Thank you for existing. That’s all I’ll say. People like you are very important. Simply being who you are. Never forget this.

What is the app you mentioned called?

You thoroughly explained the practicality of it all and how to follow the progression of books. Does not seem as overwhelming now, thank you! Planning to use this level with a Dyslexia Dysgraphic this year for grade 7’ish. He had used EIW and the grammar was not explained in a colorful enough way. Just a topic, a couple worksheets, and off you go…except that’s not how he learns. As you said the “out of the box” way MCT explains grammar with stories and pictures will help this hopefully stick in his mind! The why’s behind it will be nice to slowly go through with a more read aloud-story form. And glad to hear it works well with her IEW too.

We are in our second year, I do feel overwhelmed all over again. Thank you so this video.

Hi. Could you share a link for core knowledge? Do they use a textbook? Also did you create your student planner sheet? I love it.

I have kept a bin for ID cards , belts and socks too . But what do you know , sometimes its still all over the place. And places for things . And does she have out of sight , out of mind problem ? I and my kids , all of us have ADHD .... And chaos is very dysregulating . But they are used to Mom needing some time to regulate , if it becomes too much . ❤ this . I think I will try those workbooks... ADHD and Executive Function ones . And have you read Edward Hallowells Driven to Distraction book and its part 2 ? Both are good .

I really loved hearing your faith journey! Unconditional love is very important to me and I appreciate many teachings of Jesus in the Bible. I spent ages 11-18 very involved with a Christian church but started exploring morality and figuring out that religion didn’t make sense in my own head. I feel that we all need to make sense of the world and spirituality in a way that makes sense for ourselves 🤍 so happy I found your channel

Another great video and great recs . 👍

I love how clearly you explain things. I would love to see more on Core Knowledge. I am planning to use Core Knowledge with my kiddos and I am intimidated. I love your channel and really appreciate you taking the time to share with us!

Excellent video!

“Model the behavior you want.” I would LOVE to do this, but I also have the special ADHD brain and am now trying to figure this out after 40 years of being “lazy, messy, etc.” Have you come across anything in your research about ADHD parenting ADHD children??? Thank you SO MUCH for this video and these resources. It has given me a lot of good ideas!

We will be using components of Core Knowledge this year! (Not math, we using something else for math).

I appreciate your honest review! I will say that one difference I have found is in the math. I have used the Simply Good and Beautiful Level 3 and 4 and there is plenty of review and practice built in. This may be different in younger levels and may be the new math format. I actually came to TGATB from Singapore. To be fair I wasn’t using Dimensions but the older US Edition. We had wild gaps that I couldn’t fill until we used TGATB at a lower level for remediation and it all finally clicked for my daughter. I absolutely loved Singapore at first and appreciated the mastery approach. After 4 years of using it I found that the concepts while sticking better initially were not sticking in the long term memory because of the lack of consistent review. We would spend a week zooming through the graphing unit and she would master it. Then we wouldn’t do graphs for a year. We would spend 2 months on regrouping while neglecting multiplication and division and vice versa. When we would come back to a concept I would have to completely reteach it. This may be different in Dimensions and I’m assuming it is based on your review. We just had a different experience in this area. It may even be that a lot of the math curriculum from different companies has been updated to add more review and spiraling into the mastery.

I have my son's school work on my planner and I check it off as it gets finished, but I let him choose the order. I will stack up what we need to do that day and then he goes and rearranges it.

I relate to the (seemingly) excessive defensiveness to giving "a lot" of work in homeschool 😂 I too am scarred from the endless barrage of educational neglect masked as ~relaxed unschooling~ and their weird anti academics brigade.

Love the way you give clear explanations and I like the videos you put up . Thank you !! 💐

Perfect timing! I was going to ask you about scheduling. :)

I’d love to hear what you think of skipping IEW 2A, Im considering doing that next year as well. Also I’d love to hear more about Light Lit 6 when you get into it and what you think of the student workbook compared to like LL Grade 3/4? I have LL Level 6 or Storm on my radar for next year because of all the great writing prompts LL includes, but keep getting stuck looking at the student workbook, is it all grammar or is there more to it I’m missing? Like is it worth it if you are already doing MCT? Thanks for sharing!

Looks great! Thanks for such a thorough video.

Oh man I don’t have a Kroger Or an Aldi, you got some Really Good buys!🥰

Someone gave me a 4 pound bag of El Maizel corn flour, it's gluten free. I was wondering if it can be used in a bread maker and how...so thank you!

As someone with Celiac disease, I would never drink that Orgain. Even if it's marked gluten free, it's pretty much guaranteed to affect me, simply due to the ingredients, no matter how they processed it.

I am so grateful you’ve shared about the computer science units within CK. I will definitely be implementing them with my daughter this year. I feel so inspired after watching your curriculum picks this year, it has helped me tremendously with feeling more eager to get back to planning the year after a nice break! Will you be sharing some sort of video on how you plan to incorporate all of these moving parts on a daily/weekly basis? I think that would be immensely helpful to see. I often struggle to create and sustain a good schedule and before you know it, it’s been weeks since we’ve done any art or made progress on our social justice unit for example.

