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I think I'm going to take your inspiration and instead of a general "learn piano" again, I'm going to choose a song that makes me excited to sit down and play.

Love this video 🫶🏻 I’m the same way about books - where is the good writing?!?! So frustrating ha.

Hey sweet friend. I loved listening to your goals for this year. I am also trying to learn piano with my little girl. That is so exciting! May you have a wonderful very blessed year. 💗☺️

Thank you for posting this! It was super helpful!

I’m curious to know; why don’t you keep the rhythm you began with in regard to grammar and keep your child ahead…. To continue to challenge him. 😊

The Curriculum progress is awesome! Most curriculums have 180 lessons. So I’d highlight them as they’re completed.

Thanks for sharing! I love how you used this planner. I will use these ideas in my own planner too!

I feel like we have really similar curriculum choices! Subscribing 😊

My parents are from Mexico and I have similar results, im 71% Indigenous and 29% European (mostly Spanish but also Portuguese and a tiny bit Italian). Most of my indigenous ancestry comes from my dad who's from Tlaxcala and he still speaks Nahuatl in private with my grandparents so I always knew we were part of the Tlaxcalteca tribe. Great results! ✌🏽🇲🇽

I had the same problem with Bookshark kindergarten. I was like this isnt kindergarten, lol. So we took a break from history first grade and I am just focusing on geography and cultures with kiwi crate and books. I was thinking for next school year, maybe History Quest, but I don't know, that doesn't even look like second grade to me either! By any chance, does the study guide have any suggestions for read alouds?

Social media is full of misconceptions on Charlotte Mason’s philosophy. She says no formal education until 6 but she NEVER says not teach your child if she/he is interested. In fact, she says to introduce wooden letters and sounds as the child is interested. If you read her books, she makes the assumption that the child should already know letter sounds and names by the time they start formal lessons. She also has a list of attainments that children should be able to do before starting formal lessons. Charlotte Mason IS classical education ( 7 liberal arts) By the time children reach form 3 they are doing far more rigorous work than most modern day high schoolers in my opinion. There is a heavy emphasis on living books, but again in the upper forms children are reading primary sources and speeches.

I like your critique. The things you considered sounded spot-on accurate. We used fun picture books for history and kept the entire subject light. I also found the activities were busy work or fillers the publisher added in as an afterthought. For world history, I chose The Story of the World because the chapters are short but filled with stories about "the little man" and not just the giant historic figures, the geography and consumables are fantastic and easy. It reads like a story and not a school text. Unless your state demands an actual history program, you can feel free to teach with library books your kids choose and then give them a bunch of paint to draw what is in their wonderful minds. Great video.

I am doing this with a 4th grader and I am glad I waited. I also use the audio book and he enjoys listening to it in the car sometimes so he will hear a lesson twice sometimes. The activities are just not that good. I supplement with a lot of my own hands on activities. My kid really enjoyed Beautiful Feet's around the world in 2-3rd grade. It was set up nicely with a little bit of fables, art history, music appreciation, wildlife, and just enough history of the country via picture books.

I started using HQ with Build Your Library level 1 but found history to be too dry. I don't have the strongest memories of elementary school history, but I remember it's all about the wars and monarchs. I recently got the Study Guide after noticing it has maps, coloring sheets, and activities to do. I'm someone who believes in making a curriculum work for you, so I don't think we'll use everything every week, but so far, my kids have been enjoying it. I think the crafts are integral for getting the history to stick and extra reading. At least that's what I remember from all those years ago. I don't know how anyone else gets their kids to sit and listen to the chapters, but I usually read them while my kids are eating lunch or putting puzzles together. We stop every page or so for a bit of discussion before moving on. It's the only way they sit still long enough. I'm considering getting the audio book so we can listen in the car. That works wonders for our literature reads 😆

I totally agree. I don't understand how people are using this with their first graders as its written ha. We are liking Little School of Smiths and I'm planning on using their US History stuff in the future!

You are brave! I wouldn’t do that book for a 1st grader. Rooting for you 😅

Thank you for sharing. I like the way you use this planner.

This definitely doesn't look like 1st grade to me either 😅

I’m so glad you made this video. It sums up perfectly where we are with it. I have a Kindergartner and 2nd grader. After chap 10 I realized I needed to just focus on the bigger civilizations. I recommend incorporating some Core Knowledge history into the lesson. I use the pictures for our schoolnest notebook. We’re currently on Ancient Greece and it’s been a nice change of pace.

History Quest is very advanced as is most of Pandia Press’s curriculum, including their science. I hate how the company grades their curriculum it’s very misleading!! I found the sweet spot of HQ for my kiddos between 4th-6th Grade. I find teaching history through picture books much better for the younger crowd and also the American and Ancient curriculum that is free through core knowledge is excellent! I believe those are focused on grades K-3 😊

Hey sweet mama! Just subscribed to your channel. I really enjoyed seeing this planner. I am actually looking for a new one for the upcoming year. I love that is has space for journaling and creativity. Thank you so much for sharing! 🙏☺️

I can relate to this! We have stopped, adjusted or added in multiple things including completely switching up our science this week! I always feel it is better to switch to something that we will actually do instead of sticking with something we all dread picking ip

Mazel Tov your 1% Jewish DNA is responsible for 99% of your high IQ, sense of humour and self confidence.

