Dominion Family

Thu 27 Oct 2005

19 Comments

1. Wow, Cindy! I always love to see your morning meeting lists. But, it does leave me wondering if I am teaching me children enough things. I am happy if we are memorizing verses regularly and singing a hymn! Your children must be impressive! Keep up the good work!

   Laura (in Madison ~ for a bit longer ~ We close on our house on the 21st! Do we know our new address? No! : ) We hope the Lord will show us the right one soon! We are looking at houses on Saturday. One is in Elkmont!)

   Comment by Laura (October 27, 2005 @ 1:35 pm )

2. I second that Laura!

   I always feel like I am gathered around with Cindy and her brood reading good books and listening to some enchanting melody in the background.

   Thanks for posting these, Cindy. You keep me on my toes!

   Blessings,
   Carla

   Comment by Carla (October 27, 2005 @ 1:47 pm )

3. Oh, Laura, move to Elkmont!! I just love it. It is a little hard on the gas budget but it is a truly wonderful little town.

   And may I reiterate we move through these lists at a pretty clip since all the materials are organized in notebooks after years of searching for each item everytime needed.

   Comment by Cindy (October 27, 2005 @ 2:55 pm )

4. I really enjoyed reading the van Stockum series out loud to my children. I hope you like Friendly Gables.

   Comment by Jeannine (October 27, 2005 @ 4:58 pm )

5. You wrote that you begin on October 27. Do you really start on a Thursday?
   BTW I have also enjoyed looking over your shoulder to see what you are doing.

   Comment by Lis (October 27, 2005 @ 11:26 pm )

6. Yes, Lis, I did begin that sheet yesterday. I used to fill out the sheet and then get all frustrated when we fell behind. Now I just fill it out and move from day to day. When we reach the 5th day, I make a new sheet.

   So yesterday I basically did Monday even though it was Thursday :lol_wp: I rarely get in 5 days of morning time every week. It is usually 4 but a bad week can only have 3. I am doing better than usual this year because We are at day 48 of our school and I have 8 filled sheets.

   I check things off as we do them. So at the end of the week Little Women will have one check by it for every chapter we have read in it.

   Beethoven might not have any checks if we forgot all week to turn his files ( I download most of my composer selections from eclassical.)

   Or we may not have had time to sing The Outlandish Knight.

   Othello has been on the sheet for 3 weeks but we just started the actual play. We did read a couple books like Lamb and Nesbit.

   Comment by Cindy (October 28, 2005 @ 6:59 am )

7. A hearty “amen” to starting your “week” on whichever day is most convenient. It can be so stressful to think you must accomplish everything you have on your list every day of the week, in a Monday through Friday order. What if you have doctor’s appointments, visitors, or if the day just doesn’t work the way you planned? (Or doesn’t that happen to anyone but me?!) I find that using Day 1, Day 2, etc. works much better for me than Monday 10/24, Tuesday 10/25 does.

   Comment by Linda (October 28, 2005 @ 11:29 am )

8. Cindy, this is excellent. How long do you spend at morning meeting each day? Do you have a CD player close at hand to listen to the music? And do you sing the hymns acapello or does someone in your family play the piano?

   Also, I’d like to know more about your notebooks and how you have organized your materials.

   Lots of questions…but I am very interested in what you are doing!!

   Kathy

   Comment by Kathy (October 28, 2005 @ 2:17 pm )

9. When we wake up in the morning, Benjamin or Emily are responsible to make sure that the musicmatch computer file is playing Beethoven’s piano music or whatever selection we are studying.

   We sing hymns acapella or if we are having trouble with a tune we use the cyberhymnal online. Yes, you can sometimes see us gathered around the computer singing. Mostly we trust Nathaniel to keep us on key. Truthfully, we sound awful.Really.
   Timothy used to play the piano but, alas, he is being brutally beaten everyday in Coronado these days and isn’t home to help us out.

   Notebooks: One regular morning time-school year 3 ring binder. One Poetry notebook with sections for misc and things we may want to memorize. 4 3 ring binder family hymnbooks.

