 Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel you guys in today's video I'm going to share with you everything that is in my January morning basket I cannot wait to share with you guys all the books all the goodies all of everything So I have my basket right here. It's empty because I have all the books laid out So I cannot wait to show you guys everything so you guys if any of you are new here to my channel again My name is Brittany. I am a homeschooling mom to three girls I have a ten three in a two-year-old so I'm really excited about January's morning basket because I feel like out of all The morning baskets that I did I feel like I was a lot more intentional with this basket I really want us to continue to read a lot within our homeschool I really feel like I have been slacking on that department. I really have been focusing so much on Not making sure that we're not behind like in our core curriculum However, now that I feel like we are at a good place in our core curriculum I am really going to bring back all those enrichment things in our morning basket in our morning time. So Let me stop rambling you guys and go ahead and show you everything that I have So I'm gonna go ahead and start off with Bible So last quarter we actually studied God's ten promises or the ten commandments and my daughter really enjoyed it We studied it for like three months and we had so much fun So this quarter we are going to be studying the fruits of the spirit So I'm really excited about us digging in deep into this book written about the fruits of the spirit So far we have already gone over love and joy. So I'm really really happy about Continuing to use this series right here for explaining the fruits of the spirits now This book right here pairs really really good with the care to matters cards from September and co and Right now. I am just having my daughter Memorize each one of the memory verses that goes along with the characters So for love she has been memorized in first Corinthians 13 verse 4 through 7 Love is patient. Love is kind that whole memory verse and it's really been going good And I really love how this book right here and these September and co-carts have been Pairing really really well together. We read only two stories a week in here It has discussion questions and activities and things we can do along with the devotional So I just really like to take my time I really want these things and these concepts to be solidified within my daughter because Bible is really an important time in My household for us and my family. So I'm really excited for us to go on into our next unit Along with Bible you guys you already know I love this little devotional book how God grows a courageous girl My daughter really has been enjoying reading this devotional when we don't have time to do like our unit study Which I just showed you for Bible, which is the fruits of spirit. We have like a busier day It's a crazier morning We will always read this devotion book and we will go over our character We will say our prayer will read our poem and that will end off our morning Bible Especially for those days when it's chaotic with my two toddlers So I am still enjoying this little devotional. We are halfway through the through with this one So I'm gonna find I need to find like another devotional for her. So we've been loving this I really feel like this is good for any girls ages eight to ten It really has good messages and good meanings for girls I think they do have another one for the boys as well But we've been enjoying this little devotional right here Now another thing that's in my morning basket that has been in it for a while is my sing-a-song the season You guys already know I wasn't the believer at first, but it's still inside my morning basket I'm really loving going back to January because we started this one off in August So we're really getting a chance to really see this book full potential by being able to go back to January And my daughter loves reading these poems and sing a song of season. So um, yeah, it's still in the morning basket Now as far as like my books that I'm going to be reading with my two younger toddlers I was able to pull back out some of their favorites back on our bookshelf We had our fall and our winter books and since it's January I figured I would go ahead and put their two favorites back on our bookshelf, which is I am enough and I believe I can you guys I know you already know how many times I mentioned these books here on my channel But I really love these books right here. They're so inspirational. They're they're so encouraging And I really feel like to kick start our new year I just wanted to go ahead and put back a favorite on our bookshelf So I'm really happy to continue to read these two amazing picture books to my daughters Another book that I have that I am reading with my two toddlers is I believe or from head to from head to toe from Eric Carl You guys I love Eric Carl. They love Eric Carl and I just really figured this would be a really good book to add In to our mix into our morning like picture book type of read aloud again, I'm just going along with the encouragement motivational type of theme for Our picture books that I'm displaying on my bookshelf for the month of January So they have been enjoying this one I really like the rhyming repetition Within Eric Carl's books and it really has been helping my middle daughter Leia who has a speech delay It's really helping her with her vocabulary by me reading to her More books like this with a rhyming repetition in them Now you guys if you already see my channel, I am doing preschool with my two toddlers I have officially Added them into the mix and they are going to be doing a color unit from the new curriculum We are doing which is playing preschool So I have a big stack right here of all of the books that we are going to be Reading with our colored unit and I just want to go ahead and share them with you guys because This is going to be a part of my morning basket a part of my morning time I'm really trying to just um have a natural flow from our bible time to our Reading