Oh wow, what an interesting idea. A bunch of moms could do this quite quickly I should think. Some fun research over a glass of wine sounds ideal. And for Halloween of al times! You could drop food colouring in the wine and make it black. LOL

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy I just saw at the Ren Fest there are people who carry clothing pins that say “fleas” or “black plague” and you’ll come home and see you acquired them 😂

I have to say that, for my kid at least, I am seeing it pay off. We are reading-reading-reading. And we discuss the books. I am seeing it improve her spelling, the way she writes, and how she thinks about life around her the more she see through other people's eyes in books. We may go to a more formal program later but I don't see a rush at all.

I just looked them up because you mentioned them. I hadn't seen them before. I will see if my library has them. They seem like books I could use when we get to botony, chemistry, physics. I can't believe how much I DON'T find even when I am actively looking for books. So thanks for the tip!

I guess you could do that. How old are the kids? With older ones, absolutely. Because even while they meet once a week, you could link them via email and zoom meetings to discuss their work each evening. The lead mom could get on zoom as the coach and assist if one or a few kids gets off track. Each kid could add to a cork board in their home and when it is time for coop, they can bring all their materials and pin it all together on a larger board at coop so everyone has a visual of the whole. The risk you run here without meeting in the evenings and putting everyone's work together at the coop is that kids will only learn their portion of the material and miss a lot of info discovered by their colleagues. It's certainly a more real-world scenario and you would definitely have more to do as the mom. Or perhaps it would work well if your coop meets for a good couple hours each week and that whole chunk is taken up by research by the kids and learning to collaborate and create a sort of vision board of what they are learning and where they are going. I dont know how I would address doing this in a coop of mixed ages. There are a lot of things you can do with a PBL but I think mixed ages would be the most difficult unless you broke them up in teams and the older kids were managers/assistants over the littles???

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy I was thinking 6-8 grade but I love your idea about having smaller groups with in the class. I am looking at getting it for my 7th grader this year for after Christmas break. And I can see if I think it could be used for co-op

@@laurenshackle4494 I think you have a good idea there. And the Ferret study encompasses a lot of things many kids are interested. I hope you do it and have a great time!

I'm so glad it's helpful. I think your 6th grader will have a great time diving into it. I gave Morgan the afternoons to do the PBL, after our core subjects were done. When we do a unit study, that is all we do after lunch. You could easily follow the shorter schedule and leave however much time you like on the PBL, especially if you have a kid who gets into it. But you could drop everything for a few days and only do the PBL. Totally up to you and you kiddo.

So glad you liked the video. Morgan had the afternoons after lunch to work on the PBL and I didn't put a time on it. She was just done when she was done. Sometimes it was 30 minutes and sometimes 45 minutes. I think an older kid could work on it longer for sure. It was really an experiment to see what she could and would do on her own. I can imagine if you only wanted to work on the PBL for a fews days and drop other subjects, that would work, too. Maybe it would even be more fun that way -- doing loads of research while also getting break from regular routine and subjects. I think there are so many ways to plan this, really!

I hadn't thought about reading it before. Also, the book didn't arrive until we were just starting the PBL. I think you could do it however works best for you. It worked out best for us that I read the book in the evenings before bedtime. I forgot to mention that are several typos in the book... missing quotes, so it makes it difficult to figure out who is talking sometimes. I think this was not real formally published by a major house, but it doesn't make the book bad. Totally worth reading, especially since it was written by biologists with the ferrets interests in mind and with a great storyline.

Thanks! I find this whole art thing is really working for us. It helps us talk about a subject and really get it into our brains in a really fun way. I'm going to go watch YOUR video now. lol

Oh cool! It’s a fast read and quickly covers the 4 or 5 tenets of a PBL. From there u can even make your own.

lol! OMGosh, I keep it so toned down! Welcome to my channel! I’ll be doing a sexual education video in a few weeks that will have strong women’s lib topics like the Double Bind theory, women in leadership roles, preparing our girls for their independence, safety and self fulfillment in career and personal lives… so glad you found me 😊

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy I’ll be here!

