This post is my entry to win a camera in the “Share Your Favorite Lesson Plan” Contest sponsored by Sprittibee and Academic Superstore.

First I would like to repost a few words on my philosophy in following this plan:

Little Grains of Sand
Posted under Education is a Life , Morning Time

One of the reasons I do our Morning Time is so that I can fit things in that may get lost in the shuffle. Really I don’t have this system in place to make my life harder but to make it infinitely easier. Over the years I have found ways to make it easier and easier. I am sharing those things on my blog but I wouldn’t want you to misunderstand why I do them.

One of our earliest memorized poems was :

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean,
And the beauteous land.

Can you guess how often some one in our home says, “Little drops of water….?”
Almost daily. It has even shown up in timed SAT essays.
That is the sort of sentiment that applies to everything I do as a mother.
One of the reasons I love blogging is that my whole life comes in little pats of time. I can write a blog post while waiting for the children to clean-up or finish a test etc. I can read a blog post while my Latin scholars get out their books.

My Morning Time is a way to collect little grains of sand. It should not be a way to complicate life but a way to simplify it.

My parents gave me the gift of personal daily Bible reading. That is probably the most valuable gift I could have ever received from them. As a mother, you will find me on an occasional Saturday morning studying Matthew Henry or reading Keith Mathison, but my true spiritual reserve comes from a lifetime of daily Bible reading, not complicated Bible study.

If you have something that you want your children to assimilate like poetry or scripture or music or Shakespeare, forget the grand schemes, forget what the Konos mom is doing down the street, start giving that thing one or two minutes of your time daily and watch the years roll by.

Late September Morning Time Week:

Artist:

Bruegel:

Bruelgel

Composer:

Mozart

Bassoon Concerto in B Flat

Folk Song:

Cockles and Mussels

Shakespeare:

Richard III


Plutarch:

Antony

Bible:

New Memory:
Proverbs 20:3
” It is an honour for a man to cease from strife but every fool will be meddling”

Don’t ask!

Review:
Psalm 90
Books of the Old Testament
I Corinthians 4:16-18
Psalm 24

Hymns:
Veni, Veni in Latin

Review:
Unbounded Grace
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
When I Survey (tune 1)
When I Survey (tune 2)
Whiter Than Snow


Poetry:

The Crisis Thomas Paine (not actually poetry)

Review:
Horatius at The Bridge
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson)
The Arrow and the Song ( Longfellow)
Crossing the Bar (Tennyson)
Pretty Good ( Osgood)


Misc. Memory:
The Declaration of Independence through the 1st, “He has….”
The list of Biblical Judges
Civics Questions

Review:
Presidents Bee
States and Capitals Bee
We Shall Fight (Winston Churchill)
The Apostles Creed

Reading Aloud:
English Literature for Boys and Girls
The Story of the Middle Ages
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
The Princess and the Goblin

Ambleside Time with the little boys:
Viking Tales
Poetry (My Book House Vol 1)
My Book House vol 2 Stories
The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible

Girltime:
They Loved to Laugh

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