After the compass classroom video course we have high expectations for vocabulary but still need to work on vocabulary!!! I prefer Greek and Latin roots for vocabulary!!! The extracts of books in level D sounds like a lot of books I read as a pre teen in the U.K!!! It sounds like it’s from a British author and my kids love those books!!! It’s awesome that it includes a dictionary!!! The high school level looks appropriate but way different!!! I encourage my kids to re read often!!!

Love the thorough flip-thru, thank you! Currently trying to decide between several grammar and vocabulary programs for this upcoming year and had never heard of this one!!

Excellent flip through and overview. 🙌☺️

Mr Q's life science might be a perfect add on to Mystery Science for my 4th grader! Do you know if it's secular? Thanks for sharing this resource!

We did the grade level notebooks last year and loved it. We wrote in them and taped stuff in them. It was so nice to have it all in one. If we did a different notebook for every subject it would have been too much stuff. We will be doing it again this year.

Thank you for this comparison!

Is there an app for it? I downloaded but doesn't seem to work

I've been really enjoying your perspective on the homeschool approach w/o deadlines

Thank you for this video. It came up in my suggested section. I appreciate your honesty about struggling with patience with your children. I’m planning to homeschool starting next year and losing my patience with school is something that scares me because I struggle with it too. I like the idea of taking a 10 minute break!

Definitely the right choice!

What a great video idea! Loved this!

Love the headband! Keep the videos coming!

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I agree homeschooling isn’t the easiest road to travel but I’m glad we homeschool!!! I learned as a teenager the things that are worth it are often the hardest things!!! My husband feels that he needs to teach our kids things earlier than I expected but I’m seeing the fruit of it!!! If they learned it in public school they wouldn’t be as mature!!! After starting to homeschool I started to think of why school takes 8 hrs and I saw school as childcare instead of education!!!

I love this and agree with this!

Homeschooling has definitely taught me to have a lot more patience. Some days can be tough, but it's taught how to work together as a family. One of my favorite things is seeing that "aha" moment in my kids. When something they are working on finally clicks and you should that learning explode. I would be missing all of that if they were in public school.

I love your polka-dot headband! :)

Love this all. ❤ Thank you!

Thanks so much, really helpful for this single mama who needs to be a little thrifty.

HI, there! We just finished our 1st year of homeschool. All of the challenges are well worth it❗️ I won't miss any moments of discovery that my child experiences. Reflecting on my childhood, I learned a LOT of things to soon, by listening to my peers around me. So with homeschooling, we can avoid that, at least for the most part😊❗️ Last, the pace. Just winging it, going at our own pace. Makes all the difference. Thank you for sharing❗️❗️

I highly recommend splurging on getting a couple of 'Zebra DelGuard' mechanical pencils if your child presses down too hard and is always breaking the lead. I would suggest sticking to the Zebra Delguard lead for refill. I bought one of these pencil for my daughter late last year and I swear, she's gone through maybe 7-8 pieces of lead total.

My favorite glue sticks are Scotch permanent glue sticks. They stick well. I was excited to find out about Frixion pen refills. They are my kids favorite.

This seems too young for my 6 year old but the Dart program is for 8-10 🧐 what would you suggest?

Agree with the printer and binder! I tried the proclick and the pages stuck where the ring connected no matter what trick we tried and that drove me bananas. I think when it comes to markers, colored pencils, and crayons, you always splurge. I purchased Walmart brand 3-ring binders and they are awful. The rings don't line up and it's just a pain all around. Great video!

I LOVE this! Agree on absolutely everything. My three additional splurges~ 1- The swingline electric hole punch. It just makes me happy to use it! 2- Reinforced filler paper for things that my kiddos will create and will stay in their binders all year. 3- I am totally addicted to all the discbound systems. Staples ARC is my fav, but I love them all!

