Morning Time: September 2025
Welcome to A Mother’s Thinking Love: Living Ideas, Lovingly Shared! In my last post, I shared a bit about our view of Morning Time and what it looks like for us in late summer months. As we look towards an “official” start of a new year, I’m starting my planning efforts with Morning Time. Morning Time is an anchor for us and sets the tone of our days. I’m thinking of making our monthly Morning Time plans a regular feature on the blog. We will see. For now, join me for: “Morning Time: September 2025”.
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Some Biographical Information
These plans are for myself and my daughter, who is in 8th grade. We don’t put much emphasis on grades in our house, but I understand it’s helpful for readers to know that information. I say these plans are for both of us because I receive immeasurable benefit from participating in them as well. I look at this time as part of my own education. Morning Time not only sets the tone for our days, but it also helps to shape our family culture.
Morning Time Planning Resources
The work of Cindy Rollins has made the task of planning Morning Time so much simpler. I commend her Morning Time resources to you.
Morning Time: A Liturgy of Love – This book contains everything you need to get started with Morning Time, including actual works of poetry, songs, Bible passages, and more.
The Morning Time Student Anthology – This book is for your student. Both books can be used for years.
Morning Time: September 2025
Bible
- We begin with one of my Family Worship Guides. You can find them for free here. I try to share a new one each month. At the time of writing, I have four available. I don’t have the guide for September ready yet, but it will be under the “Current Month’s Family Worship Guide” by the end of August. We spend 10-15 minutes here. You can find out more about them here.
- Bible Reading:
- Old Testament – We are working on finishing up our final lessons from our Old Testament survey. This month we will complete: Pharaoh & the Israelites, The Ten Plagues, Night of the Passover/Crossing of the Red Sea, The Bitter Well of Marah/Manna from Heaven.
- New Testament – This plan is for the entire term. I’m not sure how I will divide it up yet.
- John 1-7
- Savior of the World, Volume One by Charlotte Mason pg. 1-54
- Bible Reading:
Other Riches
- Hymn – May the Mind of Christ My Savior by Kate B. Wilkinson
- Folksong – Simple Gifts
- Poetry – We will be studying the poetry of Emily Dickinson by using Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson.
- Shakespeare – Julius Caesar
- Plutarch – Publicola
- Composer – Tchaikovsky *We will read the chapter about Tchaikovsky from The Gift of Music as well as listen to some of his works.
- Artist – Winslow Homer *I found a very affordable set of prints here.
- Language Arts – We are doing Latin/Greek roots in this slot for our first term. We do a more thorough study of Latin later in the day as well. For the roots, we are continuing to use English from the Roots Volume 1. I think these volumes are a little hard to find now, but they are fantastic!
- Latin roots: video/visum (see), verbum (word), nomen/nominis (name)
- Greek root: logos (word/study)
- Read Alouds –
- Nature Journal – We choose our Nature Study topics based on what we find during our Nature Walks. Over the summer, we studied things like: crawdads, spiders, berries, and wildflowers. Since I don’t yet know our topic, I will share the resources we use to Nature Journal:
- Handbook of Nature Study – You can use this for YEARS. It’s a great investment.
- Journals – I “Nature Journal”, too, so this pack is helpful for us.
- Colored Pencils
- The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling – This is another book that you can use for years.
Memory Work
- Poem – Although we will read many poems by Emily Dickinson, we will only be memorizing one: “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”.
- Shakespeare – “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” from Julius Caesar
- Historical Documents – Preamble to the Consitution
- Speeches – The Man in the Arena by Theodore Roosevelt
- Civics – US Citizenship Test: “What is the supreme law of the land?”
- Bible –
- Old Testament – Genesis 1:1-5
- New Testament – John 1:1-14
- Heidelberg Catechism – Question 1
- Review – Old Testament books, New Testament books, The Apostles Creed
Making it Work
We do not do all of these things each day. This is where Cindy Rollin’s book is beneficial because she helps you create a schedule. For example, with Bible, we use the Family Worship Guide each day. After that, we read from the Old Testament for two days and the New Testament for two days. We rotate through our memory work, choosing, roughly, two items for each day. Plutarch and Shakespeare each get their own days. Composer and Artist studies each get their own days as well. Already, you can see how dividing things up makes Morning Time much more manageable.
Share Your Morning Time
I hope you have enjoyed: “Morning Time: September 2025”. Morning Time has meant so much to us. As the years fly by, I realize more and more each day how precious this time is. Do you have plans for your Morning Time in September? If so, share them in the comments below! Would you like me to continue to share our Morning Time plans each month?
