Our Morning Basket I An Ambleside Online Curriculum Inspired Morning Routine

[@LittleBlessings3]

So glad I stumbled across this! I'll be starting AO year 1 with my oldest next year (and will also have an almost 4 yr old and 1 year old in tow!) and I plan on using G+C with my younger two when they're ready! I love how you organized everything and put together your morning time! I'm planning on doing something similar so it was great to see how you did it! Thank you for sharing!

[@CharlotteMasonTT]

I love your style - we do Ambleside and SCM scripture as well

[@thisisme_cristi]

Thanks!! I love both Ambleside Online & SCM. It’s hard to pick and choose between other beautiful Charlotte Mason curriculums out there but these are among the best!

[@haleybruckler9655]

You are amazing 🤍🤍🤍🤍 lots of love to you and appreciation for sharing this / opening a window to your wonderful Mind

[@thisisme_cristi]

Aw thank you so much for your sweet message! I hope this year ahead is filled with beautiful mornings with your children that help you all build connections together! ❤️

[@brendav5187]

Oh my goodness. That Speaking Spanish book is just what I need! Thanks 👍🏼

[@thisisme_cristi]

It's been an awesome addition to learning Spanish for us! I couple that with Duolingo Spanish and she's doing so well. Hope it works well for you guys too!

[@brightmorningstaracademy1051]

Thank you for sharing! We use AO 1 and 0 and Bilingual too! So happy I found your channel! 🙌🏼

[@thisisme_cristi]

Thanks! I'm glad you found us too! I had to take a few weeks off from KZbin there but we're back and hope to post more videos so you can see what's been working for us lately. I hope they help you out!

[@breynolds7196]

Love the hymn folk song playlist idea !

[@thisisme_cristi]

It’s a definite time saver in the mornings.

[@sannatiisanoja2110]

I love the idea of flash cards for the notes!!

[@thisisme_cristi]

Thanks! I got that idea from my Piano Teacher from when I was a kid. Every lesson would always begin with a quick 2 minutes of note flashcards. It helped me so I figured it would help my kids too. : )

[@zuyingovea757]

Shout out from Colorado from another Miami girl! Way to represent!🙌 I'm excited to have found your channel, especially since we're an Ambleside Online family!

[@thisisme_cristi]

Hey hey Miami girl! Glad that you found the channel. 🥰

[@Clothmom1]

This was a great video. I want to join your preschool/K! LOL! This was very inspirational.

[@thisisme_cristi]

Aw, that’s so sweet! I’m so glad that you found it inspirational. ❤️

[@crystalhuntsman3178]

Thank you so much! I have been overwhelmed with Morning Basket and this was so simple and concise and helpful. Beautifully done!!

[@thisisme_cristi]

Aw, thanks! I’m so glad you found it helpful! ❤️

[@enriquezechariah3660]

sorry to be off topic but does anybody know a trick to get back into an Instagram account?? I stupidly forgot the account password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me.

[@vintageplans5217]

Wow! This video was so incredibly helpful! I'm just starting my preparation to begin Year 1 with my oldest in the fall, so I've been trying to find as much information as I can on how to schedule and structure our days. Thanks for sharing!

[@thisisme_cristi]

I’m so glad to help in any way I can! I’m doing a new series where I’m going a little deeper into each subject so that homeschool parents can have a better understanding of what exactly we use and how we implement them. I hope you find these new videos helpful!

[@Dreblueskies]

I want to start AO I’m just so intimidated 🙈 Thank you for this video.

[@thisisme_cristi]

I can relate. It took me a few months of lots of research and combing through all of the posts in the FB AO community and the forum and then breaking down the weekly schedule into a daily one so that I felt secure enough to dive head first. Honestly, going with AO was the very best decision I made this year for us! Dive in and ask all the questions, you won’t regret it!

[@jenniferchristopherson]

Christina I love this video! I'm a catholic homeschooling mom of 7 year old twins! I need to check out your blog and find out where you got your menu covers and wonderful print outs. I've been doing a mix of Gentle feast curriculum with salt and light catholic minimilaist homeschool this past year but I spent more this past year than I want to for 2021-2022 school year. There are so many good free resources out there and I JUST found ambleside and I'm so excited that its a free resource!! We cherish our biblestudy and Cathecism in the morning and our poems, etc too! Much love to you and your family. I need to email you to find out your opinions on the Spanish resources out there...Im half Mexican and cant speak Spanish but I want my twins to learn it!!!

[@thisisme_cristi]

I’m so sorry for my delay in responding. It’s been a hectic month around here. I’m so glad you found my channel! I’m happy to help in any way I can. I jumped head first into Ambleside Online and absolutely loooove it! I have spent quite a bit on other curriculums for my boys who are younger and love that Ambleside is free and has so much support! As for Spanish, we are going pretty light this year. I want to find something a bit more structured for next year but for now we are doing the basics by doing Spanish worksheets and going over vocabulary, doing Duolingo and using the Spanish book I show in this video. She has learned quite a bit, but truly there’s nothing like taking an hour of your day and just speaking In Spanish. It’s tough to be consistent with it so I put an alarm on my phone to remind me. Hope that helps!

[@momma2one205]

Do you have a copy of the menu pages (like the beautiful front cover)? This is exactly what I’ve been trying to start but puts it together so nicely!