Great video. I was unaware that Mint & Bloom had an election study as well. I am going to check it out. Thanks!

My 7 year old is also a celiac kid and we buy almost everything you bought in this video!! We LOVE Purely Elizabeth granola (the flavors rotate all the time at Costco and while they are all good, the vanilla chocolate chip one is to die for….so if you see that one, grab it)! We also really the Starbucks egg bites and they have an awesome frozen salmon (Moreys brand I believe) that is so good in the air fryer! My kids devour it and it’s so healthy! Thanks for another awesome video!

The chicken meatballs are gluten free?? Are they also dairy free? I always skip over them because I assumed they had gluten.

Thank you for pointing out that not everything is gluten free just because it says gluten free. It’s so frustrating when you see a package that says gluten free but then the ingredients say otherwise. I’ve run across this so much! As someone who has had celiac disease for many years I always double check labels. But, for someone who is newly diagnosed what you said valuable information. Also, I would agree with you that the shakes are a no go

I’m thinking of going for lightning literature for my upcoming 4th and 2nd grader. I also came across learning language through literature have you researched that one too? Thanks

Thank you for the great video. Do you have any tips on homeschooling a child with ADHD? My eldest was just diagnosed and it’s becoming a real struggle now that younger siblings are starting homeschooling.

Thank you for your review. I am doing dimensions KB with my 5 yr old now who will be joining kinder this aug. Found math with confidence n addition facct that sticks recently and switching kids from the 10 frame of 2 stacks of 5 to one horizontal one. Kids liked the stacked one better as they are used to it...but catching up on the horizontal one. Glad to see you are using diff curriculum. I was thinking may be I was I was mixing up too much with math in focus, dimensions and mwc and even how I was taught finger counting, which I tell them not to do that any more. I love all these. We are on to subtraction now and kate snows subtraction fact that sticks is on the way.

It always boggles my mind how one can talk about loving and respecting everyone and people are like “EWW, no way”.

I really appreciate the time and information you put into your videos. I geel like no matter what you are talking about its always helpful to me and my kiddos homeschool!

That Philosophy for kids book has been on my wishlist for a while. Do you know if any of the Torchlight levels incorporate it?

Thanks!

We used that Next President book a few years ago and I really liked it. My kids really like the Jr Genius guides. I need to check out the Faultlines book.

Love your videos . Thank you !

I always come away with so much inspiration for our homeschool after watching your videos. I relate so much to the culture of your homeschool and the vision you have for your children. Thank you for continually putting yourself out there and sharing the resources you find through your research. You are my absolute favorite homeschool channel. I just can't thank you enough for bringing fresh air to this homeschool space.

My dd hates the phonetic zoo audios. I wish I had just read them to her, but she hates it before I figured that out.

Did you go with World history or US history for iew 2b? Have you noticed any problematic perspectives in the lessons?

Hi Michelle, I feel a little funny posting this in a comment, but wanted to share. I have been looking for a structured writing curriculum and decided to look into IEW after watching your videos (and a few others). I noticed they have lots of Christian content (not really a problem as we identify as progressive Christians), so I decided to look into the founder of the company. I was disturbed to discover he is part of a very traditional and conservative group of Catholics. He has given talks on "neuroscience" and how it is different in boys and girls to defend traditionally held views of gender. He also does not hold a single college degree, though I believe the program's writers do. It felt like such a bummer to find out that such solid program has these dark (in my opinion) roots. This is not at all a judgment on anyone using this program-a good writing program is hard to find, but I know that you also like to research your curriculum choices and the people behind them, so I thought I'd share.

Love the ideas. I haven’t been able to find a gluten free bread that tastes good though. They’re all dense and taste funny. 🥲

Look into Rooted in Language. The science of reading has shown that reading and writing must be explicitly taught together. The same goes for grammar and writing.

Love your picks! I just purchased the capitalization and punctuation. My upcoming 6th grader could use the review.

Looks like a thorough lineup! Hope y'all have a great year 😊

I definitely feel there needs to be rigor in homeschool. There seems to be SO much in the social media realm of homeschoolers pushing the idea that we should not “push rigor” and to make everything fun. Don’t get me wrong, I want my kids to have fun, but I also feel responsible to provide a rigorous education.

I’d love to see a video on how your co-op works. We are joining one for the first time this coming school year. I know they can be a bit different, but I’d love to hear your experience and feedback about it.😊

Great to see your choices! I enjoyed seeing inside of the books!

Great video. Thank you. Are you planning on teaching any other languages like Spanish, French, Latin?

Great video! Looking forward to hearing your impressions of Phonetic zoo. Also, could you share your weekly schedule for the upcoming year? Thanks!

Hi Michelle, I wanted your guidance as I will be starting my 2nd yr homeschooling. I’ve been watching your backlog of videos. Is there anyway I can get in touch with you? Thank you.