Does it matter what order they are done in? I’m thinking of just doing individual girls bc the curriculum as a whole is a lot!

For fun and silly books, I recommend Matilda, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, and Amelia Bedila chapter books.

Mama, don’t feel bad about the reading. Once she’s confident, she’ll explode! My almost 8yo is just now becoming interested.

We love treehouse school house! Love all of this!

We are starting the Kaya American Girl history next week! My daughter is pumped! I hope she loves it as much as your gal has. :)

Thanks for sharing! I want to incorporate a lot more unit studies this upcoming school year. My brain needs to change things up often, and I think my kids would love learning something new in a shorter time frame.

thanks for sharing. I also have the Hearth Magic Secret Garden book study and can't wait to start it. Do remember which Hearth Magic unit is for kindergarten?

This was such a cozy video! Especially going through the summer crafts and recipes. Thanks for sharing!

Ronia is amazingly good. We especially enjoyed the audiobook. There is also a television show that we enjoyed.

Thank you for the review. You explained everything very well!

I already have the majority of these books, and most of the dolls too, or at least clothes that I can dress up another doll in the proper time period. FYI, I’m not a fan of Josephina either. I found her annoyingly shy. I wish my kids were a little younger, because my almost 13 yr. .old has moved on from these books.

You should check out Ruby Reads read aloud posters. She makes some fantastic posters that help you engage with the book in creative and fun ways.

These look like wonderful stories for girls. My hope is that someone would create similar books for boys. I'm a history nut, so I would enjoy these.

What is a Tk-er?

I can totally relate to your daughter wanting to pick up litter everywhere you go! My oldest daughter is the same 🥰. I never thought about bringing gloves in my bag (that’s a great idea and will make me feel better about it 😂).

Your kiddo might like a book my own kiddo loves, called 'Rewilding' by David Steen. It's about the animals almost lost to humans impact on the world, and the way scientist are trying to bring them back to our natural habitats. There are more than 30 different animals and they're all a page or two of information. The 'Ecosystem Guardians' she might like as well, we've read the one on Wolves and I know they have one on Whales, but I'm not sure how long the series is. If your girls want to go all in and this passion continues, I'd look at 'The Book of Wilding' by Isabella Tree. If you have it available from your local library, parts of it could he super resourceful right now. But it's hefty and pricey, so I wouldn't recommend it as an impulse buy.

Jeder Tag mit dir wäre ein Happy End. Es geht um die besondere Stimmung, die ich von dir bekomme🎉🎉

I like the storytelling basket! I’d like to implement something like that!

Your reflections have been so helpful as we are moving into first grade. Also, using sheet protectors with brads for the book seeds is so smart!

Logic Of English is really great if you want to look into that. It doesn't have a ton of parts and you can go as slow as your child needs. & there is a lot of parent support!

That's funny, my daughter hated explode the code ( we even pulled it aside for a while) at first and now she loves it 😄.

Thank-you so much for your full review and for the other videos you’ve filmed sharing pieces throughout the year! My girls and I will be starting this in the spring semester; they’ll be in second grade. This series sparked my great love of historical fiction back in elementary school, and later of genealogies. I think my girls will love it too. So glad y’all had a great year with this program!

My kids are so excited every time we pull out THSH nature study. If you're not already in the fb group it's helpful! I really like pulling out just a few weeks since my kids are so little, knowing that we cycle through it manyyy times over the next several years!

We did Montessori reading approach, and transitioned to Charlotte Mason readers and poems to help with pronouncing words they don't understand but can figure out with the rhyming. I do not teach grammar...there is no need and it may be an unpopular opinion...but I was a writing Tudor in college and never have I thought about adjectives and predicates 😂 not even in my day-to-day

I really wanted to do this curriculum but finding the books is so hard! You aren’t selling yours by chance are you?

Can you provide a link for this course? I've never heard of this and loved American Girl books (and dolls) as a girl.

Loved listening to your summer plans! 🥰🥰

That is so exciting to learn the recorder. 🙌☺️

I am using first language art level 1 for my grade 1. Level 3 for my grade 3 along with fix it grammar.

I am so excited to try this, my nearly 6yo and 4yo girls will love these over the next few years

also I believe she’s adding more AG units!

Thanks for this! Wish there were some reviews of her adventures through America program on YT!

I don't know any of those names! Are you sure this isn't folklore?

