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Thank you for the review. I'd already purchased but impatiently waiting on the books to arrive. Love the part about indigenous nations. We are Cherokee and live within the Cherokee Nation so I'm excited for him to learn and explore more as part of a curriculum.

Hope you're having a great year! Would love to get an update how your curriculum picks are working out for the kids.

Please keep us updated with Japanese. My son is learning Spanish with Homeschoollanguages and it has him speaking but they don't plan on making a Japanese one anything soon. So far I just got talk box mom but I'm not loving it and I need more open and go.

@RegularSecularMama How is this going? Are you still happy with it? I'm thinking about trying it with my daughter.

Thanks for sharing. i like how you used the pdf for multiple kids that i have .

Thanks for sharing your space. I always love seeing how everyone organizes. Wishing you guys a great new homeschool year!

I am the same way, if I have something stored away I forget about it and it doesn’t get used. Loved watching you get organized!

I love all your organization!

It’s good not to have homeschool stuff stored in other spaces. I have some books that are from my older kids in the garage waiting for my younger kids to be old enough for them.

Is it a butler kitchen? I had one in a vintage apartment I used to live in. LOVED it!

🤦🏻‍♀️ I just purchased the course before watching your video. That would have been a huge discount. But I’m excited for my daughter to try it out.

What’s the reading/writing curriculum your son is using? Is it Writing with skill? Also, your kids are adorable. “Omg these people are so weird.” 😂 You guys look like you’re having so much fun.

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I loved every moment of this. Your kids seem awesome! Thanks for sharing. Hope y'all have a great year!!

Watching from South Africa, wrapping up 3rd term and exhausted. I can't wait for summer holidays. Enjoy your new homeschool year.

I get nervous too leaving my kids home alone, even though we (my husband and I) are only going to the store and back or to a sale and back. We are usually only gone for 15 - 20 minutes, but still, it makes me nervous. My oldest is 13 so I figured it was about time to see if they could get along on their own for a few minutes. Plus, she is getting to the age where she could babysit if she wanted too. They have our cell numbers, and they know where the emergency numbers are if something were to happen. Testing the waters as they get older.

Do you know if there is any way to make Notion cheaper to homeschool families? I have a middle schooler and a high schooler, and $30/month seems awfully high. Thank you.

I have a binding machine and it really helps..I have MUS divided by unit which helps for many reasons.

Thank you for this video. Were the instructor manuals for MCT worthwhile?

Thanks for the video. My daughter will be in 3rd grade, and I have been on the fence about LL. The sample unit on their website only shows poetry, which I thought looked pretty good, but I wanted to know more about the literature units. My other idea was to find novel studies on Teachers Pay Teachers individually. I was also excited about the integrated writing with LL, but from your description, I think I'll look for something else.

Great video. Do you know of any science or history curriculum set up like think well?

Has anyone tried both MCT and AOPS Language Arts? Which did you like better and why?

Wow ! Thanks. I like adding educational games , puzzles etc . They learn so much easier. Just not always easy to find

Thanks for this video! It was very well-done and answered most of my question. Plus the bonus was getting the discount code for the curriculum. However, I have a few questions: (1) How "about" long did it take you r daughter to complete a lesson? (2) Is it possible to just use the teacher's notes to teacher the lessons? My kids dislike video lessons but I love the option of having a back up teacher for days when I can't teach math.

👋👋👋👋Hello back!! I love how you left in all the interruptions!! LOL. The struggle is real! I must have said "Me too!" like 15 times while watching this! 🤣 I'm going to be using Homeschool Planet next year! I have a video coming out soon on it! I'm really excited to share about it. Thanks for joining today. It was nice to catch up with you!

My son sounds similar to yours! What really helps him is setting reminders/Routines on the Alexa dot. We have it remind us to do our morning responsibilities, school times, and even meals. He even sometimes tries to get those things complete before it even goes off. Really enjoy the feature

lol…wouldn’t be a true homeschool mom chat without multiple interruptions 😂

My 5 year old son was just diagnosed with AuDHD level 2 in Feb. We have been working with therapists and his healthcare team to help with the explosive and aggressive behavior. My favorite thing to have him do is go out to the yard and run tree to tree 10 times. He loves it, gets energy out, and it helps my mental health. During the winter I have him take a scoter up and down the hallway.

I feel the big bang😅😅😅 Thanks for sharing

We have had to limit audiobooks to after school for the same reason. Both of my sons have DX of ADHD, which is definitely a contributing factor. I really relate to this as my children are highly challenging.

I have planned a video on neurodiverse learning tips. I myself am neurodiverse and so are 4 of my children. This definitely sounds familiar to our household ❤❤

I love build your library too! Emily is so great and all of her curriculum is amazing. I do have a friend in Florida who does homeschool evaluations. She’s on RUclips too ❤

I love build your library too! Emily is so great and all of her curriculum is amazing

Oh my goodness! Moving is huge! Especially to a different state ❤

Yay!! Thank you for sharing! ❤❤❤

Oh my goodness this is awesome!!! Thank you for posting this. This is what I was curious about. This makes a ton of sense

Great tip! Thanks for sharing.

I'm with you regarding social media. Other than RUclips, I don't use any other. Glad you are back -- you were one of the few secular homeschool moms I found/watched before I started homeschooling.

Looks like a great year ahead! Funny coincidence, my oldest is learning French and my middle daughter is learning Japanese. I have no idea why they choose them either. LOL Thanks for sharing!

I'm trying to keep things simpler this year as well! The same thing happens to us with taking too much time off. Looks like you guys have a great year lined up. Thanks for sharing!

My son has been doing Japanese on Duolingo for a few months and is also wanting more for his 8th grade year. I plan to get him Japanese from Zero. It has a book, youtube videos and there is an optional online subscription you can purchase. I have been eyeing them for a few years and they seem to be what most people recommend for homeschool Japanese lessons.

How did you do the template part at 10:36?? where the list is hidden until you click on it? I love this. I wouldn't want you to give us the template just explain how you did it so we can use the pieces that we want.

I had no idea about the online Getty Dubay worksheet resource! Thank you so much for sharing that!

I love that you have your kids cook! It's such an important skill, and it often gets overlooked, imo.

Thanks for explaining the Lit Log so simply! Do you have a video on Thinkwell Math? If not could you make one, please and thank you?

Ive thought about trying her lit logs too, its a great idea.

Well Trained Mind Academy online classes. We are doing French 1A with them this year.

Great video as always! Busuu and Ouino are our go toos for French! Neither is really a "class" style with video lessons though. Ouino doesn't really have videos per-se but the audio is really well done. Busuu has some videos of native speakers but what sold us on it is every few lessons there is a writing/speaking kind of review. It gives you a prompt and you either write or speak your response in French or whichever language you're learning. Once complete you submit it and real people who also use the Busuu app/website that are native speakers for that language comment and correct your text or speech. Granted you don't always get super in depth corrections but we've been using it for over a year and have found we get helpful responses much more often than non-helpful responses. It's very similar to Duolingo with daily streaks, leaderboards, etc. if your kiddo likes those aspects but it just has a lot more features that really help promote learning/retention in comparison to Duolingo.

That really sounds like it would flow very well after IEW SSS!!! What a fantastic way to group everyone together

Ohh we just finished iew sss 1A and have 2A ready to roll