time and then on to the rest of our core work for my oldest daughter So I figured by adding in our read aloud for our playing preschool In our morning basket, it would be the best way to go So we're not reading all these books at once, but these are all the books We're going to get through in our colors unit, which is going to last us for two weeks So the first one again from eric carl is brown bear brown bear. What do you see? I have pita cat. I love my white shoes You guys if you have any toddlers this pita cat. I love my white shoes has a really cute um song on youtube And it's like a read aloud edition and my daughters They love following the pages of the book and listen to the read aloud and now when I read this book They don't want me just to read it to them. They want me to do like the song and all of the things So, uh, yeah, if you have any toddlers, definitely check out that youtube video on pita cat. I love my white shoes So I have 10 black dots. I have mouse paint This is actually the book we're doing this week and it's talking about how to um It's showing the kids how two colors when they mix together they turn into another color So this is really an awesome book for uh going over Primary colors and secondary colors for the younger one. So this is our book. We've been reading right now and it's been awesome We've already read freight train for our first two days of our colors unit and this one was a cute one as well You guys I really love um all of the bright illustrations in this uh Picture book and it really helped solidify those colors with my um my two younger toddlers So yeah, this one was definitely a good one and I'm happy that we're still uh reading this along with our colors unit I have green that I checked out from the library to I have herald and the purple crayon Hopefully they don't get a bad message from this book But I'm so excited to read this one with them when we get to this one And then the last book that I have for my younger toddlers is the rainbow fish So I'm really excited about all of these books that I'm adding in for my toddlers now for brielle By the time you guys are watching this video martin with the king day has already passed. However We are spending this whole week going over a little mini martin with the king unit My daughter actually started homeschooling her second half of second grade So she's never really had an opportunity to really learn about martin with the king Throughout her elementary school years when she was in um her early Her early elementary school years when she was in public school before I pulled her out to homeschool So I really wanted to give her some true gentle history this year So we've really been focusing on martin with the king the main book We have been reading this week is the story of martin with the king jr And you guys I really love uh these books the story of because I love how they have They have these really thought provoking questions right here. Um that they asked the kids to really think about Just different things that happen within martin's life and how what they feel how what they react And it's really uh allowing her to critically think and at the end of the book you guys It's a little comprehension check. So I feel like this um If you see it, so there's a little comprehension check at the end So I feel like these little books were really really good in explaining um just martin with the king's life and The historical facts around his life uh the civil rights movement. It did an awesome job It did an awesome job of giving gentle history And I really love too how it highlighted vocabulary words that you know, your kids may not know That you want to go over with them so they can really understand the text and then in the back of this book it also has a glossary So um, I have really been enjoying this one if you guys already know I can definitely still a who was fan, but this book it just you know, it added a little um to Our uh study this week. So I have really been enjoying this one But again, I do have who was dr. Martin Luther king This one does go a little bit more in-depth this one if you have an early elementary age kid. Maybe um, I'll say first through third. This one will be a good one to start off Three through seven. I really think that um, it's appropriate for the who was books because they do go a little bit deeper But um, both of these books have been amazing this week Now I'm going to show you guys another one that I have from last year that I read with my daughter And this is I am Martin Luther king and again for the gentleness of the content. I feel like these two Are a gentle in content. I feel like the who was book. Um, it's really hitting some um heart truths So um, if you guys were wondering where to start in your MLK journey or in your Martin Luther king studies um, I just want to kind of rate them as far as gentleness and um Trues just because this is a really sensitive topic and I definitely want to make sure when I present this information to my daughter about You know the civil rights movement about this time that I am Creating the atmosphere where she can absorb the information and I'm not giving her too much all that one So I've been enjoying my collection that I have been collecting so far. So, uh, yeah Now, um, something else that is inside of our morning basket is we are doing an africa continent study We are using amazing africa from the heritage mom block and it's really been going great I really love diving into each country within africa So i'm going to share with you guys the picture books that we are going to be using for this month during our africa study So the picture book we're going to be reading is a is for africa We're going to be reading Beatrice go We're also going to be reading a shanti to zulu. Hopefully i'm pronouncing this right you guys And then the two main books that goes along with the amazing africa patch it are the amazing africa pack is africa is not a country And africa amazing africa country by country now this book you guys I really love this book the pictures in this book is is beautiful I love the illustrations in here and