Oh my gosh! ".. And not because I don't want to teach my kids. So if that was gonna be your comment, save it." 😂😂😂 That just seriously made my morning. Favorite line of you entire video, hands down. Ignore the haters. You're obviously doing a great job with your kids (and you know it 👍😊). Thanks for the great ideas for how to structure the day. That would work really well for my family too with how our days go. Makes A LOT of sense.
Thanks for sharing your system. I love how you flip flows for the older kids and younger kids. That is genius. Something I'll definitely be implementing as all my kids reach school age 😁
This is exactly how I do scheduling! I tried to make a timed schedule, but never kept to it. This just flows better and no stress! Because life happens! I love your videos, they are always helpful!
Thanks for the awesome video! We have 3 days left of private school! Homeschooling here we come!! I don’t think people realize the importance of independent work. I’m currently working at my girls’ school so I understand how important it is. Also, “we’re being flexible” are words we use often in the classroom. Great job on the video, all of your content has been a HUGE help to me!
I am so grateful for your transparency and willingness to share. I watched one of your previous videos and implemented a similar flow instead of a specific schedule and it has worked wonderfully! This was our best school year yet! Thank you!!
It’s wonderful to see how independent they become!! I never thought someone would say we don’t want to teach them! 🤷♀️ Now I’m more aware of that when I share that my kids do a lot independently!
Yes!! 🙌 a schedule in detail as far as times and pages to complete, etc. makes my anxiety go through the roof! I feel like we couldn’t enjoy school because it was unnecessary pressure. We also do a flow schedule and just do a lesson a day. It saves so much stress and saves sanity for everyone and there are no tears from either of us this way 🤣 Another great video, Ashlee! Thank you for sharing with us!
New followers here. We just finished our second year of homeschooling (like today). I’m going to share this vid with my bride. Maintaining structure is so hard!
We're doing something very similar. The main difference is I schedule Mon-Fri and they use a wet erase to check off as they complete each subject. We wipe it off when we're done and start over the next week.
Oh my goodness, thank you! I'm just starting with homeschool and I'm in the research phase. I have been making this way more complicated than it needs to be! I was having severe anxiety over the daily schedule. But this is wonderful. Thank you so much, from a newbie homecoming mom to a seasoned vet!!
It’s nice to see I’m not the only one statistically having to juggle four kids. Our only issue, we have therapy for my daughter 6 times a week, extra activities like ballet and Trail Life / American Heritage Girls, ect... Almost every day looks different. We get everything done, but it get absolutely crazy sometimes. Do have those days too?
I've always attempted writing down times for our schedules, always feeling defeated when we couldn't stick to it. I like your idea of a "flow." Thanks for sharing!
We do something similar. I do write specific lessons in planners, but I only fill out one week at a time for my older 2. They like to see their week in advance. It is motivating for their personalities. I got a little set of stamps, so it takes me all of 7 minutes to fill things in for them on a Saturday or Sunday evening. I found I didn't have to nag when I just wrote out all their work at the beginning of the week. If they get behind, they know what I expect them to have done by Friday afternoon. It was a God-thing because I had baby #4 last year and I was pretty overwhelmed until this epiphany. I am all about helping them to be as independent as I can. I want to give them habits now that will help them succeed in their adult lives.
The Brave Homeschooling Mama same here. I got a pretty planner two years ago and tried to plan at least a 6 week block, but then if someone got sick or life got in the way we fell behind. It just really stressed me out, so we just take it one day at a time and keep plugging along a lesson at a time.
I love your videos! This was great to see the routine you use and I adore you for not having a schedule broken down by time/date/etc. That is so overwhelming to me. I do the same as you are doing with a few exceptions. I have a toddler so there is a bit more of scheduled breaks, mom interruptions, etc but he usually just follows me around while I school his siblings and loves to sit and "do his school work" while I work with his 5 year old brother.
Thanks for this. Homeschool mom of 4 here, also. This is essentially what I do as well. Yes! Validation! 😊 If I can offer one piece of unsolicited advice, as a mom who put one kid in piano this past year, it's hard to get enough practice in 30 minutes one day per week. Now, if this is just for fun, ignore me. And I get the whole not having four keyboards thing. But if you had, say, a half an hour after dinner for a couple kids apiece, and maybe another half hour some other time during the day, so everybody's getting 30 minutes a day (or even 20), most days, I think you'll see better results.
I plan our school one week at a time, generally. At least with our two middle school kids. The upcoming high schooler will have one delineated lesson a day in each of the subjects required for his transcript. He wants to be as independent as possible, while the other two prefer to interact.
This is basically how I have ours set up. My issue is planning out extras. Like if I want field trips to go with or timing of small units. Idk I struggle seeing them fit.
Thank you for the video! Just curious, do you use a specific homeschool planner to keep yourself organized? I’ve seen a few on Christianbook.com that I really like but do you feel they are worth the money and time? Thank You!
How did I miss this video?! It's the clarity I've been needing! The term "flow" is perfect and thank you for sharing. I wonder, when do you do your grading & how is piano going?
