We do “Morning Collective”. I use a rolling cart and it has a basket on top with books and their morning menus. I bought menus from amazon and fill it with the month, our memory work, art, etc. We loop through different subjects too - history, science, art study, composer study, fairy tales with bible and memory work each morning. I keep quiet things in the bottom of the cart if they need to keep their hands busy. Usually we do it at the dining table while they’re eating breakfast but sometimes we do the couch too. This morning, it was in the playroom while they built LEGO’s 😆 Love the flexibility it offers!
Bre Taylor - we do our morning basket almost the same way!! Morning menus, rolling cart with basket on top and quiet items in the other two sections. ❤️
Morning baskets are something I have looked into but felt overwhelmed! Thank you for this video because now I feel like it’s something I can do easily!
I love your basket and how similar it is to ours! I have one child so I've adjusted it a little to give him variety and more interaction with me throughout the day. Therefor, we have separate morning and afternoon baskets each approx. 1 hour in length to complete. The morning basket houses Bible, poetry, non-fiction and fiction novels, and cursive writing workbooks. The afternoon basket holds National Geographic Almanacs, art, music, and Spanish books/workbooks. In-between the basket times, my son works Teaching Textbooks for math, Bravewriter L.A., history and science from a variety of resources. We're a mix of traditional and Charlotte Mason. We also rotate the items in our baskets and days he works on science and history.
Thank you for this! I've wanted to do a morning basket for a long time, and you love got great ideas! I cannot wait to get started. Would love to see more morning basket videos!
I really enjoyed that thank you, yes I'd like to see a basket video monthly 🤗 I've tried to have morning basket time before but it hasn't ever really caught on, think maybe I was trying to do too much every day. Feel motivated to try again 😊✨
Definitely would love to see a month to month basket over view! We've been trying morning basket this school year and really loving it. I really enjoy having my supplemental curriculum in it. I used to feel so guilty when something would come up or we didn't have time for a lesson. Now I just rotate them and when we get to that lesson we get to it no big deal! I also found I'm getting more of them done because I no longer feel like it's something I might miss.
Thanks!...for some reason I have been looking up morning basket videos lately, so nice surprise to see this pop this morning.♥️I do a similar morning basket-recently I've added a short meditation for my kiddos before we branch off after morning basket, found some cute kids books at the library🙂
Would love to see this monthly :). We haven't had a morning basket or anything like that yet but will be taking a little time off to move into a new house in a few weeks and Im taking the opportunity to rearrange a few components of our day in order to create a special "morning time". Adding just a couple new things but otherwise it is what we already do, rearranged. I hesitate switching things up on my kids too much but this is the perfect opportunity ;). I think it'll give us a better flow and Im excited!!
Thanks for sharing your morning basket!!Would love to see your monthly basket videos. We do a morning basket similar to yours but ours has more single work and then we also do a “tea time” basket which is family style. Our tea time basket is where we do our “menu memorization” which I used a menu holder to hold their bible memorization and their quotes from TGTB memorization in history that we picked out. We do our bible studies during that time since mornings for us go differently since I work out of the home some mornings.
I am on the struggle bus with morning time! We do TGTB history and science as well family style and New Testament study first but I find that it takes so much time! I then worry about all that we have left to do with language arts and math that will run into dinner time and sports. How do you balance it all out? I have library books that coordinate with our lessons but I never get around to them so they usually go back unread.
Yes to morning basket videos! When your two younger ones were not reading yet, did they have an individual devotion time? How did that look? Did you just read an age appropriate devotional to them?
How exactly do you do the boy/girl devotionals? Do you read aloud to the girls while the boys do something else? Do they read individually? Just wondering how that all works.
I have a question not really related to the morning basket (which I love btw!), but I wasn't sure where else to ask. I was wondering if you could give us an update on how not being in a homeschool group this year has changed your daily schedules. Do the kids still have a lot of homeschooled friends or do you find they make friends more now through their extra-curriculars? TIA!!
@@GraceandGrit Thanks for responding! We are in our 3rd year of homeschooling and still trying to find where we "fit". Sometimes driving all over for group events stresses me out and doesn't seem worth it, and we seem to get less actual school work done when we are constantly on the go. I'm trying to get my son to do some more after school type activities instead, but worry that he won't make as many connections in the homeschool community.
Love it! We have a few kids devotionals and the adventure Bible. My boys are all under the age of six do you think that Veggie Tales book is worth buying?
