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Liz Blue and Hazel
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Welcome to my homeschool channel! I'm Liz, a stay at home mom of 4 kids. We have a 2nd grader, 1st grader, preschooler, and newborn. I share homeschool curriculum reviews, flip throughs, and our homeschool journey! I'm finding we are more eclectic homeschoolers, pulling resources from many different styles and curriculums. Get notified of new videos by subscribing and say hello in the comments!
4th Grade Homeschool Curriculum 2024 2025
Here's everything we're using for my 4th grader this year for homeschool curriculum! This is our 6th year homeschooling, and 2nd year using Ambleside Online as our main curriculum for history, science, geography, & literature.
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5th Grade Homeschool Curriculum Picks 2024-2025
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Here's our 5th grade homeschool curriculum for the 2024-2025 school year. We'll be mostly following the Ambleside Online book list for our science, history, geography. literature, and language arts. Math: We'll be changing our math this year from Singapore Math Primary 2022 to Math Mammoth! Language arts: Copywork, weekly dictation from All About Spelling level 3, one weekly written narration p...
Grade 4 Math With Confidence Overview & Flip Through
Просмотров 6762 месяца назад
See inside Math With Confidence 4 and how the instructor's guide flows with the student workbooks. It's very similar to the style of grade 3, with 3 pages per day of combined instruction/independent work, 144 lessons (including enrichment lessons), and daily spiral review. We have used all the levels of Math With Confidence and am so thankful for the ease of teaching, the interactive parts all ...
Daily Chores For Kids Ages 10, 9, & 7 With Free Canva Template
Просмотров 5042 месяца назад
Here's our daily chore/cleaning list for my kids and how I hope to take a few things off my plate! We needed some specific jobs for each kid (ages 10, 9, 7) and the summer is a GREAT time to practice. I was just randomly asking kids to do chores, and trying to remember who did what last. It wasn't working, and so we're spending the summer to get routines down that will help so much when the hom...
End Of Year Update Ambleside Online: What We We're Changing & What We Liked
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Here’s an honest update as we finish our first year using Ambleside Online with 3 kids. It was challenging, beautiful, frustrating at times, and full of beauty too. Come see what we liked, didn’t like, what we’ll keep or change, and if we’ll continue with it all next year. My biggest struggle was the amount of time it took us, and the amount of readings. It left us feeling little zeal for more,...
Grade 3 Math With Confidence End Of Year Review
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Here's my review of Math With Confidence Grade 3. We're finishing up the year and I'm amazed at the simple and yet solid math fact practice we've received using this curriculum. Kate Snow has made year 3 slightly differently than year 1 & 2, which I share in the video. It follows her same great style with a few slight changes to the "schedule" and goes from 2 to 3 pages/day...offering 1 additio...
Year 2 Ambleside Online Scheduled Books
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Here's an overview of Ambleside Online year 2 scheduled books! I try to give you a look inside the pages and share how often you'll read them. If you're looking for a literature based homeschool, Ambleside Online has incredible books scheduled for each year. They do their best to overlap many people and events within a time period. Join Blue and Hazel’s newsletter: bit.ly/blueandhazelnewsletter...
My Kids' Favorite (& Least Favorite) Ambleside Online Books Years 1, 3, 4
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Here's my kids' favorite and least favorite Ambleside Online books, as stated by them! I also share our most enjoyable read alouds this year as a family. One thing Ambleside Online has done for us is to get us reading so many incredible books. It's put a taste for quality literature in our home that wasn't there before. One set of family read aloud books I forgot to mention that held their atte...
What We're Doing With Unfinished Ambleside Online Readings At The End Of The Year
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If you’re ready for summer but not going to finish all the Ambleside Online scheduled books, you’re not alone! We will end our year with about 5 weeks of unfinished materials...which mainly impacts my year 4. Here I’ll share 3 ideas for ending the year with unfinished books, and which one our family will be doing. I will be going through book by book to see what I'll cut from each child's year ...
How To Make A History Timeline (Plus See Inside 3 Of Ours)
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Join my newsletter: bit.ly/blueandhazelnewsletter A history timeline is an awesome tool for kids to make connections of the people and events they are reading! In this video, I encourage you to make your own, and share step by step how we made ours (including what dates go on what pages!) At the time of this video we are using Ambleside Online with a 1st, 3rd, and 4th grader. I held off using a...
Beginning Written Narration With a 10.5 Year Old (Year 4, Ambleside Online)
Просмотров 4945 месяцев назад
Join Blue and Hazel’s newsletter: bit.ly/blueandhazelnewsletter In this video, I'll be sharing our experience beginning written narration with my 10.5 year old. This is the progression in a Charlotte Mason homeschool, going from oral narration to written narration and later on to composition. We began 1 written narration/week after doing 2 full terms (24 weeks) of oral narration only. I think i...
