I first came across Morning Time at this woman's blog.  Most homeschoolers have a varied version of morning time.   Most families start their learning time with an activity that includes all of the family members, be it Bible reading, read alouds,  poetry recitation, singing  songs, etc., or a combination of these things.

I quickly realized  that we could maim many birds with this Morning Time stone  by including  the subjects that just don't seem to get done in the course of a week.  As a result of my realization, we use MT for Bible reading,  read aloud, Latin, poetry reading and recitation, Shakespeare, Greek Mythology, Nature Study  and picture study.  Whew!  That sounds like way too much, doesn't it?  This is what last week was for; whittling things down into bite sized pieces so we can manage all of those subjects.

This is how  MT works in our home:  we do Bible,  Latin, read aloud and poetry recitation every day. Then  we pick one of the other subjects to do for one day.  So  Monday  we will add Poetry reading  to our every day subjects.  Tuesday  will be for Greek Mythology,  Wednesday  is for Picture Study.  Now,  if we miss picture study  on Wed.  then we will just bump it over to Thursday and push the other subjects back one day as well.   I am hoping that this will work.   Stay tuned.

Now that I had our MT schedule organized, I needed help in how to organize our  MT  books.   In years past, I had the books and resources piled up in an unwieldy mess on the shelf below our coffee table.  It was very unseemly.   Last week, I was perusing blogs and I came upon this blog that solved my messy book dilemma.   This homeschooling mom showed her MorningTime basket.  A basket! I was a bit embarrassed that I had not thought of this before.  Sometimes, though, we just need a nudge of the obvious to get our creative juices flowing.   

After reading this wonderful blog,  I scrounged around for an empty basket and  deposited all of the books and resources that we use for MorningTime.  It looks very pretty and it is very handy just to pull over the basket to the couch and release the proper book from it's hold.

We are now organized and ready for next week's Morning Time.  The next step is to get the two other chunks of our learning time organized and ready to go.  Sigh.   It never seems to end.

Julia lives on the Canadian Prairies with her husband,  homeschooling their 3 children (10,8,6) and is attempting to give them a Classical Education.  You can read more at her blog.

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