Hello! I'm commenting for the first time but I've watched your curriculum videos before 😊 That's awesome that you guys went to Japan for your vacation! That's my home country and miss it alot but with kids, it's expensive 😢 some day, I'm hoping that we can go back 😊
It definitely gets more difficult to budget for long distance travel with kids. You are from a beautiful country--so much to explore and see and learn!
We are trying to power thru till December from September but I can’t see that happening!!! We will be travel schooling from February again!!! I don’t want a repeat of Tokyo where we couldn’t enjoy it!!! The Japanese trip sounds awesome!!! We loved 3 weeks in Japan this February I just wish we didn’t do a week of bookwork in Tokyo!!! We traveled by bullet train to Okinawa and saw mt Fuji!!! My youngest is exporing as well!!! My oldest max learn Spanish as we are in Latin America every yr and me and him went to the rain forest in Peru this year and he’s praying about possible mission work!!! We did a few days of mission work in the rain forest!!! I make phonics Flashcards when I see my kids struggle with certain words and phonics!!! I have a teenager who loves math and is doing high school math credits a yr early!!! My stepdad helps us with homeschooling and childcare when we work and he loves the granddad time!!! We are enjoying our last competition and then looking forward to enjoying our new home in Hawaii!!!
Japan looks amazing! We had plane tickets to go April 2020…but we know how that turned out. I love Arnold Lobel as well! I’m excited to get back into more of a routine where we can do more subjects…we’ve kept up with reading and math over summer, but I’m getting excited to add more things back I to the mix
Always a good thing when you're excited to jump back into a full school routine after summer. So sorry about the canceled trip--so many wonderful things were canceled at that time. Hopefully someday in the future! It's well worth the trip.
We have had a wonderful summer. We went to a resort in Mexico in June and next week we are going camping in Colorado for a week. We've done a bit of summer school in between vacations but nothing too much
I’m planning to go through the Sonlight second grade readers with my 2nd grader. There are a fun selection of books there. I am the same way as far as starting curriculum. We just start the new level whenever the child is ready. I remember the days of baby gates well!
My thought right now is that school time will be cycling through playpen, high chair snacks, crib nap, baby carrier--a variety of safe places--none of which will keep him content for that long, but with options, hopefully long enough. ha!
Part of my plan with that was knowing I had just one week with the husband still home--I wanted to take advantage of doing one school week with him around to watch the baby. Now he's back to work so it's 'for real' back to normal school year life.
My birthday is July also and I was pregnant last year too😅 do you have a video for how to homeschool with a baby or toddler? It’s my first time homeschooling my 5 year old and my daughter is almost 1 and becoming a toddler I see more chaos coming soon 😅
Yes, here's that video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-miaOCsmFidI.htmlsi=8o14bZcLCBA77XjR I also have a memorable older DITL vlog where I was homeschooling and quickly checked on my quiet toddler (#2 back then)...who was busy pouring water all over the kitchen floor. :P There's no instant or easy "solution," but I try to keep in mind a variety of "happy, safe" containment options: bringing homeschool into a baby-safe room, snacks in the high chair, playpen time, crib naps, baby wearing, toddler on lap at the table with coloring while the big one is next to you...having options in mind helps you quickly cycle from one to the next as needed when toddler gets bored with one option.
You can start it pretty much anytime after being ready to start AAR. Word Work intentionally moves a little more slowly and gives lots of opportunity for practice, practice, practice to build fluency and confidence. My younger son is currently on Lesson 11 of AAR and he's in Lesson 3 of Word Work--so for us, I'm using AAR to introduce new things and then Word Work is giving him more opportunities to practice and get faster at decoding those CVC words.
