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I love this idea, and we did it to some degree last year. At the breakfast table, we worked on memorization (catechism, timeline, scripture), poetry, and devotions. However, I need to change things up a bit, so I’m asking about history and science readings. Would you do these both back to back?
I’ve heard that kids learn hard stuff best before 9:30-11:30, so I wanted to use that time to do math and LA with my brood. But then, I need to do morning time before that, right after breakfast or during breakfast.
Thoughts?
If your science and your history are both reading it could be overkill (not varying the parts of the brain to refresh them). We try to stick something in between readings that is totally different – some movement, singing, art, nature study, math, writing (esp. if we’re due for a brainstorm session – do it big on the dry erase board on the wall, standing up and moving large motor in one!).
Now, some kids do ok with two readings in a row. I have two that do. But most of mine don’t. So you know your kids. Also, does your science have a hands on portion (experiments/demonstrations/anything)? You could do science reading, science hands on, and then history reading. That breaks it up a bit.
Last year I decided to do science and history on alternating days because the previous year I found that doing both in the same day was just getting to be too much. Our morning readings were getting too long, and at the time my youngest two were 4 and 5 – so it was way too long for them.
In addition, though, we listen to SOTW and other history readings on audio, so I am not so concerned that we don’t do it every day.
This year our morning readings looked like this:
M – Scripture Memory, Geography, History, two subjects of co-op memory work
T – Scripture Memory, Bible Study, Literature selection, Science, two subjects of co-op memory work
W – Scripture Memory, Literature selection, Art Study, History, two subjects of co-op memory work
Th – day off for co-op
F – Scripture Memory, Bible Study, Nature Study, Poetry, Science, two subjects of co-op memory work
my kids could probably not handle both science and history reading back to back…
how we do it is we start our day with morning time and cover bible, memory work, fine arts loop, and history. From there we move on to our “table work” and do individual subjects like math and language arts. Break for lunch and right after lunch we do a second “morning time” and do literature reading followed by science reading (or journaling/experiments)
I did try doing both morning and lunchtime readings, but after a full morning of school I was too spent to do lunch readings, too. Lunch is a little free time for all of us.
(Never mind trying to get four kids sitting at the table with all the food/drinks/napkins, etc. that they need for 20-30 minutes of reading. It turned into “I need a drink,” “I need to go to the bathroom,” “I need more applesauce.”)
Usually we play the family audio book (SOTW) in the van. My kids also listen to their own audio books at different points during the day.
How well do your toddlers sit during morning time? My kids are 2, 4, 6, and 9. We did morning time during breakfast last year but I need to change things up. Like someone else said someone always needed more food/bathroom break/more water/spilled their water, and on and on. Plus the 2 yo keeps up a running monologue while he eats so it’s not very quiet. I need to move devotions to a different time where I can focus more on keeping him quiet and only do one or two shorter and less important (to me anyway) things at breakfast time.
My girls are older now, last school year they were 5 and 6, but during the younger years I had to have something for them to do to keep their hands busy while we were reading. Sometimes they would color, build with simple wooden blocks, put together a puzzle, or practice writing their letters.
Our morning readings are done at 9:00, after everyone has done their chores and had breakfast. My oldest, who is 13, usually does between 30-60 minutes of his own work before we begin our morning readings.
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