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@@nataliafeenstra9415 this is our 5th year and it evolved slowly overtime. I think if I saw this years ago I might have felt the same way but we have added in things little at a time to grow our culture and education as a family! Take your time and find what works for you 🌸😘
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.
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!
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. 😅
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.
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!).
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.
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?
When you spoke with so much gratitude for your Mom laying her life down for her children, it made me cry. It truly touched my heart because there are so many nights where I lie awake wondering if my children will appreciate the lifestyle my husband and I have chosen to live (which is often against the grain of the rest of the world). We do dedicate ourselves to them all day, everyday and we'll continue to whether we know if they appreciate it or not......but your video gave me hope. Heheheh. ❤😄🙂💞
We’re in a similar boat. We have about 5-6 weeks left of AO readings left. I’m debating “speeding” through some of them and keeping others to read slowly throughout summer (Robin Hood, Children of the Nee Forest).
Just mixes liquid coconut aminos! :) I'll add some wild caught salmon or tuna to mine and if I have mixed vegetables they'll eat some of that too with it!
This is the first video of yours I’ve watched and I love it! I’m a second generation homeschooler also and we just fished up our first year homeschooling (kindergarten). I’m learning more and more Charlotte Mason as I learn more also. Excited to watch and learn from you!