I really like how it gives you tid bits about um Each of the countries you are going on and you guys a lot of times as we read about each of the countries in this africa Book right here my daughter. She loves to go on rabbit trails We're also making like a really cool interactive notebook So while i'm reading to her all of the different facts and information From the picture books from this reference book we're using she is doing like an interactive journal She's coloring. She is writing down facts about each country And then she's actually asked me to take it a little bit further and she wants to start Adding in different like scrap notebook paging in within each country. Maybe like a food She uh wanted to add in in it So she's really getting creative with her interactive um africa notebook that we're doing too So those are the picture books as well Now you guys for our main read aloud that we are reading for the month of january is On the banks of plum creek you guys I tried my best to show my daughter so many other books For us to kind of get off this little house on the prairie series However, you guys she just wants to keep on going We have already read little house in the big woods. We've read farmer boy And we also read little house on the prairie now little house on the prairie was not me and my daughter's favorite However, it did in really really well That so I really still will give that one a good rating because it ended beautifully I love the message behind the end of the little house on the prairie uh book So we're going along with the series I tried to get her to read the long winter because we were in winter But my daughter she loves reading books step by step by step So we are on on the banks of plum creek However, you guys this next month since it is black history month I told my daughter I get to pick the book because it's black history month And I really want us to focus on something that's going to really let us dive deep in the month of february So, uh, yeah, so for right now, we are still continuing with the little house on the prairie books But um, yeah, she she can't pick for the month of february So you guys since we're talking about books and we're talking about morning baskets I have a little pal right here of some personal books that i'm reading That i'm going to go ahead and share with you guys too Just because it is fun seeing all of the reading and the picture books we're doing with our kids However, I just wanted to change it up a bit and show you guys Some of the uh devotions and some of the reading that I am doing personally I'm really trying to up my game this year on uh reading more and being less in technology As far as me just scrolling I really want to be intentional with the time that I do have by myself without the kids and I really don't want to Spend it idly just always uh, just online. Um, I know I film. I know I edit I know I'm trying my best to be on instagram more and doing all of the things for uh, I guess my fun Content creating side of things but as far as personally, I do want to get more into books So i'm going to share with you guys some devotionals that i'm reading right now So i'm reading this devotional and it's called trusting guide day by day by uh, joy smires I really have been enjoying this one. I actually started this devotional in october So it's a 365 day devotional. So I just started back at january and you guys sometimes i'm not gonna lie I don't have like that hour or that 30 minutes in the morning to be able to do my devotion Sometimes you guys all I have is like five ten minutes But if anything I pick up this book. I pray to god I do the scripture reading and I go on about my day I'm trying my best to wake up earlier and to spend more time in the morning with god However, I'm doing the best that I can in a season of life and these devotions right here has really been helping me Dive in deeper into the bible. So I've really been enjoying this devotional I also read this one and it's from the same publisher as my daughter's book How god grows a courageous girl and this one's called worry Worry less and pray more a woman's devotional guide to it to anxiety free living And you guys I really love just the tidbits and the messages and the prayers within this because some days This is what I need I need to know that I just need to lay it all at god's feet and trust him In my life in my home school and everything. So I've really been enjoying this devotional Now as far as two reading books that I have been reading I have been you guys this is like my second month straight trying to be Second or to be consistent with this book. It's wonderful Every time I get through another chapter But I just need to be more consistent and this one is called rhythms of renewal from Rebecca line line linens And you guys this was a recommendation from tory from the oglesfield hon and her recommendations for her books, you guys It never fails. I really have been enjoying this one I've been enjoying the journaling pages at the end and I really think that this is helping me in my motherhood Outside of just homeschool mom everything like that is helping me. Um, just for me So I really have been enjoying reading this book and for homeschool purposes, of course, we have to read a homeschool book I'm reading homeschool bravely. I'm gonna be honest I'm not liking this as much as I have like the call to the wild and free that one was beautiful However, I just want to see what homeschool bravely was about. It's good so far But it's not as good as the other book that the other homeschooling book that I have read If you guys like have any like homeschooling books you want to recommend to me Go ahead and link them down below in the comments so I can check them out as well So you guys that is everything inside of my january morning basket Um, I know I have a lot of stuff and I know I am biting off a lot of literature But I really hope we can dive in deep into more books this uh coming semester So you guys as always, thank you so much for watching today's video I hope you enjoy and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one Bye