Our Math Manipulatives For K-4th Grade
Просмотров 8526 месяцев назад
See inside of my math manipulative box! I'll share our most used hands on math pieces for kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade. Most of our math manipulatives have been used on all 3 kids, with the majority of pieces used around kindgergarten and 1st grade to work on number sense and place value. Join Blue and Hazel’s newsletter: bit.ly/blueandhazelnewsletter Homeschool resource page: blu...
Year 4 Ambleside Online Books: What's Scheduled
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Here's a look at each of the scheduled year 4 Ambleside Online books. I prefer to have a physical copy of most all the scheduled reads, but you can also get some of these free online via the links on Ambleside's year 4 website, or find an audiobook to help with the reading. If you'd like to see book lists from other AO years, click the Ambleside Online RUclips playlist below. Links: Join Blue a...
Robin Hood Book Party Details: 3 Crafts & Snacks
Просмотров 2807 месяцев назад
Are you getting ready to have a Robin Hood Book Party or thinking about how to plan? Book parties are so special for kids. I try to plan something to eat and something to do. Music in the background related to the book is a big bonus! Here's a look at our table AFTER our book party! Details and links below. Join Blue and Hazel’s newsletter: bit.ly/blueandhazelnewsletter Links: Mini Bow and Arro...
Mini Bow & Arrow That Really Shoots: A Robin Hood Craft
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Here's how to make a mini bow and arrow out of popsicle sticks, floss, and Q-Tips! These actually shoot across the room and are safe for kids! My kids made a small target and love to try and shoot at it. We made these at our Robin Hood book party. Be sure to check out my other Robin Hood book party videos linked below! FTC Disclaimer: This video is not sponsored. Links marked with an asterisk (...
How To Make A Paper Robin Hood Hat
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How To Make A Paper Robin Hood Hat
How To Install Rivets For Crafting Using An Anvil & Setter
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How To Install Rivets For Crafting Using An Anvil & Setter
Oral Narration: How We Started With A Year 1, 3, & 4 In A Charlotte Mason Homeschool
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Oral Narration: How We Started With A Year 1, 3, & 4 In A Charlotte Mason Homeschool
How To Turn Iron On Patches Into Christmas Ornaments
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How To Turn Iron On Patches Into Christmas Ornaments
How to dry pinecones in the oven for Christmas crafts
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How to dry pinecones in the oven for Christmas crafts
Update End Of Term 1 Ambleside Online
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Update End Of Term 1 Ambleside Online
How to create a "Make Your Own" Yoto card (and how we use it with Ambleside Online)
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How to create a "Make Your Own" Yoto card (and how we use it with Ambleside Online)
Year 3 Ambleside Online Book Stack Overview
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Year 3 Ambleside Online Book Stack Overview
Christmas Ornament Handicraft Using Finger Knit Chain
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Christmas Ornament Handicraft Using Finger Knit Chain
Year 1 Ambleside Online Scheduled Book Stack
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Year 1 Ambleside Online Scheduled Book Stack
Lily & Thistle Watercolor Bird Tutorials Review
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Lily & Thistle Watercolor Bird Tutorials Review
Ambleside Online & Brave Writer Grammar Guides: Compatible or not?
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Ambleside Online & Brave Writer Grammar Guides: Compatible or not?
Ambleside Online Update: How The First 2 Weeks Went
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Ambleside Online Update: How The First 2 Weeks Went
How To Dye Hair With Kool-Aid (Permanent, Using Just Kool-Aid & Water)
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How To Dye Hair With Kool-Aid (Permanent, Using Just Kool-Aid & Water)
This was great! I’ve been watching your videos for awhile now and I really enjoy them and find them helpful 😊 Just subscribed
Love Year 5! My daughter is finishing term 3 of year 5. ❤
O awesome! Year 5 is off to a much better start than year 4, which was our 1st ever with AO. I think it takes a year to just learn this way of homeschooling through books and narrations!
Geography is one i was considering on combining as well.
Yes, I’ve wondered why it’s not already combined because it seems easy to do. Hoping it simplifies things!
Glad to hear your son enjoyed The Storybook of Science! I had read mixed reviews, but I’m excited to get into it now.
Yes, the problem is that there are some inaccurate pieces of info being an older book, especially on the chapter of mushrooms and venom. There’s a great google doc someone created with all the corrections in one spot. I’d just print that out and go over it with your child, or cross out the incorrect info and replace it with the correct info (listed in the google doc). Here’s the Storybook of Science corrections google doc I found for reference; docs.google.com/document/d/1AE-ye_by2xTRWx0SbNyuLvyUsD70ol57R2lNBMNAoas/mobilebasic
We do ENWC with our home ed group and I love the idea of doing a flower press book 🌺❤️ I'm going to try adding that to our outings. I also got a fun learning resources book to store our home ed memories as we meet up with our friends in a different location each week to play and learn together. Hope you guys have an amazing year. Xx
I like the home ed memories book idea! A friend of mine does that. She bought a huge planner that has extra space for pictures and they just print them on their printer.