I've been trying to determine what binding machine to buy and had settled on the ProClick because so many people seem to love it and its small and easily put away. But now you have me questioning my choice😂 I've heard the bigger machines that are supposed to punch ~12 pages at once really only handle about 6 pages which is basically what the ProClick handles as well so that makes me think a big bulky machine isn't worth the hassle. I wish I could do a test run of both kinds to see which I prefer, why isn't that a thing?!

I'm always surprised so many people rave about Expo dry erase markers. I find them streaky and they seem to dry out faster than my go to brand Volcanics.

Yassssss on the manipulatives and now there all going to be donated

We’ve just moved to the sates so we’ve not got our homeschool room storted and with our life idk wat we will be doing as we live an adventurous life!!! We have got to get a printer and other supplies as we left them at our old house where my brother lives!!! We love PDF curriculum and buy quality curriculum!!! We sent the 2nd teenage athletes the HBL curriculum we used last year via email!!! My friend is looking for a book binder but he doesn’t know if me or his wife will use it!!! We are the main homeschoolers in the household!!! He thinks it look nice!!! I bough fun playing cards but I won’t spend too much on math things!!! We love our science supplies but I only buy what’s needed!!! We find we re read reference books and fun phonics readers mainly!!! Being on America now we probably have a better library but we travel feb till summer every year!!! We love spending money on notebooks and my daughter is obsessed with her school nest notebook for her social studies research project!!! I buy cheap notebooks as well!!! We love our battery pencil sharpeners so we can travel with them and they have lasted for us!!! We love 0.7 pencils so if the papermate ones have that size lead I would buy them!!! My teenagers have found the target on our island so I’ll have to look for those dry ease markers!!! My kids don’t get tape and post it notes!!!

I had the cannon tank printer before the EcoTank and it was a total lemon. There's a reason the epson is so popular.

I ❤ our Epson ET-8550. I printed roughly 20,000 pages with the ink that came with it and one refill of each color. I printed ALL of our curriculum from Pre-K through 12th grade for 3 kiddos. We saved atleast $1,000 in curriculum. I love our 3 hole punch and 3 ring binders. Just use clips to keep organized until you switch out printed binder materials. I use 28# paper for curriculum, 60# for covers, and it is worth the extra bit of funds. Dry erase pockets will help reduce the number of pages printed (still had to print over 20k). Do the Expos stain? My dry erase pockets are a bit stained, still functional but dark.

Shopkins were our manipulatives. We have way too many. We used these for sorting and creating categories.

Life changing 🎉

I may have commented the same thing on Zaner Bloser 😂😂😂 we ran into that issue! Love rainbow resource

We are finishing up 1st grade math with confidence and KMWC right now. They work well for us. We also like evan moor workbooks.

Nice One

Beautiful Presentation

I’m going to check out vocabu lit!

Oh! Never heard of vocabu lit! Excited to hear more about it

We have to do standardised tests now and I’ve not thought of using books for them!!! I love building in flexibility!!! Never seen vorab lit!!! Sorry I can’t spell!!! I bought a classical vocabulary book for my older kids!!! It’s a high school level!!! My older kids focus on other parts of language arts but they don’t do grammar as it’s in reading and writing!!! I don’t do pre k as well and I teach letter sounds thru exposure from a baby and let it happen naturally!!! My kids haven’t been advanced with letter sounds tho!!!

My daughter loves how MWC is rainbow at the end. We are only on lesson 11, but she keeps flipping to the back 🤣

Can you link your colorful binding coils! Super cute :)

How are you liking this program so far?

LOVE a good Rainbow Resource haul!!!

We started our school year last Monday, and by the end of the week I already had to change our language arts unit. My kiddos did not like the book that I bought a unit study for. That unit was supposed to carry us all through the first nine weeks of school. So I had to make some changes and reorganize.

It was great seeing what you got and how you plan to use it! 10:51

Yes!!! So true! 🙌☺️

This is an amazing source! Thank you!! I'm so glad to find something other than just Khan or CK12.

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What are the Target white closed storage bins called? Tried to find them but no luck 😕