 Hey everybody, welcome to The Wallach Way. I'm Jessica and today's video is part of our homeschool show and tell series. The homeschool show and tell series is hosted by Abby from Rooted in Rest and Myself and it is an open collaboration brought to you the second Tuesday of every month. We welcome homeschoolers from around the world to join in because our goal is to show that homeschooling is as unique as the people on the journey and that it is not one size fits all. Last month, in case you missed it, we talked about planning an organization which you can catch right there. This month, we're going to be talking about morning baskets. Now, before we get started, make sure you check out all of the links in the description box down below because there you're gonna find this month's playlist so that you can see all of the amazing homeschoolers that are gonna be sharing their morning baskets as well as a blog post with more information in case you would like to join us this month or in future months. And you are also going to find the links for the blog post specific to the morning basket that you're gonna see Emily and I doing in just a moment. Before I show you us actually doing morning basket, I wanted to tell you a little bit about our morning basket. Now, morning baskets are vastly different. They are taking the homeschool world by storm but they are literally whatever you want them to be. I know some people who change them out daily, some people change them out weekly, some people change them out monthly, some people change them out just once a year at the beginning of the year, there is no wrong way to do it. For us and our family, morning basket is a time to start our day to lay the foundation and to connect kind of first thing in the morning. So it helps us just get a slow start to the morning, connect and just make sure that we're having like that togetherness as a family. So we do a little bit of reading, we do some mad lives because they're Emily's favorite. We normally have a few hands-on activities in a game thrown in there. Now this year, in case you missed it, I will link it up here. My big morning basket announcement is that Emily is actually choosing all of our themes and putting our morning baskets together. It was a great way for us to do something that we pride ourselves on, which is following her lead and letting her, kind of have that say in her education. So she is actually the one organizing all of our morning baskets for the year. She's picking the theme, she's picking what's going in them. And I have actually really been enjoying that she's kind of taking the lead on that. Now don't worry, I still have all of this A in our bedtime basket. So all of those things that were super important to me are still getting done on a daily basis, things like our journal and our devotion. Those are all still happening, they're just happening at bedtime instead of morning time. I feel like we will start our day by filling her bucket and then we end it by kind of filling mine. Joe once told a group of students at school in Montclair, New Jersey, that she herself was never as clever or as annoying as Hermione. Yet she could be a know-it-all on the outside while inside she was very insecure. She also got good grades in school like Hermione did. Then she discovered a new favorite writer, Jane Austen. Jane Austen was writing books almost 200 years before JK Rowling. Thank you for my loves. Always. All right, so this one was called, Hi, I'm Harry Potter. All right, so don't look over here. Give me an adjective. Adjective, that's a describing word. Okay, red. Another adjective? Okay, a plural noun. The plural noun I would like, kittens, normal hill of cats. Okay, another plural noun. Hmm, because they have owls in the place and those movies and stuff. Okay, an adjective. Another adjective? Fluffy. Fluffy, okay. A name? Hermione Granger. Well, just Hermione. Better. Okay, another noun? Another noun? Mommy, okay. You gotta be in the story too. Yeah, all right, food. Ooh, food. Reese's. Yeah, what would anything in Emily's life be without Reese's candy? All right, almost done. Adjective? Adjective. Okay, let's describe the Reese's as bumpy. Bumpy, all right. Because they kind of have like that crisp. Okay, what about one more noun? Cool book. Okay. Well, then it's cool. All right, I will fill this in and then I'm gonna let you read it. Ooh, fine, I get to read it. You know how much I love reading? Mm-hmm. You were very hard to meet and made me freaking the puppet under the kid. You were kidding. You were sleeping under the kitten, huh? That's funny, you picked owls and that was actually the true story when the owls are here. The owls did bring them. Yeah. Okay, you're right here. And a fluffy man named Hermione. I know that man. That's actually Hagrid, not Hermione. Yeah.