[@thisisme_cristi]

Yes! So sorry for the delayed reply. I have gotten some other requests for it so I made an Etsy listing for it. You can check it out here: www.etsy.com/listing/857593168/morning-menu-bundle-i-our-morning-cover?ref=shop_home_active_6

[@AnimateWithMyCats]

Sucha great idea with the menu! Would love to know where you bought the menus and where you got the print outs

[@thisisme_cristi]

Oh absolutely! I bought the menus from amazon: amzn.to/3KXoOWT And I believe I downloaded the prints directly from the Ambleside Online website and then sent them to print at FedEx. Other places to consider are 8x10 matte photography prints. I think I would've preferred those so that the color would've been more vibrant.

[@melissagartner2675]

Can you share the link for the fan deck? I thought those were neat.

[@thisisme_cristi]

Aren’t they?! I love pulling them out and referencing them when we want to know a bit more about a particular composer or painter. Here’s the link for the composer fandex: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761112065/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0761112065&linkCode=as2&tag=lamen09-20&linkId=5481ddc2e19f48c467f4c9b260ee7cb8 & here’s the one for the painter fandex: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761123598/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0761123598&linkCode=as2&tag=lamen09-20&linkId=c2c59503a704b0a0bb205d98256a90e3

[@melissagartner2675]

@@thisisme_cristi thank you.

[@kathleenperez3316]

You have explained this so well!! I do have a few questions 😅 like how do you schedule everything tho? I know you said you don’t do all your morning basket (seperate days for composer, art etc) how long do you take on them? My kids are newly 8, 5.5, 3 and 1 and it’s chaos every morning 🫠😅

[@alchemyofspiritiualawakening]

I noticed your playlists no longer exist:( Does the link need to be updated? Thanks!!

[@thisisme_cristi]

I need to make this next years playlist still. It’s on my list of to-do’s. I had to clean up a lot if the playlists though. There were so many they were driving me crazy, lol. What playlist were you referring to so I can start rebuilding it.

[@alchemyofspiritiualawakening]

@@thisisme_cristi Hymns and Folksongs but I stumbled upon several of the ones you listened to as I binge watched your videos today!! So happy to have found a like-minded Mama:) Thanks for the great tips!!! I hadn’t seen anyone else post exactly how they organized their Morning Basket or Routine using the G&C until you today. Thx again

[@karlieblackmore5994]

We are also a Catholic family doing AO , we are also doing Y1 ( boy almost 8) What do you do for “Trial and Triumph “?

[@thisisme_cristi]

We switched out Trial and Triumph for the religion schedule on the Mater Amabilís curriculum. I had to tweak it a bit so that we could focus on advent during the month of December but it wasn’t too difficult. If you’re interested in my schedule send me your email amd I’ll send it to you.

[@thefolkmethod]

Do you have links for your morning basket?

[@thisisme_cristi]

The morning basket itself was repurposed from a Christmas basket that was given to us with goodies in it a few years ago. I’m sure you can find a beautifully sturdy one in TJ Max HomeGoods or in Target. Ikea has some pretty good ones too although I’m not sure if they have them lined like this one. For the individual items inside the basket, I’ve linked quite a number of things on my blog pertaining to this video. You can check it out here: www.thisismecristi.com/blog/our-2020-morning-basket If there’s anything in particular you’re we’re wondering about, please let me know.

[@larissabess7617]

Great video! Do you have a template you used for your weekly schedule?

[@thisisme_cristi]

I don’t have a template written out (yet! That’s a great idea though and I’ll edit the post to include it as soon as I make one.) what I do is figure out what from my daughter’s AO enrichment schedule I want to tackle that morning (I.e. hymns, folk songs, composer or artist study) then I add other items I know only take about 5 minutes or so and I add them to our morning rhythm: new prayers, math skills like skip counting or counting backwards, poetry recitation, nursery rhymes, Spanish flash cards, etc. everyday is a bit different but at least I have all the 5 min work in this one place and we always hit them at least 2xs per week.

[@samanthamiles4397]

New subscriber! Did you get the menu holder off Amazon? I only found it for multiples and I only need 1 wasn't sure If there is a local store you can get them at as well.

[@thisisme_cristi]

Yes, the first time I bought I also went searching for just one menu holder and I found and bought this one: amzn.to/3gtEt1w It’s a little taller than 8.5x11 but honestly it’s so much better that it’s bigger because then you can switch out the pages quite easily. I’ve since bought more menu holders to fit 8.5x11 pages and I returned them because it was too difficult to slide the papers in and out.

[@samanthamiles4397]

@@thisisme_cristi thank you !

[@AnimateWithMyCats]

Yikes! Those art prints do not seem age appropriate for those little ages. Also, do the faces scare your littles?

[@thisisme_cristi]

It's definitely a whole lot of art for little ones, but they really took to it and it's amazing to see these art pieces through their eyes. They see things differently than adults do. Learning art history and appreciation this way has definitely changed the way I look at all sorts of art now.

[@aleciawimer8506]

Dear momma, I like many of your ideas, but not the unbiblical ones. Mary is not part of the Trinity or co-equal with God or to be worshipped at all. Also, the book of Hebrews shows that only Jesus is our priest. Christians pray directly to God! Also, Psalms 7:11, and other verses, show that not everyone is a child of God. Please, read your KJV Bible to see these things.