Morning Time Plans 2024

Over the years, we have changed many things in our homeschool, but through it all, we have tried to maintain some form of “morning time.” There have been years when morning time more typically happened in the evening (we could rename it family time), but we have tried to keep that learning time together.

We have incorporated a variety of subjects, and it looks a little different each year, but two things have remained the same: we learn together as a family, and we incorporate some type of Bible study.

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This year will be the first year with one of my children, out of the nest, so to speak. My oldest is headed off to college this year. I also have a young baby that will add a bit of noise and chaos to our mornings. In order to be realistic with the baby, I am trying to keep mornings simple this year.

Every Day Morning Time Choices

Our two main morning priorities will be our daily family Bible reading and World Watch. Over the years, we have used a wide variety of Bible curriculum and enjoyed many of them, but I often found it hard to be consistent when using curriculum and trying to make it work for all ages. However, several years ago, I read Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible and realized I was over complicating things.

Now, as a family, we read one chapter a day from the Bible, going through an entire book. This keeps it simple and easy to maintain, even during busy seasons. We read (or listen to it on my phone app) the chapter and then discuss it. My husband bought me a wonderful set of commentaries that we pull out if we have questions or want to dig deeper into a verse.  We have found this to be hugely impactful and easy to maintain.

After the Bible, World Watch is our second priority. We even kept these two components when we were traveling last spring. If you are not familiar, World Watch is a news program with a Christian perspective designed for students. It is ten minutes a day and covers a variety of major news topics and fun interest stories.

 I find that it has opened the door for many conversations, helped my teens better understand what is happening in the world, and given us all more perspective.  We have found that watching and discussing works well for our family, but I did want to mention that they now also have downloadable worksheets that you could add to your World Watch time if you felt your student needed that or to help you use it for high school credit.

Morning Time Rotations

In addition to our two main components, we will try to incorporate one additional subject each day. Those will include fine arts, hymn study, logic, poetry, books of the Bible, and any other topics that I want to fit in as a family. Sometimes, we may do the same subject each day for several weeks; other times, we may rotate daily depending on our needs. This allows us to cover various topics without adding too many different things in one day (which would make it unmanageable).

For those rotations, we will be using the following resources:

Fine Arts: We will be using the Fine Arts program from You Are An Artist. They have a variety of fine arts courses that focus on different eras and topics.

Hymn Study: For the hymn study, we will use the studies I have already written and some new ones I will add throughout the year.

Logic: We use the book The Fallacy Detective to study logic and logical fallacies. While I don’t particularly care if my children can remember a fallacy’s exact name, I appreciate how it helps them identify fallacies in different arguments. (And they have come to love calling them out by name.)

Poetry: For poetry, we love the Poetry for Young People series. It is a great way to learn more about a poet and their poetry through read-aloud.

Books of the Bible: I realized that while we were covering a lot of Bible in our home, my younger boys had not memorized the books of the Bible, so we decided to grab the Books of the Bible set from Danika Cooley to work through this year and help them not only memorize the books but also understand a little more about them.

I am looking forward to our morning time together this year. We plan to do it right after breakfast to start our day together, but when that doesn’t work, we can be flexible and do it any time. I would love to hear what you are using for your morning studies this year.

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