We used to start each school day with Morning Time, though we called it Circle Time. Being recently reminded of Morning Time, I decided to bring it back from the dead. Wow! We sure are enjoying ourselves.
Here's our current Morning Time routine:
Here's our current Morning Time routine:
- Prayer - I like to read aloud the morning's selection of Bible readings and prayers from The Divine Hours (non-denominational).
- Hymn - One of us chooses a hymn from the music binder. I printed out the lyrics to many hymns, folk songs, and Christmas songs and put them in plastic sleeves inside the three-ring binder. Today it was my turn to choose and we sang this. I love the tune.
- Bible Memory - We practice reciting Bible verses. Right now we are learning James 1:17.
- Poetry - Currently, we are reading poems from this book. This was the poem read today. Don't you love Yeats?
- Miscellaneous Memory - We are presently memorizing the first 20 emperors of the Roman Empire, counting by tens in Spanish, and a well-known sentence from the Declaration of Independence.
- Folk Song - Again, we pull out the music binder. Today's song was "The Minstrel Boy".
- Saint Day/Holiday - I make notice of the day's saint and/or historic significance. Protestants need saints, too, you know. We learn a lot of Church history when we read about important Christians. Today is Mary Magdalene and we are baking Madeleines this afternoon. Yum!
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