We tried 100 Easy Lessons, but my children ask "why" certain letters make certain amounts and why they make multiple sounds. For this reason, as well as dyslexia, we stick to Orton Gillingham based reading programs. Tried LOE and love it, but one of my sons doesn't and it's so intensive teaching 2 different levels and 3 other older kids. This year I purchased OPGTR and Reading Lessons Through Literature to see which would fit our needs better. For a more gentle approach, I'm leaning towards RLTL and combining my boys.

We are using The Ordinary Parents’ Guide to Teaching Reading for two kids so far and love how simple and effective it is. My oldest just started 1st grade and we are on lesson 190. We’ve been using it for 8 months. It was so hard at first and now she’s doing multiple lessons a day. My 4.5 year old is on lesson 80 (she was eager to start) and we are now slowing way down and spreading each lesson over a couple of days. You don’t have to use the letter tiles and index cards. We only did a few times and it just didn’t seem necessary so we stopped. We just stick a post-it note on any lesson that is challenging (per the book). The ‘two review and one new’ technique seems to work. We’ve added used decodable readers from eBay like the ones that go along with All About Reading, Christian Liberty Nature Reader, MFW Bible reader, etc. for additional practice. We love this program! It’s so plain and simple. My kids get distracted with too many colors and pictures. This allows us to learn and move on.

This video was very helpful and thorough. Thank you!

Hey friend!!!! I'm going to start homeschooling Lorlin & Inman!! Love seeing your face and hearing your voice❤

I loved this video! My son turns 5 at the end of August and he is currently working on Christian light k2 as well! I also plan to add in math with confidence in the fall and resume the 100 lessons as well. I would love to see a review on explore the code. I have heard many great things about it.

I recently helped my best friend's 16 year old daughter complete her online school. She had done almost none of it & it was due in 2 weeks😂 She had recently moved and was traumatized by her parents divorce and was going to blow her straight A transcript. I stepped in and literally did every class myself - i was shocked at how much bs it was. No kid is going to remember any of the junk i learned in those classes. It was boring and dry. And a lot of it was inaccurate or poorly taught. This eye opening experience showed me that i should stick to home schooling.

This was very helpful! And I'm happy to see that the free Sonlight download is still available.

Thank you!!!❤

I’m in Texas as well. If I try out the virtual schooling like K12 or Connections Academy: will it be hard to pull them back out of that public school system to go back to homeschooling? Because I’m homeschooling my 3 & 5 year old now but struggling to come up with my own curriculum. And how do I find other homeschooling families

is homeschooling free?

Great video. I was wondering, do you prefer taking out the pages before using them? And what grades are for level 2?

This isn't a good comparison when you're being so biased, you can't compare two things when you're just bashing one over the other constantly...

We haven’t had any problems with the letter sound “hints” in 100 easy lessons so far. As a separate activity for learning long vowels, my daughter marks words with dry erase marker to determine which vowel makes the long sound and which vowels are silent - I have her cross the silent ones out. So she understands that some letters are silent in words and accepted that explanation of why some letters are small in the 100 easy lessons book. We also practice reading for 5-10 minutes a day with Bob books and other readers that don’t have all the sound hints and she doesn’t have any issue with the normal print. She does get a bit hung up on different punctuation marks but I just tell her to relax and not take them too seriously and I will teach her what they mean later. 😅 I do feel like 100 easy lessons puts a lot of emphasis on memorizing common words which isn’t necessarily a bad thing and helps my daughter read more quickly, but she is really good at memorizing them and slacking a bit with sounding them out. I’m wanting to start in one of the middle lessons of ordinary parents guide after we finish 100 easy lessons to hopefully get her more help with understanding spelling rules and sounding things out.

Thanks for the flip-through! We loved their books on economics but hesitate to get a history book as a multiethnic homeschool--- nearly a year on, do you feel the Tuttle Twins history volumes fairly represent the nuance of and contradictions present during the formation of our laws, states, and culture? I took AP and honors classes and recall slavery being about 2 weeks out non contextual info that was rarely connected to other events worldwide.

The math chart also in the back if their workbooks. It is not colored, but it is readily available.

First time watching your video. Like what I hear and see.

Hi! We stagger our start also. It's been working for us for a years now. 🌻

I did not like the layout for lifepac's teacher guides. I always felt like I was flipping all over the place. CLE's is easier to follow.

We love cle and math with confidence as well too. Math with confidence is a very gentle approach and hands on. We mix that and cle , alternating because cle would get boring sometimes for my daughter but she definitely also likes the language arts better too then the good and beautiful. It was a lot all over the pages!

What do you keep in the little cabinet between the desk? Is it homeschool related?

What a great video! Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed this. We use A Gentle Feast but always find Ambleside Online videos interesting to see the difference and similarities in books.

Are the additional resources your own ideas or does the curriculum come with recommendations?

