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Are you wanting to incorporate a morning menu into your homeschool day?
In the world of homeschooling, mornings hold the key to setting the tone for a successful day of learning, growth, and connection.
Just as a well-designed morning menu can nourish both the body and the mind, a thoughtfully curated morning routine can pave the way for productive homeschooling.
Morning menus are the perfect time to sit together as a family and go over what is important to your heart.
We’ve been using morning menus for over 10 years but in our old days, we used a binder, not a menu.
The nice thing about using a menu instead of a binder is you can write over the top of the plastic with a dry-erase marker.
Whether you use a binder or a menu, the concept is the same.
We’ve made many memories together each morning during our menu time many families make it a regular part of their morning basket time.
Let’s look at how to make a morning menu personal to your family.
How to Make a Morning Menu for Your Homeschool
First, you need to purchase an actual menu that you can slide a piece of paper into easily.
You want the menu to have a few pages and be durable since you will be using it daily.
Next, you will also need some dry-erase markers but younger children could follow along with their fingers as well.
What you put inside your menu will greatly depend on your kid’s age and what is important to your family.
In the past, we have used this time to memorize scripture and go over our kid’s Identity.
Let’s take a look at some ideas on what you could put inside your menu.
What Can You Put Inside Your Morning Menu?
I’ve created a morning menu printable to take the stress out of your planning.
It’s 34 pages of printables including tracing, calendar, address, phone numbers, declarations and more.
You can grab it below!
What other kind of pages can go in your morning menu?
- Scriptures on Identity
- The Day’s Schedule
- Personal Declarations
- Hymns and Songs
- The 50 States
- Your Address
- You and your spouse’s phone numbers
- The President in order
- The Pledge of Allegiance
- Handwriting and Copy Work
- The Daily Weather
- Days of the Week
- The Current Date
- Seasons of the Year
- Composure Studies
- Picture Studies
- Books of the Bible
- The Alphabet
- Multiplication Facts
- Poetry
Obviously, you need to adjust your pages depending on your child’s skill level and grade level.
You can and should rotate out the papers after the kids get bored or have memorized the materials.
I love how my kids still have their declarations memorized even though they are older now.
Your older kids can memorize scripture, the Preamble to the Constitution, poetry, the Pledge of Allegiance, or declarations on identity.
Your morning menu will be personal to your family and your beliefs. It’s a way to customize your homeschool to fit what’s important to you.
The menu time doesn’t really take that long, it’s the consistency that makes them so wonderful.
Getting the menus out and going over the material day after day reinforces the material and makes it easy to memorize.
How do you get the menu pages?
You could hop on Canva and try your hand at some basic graphic design but if that’s not your thing, there are plenty of premade homeschool morning menu pages available to purchase at a low cost.
For older kids, I really like the idea of putting their weekly schedule in the menu. It gives everyone time to go over what’s expected and what everyone’s plans are so the family is on the same page.
Having a morning menu for our family through the years has allowed us to memorize things that are important to our core beliefs as a family. It gives us all time together in the morning before we go our separate ways.
Time to connect with each other, to pray together, or to discuss any important family events.
Morning Menu’s are the foundation for daily homeschool life.
The consistency is key, going over the material daily, together as a family.
I hope I’ve given you enough ideas so you can launch your own personal morning menus and enjoy the time with your children.
I’m so thankful for our morning time and how our kids have bonded over simple things like picture studies or reciting scripture.
As you design your homeschool morning menu, remember that it’s about nourishing more than just the body – it’s about nourishing the mind, cultivating a positive mindset, and promoting holistic growth.
Your homeschool mornings are bound to become a time of learning, connection, and enrichment.
