Thanks, we will try this today! During our morning while I read aloud he will play with Legos. We will finish with a game. Simple connections is what I’ll call it.
I love this so much! I feel like I have been really failing to really see the value of a morning basket. I have just been filling it with learning material instead of using it as a tool to connect. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I think including games in your morning time is awesome and not something I ever considered! What a great way to encourage your child. I love that you look at it through the lens of connection.
Thanks for finding us to start small. We’ve started with reading alouds in the morning with the kids sketching 👍🏼. Hoping to add a game every morning in next. PS, we are having SO MUCH FUN with your HARRY POTTER curriculum! Thank you!
Thanks for inviting us in! I love that y'all are so into games - we are too. Our current schedule doesn't allow for a traditional morning time, but once it does we will definitely be adding games to our time. My kiddos (ages 5 and almost 7) recently discovered the awesomeness of madlibs...that's a great thing to enjoy in the morning!
I spend a lot of time reading aloud to my kids, but it is usually to only one or two kids at a time. This year we have been reading from The American Patriot's Almanac and a novel on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and from Sing a Song of Seasons and a saint story on Tuesday and Thursday. We wait until the toddler goes to sleep after lunch so it isn't too crazy.
this is so cool! i love when you show stuff like this. you've helped me learn how to do this. i'm still new to this, but we so far this year, always have a short devotional, read aloud time, (similarly, stuff to keep my son's hands busy while i read) and we are implementing games more often. on friday, morning time its a little more chill and we don't always do the morning basket but i do still read a little from a book talking about someone in history (like a who was --- series) - fridays are also field trip friday if i have found somewhere for us to go like an apple orchard, or wherever :)
We don't do a morning time, I always want to but it never quite comes together in a way that works for us. Maybe I try to add too much? Seeing the videos of what you do was so helpful, I may try again at it!
I didn’t realize Top Trumps could be played with more than 2 people. lol We played the Greek Mythology one a couple times last week. My son loves it. We use Sonlight, so I am currently reading Child’s History of the World, George Muller, Aesop’s Fables, and Happy Times in Noisy Village. I read for about an hour and my son just listens, but we have engaging conversations throughout. He doesn’t know what I read if he does another activity while I read, but we try sometimes. He’ll usually stop to listen anyway. He’s also asking me to read Tales From the Odyssey Part 1 in the evenings.
Love that the kitty joined in; ours always does, too! ❤ We usually just read from our novel, a few non-fiction chapters related to whatever unit study we’re doing, and do a section from one of the Two Truths and a Lie books or something similar.
I struggle with morning time. It’s chaos around here 😂 I could probably start with reading aloud picture books since All About Reading has that incorporated into the lessons. It would be one less thing for me to do later 🤔
I am so new as this is my first year doing morning basket and homeschooling a K student. My morning basket includes Usborne's Everything Under the Sun book which gives us one really cool question and answer a day so far we've learned facts about everything from teeth to lava. I read a short children's Bible story with a few simple questions. I have a hand activity such as a puzzle or maze or writing for my guy to do during read aloud. I have flash cards for simple math problems and sight words. Sometimes we do simple spelling words not really spelling words more like word family word groups like hat, mat, cat etc.
This is our first successful year with a morning time basket. We include our Calendar Notebook that I put together. We write our full date and time, track how many days we’ve done school, our daily weather tracker, and write something in our gratitude jar. Then we read a Bible story and practice our Awana’s scriptures. Currently if time allows, we will read a story from Just So Stories while the kids color or do a picture from Draw Write Now. It takes us around 30 minutes or so and it is such a great start to our morning. We also eat a breakfast snack during this and have meaningful conversations. ❤
Morning baskets are ever-changing. We try to keep it simple, but I believe it helps with connection and gets us off on the right foot.
Thanks, we will try this today! During our morning while I read aloud he will play with Legos. We will finish with a game. Simple connections is what I’ll call it.
Thanks for showing your morning time!
I love this so much! I feel like I have been really failing to really see the value of a morning basket. I have just been filling it with learning material instead of using it as a tool to connect. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I think including games in your morning time is awesome and not something I ever considered! What a great way to encourage your child. I love that you look at it through the lens of connection.
I miss your videos! Glad to see this pop up today ❤
Thanks for finding us to start small. We’ve started with reading alouds in the morning with the kids sketching 👍🏼. Hoping to add a game every morning in next. PS, we are having SO MUCH FUN with your HARRY POTTER curriculum! Thank you!
Thanks for inviting us in! I love that y'all are so into games - we are too. Our current schedule doesn't allow for a traditional morning time, but once it does we will definitely be adding games to our time. My kiddos (ages 5 and almost 7) recently discovered the awesomeness of madlibs...that's a great thing to enjoy in the morning!
I spend a lot of time reading aloud to my kids, but it is usually to only one or two kids at a time. This year we have been reading from The American Patriot's Almanac and a novel on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and from Sing a Song of Seasons and a saint story on Tuesday and Thursday. We wait until the toddler goes to sleep after lunch so it isn't too crazy.
this is so cool! i love when you show stuff like this. you've helped me learn how to do this. i'm still new to this, but we so far this year, always have a short devotional, read aloud time, (similarly, stuff to keep my son's hands busy while i read) and we are implementing games more often. on friday, morning time its a little more chill and we don't always do the morning basket but i do still read a little from a book talking about someone in history (like a who was --- series) - fridays are also field trip friday if i have found somewhere for us to go like an apple orchard, or wherever :)
We don't do a morning time, I always want to but it never quite comes together in a way that works for us. Maybe I try to add too much? Seeing the videos of what you do was so helpful, I may try again at it!
I didn’t realize Top Trumps could be played with more than 2 people. lol We played the Greek Mythology one a couple times last week. My son loves it. We use Sonlight, so I am currently reading Child’s History of the World, George Muller, Aesop’s Fables, and Happy Times in Noisy Village. I read for about an hour and my son just listens, but we have engaging conversations throughout. He doesn’t know what I read if he does another activity while I read, but we try sometimes. He’ll usually stop to listen anyway. He’s also asking me to read Tales From the Odyssey Part 1 in the evenings.
Love that the kitty joined in; ours always does, too! ❤ We usually just read from our novel, a few non-fiction chapters related to whatever unit study we’re doing, and do a section from one of the Two Truths and a Lie books or something similar.
I struggle with morning time. It’s chaos around here 😂 I could probably start with reading aloud picture books since All About Reading has that incorporated into the lessons. It would be one less thing for me to do later 🤔
I am so new as this is my first year doing morning basket and homeschooling a K student. My morning basket includes Usborne's Everything Under the Sun book which gives us one really cool question and answer a day so far we've learned facts about everything from teeth to lava. I read a short children's Bible story with a few simple questions. I have a hand activity such as a puzzle or maze or writing for my guy to do during read aloud. I have flash cards for simple math problems and sight words. Sometimes we do simple spelling words not really spelling words more like word family word groups like hat, mat, cat etc.
ooo that book looks great! might have to start doing the same thing - my 5 and 6 year old would love it :-)
This is our first successful year with a morning time basket. We include our Calendar Notebook that I put together. We write our full date and time, track how many days we’ve done school, our daily weather tracker, and write something in our gratitude jar. Then we read a Bible story and practice our Awana’s scriptures. Currently if time allows, we will read a story from Just So Stories while the kids color or do a picture from Draw Write Now. It takes us around 30 minutes or so and it is such a great start to our morning. We also eat a breakfast snack during this and have meaningful conversations. ❤