Morning Baskets

Morning baskets has been a stable thing throughout our homeschooling and even before I declared myself an homeschooler. I have stopped the concept several times thinking we don’t have the time, but I always end up re-installing our morning rutine and Mathilde will ask for it and beg me to bring it back— so here from forth I have decided to just embrace it and keep it going. Sometimes it doesn’t work for us in the morning — we often just start school after breakfast— so maybe I should call them afternoon baskets as we more often do them in the afternoon.

In our morning basket I usually keep instruments, books, games, and anything I think could be fun to pick us up if we need energy.. Sometimes I put in stuff that goes with our units and I always have a hand puppet that I will talk for and that participates in the songs and games. I have changed the morning basket ritual many times but I always come back to some sort of morning basket situation for us.

In periods where nothing else works, I hang on to the morning basket as Kate hang on to that door in Titanic — and so we sing a few songs, and lately I also always have something for Mathilde to read, and a book for me to read aloud, and then maybe a game about math or spelling— so if I am down with the flu, or our house is a big mess that I need to take care of, or we all are just excited to get outside and play in the sun— by doing the morning basket ritual, at least we sang, read, and did a little learning that day.