

    I could go on.  Of that list, we’ve read all aloud except Peter Pan, which I think will be our next book club title, and we’re currently reading The Green Ember.

    August 18, 2015 at 11:44 am
    Monica
    Participant

    Thanks, Tristan.  I always take forever to decide because I try to find something that will appeal to each of them.  We’ve done:

    -Black Beauty
    -The Secret Garden
    -The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series
    -The Little Britches series

    They’ve listened to a lot on audio, too.

    August 18, 2015 at 1:51 pm
    Kayla
    Participant

    I only have one school age so we don’t have a morning basket. I just call the young ones in when we do something I want them involved in. I basically have 4x a week subjects: history, math, copy work, reading to mom. 2x a week subjects: literature, Aesop, science, family devotion, Bible. And then a slew of 1x a week subjects which the young ones jump in with often. Those include: artist, composer, hymn, folk song, handicraft, habits, art, missionary stories, geography. I imagine once I have more than one school age child my once a week subjects and literature will become my morning basket.

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