I am so glad you put this up! We are trying out a morning basket routine for the first time this morning. Also, are you going to do some Christmas gift videos? I usually have such an easy time with gifts but now that my son is older (8) I am having the hardest time thinking of things.
We do BJU, subning out kath fir Teaching Textbooks and Spelling for Sequential Spelling. The days are long. I would love to find a way to do a morning basket with my last kid still being homeschooled. Grade 7. (Others are now in college. 👏 ) However, I would seriously need to figure out how to fit it in amd it also nit be half a homeschool day. I wonder what a morning basket would look like for a grade 7 boy. Any recs would be appreciated. I do know it would need to be over a cup of coffee. He drinks a little ☕ with us. 😆
How long does it take to do basket time? Do y’all read everything every day? Just wandering how others do it because my kids get burnt out really quick if It’s more than 15 mins of reading. They’re in kindergarten and 1st
The one she showed is part of an excellent series! I suggest you zoom in and look it up. we have a few and they are fantastic and I keep seeing more on TH-cam!
We do “Morning Collective”. I use a rolling cart and it has a basket on top with books and their morning menus. I bought menus from amazon and fill it with the month, our memory work, art, etc. We loop through different subjects too - history, science, art study, composer study, fairy tales with bible and memory work each morning. I keep quiet things in the bottom of the cart if they need to keep their hands busy. Usually we do it at the dining table while they’re eating breakfast but sometimes we do the couch too. This morning, it was in the playroom while they built LEGO’s 😆 Love the flexibility it offers!
Bre Taylor - we do our morning basket almost the same way!! Morning menus, rolling cart with basket on top and quiet items in the other two sections. ❤️
I love how simple this is! I sometimes have felt overwhelmed with the concept of "morning basket" (& it's various names) because of ALL THE THINGS!!!
Morning baskets are something I have looked into but felt overwhelmed! Thank you for this video because now I feel like it’s something I can do easily!
I love your basket and how similar it is to ours! I have one child so I've adjusted it a little to give him variety and more interaction with me throughout the day. Therefor, we have separate morning and afternoon baskets each approx. 1 hour in length to complete. The morning basket houses Bible, poetry, non-fiction and fiction novels, and cursive writing workbooks. The afternoon basket holds National Geographic Almanacs, art, music, and Spanish books/workbooks. In-between the basket times, my son works Teaching Textbooks for math, Bravewriter L.A., history and science from a variety of resources. We're a mix of traditional and Charlotte Mason. We also rotate the items in our baskets and days he works on science and history.
sounds fantastic!
Yes to the monthly baskets
Yes please do morning baskets monthly!
Yes, please do monthly videos. I love seeing what other homeschoolers use in their baskets.
We do ours very similarly! We also do memory work, gratitude journals, and habit training with Charlotte Mason's Laying Down The Rails.
Yes! Especially the themes and picture books that change!
Thank you for this! I've wanted to do a morning basket for a long time, and you love got great ideas! I cannot wait to get started.
Would love to see more morning basket videos!
Great ideas! I would love to see monthly basket videos! :)
I really enjoyed that thank you, yes I'd like to see a basket video monthly 🤗 I've tried to have morning basket time before but it hasn't ever really caught on, think maybe I was trying to do too much every day. Feel motivated to try again 😊✨
Would love monthly morning basket videos!! :-)
I would love a monthly video of your morning basket!
They are up!
Loved it! Yes! 👍monthly basket videos!
Definitely would love to see a month to month basket over view! We've been trying morning basket this school year and really loving it. I really enjoy having my supplemental curriculum in it. I used to feel so guilty when something would come up or we didn't have time for a lesson. Now I just rotate them and when we get to that lesson we get to it no big deal! I also found I'm getting more of them done because I no longer feel like it's something I might miss.
Love seeing your morning basket! I would enjoy having a peek each month 👀
Thanks!...for some reason I have been looking up morning basket videos lately, so nice surprise to see this pop this morning.♥️I do a similar morning basket-recently I've added a short meditation for my kiddos before we branch off after morning basket, found some cute kids books at the library🙂
Would love to see this monthly :). We haven't had a morning basket or anything like that yet but will be taking a little time off to move into a new house in a few weeks and Im taking the opportunity to rearrange a few components of our day in order to create a special "morning time". Adding just a couple new things but otherwise it is what we already do, rearranged. I hesitate switching things up on my kids too much but this is the perfect opportunity ;). I think it'll give us a better flow and Im excited!!