Love your videos on this curriculum! I have been looking into Math With Confidence for my now grade 2 kids. I have noticed that it stops with grade 4. What do you plan on using after that? Thanks! 😊
Kate Snow is planning to create up to level 6! A new level has been released each June so June 2025 year 5 should be available. After year 6 I’m not sure where to go, but I think there will be lots of recommendations by then!
@@LizBlueandHazel oh that is awesome! I couldn't find that info so thank you so much 🙂
I’d try sibling time rotating playtime between your bigs with your little
Yes! Of all the things we've tried, that has worked the best and we'll lean into that more. I'd love to hear how other families have managed toddlers while homeschooling. Lots of patience.
We're an AO family too, Y3 and Y2 (plus 3 littles). The About Me book is a cute idea!
You will also be busy this year! Hope you have a great start!
I’m definitely going to look for the Grammar Land book, that sounds fun. I’m amazed how you can fit all those different subjects into your school day! Really impressive.
I think your kids would think Grammar Land is fun and silly! Also, we def don’t get to each subject each day! We just do a few reads daily, and the schedule seems to have 1 or sometimes 2 chapters a week of lots of these books. A slow drip, but lots of them at once. Hope you guys have a great year! What are y’all using? I’m amazed how you travel and homeschool.
Good call on changing math curriculums to value relationship over curriculum and to keep the peace Mama! Also love all the books 📚 🩵🩵🩵
Thank you, I’m so glad we switched!
So helpful!!!
Thanks so much for your videos! We're just a few years behind your family (my oldest is in 3rd grade). We're using AO for the first time this year and your videos have been a huge blessing as I figure everything out. We use and love Math Mammoth. Maria Miller (the author) posts videos that go with most lessons on the MM website. My son enjoys them - might be worth checking out.
Thanks for letting me know they’ve been helpful! Be sure to reach out if you want to see a future video on something too. Also, SO glad to hear you like Math Mammoth! I’ll look into her free videos, we haven’t used them yet as most of this is still review for him from 4th but I bet we’d use them as new material shows up. I am already so thankful we found this new math! My son can read the instructions and examples pretty well and if I have to step in to help, I’m also able to figure it out, unlike the Singapore Primary 2022 we were using.
My kids love the Grammar-Land book!!! They have been enjoying meeting the personalities of the different parts of speech. My kids are in 5th and 6th grade.
O yay glad to hear another good review of it! I think it’s so funny to read, and was thinking we’d go slowly…maybe a chapter a month. Hope you have a great start to 5th and 6th grade!
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If u dont have loon bands use ur bobbles cause it worked for me!😅
I don’t have a clip😭😭😭
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You are doing something good 🎄🎉
Thank you! I’ve used this all summer and think it’s been helpful!
Wow it is becoming nice
I am pregnant women😂❤
Very helpful, thank you!
I really enjoyed this video, thanks! We are using AO too but we went with the groups option which uses forms rather than individual years. I’m not sure what we’ll do when we have children aged in two different forms, as I love doing our readings together. Potentially I will just run two forms at the same time, removing some books from each to lighten the load. We’ll see 😊
Hope you love the group option! That seems like a good plan!
I just wanted to comment back on your post and let you know that I found some thing that is much easier for you to use and not harmful to your plastic If you would go to Walmart or Joannes and buy you a bottle of Dritz sewing machine oil. I am a long arm quilter and I use pan graphs and I use a dry race marker to mark the patterns and such on my Plastic the dryer race after being on here for a while if I don’t get back to finishing that quilt that day or the next is extremely hard to get off and I have tried everything that I know except for buying the chemical stuff that they make so I thought I would just try this Sewing Machine oil And it works perfectly. It all came off like brand new and this oil you can put a drop on your finger and smear it all over the numbers and then take a piece of cloth that it wipes right off clean as can be and if you have any issues with it might be poisoning or anything like that of course, you wanna keep it out of the reach of children and that sort of thing but you could also take a clean wipe and wipe them off for any residue that may be left over. Hope this helps you saves some &
Wow thanks for taking the time to circle back and share this. I haven't tried that, but so glad it worked and hope it helps others as well.
These end of the year videos are my absolute favorite type of homeschool videos to watch! I think its totally normal not to get through a curriculum in its entirety. I've been curious about AO. I've been following your videos on it. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! I like wrap up videos from others as well. Then I know they’ve had time to use something and critique it!
