Alicia’s Current Morning Stack: Spring 2025
When your morning stack is too good not to share…there are certain times when you just get excited for your homeschool morning meeting, because your morning stack is just that good! Right now is one of those times for us in Hutchinson Homeschool. So today, I’m sharing what’s in our morning stack because goodness knows we’ve had plenty of times where our morning meeting is not as fun!
Alicia’s Morning Stack for Spring 2025
As hard as it has been on my heart for my boys to graduate, now, with just my girls in my homeschool, it’s been fun to pick up some of the more girlie books I had shelved. The girls and I recently finished Anne of Green Gables, a book I read over a decade ago when the kids were all little. And now we’re reading a book new to all of us: A Girl of the Limberlost. It has been a highlight of our mornings and not at all what I expected. We love the main character and can’t wait to see where this one goes.
Music History
Earlier in the school year, I wrote a review of Beautiful Feet Books’ Music History, a new curriculum designed to do as a family. We have been using this curriculum as our spine, but taking it very slowly, taking a whole semester just on one time period of music. We spent the fall semester learning about the Baroque period and now the spring semester on the Classical period. It has been wonderful! I had already collected (and adored!) many of Opal Wheeler’s biographical series on composers. We have been reading one of these biographies in our morning meeting for several years now. But this year, we are choosing the biographies based on the time period of music.
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Right now we are finishing up Hayden’s biography, then we will move on to other Classical composers, Mozart and Beethovan. We also are enjoying playing Classical playlists throughout the day too.
Geography Memorization
We use the Charlotte Mason method for memorizing maps. I print out a control map of a continent for each of the girls and then several blank maps of the same continent. Each day, they grab a new blank map and fill in the countries to the best of their ability and compare it to the control map and see how well they’ve done. So far this year, they’ve reviewed North America, the full world map of continents, the United States, South America, and we’ll soon move onto Europe again. It’s such a simple and efficient way of memorizing locations.
Bible Reading
Each morning meeting begins with Bible reading. Every day, we read the Proverb of the day: Proverb 23 for April 23, Proverb 4 for May 4, etc.
From there, we are always reading through another book of the Bible. So far this year, we’ve read through Psalms, Romans, and now we’re in I Corinthians.
We keep this super simple. Simply reading the chapter and talking about context, historical setting, and anything else that might come up with the passage.
Shakespeare
This might be the biggest surprise of the year for me! We have done a little bit of Shakespeare reading in our homeschool over the years, but never really have we dove in–this semester has been different. Since both of the girls are studying the Reniassance and Reformation this year, I thought it would be fun to do a little sub-unit study on Shakespeare. I picked up, How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare and some other titles I already had on my shelves. The Ludwig book has been AMAZING! The book focuses a lot on memorizing Shakespeare, learning what the passages really mean, and he lays it out in a really easy-to-use format. In the book, you start with A Midsummer Night’s Dream and other easier plays and you move up from there to the tragedies. I have LOVED how this book is laid out! I purchased my own copy and plan to just continue using it from year to year, working through it slowly.
Aside from Ludwig’s book, we are using Charles Lamb’s book of Shakespeare Tales as well as Nesbit’s Shakespeare Tales. I have also really enjoyed reading Shakespeare for Kids to the girls because it delves into what was going on in the world of Shakespeare.
For the rest of the school year, I plan to do some notebooking pages with the girls and memorize a whole lot more passages too! Who knew Shakespeare could be this fun?! (Ok, well a lot of you, but allow me to get on board with you ;))