These are all great ideas! Thanks for making such a thorough video

These are great ideas! I will write them down for next year 😊

I wanted to add that I think there is a huge part of psychological impact when it comes to labor beginning and progressing. As soon as I knew my doula was on her way, labor hit hard and I lost my plug. Lol I guess I relaxed enough to give it the energy.

I have 10 babies. My last was unassisted home water birth. He was 2 days past due 😅 I totally get the waiting those last weeks part. I could tell in your video of the supplies you were close to labor. I ended up doing reflexology for my feet and then relaxed the next day and then labor kicked in. Less than 5 hours and he was born. I think it is important to get a good rest in right before labor takes off. It works to prep the body too! Love the supplies video too. I have 5 girls 5 boys. I love hearing birth stories no matter how many I have been through, seen or heard before. Oh and I am for sure doing a "honey to do list" next time. 😂

Thanks for sharing like you said there is not much out there on life pac❤

I don't like shopping in store either!

Good Morning! These are such lovely gift ideas! I just told my kids that I would love to receive homemade bread as a gift.

I am done with my Christmas shopping but still enjoy these videos. 💕🤗

We prefer a simple Christmas schooling!!! I put crafts out and my kids do them informally!!! We have a tradition of singing silent night in German!!!

This is one of the most detailed reviews Ive ever seen. Great job.

We love audiobooks!!! For spiritual books We prefer the book so we can read and pause it to discuss!!! We do Aussie history even though it’s hard to find it hard to find information and I buy books at the local aboriginal store!!! I have a family member who loves old books but won’t read them so I’ve learned to be scared of them incase they get damaged!!! My kids have heard this as well!!! We love biographies!!! I don’t care how long my kids take to read the books they read!!!

Those are great reaources. That is so nice to also listen to in in audible! Great idea! 🙏☺️

I was curious how cc was going for ur son? We are trying to decide if cc is still a good fit for us as we begin the challenge years. Do u feel like challenge dives deep enough? We have been told it’s all surface level and that it’s so much they don’t have time for any electives etc

My question, is how do you grade for concepts or understanding. Does this curriculum have questions at the end of each chapter or anything like that

Great picks. We use R&S for reading and I've heard they're very similar. We like to take a break here and there to read novels as well. My youngest is 7th grade so always fun to see curriculum picks around that age.

I’ve not looked at abeleside online but heard a lot on it!!! Sorry I can’t spell!!! Im yet to read any Books by Charlotte Mason but have read books from simply Charlotte Mason!!! I prefer the reprinted versions or evooks!!! We check the prints when we can!!!

I’m excited to see how it goes for y’all. I have been switching up some of our curriculum to incorporate Charlotte Mason. Next year we will use Ambleside Online Year 2 and Year 5!

Thank you for sharing!

Good journey. Do you have any fillings? I could see some silver fillings

Are the bookshelves behind you from Ikea?

It’s awesome that math is going good for you!!! We use a few math programs as well!!! We love gentle and classical morning virtues!!! We do when we can as well!!! Fanstry looks awesome!!! Sorry I can’t spell!!! I’m doing 1 to 1 apologetics with my 15 year old!!! He’s now leading his siblings with their faith!!! It’s awesome to see!!! I can see a future pastor in him!!! He told me that he felt called to that!!! We won’t be able to do sports anymore but as I’ll be working with surfers and my older kids surf and that’s what they will be doing!!! We be travel schooling so we can do this work!!! We love teaching life skills!!! My older kids love baking bread!!! They remember smelling it as little kids!!! I stopped making it for a while!!! I’m dating my 15 year old to read Italian books!!! He’s ready now but scared!!! I don’t mind buying kids books for him to make it easier!!! I’m glad we fell into the classical model!!! I bought the lost tools of writing from the local Homeschool store and my oldest loves it!!! Re - reading is awesome!!! I bought a few mp3s from the well trained mind and learnt a lot on classical learning!!!

Always so good to see how other mommies are doing. Life skills are so beautiful to incorporate into our days. So important and fun! We are also baking and we do embroidery! 🙌☺️

I completely agree! I have 2 using CLE math and 4 using Math U See. You have to do what works for each child.

Sorry to bother you. Could you possibly help me with homeschool for my 11 year old daughter.

I’m trying to teach my youngest what fall is and remind my older kids as we don’t have distinct seasons in Australia!!! We love thanksgiving even tho it’s in spring!!!

We just got "Fletcher and the Falling leaves" this fall. It was my little girl's favorite. I didn't know about the study units ..I will have to look into that. Thank you so much for sharing! 🥰🥰

Crazy question - do you think you could teach from the themed books without completing Structure and Style, first? My daughter also resists writing and doesn't like having to come up with a top. I thought she would be more interested in the themed programs.

Very interesting! Can you explain more about what the difference is in CC versus what you’re leaning toward and what this will look like in your homeschool?