Oh, the binders? I was surprised how difficult it was to find everything. I mean, it took me 15 minutes, but in this age that's a long time! LOL I had to find the Traveller's Notebook American company. They have the best list in number order... book 1, 2, 3... You can't just order a vertical weekly planner. There are two and the one I like is number 19. It's kind of interesting. As long as they don't switch numbers on me. The binder is just a tad rickety. I wish it was a bit more stable but it's not meant for carrying around and it doesn't cost a lot really.

Aw, thanks for letting me know! That is so great. Oh wow, and here I was complaining about the time of Morgan's class was in the afternoon, pinching my unit studies time! 6a.m. would be tricky even for us now. We used to be early birds but now we are a tween, early is like 8a.m. when I've been up for 3 hours already! I'm planning on doing a long view of French soon, just as I did for math and reading.

We have what is called "Junk Food Friday" in this house and we eat whatever we want for dinner on Friday and watch a movie. I think this Friday will be that movie!

You are so nice to say that, thank you! I’m really glad the video helped you ☺️

Here are several links from the playlist! Making your Traveller’s Notebook: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnS8cqGjhtOhbNk kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH22fqeCa7OEjtE kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKW9ipiGrcp1pck Setting up your own Traveller’s Notebook: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn3GhmOumJWAd6c Best Beginner Fountain Pens: kzbin.info/www/bejne/noSTXqOwe9N_eqs Fountain Pen Filling System: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mn-2gKylfNGZq8k Why Do People Like Fountain Pens: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJubapxsoZh9aKM Ultimate Beginner’s Fountain Pens: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3fcp2h4i6yLgdU Fascinating Fountain Pens: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHXVkmygbrWCobc

Thanks -- We crashed so fast after this video and we were out all week! It was covid. I feel like a little piece of me gets erased when I get covid. On the bright side, I caught up on all our fave Korean cuisine/competition shows on Netflix.

My personal favorite is a TWSBI currently. My husband and youngest son prefer a kaweco. My oldest son has a hondigan- we got it off of Amazon. And my middle son has a Jinhao (although he is asking for a new pen for Christmas).

You are most welcome! There are several videos out there on how people set theirs up but none that are school related that I can find. You could also find a book you like and then make the leather fit around that book... but I could;d never find a thin enough book that had the right layout. I think I just lucked out with Midori. And the PAPER DOESN'T BLEED! I was getting super tired of that.

OMGosh, that is so interesting! Everyone in on the band wagon now! I was close to getting a TWSBI. I dont know the other two. I will look them up, thanks :) So glad you enjoyed the video.

