Minimalist Homeschooling // Tour & Storage 

... Hmm I don't think you can ever have "too many" books or art supplies.

It's a great, imaginative series for sure! My kids really enjoy them!

You are SO SWEET! Thank you for your kind comment! I'm glad it was helpful! There's a bunch of videos being added in April, I'm just swamped this past month trying to finish the editing of our first print magazine : The Salty Tribe Journal. Thanks again! Jane

Sweet! I hope you have an awesome vacation here!!! I am hosting a homeschool mama retreat here on the island in September!

SaltyTribeCo How exciting! I hope it goes well.

Haha! Gotta keep it real! It's not all perfection and rainbow striped unicorns up in here!

Thank you so much! Minimal makes things just simpler and easier. Life is hard enough without making it harder with too many *things*. I feel ya!

Haha! Well I'm glad you enjoyed it and how FUN making bagels! We blend waldorf, montessori, charlotte mason and classical types of education. We blend it all together and then get rid of any excess so that it fits our minimalist style. I'm glad this was helpful! Thank you for commenting!

Haha! Glad you can relate!

Welcome! So glad you found us! They're our fav crayons for sure. I used to love crayola but these are FAR more durable and vibrant. We have now already made the $$ back on the tons of broken crayolas we have bought over our homeschool/parenting careers haha!

now we have less crayons and didn't spend as much over time.

Thank you!

Sure thing! I got those from an art/craft store. They were closing up shop so they were deeply discounted. I've seen some similar on amazon though : amzn.to/2lJtMcG Or amzn.to/2lJu8QJ Hope that helps!

It's a healthy weakness! My story and I'm sticking to it. LOL

Oh my gosh! I'm just now seeing all these comments I missed responding to! The crayons are Filana and they are on amazon : amzn.to/2uflgJb We have the stick and block crayons and they are going on THREE years looking that awesome!

We love them and the sweet shop owner!!! They're from Maple Seeds of Maine : www.etsy.com/listing/469755092/waldorf-inspired-tree-branch-pencil?ref=shop_home_active_11

Thank you so much! I love them!! 😊

Hey!!! I have several more videos coming. Many on books, curriculum choices, our portfolios [the kids and mine] and a few other things that have been requested. I'm sorry it took me awhile to get back to you! I was in the hospital last week and am trying to get caught up on emails, messages and comments. Thank you so much for commenting!

Hey! No, we don't participate in many extracurriculars. We used to and I was pretty burnt out. Honestly I felt pretty guilty. They're allowed to pick one sport if they want. We live on an island so my eldest surfs, actually they all do including me but my eldest does it as her sport for school. My middle kiddo, daughter, wants to get back into figure skating. We plan on stopping by the rink on the mainland to see if it will fit our stress free schedule. They do offer early morning ice time which would REALLY work for us [light traffic, back before we typically do school, I still get a quiet morning...all good!] My youngest kid did baseball once. He was 4 and I wasn't sure I would survive the season. SO many practices and games. For FOUR year olds. Nope. I told the kids they can't play soccer. Hahaha! They go to youth group but that is walking/biking distance. We don't do American Heritage Girls anymore because it's a long drive to the closest troop. I streamline our daily schedule which I will be posting next week! I hope that helped. I feel like I totally rambled.

Hey! I contacted proclick to make sure that the laminated pages would fit and they said they would...they were wrong. Let the wind out of my sails. So we have them in 3 hole binders [there's a video of the portfolios on my channel]. At the end of this school year I will take them to get spiral bound since I don't want to try purchasing another punch thing. The kids choose! For the most part anyway. I choose their writing samples and they keep some of their favorite art pieces. These are books for them to keep forever [or whenever they're adults and don't want to look at them anymore?] lol! The other ways of doing this are : Composition books or Waldorf Main Lesson Books. There's not laminating and it's super simple. The only reason we started laminating was because we use chalk, pastels, and paints. We wanted to preserve them. Hope that helped!

Here ya go : amzn.to/2vfU0ea

We love doing it with just ourselves though I totally miss them being IN a troop to do all the activities. By yourself is fun for earning badges. The troop is great for growing friendships, camping and other activities. I don't want to start one. I'm like you ACK! It's a LOT of work and I'm already overloaded. I'm hoping someone starts one nearby. I might just drive them the 45 minutes to the closes troop. "insert UGH face" I just love everything that AHG stands for!