   I may post the table of contents for these things.

   Comment by Cindy (October 28, 2005 @ 2:39 pm )

10. I love seeing what other families do and how they incorporate subjects into their homeschool. Thanks for sharing.

    tootles

    Comment by Pam (October 28, 2005 @ 4:05 pm )

11. I was hoping that was the answer and not just a typo. We have a few subjects that we approach similarly. Thanks for clarifying.
    Can I second Kathy’s question and ask how long it takes you on a typical day to go through your morning time activities?
    I might also add that you have inspired me. I read one of your previous posts on your morning time activities and decided to do something similar. My older girls are taking some classes from a few friends (in turn I teach their children art) so I don’t see them as much. They are in their bedroom doing homework part of the day. Spending some time in the morning seemed a great way to keep them close. Thanks for sharing.

    Comment by Lis (October 29, 2005 @ 2:02 am )

12. Lis & Kathy,
    Anywhere from 1-2 hours. Sometimes we take up to 30 minutes taking prayer requests and praying & singing before we actually get started. So if you take off that time I would say 90 minutes. As we near the end of our fun read aloud, we might read a few extra chapters. BTW, we read the “fun” book last everyday so that everyone is still clamoring for more. If we are real far behind the children will work on their math while I read. I know that sounds weird but we just added that this year and it seems to work.

    The little guys color or draw while I read.

    Comment by Cindy (October 29, 2005 @ 9:10 am )

13. Oh, Cindy..can you adopt me toooooo??!!!
    Doea anyone want to do Latin, Greek, Grammar, Math after Morning Time?
    Keep it coming’, Cindy!
    Ann V. HolyExperience

    Comment by AnnV HolyExperience (October 29, 2005 @ 8:15 pm )

14. Ann, I went through Ambleside years, 1,2,3 with Benjamin, Emily and Andrew previously but Andrew is only 7 so I am going back through some year 1 things I don’t want him to miss.

    Comment by Cindy (October 30, 2005 @ 8:01 am )

15. Cindy, just looking for a copy of “King Alfred’s War Song”…and wondering–are you reading from Poems for Patriarchs? Or another anthology?
    Recommendations?

    Comment by AnnV HolyExperience (October 30, 2005 @ 10:47 pm )

16. Cindy,

    I would love to see the table of contents on your morning time notebook, poetry notebook, and family hymns notebooks.

    I had been mulling over Gileskirk for Brian, my first high schooler, so your suggestion has given Michael and I a very welcomed nudge in that direction.

    Thank you so very much!

    Comment by Carla (October 31, 2005 @ 5:29 am )

17. I first heard King Alfred’s War Song when George Grant quoted it on a tape I own; not sure which tape, possibly The Theology of Wonder. Later we did find the words in the Poems for Patriarchs book, although the words are slightly different, as I remember.

    My favorite poem books instead of being the big anthologies are the slimmer anthologies that I own. My all time favorite: One Hundred and one Famous Poems, followed by Tasha Tudor’s First Poems of Childhood, A Treasury of the World’s Best Loved Poems, The Classic Hundred Poems, The Harp and the Laurel, and one other book which I am afraid has been stolen by one of my older children, namely, Nicholas. Also, as I have mentioned repeatedly, I love the old Singer Prose and Poetry of England and my older boys have also enjoyed it.

    Comment by Cindy (October 31, 2005 @ 9:19 am )

18. We do Latin right after morning time. That is Christopher, Emily and Benjamin. My older boys never learned Latin or Greek at all. I just never could squeeze it in while being pregnant and nursing so much. Even now we are slow and steady on the Latin.

    Comment by Cindy (October 31, 2005 @ 9:21 am )

19. Latin right after morning time. I could do that. I am learning so much, Cindy. Do you charge for this tutorial? ~big grin~
    Ann V. who thinks slow and steady wins the race–in Latin too! Go, Latin scholars, go!

    Comment by AnnV HolyExperience (October 31, 2005 @ 9:58 am )

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