Well, thanks you! For the flashcards, the ones I have in the video come from Target. They always have them out in a bin each school year. But you can buy ringed flashcards online easily any time. Here are the links to the books: Carson Dellosa French: www.amazon.com/100-Vocabulary-Reproducible-Activities-Homeschool/dp/1568226675/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1CX16YYB7W2Y7&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.KNUHmtf2r6ultiovNPWcFiiPtZvecNozeJLG8wZSo-J2-LYJYqmz0mj6YS83pkUOxWSdEV5xjqtNQwpb0zOwWaX5PGW6FHS7tpqptd6ChuAguLZ52tTgE4CNZ9C_EXevt5xBdp3sz6iwxU2TZkDPoEx2OGWdhuUQcQ57zp_DOzYxWuwGE5GH9RINzROBSzKxb42VoQYEN7UF10XUA5jQKjFAHW7nYsXvDqEfU_AgD2bjYoe_G9CQS_QCcAsyod22uGyb3JI6vrsJdBbwO1xQSc0lOuhhqpsebJ9tmGwb80w.dEb2oIMCUiTN5QzcQKmjmgg5uyGkqIYILhSp-Gl85pk&dib_tag=se&keywords=carson+dellosa+french&qid=1728129132&sprefix=carson+dellosa+french%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1 Brainy Books Beginner French: www.amazon.com/Beginner-French-Workbook-Learn-words/dp/B09ZCYX677/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GkBit91Ncl40ndpDhbchJz64d7obYHC2dEN0E5fY5V1lLUg_ZzcSKTDvonWH_5nT9aB_H4x_lH7py2yfW4o9FQG6p4FjEMQmLxz3q1b0CwDlq358luOSlHidvT3xrkJFg_THebEPJShn2sak8tIMVusmm6jTeuopLDmGYT3mpZH_8OO5j2xNAgAlyvoSnGSr3qacxutEKLJ5fEdsJ8JqondPbjYReBnKwD_d7FHbiYU.F6FAFipa_PDQ6NsSK3ZkAR3gEXAFC2EAFOoi4-go7C0&dib_tag=se&qid=1728129508&refinements=p_27%3AImane+Diouri&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Imane+Diouri French Readers: www.amazon.com/French-Kids-Vocabulary-Beginning-Language/dp/0997124040/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-oyR1RkHN1wQYKYUnq4R7q-2ajCBOcssyA-4DgufFYisGmtDmb2Er5BluwFYUs-w8LRWNESoFrLEuU1Jj-x14kADtPu_SB7j9HM2nmC_RccWPVtZkcFYvahAVastp3MUV5yWVeiYs2UG_Ok0BFIhreNjYnFJMX45qTsjxWlYIc0vxO7mqPpRNPHHTBOpN4uwnCBodeUuJcx5k-T7EokLjvnUNz3c3t9lzxRzAXmo05M.iGEXgHY8gUcc0wjPgc3tChO6vHSTNFD15V5IIr2N-mU&dib_tag=se&keywords=french+together&qid=1728129714&sr=8-1 More French Readers: www.amazon.com/Japprends-lire-avec-Sami-Julie/dp/2012903819/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3J1HHHM2LMHD4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.7Y1at-vta5fhydZC_5FXf5mbdzXDznRuDOs6Gn_xNKx94as8zS9sYFqHHNfiEA0MuAOV8sjonfYfzdD7prtoreRol5m1Uc1hXg2QM5xYoQ4a0R6OmtX83v0EMPFelYVph3WPAX6cwSZFOigk9VwdxIwPHlK0r2be1LaOjYNEnwBUdR1yu9J3dHE9JvDR4OQmz-wHV4uczpSZ41c93X1n7HMSQC0lyRF5MR4XCFFKynw.yLkoVXc9ZfHl2RiqsEgWMHB6m8IrUqe9M8tGnzfqIuw&dib_tag=se&keywords=j%27apprends+a+lire&qid=1728129823&sprefix=j%27apprends+a+lire%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-4 More French Readers: www.amazon.com/Histoires-pour-toute-lannée-Magdalena/dp/2080267825/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28YP3RMLF5EZC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FsNFKmEAUalyiXS8X9oFGE9r3RkUF8jOCJMxzfhDP6lkZ_WckWwNGZcU3lCoXvkxyso_yX7OPWzafIoIJwnGys3bb-k84ehUfIXM0I5S18ASD_8pf_Da741F87milRMTtU_lGbFkPTZJ_ID3VA9IsHNZy7aO90YggxXOtTEEILREQMY-1LbGOoDLP2U99OUG2-QFQ0l6Wupq0wLLi_FauGbPCEbsAmXns7RrRchhkVo.oZIgY53QXitQYxNyGAU0S7o-T9DTCxTAoTumHN9eR64&dib_tag=se&keywords=je+suis+en+cp&qid=1728129873&sprefix=je+suis+en+cp%2Caps%2C137&sr=8-1

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy THANK YOU!!!!

Well, we are friends now! Feel free to write me at my email address. This channel has really helped me connect with women thinking and teaching in unique ways. We are a minority within a minority.

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy thanks! It truly is.

You're welcome! I did an initial review of the ferret PBL in my latest video, August Homeschool Update. I’ll do a longer one solely on the ferret PBL with more detail sometime this month

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy thank you

Thank you for telling me! That means a lot.

There are noticeable grammatical errors in The Broken Circle, missing quotations and things. I think it may have been a self-publishing kind of deal or with no editor or beta readers but it's still good. I especially gravitated towards the book since it was written by two scientists who worked in the field. But I was watching your video on the election PBL. That is one I am really excited to do. I really am thinking about making this a full HS credit course for a fun, low stakes junior year credit. A high input, low output course to lighten a heavy academic year. Morgan could do one a month. That would certainly be 1 HS credit. I feel like this is going to be a complicated video. All the videos I want to do the most are the hardest to make and edit.

