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Would someone explain the morning basket to me?
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Please…is it part of the school day or something extra you do in the morning along with devotions? Thanks.
Here is where I first learned of a morning basket.
http://wildflowersandmarbles.com/2009/08/05/the-morning-basket/
She has other posts about it as well including one in July.
There was a recent thread that might answer a few questions for you:
https://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/morning-basket-lets-discuss#post-146223
HTH!
The oldest of our two left to homeschool is 14 and will begin highschool in August! Wow! I just said that! Time flies…
Our morning (our’s is actually used throughout the day) basket does include things that involve his participation.
It is basically a tool I am using to keep our routine flowing and lets us accomplish things that I might easily forget to do.
A note to check Scripture Box, our Bible study resources, current read aloud, poetry book, my schedule/calendar binder, picture study pics, cds for music appreciation, Handbook of Nature Study, my nature notebook, and our French CDs are kept in a basket.
I have yet to make a pretty print out of our routine. I have ProClick binders for each of the kids and one for me. These include our daily routine, so I’m thinking an extra print out might just be wasted time/paper. But, WOW! I do love the pretty plan on the Wildflower and Marbles blog. Just haven’t found the time to make one for our basket. I also use the CMO which shows everything we need to touch on each day anyway. So, hmmmm. Maybe unnecessary in our case.
If your highschooler is involved in any family style learning, it can be managed easily this way.
Morning basket, mom’s basket, family studies basket. They are all one in the same around here. For us it’s anything that I have all the kids with me to accomplish.
It’s just the “family lessons” made pretty in my mind! LOL. Morning basket sounds more … lovely, dainty or something?!
Ok, I have a stronger picture now. It is basically the things we will do together.
Thank you for all your input.
In this house, we call it Together Time – it’s our Scripture memory, Family Read-Aloud (2 of them), History read-aloud (1), Laying Down the Rails.
In years past, it was larger (longer), including our composer and artist studies, geography, etc.
But this year, I’ve broken up our family studies -they’re still sort of together, but some things we do first thing in the morning, some during snack time, some things before our naptime, then Together Time leads into naptime.
I like the rhythm of always having a Together Time – somedays I’ll skip an element and add in something that’s been neglected (geography or composer or soemthing else that can be done all together as a read-aloud-type activity).
Our “morning basket” will have our Bible reading for the day, Laying Down the Rails for Children, poetry, hymn and folk song, plus a nature story and our family read aloud. We may stick with reading our family read aloud during lunch, as this has worked well for us for the past couple of years, but I will still keep it in the basket. I’m leaning towards a “Fine Arts Friday” basket as well for composer study, picture study, and Shakespeare. We don’t normally school on Friday, but I like the idea of having a light day so Fridays aren’t so “off” feeling. I’m still tossing that idea around. I also like using the fine arts to break up the more rigorous subjects and add some fun to the day.
I was very confused by the whole morning time thing until I realized it is what the SCM guide lists at Family Studies. Anything that you do as a whole group. It uses short lessons and rotates through the subjects as the week goes on. Some people have a knack for making things very simple and easy to implement (thank you SCM!) and others have a knack for making things very “fancy”. 😉
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