Welcome to Wholehearted Homemaking! As a mama of 7 children and wife to a pastor in the midwest, my passions lie in motherhood, homemaking and homeschooling! Here you will find oodles of Charlotte Mason inspired education, garden experiments, intentional attempts to conquer housekeeping, simple handicrafts, mountains of books, and how to simply make a wholehearted home!
Hi! I enjoy your videos but I have some constructive criticism. Your sound is SO LOW. I go from any other video to yours and have to turn the volume on my laptop ALL THE WAY up to hear you. There is something wrong in your sound settings.
Thank you, sorry I am doing the best I can with my limited materials on my mac. I hope one day to be able to afford some actual equipment, but for now doing all this for free.
I am curious what you used to help you read and understand Home Education (her volumes in general really)? I’m currently trying to strengthen those muscles but could use help 😂
For grade 2, how long did it take to do the lesson? Did you set the timer to do 20 mins of lesson including the workbook pages? I'm debating bw SCM arithmetic or R&S arithmetic. My son definitely needs shorter lesson and less writing but only thing I have problem with SCM is it doesn't teach time and weight and measurement doesn't come til book 3....but i love that it's orally done. I also know that with R&S, I just have to teach and have him do it orally and skip some problems. He definitely needs repetition and mastery based math😅
We always do 15 minutes of lesson and 5 minutes review for either curriculum. We set timer and just pick up where we left off the next time. You could always do time and weight informally in year 2 via recipes, clocks in house etc
Love this! I hadn’t seen all these Living Book Press editions. Nice! We’ve enjoyed Dallas Lore Sharp as a family read a loud. We’ve done a couple different ones of his!
We enjoyed The Dragon Lady one from our library, too! We have a few others. ♥️The family connection is a wonderful thing!!!! This is a great list. Thank you. ♥️
Thank you for sharing this curriculum. I did not know about it, and now that I do I think I would like to try the astronomy first! Perhaps you answered this in the video and I missed it, but how many lessons are in each? Are they meant to be done 2 days a week? Thanks!
I am hoping to use this when my youngest gets to 4th grade. I debated using Form 1 this year ( I wound up going with something different). Sabbath Mood guides are very affordable and look so good!! Great video! I hope you will share more about this :)
Thank you for your video reviews. I thought to use R&S along side SCM Arithmetic Series. For example level 1 in each curriculum. Do you think it would blend well together, or just too much for the child? I thought to give a half a lesson in R&S each day. I just love how quickly kids learn math facts and they actually stick, but I love the gentle short approach of SCM. Thank you
Honestly that feels like way too much. If anything I would do the speed drills from R&S with SCM, but that's about it. They are very different methods of learning, and SCM goes a bit slower, but still just as effective to get them stick depending on the child. Three of mine have thrived with SCM and facts, one did not but she also isn't thriving in R&S. Facts just take longer for that one child to retain. We use xtramath.com to help them with facts usually.
This was SUCH a helpful video, thank you so much! I’ve got 4 children, we farm and are very active in our church. Hearing all your tips, but also the encouragement to remember the people in the schedule, what a blessing.
Form 3-4- one day of biology or botany (full year to complete), three days specific science subject Form 4-6- can follow same pattern, a traditional pattern or something else. Her website explains scheduling pretty decently as high school allows for many more options to your scheduling.
I like how you do biographies. Thanks for sharing. Just subscribed. I also have a channel and would love to be friends and connect. Looking forward to watching more of your videos.
It sounds wonderful. I am really seeing the importance of mental math. It's so helpful and fundamental. Applying those math skills in eveyday activities is a great idea! 🙌☺️ Hope you are having a wonderful summer! 🥰🥰
I've heard of Pam Barnhill but I've never tried her morning time guide. I forgot about it actually! For this coming year, I've purchased a few Morning Virtues studies from Gentle + Classical for my upcoming 2nd and 5th graders.
Love that! I have 6 daughters, and my youngest is a boy at only 1. Sadly I have all nephews who don't enjoy reading. :( What are your boys favorite books?
6 girls and a boy!!!! What a beautiful family. Books my boys have loved: Pax, Christmas Pig, Wild Robot, Chronicles of Narnia, The Bears of Blue River, A Dog’s Purpose…. we do Ambleside, I could list off quite a few books that I have loved for them on Ambleside. We just found and started reading the Lamplighter series. Highly highly recommend. We are reading Teddy Buttons right now and love that.
@@wholeheartedhomemaking I grew up in the 90s with a lost family...so yeah I know what peter pan is and the books..research where these wicked fables come from
@@miss.baptist394 I'm sorry your upset by our choice. I was simply asking if you read the original. There are many books others choose to read that I do not agree with because of our personal beliefs. Wind in the Willows for instance gave me pause, we don't read Narnia in our home, and perhaps after my rereading of this classic (its been 4 years since I read it) will cause me to change my mind or may not, but I appreciate your concern. Thank you for watching.
She is using PreAlgebra from Memoria press over the summer, and then will move on to BJU Algebra (2nd Edition). My husband is former high school math teacher, and he chose that curriculum out of many others.
New subbie! We're not strictly CM homeschoolers but we do love books! The old trailblazer books look really nice. I hope they still sell it. God bless.
That was an awesome video. First time seeing your videos! I'm finishing my first year with the CMEC. I have a 1A and 2A student, so I really needed the holding hand of the CMEC. I'm going to do the next year with the CMEC because Charlotte Mason is still new to me, but you really inspired me to take it easy and just gave a great list of books. Thank you for your time.