That is SO me. I totally get that. I LOVE the waldorf feel and method, but want our focus to be God and His amazing creation. How He has weaved everything together. Glad to have ya with us, Autumn!

SaltyTribeCo Amen sister! ❤️ We are using My Fathers World this year and have found a nice happy medium in it. We are also trying Tinkergarten this year...you may like it too. Just using it for Kindergarten so we will see as she gets older. My 8th grader is using Classical Conversations and while I LOVE it it's definitely not nature based! Lol

Autumn L.- Seasonal Living The Good & The Beautiful has a fantastic nature journal that is Christ based. The primary author is LDS but the curriculum focuses on Christ/God not doctrine.

Mrs. Garcia thanks so much!

It wasn't too long after we started homeschooling. My husband is severely dyslexic and so he was the first to let know that that might be the issue I was having with teaching her to read. I am planning a video and blog post on all the info I have gathered, our experience and what we are using. I am currently recovering from surgery and illness so hopefully soon I'll be back at it!

Hey! No, we do not follow a curriculum. The only thing that is Charlotte Mason-y that we do is copywork, lots of books, and nature study. When we followed full Charlotte Mason, the kids didn't enjoy the book selections [most of them] and the several subjects with short lessons, wasn't a good fit for us. So we kind of mix Waldorf, Montessori, Charlotte Mason, Classical. We do all of that with a child-led and unschooling feel. If we purchase a curriculum it's more to be used as a reference guide versus used as written. I don't know if any of that made sense. Haha! We mostly just create an environment of learning that exists without a schedule. The topics we cover are all picked by my children. My younger daughter just told me she wants to learn to write well. So I'm looking for a few more resources for her to use as guides. Everything we do as far as what to study is chosen by my kids.

We only got the big book once. For some reason I thought it was additional problems for the lesson, not the exact same problems from the disk. After that we just got the disks and used 1/4" to 1/2" graph paper booklets or paper for them to work their math on. It is MUCH easier to work math problems out on the graph paper. It keeps the place values nicely!

Thank you! We've done it with a plain notebook as well as the big workbook. I think we'll try the graph paper next year! Thanks again- and many blessings to y'all!

I am SO going to add this for a video to do. I might do a blog post as well. My daughter LOVES to share her favorite reads!

SaltyTribeCo excellent! Thanks!

Heyyy!!! It's on the AHG website and I will link it for ya! www.americanheritagegirls.org/program/trailblazer/

SaltyTribeCo thanks. I hate it says there can't be a troop within 60 minutes of you. We have about 45 minutes away but it's hard going back and forth that long after a long school day. Oh well.

Ours is technically within the 60 minutes. It's about 40-45 minutes though if there's traffic it would take longer. I still wrote in applied letting them know that it just wasn't feasible for us to get to and from a troop that far away. Especially since we rarely go into town. Maybe every few months or so. I was still accepted!

...for the Trailblazer program!

SaltyTribeCo oh awesome. I'm going to still try then. Thanks!!!!!

Hey! I like them. My kids really like them. I prefer two other methods : 1. Painting/drawing on cardstock paper and laminating them for their books. 2. A spiral 5x7 sketchbook [with multimedia paper] to draw and write what we see though the seasons. That's just my personality though. My kids enjoy workbook type stuff which we do not do often. But they also enjoy the more out of the box type of thing that I described. I think they enjoy having the pretty binders that they got to fill in and color. They're excited to finish it and have it be complete. If you and your kids enjoy a relaxed type of workbook [cut, paste, color, write, notebooking] then you'll love it. If you prefer to do your own thing and feel confined by boxes, then you won't love it as much. Hope that helped!

Thanks! You sound a lot like me. I'm very freestyle. But often, my children enjoy the workbook-y type assignments. We're a blend of Waldorf and unschooling...I may order one and see if they enjoy it. Thank you!

Sure thing!

Great questions! I also struggled with wanting to use Waldorf materials while being Christ followers. I haven't had any issues with the Earthschooling math, but I wasn't sure about everything else and I didn't want to spend a lot of money on it only to find that it conflicted with our worldview. I do love that individual elements can be purchased from Christopherus and from Earthschooling. We don't use the full curriculum and I have only used the math, and there aren't any issues from a faith standpoint. The only issue I have is that it's not all laid out in a traditional sense. But since we are pretty relaxed with our homeschool, it hasn't been too hard to adjust. It was just a bit of a learning curve. Hope that helps!