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Do you have everyone learn the same poems for Morning Time? I usually read poems for everyone in MT, but we have different memorization schedules for different ages. The children recite in MT, but except for the very young ones, they memorize as part of independent work. I am rethinking this... and would love to hear what you do...
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My kids memorize poems with Classically Catholic Memory, so we don't memorize poetry together as a family any more. Previously I would have them each choose a poem to memorize that they liked from the poet we were studying, but with CCM the younger kids memorize different things from the older kids, so the work is already done for me.
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Yes - we have done CCM and done the different poems too. In other years - we have done one poet a quarter and everyone has different poems depending on age.
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We seem to be exactly the opposite of what you're doing, Marilyn.
CHILDREN TOGETHER -- MORNING BASKET:
We all work together on the same memory work. All kids/all ages work on the same Bible verses, folk song, hymn, poetry. We're going to work in a very little Shakespeare memory work this year.
EACH CHILD -- INDIVIDUALLY:
Different children read poetry from an individual book - so my 1st grader is reading Milne and my 8th grader may be reading Tennyson.
This just works better for us to all be working on the same memory work and then reading (and occassionally narrating) from something more age/grade appropriate.
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I am rethinking Jen...when I had Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 4 and littles - it was easier to have different poems. Now I could do the same poetry, at least for my 3 youngest.
We do the same Latin prayers, hymn, Bible verse, Shakespeare,Civics for everyone
Another challenge, is to figure out my 10th graders and for which portion on MT they will join us.....
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Yeah - the older kids generally excuse themselves for a portion of our Morning Basket. When I had a 12th grader, she stayed for the read alouds, narrations, and then left to do her own work.
I arrange my Morning Basket plans so that the things we do first are those things that everyone does. Then, I can excuse older kids and keep my youngers to finish Morning Basket work. BUT...I really like having those big kids as part of Morning Basket because they set such a VALUABLE example! And they help young narrators!
Last year I had my biggest spread:
12th, 8th, 4th, 1st, baby
And...this year I have in Morning Basket time:
8th (year B), 4th (year B), 1st (year B), toddler
A tiny explanation: This year, after praying and deciding that we really want our boys to graduate after they turn 18 and also because moving forward academically this year while keeping the same grade label as last year means that their 12th grade year leaves them finished with home ed work by 11th and free to dual enroll. So, we're moving forward (everything academically is still moving forward), but I'm still calling their academic year by the same number (just as a way of identifying a grade for record-keeping purposes). So, the kids aren't repeating because they did poorly academically, but because of their ages and so that my engineering bound son has ample time to master upper level math and dual enroll before pursuing his engineering degree. Aaaannnnnnyyyyyyway....just consider logistically structuring your Morning Time to stack all the common points first, then a transition time for your big boys to peel off and then that gives you some time to finish up Morning Time with littlers.
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Jen - our older boys are in a similar position in that they will be dual enrolling. But they will start some classes in junior year - this year will be their last before dual enrollment - and we have no external classes - so I really want them to be part of Morning Time.
All my older kids say that MT and family read alouds are maybe their favorite memories of homeschooling.
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Thank you so much for starting this thread, Marilyn. Years ago, I read about having a poet for each term and just associated it with the idea of having a composer or artist or nature theme or whatever that we did altogether. I have only sporadically been able to make this happen over the years, and I was stressed knowing that there was no way to do ALL the things I wanted to in our morning time with any consistency.
Anyway, I cannot say this thread was a lightbulb moment, but it was definitely the spark in the back of my mind that resulted in a light coming on when I was hemming and hawing about what poems my 10 year old would like while still wanting to engage my little ones and then read the Ambleside syllabi and saw "a poem a day." Aha! *That* is doable, isn't it??
So, while I think I will have all of us working on the same memory work together, including some poetry, I can have specific poets for the boys to read in their studies, leaving us time to enjoy some anthologies or "fun" poets in extra-curricular reading like poetry tea times or picnics.
Doesn't that sound fun and alliterative? A poetry picnic? Poetry Tea Time Tuesdays was always such a mouthful to me 
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