Comments on: THIS is the most important part of your homeschool day https://simplehomeschool.net/important/ Never let your schooling interrupt your education. Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:52:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley https://simplehomeschool.net/important/#comment-761449 https://simplehomeschool.net/?p=61900#comment-761449 In reply to Shelly Todd.

LOVE this, Shelly! I love the term “brain opener” – it’s so perfect! Good job keeping those hands busy!

]]> By: Cait https://simplehomeschool.net/important/#comment-761448 https://simplehomeschool.net/?p=61900#comment-761448 In reply to Jen @ Bookish Family.

Love all the reading you weave throughout your day, Jen!

]]> By: Shelly Todd https://simplehomeschool.net/important/#comment-761339 https://simplehomeschool.net/?p=61900#comment-761339 I took your Coffee and Books advice several years ago after your first post about it and we still use it even though my kids are 8th and 10th graders this year! Doesn’t matter….they love read aloud still and say it’s their brain opener for the day. I took it a bit farther and we do Busy Hands and Books though…as they are teens they don’t often like to eat first thing after waking so they have to have an activity for their hands…wood carving, coloring mandalas, sketching birds out the window…simple things so they can still listen. Works great and then we have “Elevenses”…and I LOVE the fact that my kids actually know what that literary classic actually means 🙂

]]> By: Jen @ Bookish Family https://simplehomeschool.net/important/#comment-761319 https://simplehomeschool.net/?p=61900#comment-761319 In our home we love read alouds at morning time, read alouds during our homeschool lessons, 2 books going at lunch time all year long, whatever picture books I read to my two year old (or anyone else who asks) plus Shakespeare and Plutarch a few times a week and bedtime read alouds which my husband takes care of every night. It is a LOT of reading but it is something we all enjoy and benefit from!

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