Organizing Morning Time

Day 29~

 

As we come down the home stretch, I thought it was time to share how I organize our Morning Time. 

I am pretty sure someone like Mystie could come up with a better way of organizing it than I have. Once I fell into using my sheet I didn't change it up much over the years. 

Here is a sample MT sheet from the past:

 And here is my current sheet:

Week	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Ambleside Selections	Haydn	Artist:  John Singleton Copley	Plutarch:  Dion/Brutus (Alternate with Shakespeare)	Shakespeare: Macbeth
Praise	Gloria Patri Come Ye Thankful People Come	Doxology Bringing in the Sheaves	GP Now Thank We All our God	Dox. We Gather Together	GP Come Ye Thankful People
Bible	The Gospel Story Bible Is. 53:1-6	Books of the NT	Jer. 9:23,24	Psalm 27:1-5	Daniel 1:17
Repentance/ Prayer Requests		Prayer of repentance
Grammar	Diagramming Sentences	MCT Sentence Review
Poetics	New: Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Macbeth) Review: First Amendment	Read Through The Top 100 Poems Sonnet 29	Mercy by Shakespeare	2nd Amendment	Declaration of Independence
Reading Aloud	The Book of the Ancient Greeks by Mills Huckleberry Finn Science Matters	King Alfred’s English	Books to Add: The Story of the Romans by Mills The Story of the Middle Ages	Swallows and Amazons  series In Search of the Source The Hounds of Morrigan

I also have a notebook with any information I need such as a list of the names of Jesus's disciples or the 12 tribes of Israel. I keep my current MT sheet and our current poem in the front pocket of this notebook.

 I use sheet protectors and keep my Ambleside Term selections, completed MT sheets and a list of the books we have read for the year. At the end of the year I just pop all the MT sheets for the year and our list of books read into one sheet protector in the back of the notebook. 

I also have a poetry notebook with all of our memorized poems printed out so that each day we can just review the next poem. I keep miscellaneous memory in a separate section of the poetry notebook. 

The first few years of MT I was always scrambling around looking through different poetry books for certain poems we had memorized. It took me years to reach this level of basic organization but even this basic level saves us much time each day that we used to spend searching for things. 

I have always had a basket with our books and resources. This means there is no looking for a book each day.  Well, that is what it is suppose to mean at least. 

 

Once again, I do not share any of this with you because it is profound but because it is not. If I can do it, you can. The organization is to save time the real point is to just do it.

I make out my MT sheet for the week and when it is completed, in one week or two or three, I make out the new sheet. It is always motivating to make out that new sheet. Although I plan out my Ambleside Terms for the year, I would never presume to plan out MT for more than a week in advance. It would be too discouraging to be perpetually behind.  

Broad plans are for the future, precise plans are for the week. I do keep a running list of books I plan too read aloud in the future. Sometimes I actually get to these books. I love moving a book from the To Be Read pile to the Reading Now pile.

There you have it. The  heart of MT is the Morning Time Sheet and having all materials handy.

Suggestion of the Day for Morning Time Memory:

Requiem 

By Robert Louis Stevenson

UNDER the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.