Thank you so much for such an in depth review! We’ve loved using their science units and have been eyeing the American girl series for my daughter 😊

We loved this curriculum for our 2022/23 school year and I’m so excited to do it again with my youngest daughter!

I love build your library ❤ or check out core knowledge history. They have picture study and music tied into their curriculum

Elemental science CAN be literature based. The suggestions through out the curriculum tell you to find books on certain animals or topics. The zoology section is quite long you could make it a whole year

My oldest kiddo has some struggles with decoding and All About Reading has really helped him out. Between the flashcards, the letter tiles, and all the cutting for activities it can seem like a lot but after a bit it's seamless. Switching from sitting at the table doing flashcards as a warm-up to the floor for letter tiles (we use the physical tiles) then back to the table for activities gives my kid a bit of a brain break if that makes any sense. What tripped me up at the start was all the cutting but now I have my kid do the cutting work for the next lesson as part of his school day. Cutting was another skill he struggled with so we knock out two birds with one stone. Hopefully the 100 easy lessons works for your kids, if not, I highly recommend looking at AAR once again.

Beautiful Feet history is amazing! However, their Geography is not as fun unfortunately. We have used All About Reading and even though there are a lot of “parts”, I have to say it’s a fun way to learn! Their stories are very engaging and there are no workbooks. Very fun if you ever want to take the leap! Thanks for all of the info! It sounds like you’ve had a great year overall!

Happy to see you again! If Teach your Child to read in 100 lessons doesn't end up working out, I highly recommend you do check out All About Reading. It's worked so well for my Gal, she is the same age as yours. And even though it seems like a lot of stuff, once you get the letters on a magnet board, and the flashcards punched out, it's super easy. The games I just cut out when we sit down to do that lesson. We are so excited to start American Girl History this summer based on your past recommendations, glad its still going strong for you all! Thanks as always for your take on it all, appreciate it!

Not alone in the reading struggles!! I feel the same way about All About Reading, it just seems like sooo much stuff. We’ve been doing Moffatt Girls Science of Reading from TPT since September, and just added in TGTB LA K and are slowly moving through it. I also bought the Usborne like 50 book set on phonics. It starts with “I read, you read” books, where the kids only read a few words per page and my kid LOVES it. Really good for confidence building. We haven’t started BF US Geography yet but I’m also just not enthused with it. I’m thinking about just developing my own book list & activities for my kids 😅

Since you love FLL by the Well Trained Mind, you might also love The Ordinary Parents’ Guide to Teaching Reading, also by TWTM. It’s scripted just like FLL and is an all in one book. It takes you from the beginning phonics all the way up to a level 3 reading level. After completing it they can begin reading books on their own. Great year end review! Love seeing new curriculum!

Thank you! I actually really appreciated this “negative” review and have found it at least as helpful as the positive ones. I am finding that I am NOT an open-and-go style educator in most subjects and this might be just the right amount of outline that I’m looking for. One man’s trash (and all that jazz). And your dog was cracking me up 😂

Hi! Great space! Love your set up! We are doing Blossom and Root too! Question, I have been looking for maps for our school room that are simple and colorful and large like the ones you had in the corner near the door. All the ones I see online are full of extra details, and are too confusing for my 5 yo. Do you know the brand or where you got them? Thank you!!

We have done a whole week of BookShark in one day. It just works best for us. We don’t always do all the questions in the worksheets, and sometimes just cut and paste the pictures in their notebooks and they can be a bit more creative with it. I just let them decide what they want to do.

Where did you get your book holders? I really would like to buy some to keep our books open!

Out of curiosity, what is that lovely book you had open on display with the ducks? Thanks for a look at these resources. I found some very interesting things here. That Treehouse spring nature unit study looks just beautiful.

I feel like I'm the only one that's kids are already done🤣 I'm watching these videos because we are starting back up in a few weeks 🤷‍♀️

May I ask for the links for the etsy games you spoke of (curved/straight lines) and pairing letter sound with picture? Thank you!

I've started the hearts and mind book with my 7 & 3year old sons. Really more to speak about the topics covered. I have been thinking about getting the growth mindset workbook for my 7 year old son from amazon by daddilife books it looks great. I also am a curriculum addict although recently have really reigned it in because we are in Scotland and don't get funding. So for this year coming for art we are going to do artistic persuits (the one you have) and science we are going to do building foundations of scientific understanding and I'm so excited to finally feel like I'm figuring it out. We had blossom and room level 1 last year aswell and I was rubbish at keeping up with it. X