I would have been thrilled whether Morgan had been a boy or a girl but I have to admit it is pretty awesome sharing certain things as a mom daughter duo. My sister has 2 girls and a boy. And when she said she was pregnant with a boy we all looked at each other like, "What are we gonna do with HIM?" lol Turns out, boys are awesome, too, and SO different. You should just pick up your old fave and read it again. Mine were The Thoroughbred, The Popularity Plan and Cover Girl.

I have a feeling there will be a lot of great books we stop and start over the years -- especially with our tendency to look for and find other books at a greater speed than we can read!

I guess I would want to know the “why” behind why he hates all the books? And is he auditory? Would he prefer to listen to the books? A great resource might be your local school. Do you know the teachers? They can be really good at giving you ideas. Is it perhaps that he has trouble reading?

You are so nice, thank you!!! I find IECs so interesting. I can't believe they aren't everywhere... or maybe they are and I have just had my head in the sand for so long doing other things. We are just finishing up the PBL "Ferret Ecology". I mention it in our September homeschool monthly update video coming out this Monday. And I will certainly be doing a stand-alone review of it in detail, covering many of the things I did with it and what videos and reading we added. Thank you for your comment, it's no nice 😊

The coolest parts are the first chapter and then the end portion where the monster pretty much reads Frankenstein the riot act for being a total jerk and explains how miserable he made him! I hate the protagonist.

Aw, thank you! Sleep well!

You are most welcome! You know what I wish I had was access to back issues of magazines, the old newspapery kind. I can get so much digitally but I want the actual physicalness of it for learning. So many old magazines with short stories and articles. Those would be great to add in if I could

Yes, absolutely, And then there is the increased maturity of some books to avoid for a later date. For instance, Stephen King is studied in university courses but would be a bad idea to cover now. I find the old horrors are today's thrillers. Kids are used to Dracula, for instance, and the book has incredible discussions over what is good and what is evil. The dialog is long but surprisingly engaging. A lot of pulp fiction can be quite engaging and interesting if you can find back issues of Argosy Magazine. Sort of like old, campy tails and stories. And thank you for you thoughts!

I start the ideas around the books we want to read or around something my daughter is particularly interested in. Then I search everywhere I can, on line, at the library, bookstore magazines, old eBay magazines, amazon. University publications are easy to find and well known articles from old issues of major magazines. And I go from there. I'm not always successful but I do try. I also go to used bookstores and look for old editions of short story anthologies both fiction and non-fiction stuff. It's a hodge podge. But I like to do it. I stay well clear of kids magazines. Too cartoony.

Thank you! Each Monthly homeschool video I do, I cover what we have read. And my "5th grade secular homeschool literature, plays, poetry & more" video goes through what we chose to try this year. But we will likely always veer from it for other things that catch our eye. Here is the link and thanks for watching!!!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJvGlGWbntCCg80

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy amazing! I'll for sure check those out! (new subscriber and I love your channel)

I'm so glad! Thank you! If you have questions, just ask!

LOL! Yes, it can be a bit chilly up here, can't it?! I love it. It's quiet and austere. But I also have a heater under my desk, a lot of wool layers and some kind of hot tea or coffee always within reach around here when the temps drop.

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy thanks for a peek into your homeschooling. I’m schooling 3 this year down here in warm Texas! Looking forward to cooler temps!😊

Thank you! I have, and will be keeping, a math playlist over time. I just did a long view on mathematics for future years. The Math U See video seems to be popular. I mainly wanted to dispel the idea that mastery is not thorough or doesn't do review. Spiral and mastery are equally good, just depends on the kid and they all get to the same end, just differently. Happy homeschooling!

I am so glad! Maybe I will do one a quarter. I need ideas for topics when they are like this. If you have some, let me know!

I’m so glad u liked it thank u ☺️ I had a LePen in college that was my fave be I had forgotten about them too until my daughter saw these. Now we seem to see them everywhere like they are making a comeback

Aw thank you so much !!!

I do love it, even more so that we made ours and my daughter likes and uses hers as well. It is also the same size as one I used for work some years ago and I travelled everywhere with it. It's customisable. I can do a video on it. That would be quite fun.

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy I would love to see it! I am not one for the big fancy homeschool planners- but I’d love to see one that’s customizable. Thanks!

