Are you still using this curriculum?

So appreciate you sharing all of your rhythms and organization. I’ve been lacking this in our homeschool but now that my 8yo is getting a heavier workload, this is something I need to develop. This seems really manageable!

I LOVED this video! I stumbled across your simply Charlotte Mason review video after watching a few Sonya Shafer instructional videos trying to decide if I wanted to switch to her curriculum fully this year and this all was so helpful for me. I’m a first gen homeschool mom and I sort of did the opposite, I found CM right off the bat and clung to the better late than early mindset but now my oldest is 9 and I’m feeling like my current curriculum feels more like a diet than a feast and I want to take it up a notch. So thank you for all the detail in both the videos! So real, so encouraging!

You're telling my story, exactly! Thank you so much for sharing!

So encouraging and peaceful, thank you!

Thank for this encouraging talk! Gratitude is key in our home. It changes everyone’s mood for the better!

I am from sweden Hopefully, you get that which truly makes you happy forever.

This video and walk through was so helpful! I’m starting my AO planning and I really like your family rhythms chart and individual check lists. Would you be willing to share these files? Thank you.

Aww, so cute and such an amazing relationship to their education; So positive. Your daughter with her dog was heart melting! I just love all of what you are doing. Thank you for sharing.

The Abigail Adams book isn't really just about her. Its a very good book and ties alot of things together. She corresponded alot with her husband and other important figures during that time. Alot of our historical knowledge comes from letters she wrote or others wrote to her, especially her husband. It is a rather difficult long book though. I read this one to my children and they enjoyed most of it.

These are sooo cool!! I’ll have to look into getting one for dean!

This is super helpful! Thank you for sharing. I was thinking about using some of their curriculum but you have totally convinced me this is the way to go!

So fun to see your books!

Interested in the book club!

I would love to hear more about the book club!

Tell me about your sister's book club! ❤

This looks so overwhelming to me 😢

I’d love a diy Kombucha video!

ACV for hair all the way!

The laminated schedules are perfect! Thank you for sharing how you pull all this off.

Ah, I am so excited for you. Thank you for showing the hardcover vs. the paperbacks on those. That is very helpful. Books galore!

Hey! I have loved finding your video content about AO. My family has a lot of latin experience and wanted to jump in and suggest looking into Picta Dicta by Roman Roads Press if Wheelock turns out to be way too much grammar first approach. Picta Dicta is conversational and uses the language first before the heavy grammar lessons. CM recommends conversation and usage first. Wheelock latin is thorough and amazing but definitely high school and above in complexity. just a warning from two parents who learned latin and are now teaching our third and fifth graders. Happy Latin! It's such a joy!!

on Ambleside Online Forum they have History and Geography under the headings by subject. in that geography forum you can find links to all the AO years and then all the literature/history maps available there for each book. It was exciting to find pictures of the island from Robinson Crusoe, This country of ours maps of the 13 colonies and the major battles, maps of the major river ways in the U.S, maps of the French Canadian area of The Amazing Journey, Our Island Story maps...etc so helpful that they have sourced all those and make them available for free. Now that you are probably going on to year 5 they have those too at the same spot.

Great video! I can relate, I’m also a second generation homeschooler currently homeschooling my kiddos. My mom started me off with abeka. I remember absolutely hating it 😂 so she switched to Sonlight. Sonlight isn’t Charlotte mason but Sonlight does use living books for their history bible and literature. It was so much better.

This was SUPER helpful!

Do you come up with your own schedules for your students? Do you follow a CM reading list or curriculum? Such as Ambleside online? How do you decide what you are going to use each year and how to schedule it? Thanks!

I needed to hear this. God *is* so gracious. Thanks for sharing.

Hi! It did sound like a wonderful year with just a miss here or there. Ambleside is such a rich resource. 🌻

What did you use for Y4 Latin? And what did Adelaide think about it?

the Northern states of America most definitely experience the power of cold and ice. Not just a "European" or "England" thing

We had the same problem with our book of centuries. It’s not really something I can schedule, I’m just telling my kids to keep it out on the table during all readings so they can put people and events in every day. 😅

For the Genevieve Foster books, I assigned a single section per day. The sections are short and we got through all of it.

I highly recommend looking into a book by Generations Curriculum called Worldviews in Conflict a study of western philosophy, literature, and culture by Kevin Swanson before teaching your children about Shakespeare and other Classical Writers. I had no idea the true darkness that some of these writers had until looking into this. We no longer will be studying Shakespeare and some others in the younger years. As a Christian family we will be looking at them in high school through a different lens.

I think we are doing GWW twice a week through the whole year so we can just do a story at a time. I definitely think it’s a hefty read for year four!

Is there a prompt anywhere for what to put in the book of centuries or do you just put what you want when it comes up in reading? Thank you

We have gotten some of the Holling C Holling books from the library but I decided to buy the set recently. They are excellent!

Are you still using MUS?

I've met Steve Demme, too. It was great!

Very cute video! Your daughter's are beautiful! Would you ever do a home library tour?

This was so sweet 🎂 happy birthdays 🎁 Great finds I love thrifting. What a great idea to take them thrifting on their birthdays 💞

This was such a sweet video, I love taking my kids to shop on their birthdays too. ❤❤❤ (p.s. My Once Upon A Child prices their books according to their condition and maybe what they think is worth more. My Goodwill is always 2.99 for childrens books......the internet flippers have really ruined thrifting at old school garage sale prices, it's sad but I'll continue to thrift as long as I can. 😅💃) 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Happy Birthday Julia and Adelaide!

Loved this video. Great hauls! Happy birthday girls! Our Once Upon a Child has some great books! No one is ever looking at them when I’m there. Goodwill usually has good ones also but they take a while to pick through. Usually .50-$1.50.

Thank you so much for sharing your homeschool journey! You have no idea how many tactical questions you have answered just in a few videos that I have watched of yours. :) Question - Do your girls do only oral narrations? If so, when in your schedule do you schedule listening to their narrations?

One of the things I've done for the AO-specific books is use the no-rush shipping rewards to purchase the ebooks. Ebooks aren't my favorite, but when I can get 2-3 books for free each year, it's worth it for us.

Are you registered as a homeschool educator on ThriftBooks? For every 4 used books you purchase, the 5th one is free (I believe they have to be purchased at the same time!).

We’re also using A Visit to North America! I’m super excited

Great to see similar books and curriculum choices that we have used or will use. I LOVED everything about the Math U See program until my kids got to Algebra. It was at that time that I noticed that my kids had struggles with understanding the concept after watching the videos. This past year I had my two high school students switch to the Denison Algebra math curriculum. Best decision ever! My oldest who was in tears at least once a week last year and needed my help with every problem and still didn’t seem to get it did her entire year of Geometry without any help from me and received a solid A for a grade. It is an AMAZING curriculum! It starts at Pre-Algebra and goes through all the high school math courses.

Are you supposed to complete a-g each day? Or do you do that over a week? Or for a set amount of time?

What curriculum do you use?

How helpful is this! I’ve been thinking of incorporating Ambleside to our SCM schedule and this removes all intimidation. :) Question - What do you do for “morning time”? When do you hear or read their narrations? Do you read the books yourself to corroborate their narrations or just receive them?