Can u Link the file folders
Thank you for your helpful review! Can you please share what online test you use for math benchmarking? Thanks so much!
It was Map testing via Homeschool Boss. If you google that it should pop up.
MOM I KNOW HOW TO MAKE BRACELETS!!!btw thanks you made my day
Thank you so much!
Hello ❤, do you mind me asking, what can you do with all the finished knitting besides bracelets, necklaces?
Thank you for jumping right into it. I clicked on three other videos before yours but they all took too long to get to the point
That was so hard. I didn’t my way it worked. How didn’t yours work?
Aww thx you helped me
Does MWC get less teacher intensive and more student independent in the older levels?
Simply put, yes. I spend more time and energy with my 1st grader than 3rd grader. Level 3 felt much less manipulative heavy than level k, 1, or 2. We didn’t have to use the 10 frame and set pieces on it for my 3rd grader like I was doing with my 1st grader. We didn’t have to set out and visualize place value using blocks and rods, because she understands that well now. So we saved time in those ways in later levels because the basics are down. However, there’s still some kind of activity daily, included in the 1st page of the student workbook. I found the visuals are so good on the page that we didn’t have to use hands on pieces much at all saving lots of time. Also, 2 of the 3 pages in their daily workbook were independent work/review. I’m hoping level 4 continues to launch them a bit while keeping the easy teaching style we all love!
My fingers are now purple :)
Im just always torn as well. Like isn’t it super important to let the kids have free time? At what age are they supposed to just hunker down and read more books?
I agree free time is so needed, even in later elementary school. I also see a tendency for inefficiency and dilly-dallying which can extend a 3 hour day to much, much longer. Also, transitions and interruptions add lots of time so it’s tricky to know how much time is actually spent doing school sometimes. 🫠
Are you planning on using Ambleside again this next year? Do you do dictation and copywork from the books? (Full Charlotte Mason language arts style?) I did Ambleside last year but then worried about my children’s writing and went to TGTB this summer but am missing all the reading! Though it does seem like a lot. I’m thinking of picking read alouds from Ambleside next year… 🤔
We will be doing it again! Not sure if you saw my end of the year wrap of video but I think I talk about some changes we’ll be doing next year using AO. We did do copywork from the books they were reading, as well as from the assigned poems/Bible verses in each year. I just printed off someone’s free pdf file from the Facebook group for year 3 and 4 and kids copied from that and eventually also from their books. For dictation, we did this via All About Spelling level 2 with my 4th grader. They have dictation sentences in there where he practices writing the new spellings, so we counted that as dictation though didn’t get to dictation each week. More like 2-3 times a month. 👌🏻 Your plan sounds good, or, you could do a less traditional Charlotte Mason year using lots of AO books (with or without narration) and a less Charlotte Mason style language arts using something else for that. Whatever you’re desiring is fine!
Thanks for your help!,,
I like beats better
I learned this so quick. thank you do muchm
Have you ever made one of those three big? Big jumbo bracelets. I’m just asking a question. It doesn’t matter if you answer or
Thank you for teaching me ❤
This is off topic but have you seen the beta version of The Children’s Tradition? I have often considered A.O but then I get overwhelmed but when I heard Amanda speak about the above curriculum and it sounded like a great alternative. I appreciate your review. *Bathroom art! 😂 I love this so much. Not to derail you but Queen Homeschool has such great science programs that involve nature in a simple and beautiful way.
I couldn't find anything on the beta version of The Children's Tradition when I googled it. Is it a new Charlotte Mason curriculum? Thanks for the science recommendation!
Thank you because my kids just came today. I have like a giant kid so I was like wait. Why do I have it if I don’t know how to do it and it was so so simple thank you because now you showed me how to make them
Thank you I learned how to make one now
I have 3 children. Does each child need their own set of cards and box?
Yes, that is what they recommend. I did see a blog post online of someone who made a system to combine kids into one box, but it made my head spin a bit. The extra box keeps it as simple as possible.
How do you do recitation with a Y1, who isn’t reading independently yet??
With a non reader, recitation can look a little more like "repeat after me" while memorizing a bible verse or poem until they can say it on their own from memory. The purpose of recitation isn't memorization but rather speaking clearly and often memorization just happens since you stay with the same piece for a while. You can do this with something short, or work on something longer over the year! To be honest, I didn't do recitation this year with my year 1. We dropped the ball there and will begin with him in year 2. We did do it with my older kids and I can see the value in it!
@@LizBlueandHazel that makes perfect sense! Thank you!
I think were going back to Math with Confidence. Needed to see 4th grade books! Thank you!
You’re welcome!
For the writing thing if you record the oral narrations in notebooks that gives a great keepsake without adding in more
Thanks for this idea.
thank you so much
My fingers hurt a lot
I have rubber bands to make bracelet too