So many good ideas! Thank you for sharing!
Yes to the monthly basket 😊
Thanks for sharing your morning basket!!Would love to see your monthly basket videos. We do a morning basket similar to yours but ours has more single work and then we also do a “tea time” basket which is family style. Our tea time basket is where we do our “menu memorization” which I used a menu holder to hold their bible memorization and their quotes from TGTB memorization in history that we picked out. We do our bible studies during that time since mornings for us go differently since I work out of the home some mornings.
I am on the struggle bus with morning time! We do TGTB history and science as well family style and New Testament study first but I find that it takes so much time! I then worry about all that we have left to do with language arts and math that will run into dinner time and sports. How do you balance it all out? I have library books that coordinate with our lessons but I never get around to them so they usually go back unread.
Yes to morning basket videos! When your two younger ones were not reading yet, did they have an individual devotion time? How did that look? Did you just read an age appropriate devotional to them?
Lizzymac14 no I just read to them!
So helpful! Thanks! Two videos today, u are on fire!! ☺️
R. G. Didn’t mean for that! I was half asleep when I scheduled them!
Grace and Grit oh well worked out for us 😉😊
Great ideas for me! Thank you!
2 videos?! Score 😍🥳 love your morning basket 🧺 📚
Joanna Gerdak accident! Lol
Thank you for sharing this, I loved the ideas! We're just getting started with it and this is such a great idea!
How exactly do you do the boy/girl devotionals? Do you read aloud to the girls while the boys do something else? Do they read individually? Just wondering how that all works.
Christina Terjesen they read individually and then we read our family one together:)
I have a question not really related to the morning basket (which I love btw!), but I wasn't sure where else to ask. I was wondering if you could give us an update on how not being in a homeschool group this year has changed your daily schedules. Do the kids still have a lot of homeschooled friends or do you find they make friends more now through their extra-curriculars? TIA!!
we've maintained close friendships with a few of our homeschooled friends.
@@GraceandGrit Thanks for responding! We are in our 3rd year of homeschooling and still trying to find where we "fit". Sometimes driving all over for group events stresses me out and doesn't seem worth it, and we seem to get less actual school work done when we are constantly on the go. I'm trying to get my son to do some more after school type activities instead, but worry that he won't make as many connections in the homeschool community.
Love it! We have a few kids devotionals and the adventure Bible. My boys are all under the age of six do you think that Veggie Tales book is worth buying?
Twin Mommy Life we enjoy it!
I am so glad you put this up! We are trying out a morning basket routine for the first time this morning. Also, are you going to do some Christmas gift videos? I usually have such an easy time with gifts but now that my son is older (8) I am having the hardest time thinking of things.
Brittany Davenport yes I sure will!
We do BJU, subning out kath fir Teaching Textbooks and Spelling for Sequential Spelling. The days are long. I would love to find a way to do a morning basket with my last kid still being homeschooled. Grade 7. (Others are now in college. 👏 ) However, I would seriously need to figure out how to fit it in amd it also nit be half a homeschool day. I wonder what a morning basket would look like for a grade 7 boy. Any recs would be appreciated. I do know it would need to be over a cup of coffee. He drinks a little ☕ with us. 😆
*subbing out BJU Math for Teaching Textbooks...typos. it's late and not reading my writing...🙄
How long does it take to do basket time? Do y’all read everything every day? Just wandering how others do it because my kids get burnt out really quick if It’s more than 15 mins of reading. They’re in kindergarten and 1st
Heather Ervin they are younger my youngest is in 2nd grade. It’s about an hour-90 minutes in total:)
For the theme books, do those just get read as wanted by the kids?
yes or ill read one a day:)
What grade would you start history? We haven't added history yet. I'm not sure how much information my 1st grader would retain?
my daughter enjoys it in second! Consider it more of a first exposure:) I think around 3rd grade is when they really start retaining more though!
How long does your bible time last?
Lydia Hubbard awhile! It’s our fav part of the day. Usually 30-45 min
Any suggestions for missionary stories?
For older kids- Voice of the Martyrs. Free monthly publication👍
We love Torch lighters!
We loved Gladys aylward , adoniram Hudson, cs Lewis
The one she showed is part of an excellent series! I suggest you zoom in and look it up. we have a few and they are fantastic and I keep seeing more on TH-cam!