Hi Ashlee, we do very similar as you. We have a baby so our morning basket may happen in the afternoon on her nap. I’m curious, how long does it take for you to do your morning basket? And your bible devotional time? I know you don’t have a set time, we don’t either, we can take a long time doing basket time and that’s why I’m curious! Thank you! Oh another note, do you have quiet time? I can’t seem to add that in because of baby/toddler schedule. We play when she is awake. Tried doing school with her and it doesn’t work well!
THANK YOU! I took detailed notes. 😀 This will definitely help me fine tune our daily schedule. I already basically do this, but it was helpful to see how you order it. I know you have been doing a block system for history and science. How many days a week do you do those?
Hi Ashlee! I've come back a few times to this video as we just started our year this week, so thank you! :) I was wondering if the schedule you have for each of the kids is the same every day (therefore one schedule in their binders)? Two of our days are different and I was wondering if I should print out schedules for each of the days. Have you done that in the past or what would suggest if days looks different and you aren't covering every subject every day? Hope that makes sense!!
I love this, and plan to switch over. I have used a lesson planner in the past that I fill in each week. That also serves as my way of tracking attendance. How do you keep attendance for your school records?
I really enjoyed that! Very helpful! I don't try to mimick but I've gotten a lot of ideas & helpful info for my own homeschool journey from your videos.... Thanks 4 taking the time! I'd never have the time.. Regardless if u start school or whatever first, do y'all have a certain time y'all get up & start the day?
Thanks for sharing. We are also moving to a “routine” versus timed schedule for our summer as well! How does this work with TGTB LA where it’s so much “time” per day versus 1 lesson a day?
Thanks for sharing!! How long does it take you to do your history and science in the morning? I feel like it takes us a little while so I didn't know how late in the day you finally finish school after doing everything! Thanks! :-)
If some of your kids finish things earlier then your flow needs to move on for some of your other ones, what is your approach to those “lulls” of the day or pauses with each child?
Just wondering do you always have lunch at the same time? My kids are motivated by food lol 😁 I have 6 kids 5th grade, 3rd,1st, pre k, 2 years and new born! and my husband works week on/week off days and nights alternating. So our flex and flow of life is interesting! Never the same. So this type of flow/routine for homeschool is our only option. :) love your channel- 💕
When do you guys fit in lunch and outside time? I find that I'm cramming to get all my subjects in before lunch. Once we break, it seems hard to get everyone back on track. Lunch kills me! lol
Can you do a complete curriculum video for your younger children. I have a upcoming 3rd and 5th grader who struggles with anything reading related. Any help or advice very much appreciated. Thanks for all the videos.
Heis Risen she has recently released videos of all her kids curriculums for this coming year. Look back a few videos on her channel and you will find them.
I love your “flow” method and will be doing this. We’ve recently moved and our school room is chaos at the moment also many of our curriculum workbooks are on backorder, but we’re going to make it🙃 A friend shared your YT channel with me and I’m so glad she did. I’ve enjoyed everything so far. I’m curious to know if you check work at the end of the day or as you go along or at the end of the week? I only have 3, but it gets crazy trying to keep up sometimes.
When using tgatb for the younger ages when it says to go over a reading path 3 times for example, do you just go back to it the next day? Some of the lessons are so long!!! Love love your videos! Thanks for taking the time to share with us all! I am wanting to try this “flow” next year now that I’ll have a 3rd grader and a 1 St grader
I've got younger children right now and my home school and there's very little they can do independently when do you think you got to this point with the older children being able to do more independent work. I've got a first grader kindergarten and a Pre-K
Rosie Mayberry my younger two are going into first and fourth. And this past year they could do handwriting alone and their practice in explode the code once I explained to them.
Ok question, we are in a situation where my kids are trying to move quickly to catch up bc they can but I also don’t want to skip ahead in fear of missing something and having gaps in their learning. So in my situation I would love to do a lesson a day but sometimes they fly through it and we need to do a couple more. If you were in this situation, would you still do just one lesson or what would you advice I do? I hate putting times on us but I also don’t know when is a good time to say that’s good let’s move on now. ;)
@Ashlee this has nothing to do with this video but I remember you have mentioning you don’t support or think Keto dieting is good for your body and I wondered what you thought of Intermittent fasting? I didn’t think I’d heard you mention that in any videos but excuse me if I missed.
Heather Lucas I think she has mentioned it...and said she doesn’t follow intermittently fasting, pretty sure she doesn’t. But there’s soo much information on RU-vid about intermittent fasting that you can do your own research and make an informed decision.
Another amazing video seems like all of yours are great I appreciate you sharing with us all your great information and just helping us to maybe change some things that would be helpful and also your curriculum reviews are great I'm just joined RU-vid and I did my first curriculum review what we'll be doing our summer plans and I was wondering if you could pop over to my channel Mama's little lambs and just watch it and give me any advice because you're like a pro at this and this is my first one I've done so it would be wonderful and if you liked it if you could give me a thumbs up and hit subscribe that would be fantastic very encouraging thank you very much and I look forward to watching the next video blessings
