From Challenges to Wins: Our Homeschool Year Reflection II Homeschool Show & Tell Series

In this video, I reflect on the challenges and wins we experienced in our homeschool this year. It’s been a journey full of learning and growth for both me and my kids.
Homeschool Show & Tell Playlist:
• END OF THE YEAR CHALLE...
The Waldock Way: / @thewaldockway
Rooted In Rest: / @rootedinrest
Here’s a quick overview:
Challenges:
Combining kids for lessons
Utilizing the library effectively
Maintaining consistency with writing
Individual reading time for my daughter
Wins:
Success with The Good and the Beautiful curriculum
Discovering our learning style and favorite books
Engaging Outschool classes
Right Brain Phonics success
Exploring Ancient Egypt with Curiosity Chronicles and Layers of Learning
Sticking with our Human Body studies
Join me as I share insights and tips from our homeschool journey, and let’s celebrate the highs and learn from the lows together!
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Thank you for watching! Sara
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[@geekyabode]

What are some of your big wins or challenges this past homeschool year?

[@schultesweeties]

I feel you on the library issues. We’ve had similar thing issues. We are 15-20 minutes away from ours and we don’t often go in that direction. I find we just don’t go unless I’m intentional about it

[@geekyabode]

I am hoping to get better at it or I'll just have to plan better with what I'm using. My hopes would be to go once a month but, be better at ordering the books I need. It was odd, even though we have a big library system and access to the entire systems books, I still came across so many books that they didn't have.

[@inquisitivemindsacademy]

I’m hoping to combine CC and LoL too! I’d love to hear more on how you did that, and how it went!!

[@geekyabode]

I think I'll do a video on this, showing hoe I plan out Ancient Rome for the beginning of the school year. it's been great but, was a challenge for me to stumble through and figure out how I wanted to do it. I use CC as the starting point and add in elements from LOL. CC can bounce around a bit, you'll be doing Ancient Egypt then you'll have chapter of Stonhenge, back to Egypt and then China, back to Egypt again ... I understand why it's done that way but, my kids got lost jumping around. Halfway through the year, I broke the chapters into regions and started doing it that way. We are now finishing up Ancient Greece. I wanted to do too many of the things in LOL. I've scaled back a bit. I plan an entire unit at once (like Ancient Greece for example). Each week will focus on one the CC chapters. I look at the extras in CC and LOL and see if anything sticks out right away as a must do and pencil that it first. Then I look at books and videos I want to add. I like some spine books like Usborne History Encyclopedia. I also look for biographies and historical fiction to read. If there are any virtual museum tours or historical site tours online I like to add them in. Then I look at the activities and note which ones I like. I no longer stress if we don't get to everything I plan since we really enjoy it and learn a lot regardless. We do history everyday but, it's in little chunks that just build on each other. it's sounds overwhelming but, really is what you make it.

[@inquisitivemindsacademy]

@@geekyabode would love to see that! I planned to use CC as my spine and include LoL explorations as they pair up....but my 7 year old kids won't do well with skipping around. Might have to reevaluation the situation! So helpful! Thank you!!