Family Devotional "Opening" + Everything To Go In Your Devotional Box

When I started homeschooling as a little girl one of the things I remember most was our “Opening” or what others call “Family Devotional”! We would always start with a prayer, then the pledge, sing a patriotic song, memorize scripture and poems and sings other fun songs! We learned a lot in that short 20-30 minutes! I finally got my Family School Devotional Box put together this year and I feel so much more organized. Last year I would just wing it and quickly think of a song or scripture to teach the kids! My sister had an awesome list of songs, poems and scriptures to memorize, so I added it to mine and am super excited to share this with you all!

I LOVE my box and so do the kids, even though I realized I have two typos on it, Don’t worry I fixed them for the free printable! Here is how I organize my box. I have files for “new” and “review” and once it is memorized I put it behind the review tab.

This folder has the stuff we are working on for the week. Sometimes it stays in longer especially if it is a little more difficult!

We also do our Song School Latin , Vocabulary Cartoons, Phonogram Cards
and Singing’ Smart songs if we have time. I don’t like it to take more than 30 Minutes.

I put that all in the front of the folders and that is what we work on for the week.

Here are the links to most of my stuff. I will keep adding to it. I thought about doing it all in alphabetical order, but just didn’t find the time. Each month I add new stuff to the box. I just scroll through the list and look for ones that I feel would be good to learn and print them off!

Poems 1 & Poems 2

If you don’t know the tune to some of these songs, just search online and you will find it! We also sing a religious song out of the Hymn book or Children’s Song Book!

Also, as far as a little spiritual devotional goes, my friend Aimee came up with this other fun thing to do that I have been implementing as much as I can. If our Opening goes to long the kids loose interest, but if I can see they are still excited we also add these fun things each day. Their favorite has been Theatre Thursday where they get to act out a scripture story and I have to guess which one it is!

Free Printables Here, Here & Here

How do you do your family devotionals?