I just finished setting up our morning basket for the new school term, and I thought I'd do a quick blog post about it.  We started the morning basket last year, and it's definitely a keeper for us.  This is our gathering time at the beginning of the day, and it's been a great way to start the day.

Here's the contents of the basket:
Religion: Faith and Life 2 (I read this aloud to everyone, Sarah is doing F & L 5 this year, but she reads hers independntly)
                 Christian Courageous (neat book about martyr saints that I'll be blogging about more thoroughly soon)
                 Devotional Stories for Little Folks
                 Children's Story Bible (still my favorite children's bible--I'll be assigning Sarah some readings in her "real" bible as well)

Poetry/Literature: Poetry for Children-Lewis Carroll
                                  The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Geography: Africatrek

Basically, we'll start our morning with prayers, then we'll do religion, using this schedule: M-Catechism, T-Bible, W-Saints, Th-Devotions, F-Catholic Mosaic.
Then I'll read aloud a poem and a chapter from our read aloud.  We'll close with a couple pages from Africatreck.  I plan on studying a new country/continent each term.

I plan on changing things up for each term, or as we finish a book--I'm thinking we'll do 2 read alouds per term.

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