This is the best explained video about morning baskets! We are religious, but we don't buy religious homeschool material. I had a hard time understanding what morning basket was because most videos include religious material, but this explained it so well for me!
Right! I started doing morning baskets just this year and we have two baskets. One for the older girls and one for the younger kids. I have games, a scale and weights, hands on playing and sensory items as well as books. It is a time for us to be together play together, talk together and kind of wake up our bodies and brains for the day. We are a mid-morning basket family ☕️☕️☕️☕️😅
We do "sofa snuggle time". We cozy up under a blanket on the couch, and we read whatever subjects have a reading portion. Usually philosophy + discussion is one of them. I don't know why but it makes our whole day flow so much better!
For us it’s all about cosy time. I drink my post workout coffee, my older two drink their tea and I snuggle up with my little guy under a blanket while we read history or science books, discuss anything that’s on our minds, talk about goals etc...It’s a way to wake up our brains:)
So glad to have found you! Love finding other like minded homeschoolers. We are also secular and multiracial. I am Mexican, and my husband is African American. We also have 2 girls (technically 3, but the oldest is 22) that we've been homeschooling for the last 5 years. So happy I found you!
I am a homeschool nanny. Both of my homeschool families have had 2 kids and been multiracial. The first family had two boys. The mom is African and the husband is Hungarian. Now I work for a family with a white mom and Mexican (no accent) dad.
This is such a great video! I love how you describe all the variations. When we started, I never really understood the morning basket except that it often included religious activities. As secular homeschoolers, we did "morning work" with new facts of the day, handwriting, and hidden pictures. This has given me some ideas that we might mix it up in the future.
We do our read aloud time in afternoons followed by lessons. I have just not been able to get my daughter and myself on the same morning routine so starting after lunch is just simpler for us.
That’s great! Yeah you definitely have to go with what works for your family. For us, I’ve found that if we start too late in the day and we finish later too, the girls feel like the whole day is too long. So we’ve actually found that an earlier start works for us.
Hi Carmen. Thank you for all your wonderful video, love them all. I lived in Long Island and also just started homeschool my 11 year old daughter in 6th grade. My husband also an African American and love when i educate our kids African study. We just complete “MANSA MUSA” The leader of Mali. Can you share any of your choices about books, or anything you do with ur girls. My husband would love me to teacher our daughter more things about African. Can you suggest anything please. Thanks in advance
Wow we have so many similarities! I’m so glad you found our channel 😀 We haven’t actually started studying African history yet as we’ve been starting with the history of the pre-Colombian Americas, so I’m afraid I don’t have any resources I can recommend! But if I come across any I will definitely let you know.
This is the best explained video about morning baskets! We are religious, but we don't buy religious homeschool material. I had a hard time understanding what morning basket was because most videos include religious material, but this explained it so well for me!
I think Pam Barnhill came up with morning basket... I could be wrong but she's the main person I know associated with doing them.
Right! I started doing morning baskets just this year and we have two baskets. One for the older girls and one for the younger kids. I have games, a scale and weights, hands on playing and sensory items as well as books.
It is a time for us to be together play together, talk together and kind of wake up our bodies and brains for the day.
We are a mid-morning basket family ☕️☕️☕️☕️😅
This is so helpful! Thank you!
We do "sofa snuggle time". We cozy up under a blanket on the couch, and we read whatever subjects have a reading portion. Usually philosophy + discussion is one of them. I don't know why but it makes our whole day flow so much better!
I love that! We do something very similar and I agree, it’s nice to start the school day in such a cozy way.
We do something similar! And yes it’s so nice to start the day in such a cozy eay
For us it’s all about cosy time. I drink my post workout coffee, my older two drink their tea and I snuggle up with my little guy under a blanket while we read history or science books, discuss anything that’s on our minds, talk about goals etc...It’s a way to wake up our brains:)
So glad to have found you! Love finding other like minded homeschoolers. We are also secular and multiracial. I am Mexican, and my husband is African American. We also have 2 girls (technically 3, but the oldest is 22) that we've been homeschooling for the last 5 years. So happy I found you!
I am a homeschool nanny. Both of my homeschool families have had 2 kids and been multiracial. The first family had two boys. The mom is African and the husband is Hungarian. Now I work for a family with a white mom and Mexican (no accent) dad.
This is such a great video! I love how you describe all the variations. When we started, I never really understood the morning basket except that it often included religious activities. As secular homeschoolers, we did "morning work" with new facts of the day, handwriting, and hidden pictures. This has given me some ideas that we might mix it up in the future.
I’m so glad it was helpful! I learned a lot while researching this video 😀
We do our read aloud time in afternoons followed by lessons. I have just not been able to get my daughter and myself on the same morning routine so starting after lunch is just simpler for us.
And I meant to say that I love the length of your videos, short and sweet. :)
That’s great! Yeah you definitely have to go with what works for your family. For us, I’ve found that if we start too late in the day and we finish later too, the girls feel like the whole day is too long. So we’ve actually found that an earlier start works for us.
Haha thank you! I do have some longer ones too but for these explainer videos I try to keep them pretty conscientious!
*concise 😂 autocorrect
We don’t do morning basket - and it has nothing to do with Charlotte Mason methods.
Hi Carmen. Thank you for all your wonderful video, love them all. I lived in Long Island and also just started homeschool my 11 year old daughter in 6th grade. My husband also an African American and love when i educate our kids African study. We just complete “MANSA MUSA” The leader of Mali. Can you share any of your choices about books, or anything you do with ur girls. My husband would love me to teacher our daughter more things about African. Can you suggest anything please. Thanks in advance
Wow we have so many similarities! I’m so glad you found our channel 😀 We haven’t actually started studying African history yet as we’ve been starting with the history of the pre-Colombian Americas, so I’m afraid I don’t have any resources I can recommend! But if I come across any I will definitely let you know.
Check out Urban Intellectuals. They have a lot of material for black history and they have materials for teaching kids (Sankofa club).
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Thank you so much. I will definitely check that out.
Thanks!
Where are the links?
Oops! I've added them :)