Morning Menus | A Look Inside for 3rd grade, Kindergarten, & Preschool!

Welcome to my homeschool channel! In this video, we will give you a look inside our morning menus! A morning menu is a restaurant menu cover that we use as a reusable dry erase book during our morning time.
In our morning menu, we include a mix of papers including name practice, weather pages, memory verses, character trait development, Charlotte Mason style affirmations, hymn lyrics, tracing pages, and other memory work.
I will show you the pages in our menus and then explain how we use them to kickstart our day of learning. Whether you are a homeschooling family or looking for ideas to supplement your child's education, we hope this video will inspire you to create your own morning menu!
I love the reusability and sustainability of a morning menu. I love that it can be personalized to each child and changed up weekly, monthly, or seasonly.
If you have a morning menu, let me know in the comments what you include in your morning menu! I love chatting in the comments and getting more ideas from you, the homeschool community, as well!
Thank you for watching this video on Morning Menus, and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more homeschooling content!
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Links:
Morning Menu (Amazon) This is a two pack! I couldn't find the 3 pack that I got last year. a.co/d/6L4CxbW
Menu Pages (The Gentle and Classical Press) : shopgentleclassical.com/colle...
Morning Menu Cover Pages (Etsy): www.etsy.com/listing/12735277...
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[@tracipeters9591]

Thanks for this idea!! I had never seen anyone do this before and we are incorporating them in our school this upcoming year! My kids are so excited about them!

[@pillarsandpress]

Oh yay! That’s awesome. I hope they work well for you guys!

[@salishheights2320]

I love this! Age-adjustable for each kid, seasonally swappable, and a fabulous way to have memory/recitation stuff in front of us but not sticky tacked all over the living room walls! 😊

[@pillarsandpress]

Yes! Exactly! 🙌🏼

[@homeschoolingthroughhighschool]

Hymns!?! Yes please. All day, every day. I think morning menus are cool. Even in the older grades. You've got a new sub. 🌻

[@pillarsandpress]

Oh my goodness! I was just on Instagram and saw someone share in their stories that they met you at a homeschool convention, so I followed you on Instagram… Just minutes later I opened this app and you had commented here! 🤗 Thank you for watching and subscribing!!!

[@rebeccat9389]

I’m secular but this is an awesome idea to put in virtues and practices and things seasonally. :) love it!

[@pillarsandpress]

So glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@mariafernandacabreralabrad9438]

Mire muchos videos y este me encantó. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

[@pillarsandpress]

I'm thankful for your support!!!

[@TheChan7]

That looks so fun! Thanks for sharing.

[@pillarsandpress]

Thanks for watching!

[@homeschoolingthroughhighschool]

Love your shirt! I scooped it up the minute my eyes laid eyes on it. 🌻

[@marcymariereads]

Love this ❤

[@pillarsandpress]

Thank you for watching!

[@jenniferlumia9892]

This is so cool. Thank you for sharing. I have been wanting ro do something like this for years but always got overwhelmed with the options. You've really simplified the concept for me.

[@pillarsandpress]

I'm so glad it was helpful! You got this mama! 💪🏽

[@RaisingMyMunoz]

beautiful! excited to start building my morning menus!

[@pillarsandpress]

I’m excited to update ours for this coming year too! Thanks for watching!

[@nataly_renee]

Such a great idea for my third grader! Thank you!

[@pillarsandpress]

You are so welcome!

[@ChristieK1991]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! 😍 Wow thank you for being so informative and sharing such wonderful ideas. I will definitely be incorporating menus into our homeschooling day for my boys. Thank you so very much! I just subscribed! God bless you and your family! ☀️🙏🏼

[@pillarsandpress]

Thank you so much for watching and subscribing! I’m really glad you found it helpful!

[@creativecuriouslearning]

Love this! So many great ideas. I need to set up my morning menus for the next school year. I just found your channel. I subscribed! I also have a homeschool KZbin channel. I love finding other homeschool moms 😊

[@pillarsandpress]

Hi! Thanks for watching! I just subscribed to your channel as well. Love how KZbin and social media can create a fun community for homeschool mom encouragement. Looking forward to watching your videos!

[@koributtorff]

I love the idea of doing this! I've heard about it before, but haven't done it yet. This makes me want to get some myself and have the kids work on different things. It would be nice to include in a morning time basket and help create a semblance of order 😂 In the past I've just laminated a piece of paper and then they had that to draw and write on with dry erase markers. I hole punched them and added them to a binder. I still have tracing the alphabet ones and need to get them out for my kindergartner to practice.

[@pillarsandpress]

Love that idea! The menu probably helps cut down on some of the prep work…. just print and stick it in there. But the binder is a great way to do something like this too!!!

[@reclaimingwonder]

I love the cover page - can I asked what you used to create it? So many great ideas here 😊

[@pillarsandpress]

I used Canva! Thanks for watching!

[@melissalarimer4208]

Yes I agree I love your menu cover page! Was it a template on canvas or a bunch of little graphics pieced together?

[@melissalarimer4208]

Yes I agree I love your menu cover page! Was it a template on canvas or a bunch of little graphics pieced together? @@pillarsandpress

[@pillarsandpress]

Graphics pieced together! Thanks so much for watching!

[@emilybasile6572]

Did you have a hard time making these without the paper wanting to wrinkle and crinkle? I started putting these together and was going slow, had them doubled, and opened the plastic as much as possible, but it was HARD. Any tips or tricks? Or do I just need to get over the crinkles? ;)

[@pillarsandpress]

Oh goodness, yes!! It is hard! I did find a trick that works though- start putting it in like normal and then place your hand flat on the middle of the paper to slide it down to the bottom!

[@bethany3914]

Do you choosing the character traits yourself or are you following a programme?

[@pillarsandpress]

In the past I chose the character traits myself! (I chose one for each letter of the Alphabet) But this year I'm using Character cards from September and Co. septemberandco.com/

[@katiamercedes26]

@@pillarsandpresswhich package did you purchase that has the Joy that you used? Thank you! I’m searching through right now and getting a little lost

[@pillarsandpress]

@@katiamercedes26 oooh, I see how that’s confusing! The ones I’m using this year are from September Co. but the one you see in the video is one that I made myself! You can find it in my Etsy shop! pillarsandpress.etsy.com/listing/1314994052

[@katiamercedes26]

@@pillarsandpress Thank you so much. It looked so nice!