Morning Baskets for Preschool & Kindergarten

What is a Morning Basket?

You may have heard the term morning collective or other homeschool mom's taking about their morning basket and wonder what exactly does it entail.

Essentially a morning basket is a place to gather things that you want to include in your learning time, typically to begin your day, but that can be used any time and is portable so that it can be used anywhere.

Today we are going to talk about morning baskets for your littlest learners using resources from The Peaceful Press!

If you are using The Peaceful Loop, The Peaceful Preschool, or Nourishing Nature Kindergarten, or even if you aren't using a Peaceful Press curriculum these are some wonderful resources that you can easily implement in your morning collective to start your days well.

Some elements to include:

-Early Years Morning Time Menu-The Peaceful Press Early Years Morning Time Menu is a helpful resource so your child can practice basic skills during morning time. We include 10 pages of skills practice including name, address and phone number, counting to 100, emotions, calendar, weather and more!

-The Good Gospel: A-Z Bible Resource for Young Children- The Good Gospel is an A-Z gospel devotional guide intended for use in preschool Sunday School, or as a weekly accompaniment to The Peaceful Preschool. The guide includes 26 lessons with verses, crafts, Bible stories, declarations, and fine art geared towards helping young children connect with the stories of Jesus in a Sunday School or home setting.

-ABC Bible Verse Cards- Alphabet learning and Bible Verse Cards for scripture and letter learning for a strong and beautiful foundation.

-Nourishing Nature Bible Verse Cards- Nourishing Nature Bible Verse Cards are a set of 53 cards. Seventeen downloadable sheets feature the coordinating bible verses from our Nourishing Nature Kindergarten. Simply print, cut, and laminate, for a beautiful way to keep Scripture in your heart and the hearts of your children. The letters on the top of the cards correspond to the first letter of each word in the verse. This makes these cards ideal for memorizing scriptures. 

-Through the Season Guides: Summer, Spring, Winter, & Autumn- These can be purchased as a bundle or separately although the bundle is the best value.

Summer Guide

The Peaceful Press: Summer Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of growing and thriving. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and projects to make savoring summer a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your 3-7-year-old learners.

Autumn Guide

The Peaceful Press: Autumn Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of harvest and thankfulness. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring autumn a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.

Winter Guide

The Peaceful Press: Winter Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of comfort and sustenance. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and poems to make savoring winter a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners.

Spring Guide

The Peaceful Press: Spring Guide includes four weekly grids with activities to inspire your child with new skills centered around the themes of blossoms and rainbows. The unit includes Bible lessons, recipes, supply lists, recommended literature, and projects to make savoring spring a multi-sensory and developmentally appropriate unit for your young learners. 

-Calendar Bundle- The Peaceful Press: Calendar Bundle is a free preschool resource for learning dates!

-Chore & Routine Pack- We all know that good habits are an important part of a successful homeschool experience, but sometimes we need a little help. This chore pack is the perfect resource for making good habits fun. The chore pack includes a habit tracker, 116 different cards in 47 pages of color, and black and white printables. We've also included 10 handy instruction guides to help teach your children the step-by-step skills for caring for their environment. This updated bundle now includes a habits checklist and habit tracker for parents. The 47 Page chore pack is only $7. All you do is print, cut, and laminate!

- Fine Art Memory Game- Our Peaceful Press Art Memo Game is a lovely way of working on picture study, visual processing, and memory with your child. Included are fine art prints, along with corresponding title and artist, which coincide with The Kind Kingdom, The Precious People and The Playful Pioneers. All you do is print, laminate, and cut, for a beautiful and multi-purpose learning activity with your child.

-Picture Word Card Bundle- Our Picture Word Cards are a lovely way of working on phonogram review, labeling, sight words, and speech articulation with your child. You can also use these with small objects for a simple object game, or as a memory game to match up words and pictures, or letters and pictures. We've even added twenty-six rhyme cards that can be used as an extension activity for beginning readers. It’s a gorgeous way to enhance your child’s learning, at a very affordable price. Included are pictures for each letter of the alphabet, along with a corresponding letter, word, and rhyme. All you do is print, cut, and laminate, for a beautiful and multi-purpose learning activity with your child.

-Phonogram Bingo- Our Phonogram Bingo is a free downloadable gift from us to you. These bingo cards can be used with the Picture-Word Cards for another fun way to work on fine motor skills, counting, and phonics. Included is a digital downloadable PDF with six different Phonogram Bingo cards, in easy to read, lowercase print, for the entire family to enjoy! All you do is print, cut, and laminate, for a long-lasting, fun, and multi-purpose learning activity with your child.

The best part is that many of these resources can be found on The Peaceful Press website for $5 and some of them are even free! Be sure to check them out and get started on your morning basket today!

Do you use a morning basket or have a morning collective time?

What are some of your favorite things to include in it?