Ok, I'm working on it now. Should be the next week or two. I try to post videos every Monday at noon and I bump up requests ahead of my planned ones.

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy Thank you!!

Aw that makes me so happy, thank you!!!

When Morg was too little to even hold a book, I got her a library card so I could check out more books! lol

Oh gosh thanks for reminding me. As soon as I get to my laptop I’ll put them in!

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy Thank you!

@@heidig8739 Ok, all done! I separated the chapters as well as marked each sub section. Sorry about that. I got excited about driving to Barnes & Noble and forgot! We are off school this week. It is awesome 😊

Are you year-round as well? You mention rich conversations -- I think that may be the best part of home study. I love there is so much time for them. That is partly why I like our unit studies loose, so we can go any route that interests my kid and then the discussions are so much deeper and more student-driven. Speaking of groove, it does only just now feel like we are in a steady routine, mainly because of so many extra curricular activities I'm not used to. They feel necessary yet disruptive. But our routine was faster to normalise than last year when we were new. Live Education requires that a homeschool purchase their entire curriculum but I suspect over time we will predominantly use their science and art. I definitely feel like I'm making it up as I go with Waldorf, but I like that.

I agree -- I remember geography being really fun when I was young and I think that was because there were so many maps and fun things to learn. The one-sheet-per-state thing would get tedious. When we were prepping for travel to Europe, I had Morgan pick the location she wanted to research and then asked her to find answers to things, like 'what is the location known for, what are 6 things you would want to do if you were there, how old is it, who lived there before the current people, average income, whatever. And then I let her look around online or in books for the answers. That worked really well. Maybe try that with a cartoon painting or drawing of the state or scenery from the state.

I am surprised how quickly we have taken to watercolour. My daughter and I do it for fun in our free time now while we listen to books. We must look silly plugged into our head phones, painting!

@@ThePattersonHomeschoolAcademy We've enjoy adding in a painting of one scene out of whatever book we are reading at the time. It's been really relaxing.

It is "Live Education!" www.live-education.com. I watched several hours of Hanah's "Pepper&Pine" KZbin channel as I was deciding on curriculum once I discovered the Waldorf way of teaching/learning. She has a ton of videos covering several of the main lessons she has done throughout the years and also a flip through comparison between Live Education! and Oak Meadow and one other one that didnt appeal to me. Then I reached out to the Live Education! contact and spoke with him at length. It is a process to order the curriculum. They sort of want to interview you first to make sure the curriculum is something that will work for you and your family since it's a bit different. I am certain I was taught in the Waldorf fashion between 6th and 8th grade and so it really appealed to me and I really dove into it. It's something that really has to grab you and you must be really comfortable creating the details of the lessons and curating your own books and teaching from what you have read and learned vice reading to the child or doing a workbook. I am most interested in botany, physics and chemistry paired with art. But I didnt realize how fun geography would be this year.

It was hard to admit. I come from a career where, if you are on time, you are 15 minutes late! I was so exacting and tough on myself for years and years and now I don't even know what time it is when I wake up! I think that is why our daily huddle now before we start our day is so important -- between the two of us, I don't think we will miss anything again. That same week, we missed band. I was so annoyed and disoriented. I hadn't realised how carefree we had become.

Yeah, they dont highlight it at all. It seems to me there is a large info gap between homeschool moms who use curriculum at home to teach and those who outsource. So far, I have only seen people outsource math and it's usually only a couple of companies plus Oak Meadow. There is so much out there for homeschool moms that is not on KZbin or not obvious.

Nope, not fluent. I'm probably at a B1 level which means I can easily travel and talk to people and I could attend college in France but I'm a weak B1. I need practice.

The nice thing about moving it to the summer is that I think even if we have moved to a year round school, I was planning on taking a few weeks completely off in the summer. And then 3 hours of immersive French overseas for a few weeks counts as school without adding in the other course so we wouldn't bring the rest of the curricula... maybe a book to read and hands-on social studies by learning the bus and train system, museums, cultural aspects, etc.

This may sound weird, but I wonder if you contacted the Chinese consulate closest to you and asked them for information. They may know about something you don't. And then there is Berlitz.

Have you thought about Outschool classes?

@@jessie19painter I have but have only briefly looked into them. Have you done any?