Depending on where you live some places have childrens community theatre

We condensed the first ~30 lessons of FLL into two or three weeks. Those first lessons are sooo slow, haha. If you're looking for other options for art: - Evan Moor's How to Teach Art to Children covers all of the fundamentals of art, but the projects are much quicker and more focused. - Teaching Art with Picture Books Kids Love uses picture books as a starting point/to study the art elements. - Creative Form Drawing (waldorf-style art) uses full body movements to introduce the forms. This one isn't separated into lessons, so you decide how much to cover each lesson. It focuses on fine motor skills instead of art elements or art mediums.

We are using so much of the same curriculum! We also shelved Artistic Pursuits but I plan to finish it next term. And I shelved FLL but not bc we didn’t like it, just bc I am doing grammar in the McGuffeys and now just use FLL as a reference for myself. I love that curriculum tho and may bring it back. How are you guys liking Biology for the Grammar Stage? We’re on week 9. Also- your Essential Elements music book in the background is bringing me back to 5th grade saxophone hard!!

Thank you for sharing this notebook! I have been keeping my eye out for one that would meet our needs next year.

1% Cyprus 🇨🇾 😮😮😮??? Wow ! That’s where I live! I was born in uk specifically in Northampton my mom is a Cypriot and dad brit … am so intrigued what my ancestral dna gonna show ! And what’s the % am gonna have!? I loved your video and ur review! I subbed your channel keep it momma!

I’m glad I found your channel,I’m a fellow homeschooling boy mom 😊

I am much less of a CM purist now than I was in the beginning. For instance, I prefer a spelling program to dictation and that while pointing out grammar in copy work is good, learning grammar explicitly with the help of a workbook is also good.

I really like GWG for it’s light on writing, too!

You look like you have Türkic Central Asian ancestry and Anatolian

I love this! We need more honesty and respectful disagreement and less toxic positivity in this community

Charlotte Mason Homeschooling doesn’t mean slow or gentle. I know plenty of people who do it quite rigorously but they just tend to attract that type of people. We read soooo many books and utilize non fiction texts as spines. As your children get older you will see the long term benefits of information retention in books and media that are more entertaining or “living”. We are not Charlotte Mason purists at all through as most now a days aren’t as we much perfer modern living books 😊

Beautiful! I loved they way you designed the first pages!

Im a homeschooling boy mom too and cant wait to start this term. 🎉

I love the idea of writing down vocabulary words from books that you don’t already know. I’m definitely going to try this because I have the same problem!

YOU ARE AMERICAN indian from mexico not the usa do not confuse with usa indians you are not you are from the mexico region

Thanks so much for showing the inside of these books!!

The book haul! 😍 I’m in love with all of these books thank you for sharing such great finds!

I cant wait to get our yoto player soon! Thanks for sharing! :)

Love your videos ! Now Im soo excited for my boys to get their Yoto player 🎉📚❤️

Loved all the books ! I also got our first YOTO player Im sooo excited 🎉

Usually, your west African DNA comes from your Spanish ancestors since during the transatlantic slave trade the Spanish and Portuguese graped a lot of African slave women, as for North African DNA Spain, was conquered by the moors for about 300 years the moors came from modern day Morocco

Great haul! I have also heard great things about the Burgess Bird Book for Children but after seeing your quick flip through i think ill pass. No color and print font is too small for my Kindergartener to be able to open and enjoy on her own. We love the Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science, its a wonderful resource. Have read multiple times through. Enjoy!

I really appreciated this video, thank you! You explained how this works so well and I’m anxious to use it with my daughter this year. I’m curious if you have used any of the other Brave Writer programs like the Quill or Dart etc? I’d love to see a similar in depth review on how you use/plan them, especially when using the writing as well as the grammar portion.

I noticed a lot of homeschoolers have a soft, slower start, and then slowly add in more things throughout the first week or two. Maybe starting the first day with some colouring pages or a fun activity. Do you just go all in? How does your kiddo do with that? Thanks~!

I took my test in 2019 my family’s from Mexico my dads side is from Michoacán my moms from Guanajuato&michoacan my percentages were 46% Mexican 18% spain 13% basque 11% Portugal 2% Senegal 2% Norway 2% Ireland 1% Mali 1% Cameroon Congo and western Bantu peoples 1% indigenous Bolivia and Peru 1% Jewish 1% wales <1% Cyprus I know the basque is likely from my mothers side cause when my mom did the dna test her basque was 14% I know my great grandfather was white had dark hair and had blueish greenish eyes and my great grandma tan i know my grandfathers family is known to have blueish green eyes and from my fathers side blue he said