Reviewing Classical Conversations memory work is the basic purpose of our morning meetings. The Purpose of our Morning Meetings aka What We Do in our Morning Meetings But if you are on the go, it can easily happen in the car, too. If you are interested in starting a Morning Meeting with your kids, I recommend you have a place where each kid can sit and write. Some of our activities will have us getting up and moving around the house, but for the most part, this is our little nest. My two youngest trade spots while my two oldest insist on sitting in the same spot every day without fail. It is a big square table where everyone can spread out with markers, crayons, pens, and pencils. Our Morning Meetings are always around our dining table. So if we were a bit more strict about it, we could probably cut it down to 30 minutes or less. We have 4 kids and we do some extensions during our Morning Meeting. But I would caution against spending more than an hour on CC work in Foundations. If you are looking to do a Morning Meeting, you might want to start with a shorter time. More detail on that schedule in this post. We only review one to two subjects per day, plus a hard subject (ours is Geography) every day. We do our Morning Meetings four days a week, with a pre-planned schedule of subjects for each day. So we typically target the beginning of our Morning Meeting at 10. And we are slow starters around here – like real slow. A Time for Morning MeetingsĪlthough life is hectic around our house during the week, I try to do our Morning Meeting at the beginning of our school day. Thus, the rest of this article will give the details of our Morning Meeting along those lines. In my opinion a meeting must have three things – a time, a place, and a purpose. However, our Morning Meeting is different from our Gathering in that it is solely focused on Classical Conversations memory work and related materials. Our Gathering Placemats do include memory work pegs and connections to the current CC cycle. ![]() But we do that at the very beginning of our day, often while eating breakfast. It’s called Gathering and it is a treasured tradition. Now if you follow along, you already know we have a habit of morning time around here. ![]() What is this magical routine? A Morning Meeting. We have also had a Memory Master every year without major cramming sessions in April. That schedule has allowed us to have success in memorizing and retaining the memory work for Classical Conversations for every level of student. I have written in the past about our Simple Classical Conversations Memory Work Review Schedule. One of the good things this past year was an extension of a routine we have had for a number of years. I only recommend things I use and believe to be a blessing. If you click and make a purchase based on my recommendation, I get a small remuneration at no extra expense to you. Like cream rising to the top, the good things seemed to discover themselves to us and the rest just went by the wayside. ![]() Each year we settled further into the routines and rhythms which were truly a blessing to us. Some years we have had newborn babies, mischievous toddlers, household remodeling projects, and students who were threatened with public schooling more than once. Last year we struggled to find those routines – again, and then settled into them – again. This past year (similar to all the years before it) was the best year yet. ![]() Each year of our Classical Conversations experience thus far, I have tested new routines, tried hundreds of “solutions” to the myriad problems we faced, and have kept only the good stuff. The growth will continue throughout the rest of your homeschool teaching career. Why would I need to begin an article about CC with a disclaimer such as the one above? I often have to remind myself and my CC-mama friends – this is a growing process. Disclaimer: The following post is the result of 6 full years of Foundations in Classical Conversations.
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