The author is a youth pastor and made a play at his church and they encouraged him to make it into a book so he teamed up with a great illustrator and made it happen. There’s a sweet video on it somewhere on RUclips about it. It has been so delightful to read with my kids.
Loved this! I appreciate how you asses combining them for certain books. And the tip of using audiobooks - I think I’ll be doing a lot more audiobooks next year.
Yes, I was initially so confused why I would read 3 different chunks of a book for all our levels, say parables from nature. It tripled my workload to do that, so out of desperation and necessity we chose one kiddos year for certain books and all read those chapters together. Made a huge difference in this being a doable year for us! And audiobooks are 🤩. It’s created so much more independence for my year 3 this year who needed me to read everything. Hope you have a great upcoming year!
I’m thinking about do some of year 2 readings. Mostly literature and geography. I didn’t really enjoy the literature curriculum we did this year and the geography was ok. I love the books listed on AO so hopefully we get to read some of those
Sounds like some of these might be a good change for you! It’s so nice AO makes their book choices free so we can pick and choose what we want to use instead of having to pay to see the book selections. Very thankful for that!
Hi there! New to your channel and needing some advice I have a 10 yr old and an 8 yr old and according to some suggestions I should start a grade or level down if we have never used charlottes methods. am I right in thinking I should do year 2 and year 4? How would you approach history if we have not covered much of what I am seeing in year 1 should I just plan on doing history from year 1?
I think year 2 and 4 sounds like a good plan! You’ll probably be reading 100% of the year 2 books out loud, and possibly a good chunk of the year 4 books (at least initially, until you find you can slowly start handing certain ones over to your 10 year old to read). Our first year doing AO was also our 1st year doing the Charlotte Mason method of narration. We held off doing any written narrations that first year with my year 4, and only did oral narrations (till the last few weeks of school). This took off the pressure of writing until narrations were normal to us and easy to do orally. I got that advice to from Karen Glass in Know and Tell, and found it to be spot on. Def read her whole book before starting as narration is a cornerstone of this curriculum and way of learning! Also, jump into whatever history year they’re in, don’t go back and try to fill in extra because it’ll overwhelm them with too much info. They’ll start making connections with the people in their books in whatever year they’re in. Also, don’t be afraid to postpone some subjects for the first term, or even first year if you need. We ditched Plutarch and foreign language for my sanity of figuring out this new way of doing school. Or, you could aim for doing less of a subject (example one Shakespeare play per year instead of 1 per term). Good luck and be sure to check out my year 4 book stack video to see what books are covered! You got this.
Free Read -Five Children and It is a fabulous audiobook and was one of our favorites for the year!
Thanks for the suggestion!
My hubby is reading this to our kids before bed. He’s loving it. A lot of the free reads he does with them. 🤍
For Shakespeare I highly recommend How to Teach your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig and puppets. It has been such a hit with my kids.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Definitely get the poetic retelling of pilgrim progress also. It’s so good!!
I’ve never heard of a poetic version! Thanks for commenting about that.
The author is a youth pastor and made a play at his church and they encouraged him to make it into a book so he teamed up with a great illustrator and made it happen. There’s a sweet video on it somewhere on RUclips about it. It has been so delightful to read with my kids.
It looks like a lot of good books! We are about to start year one and are excited!
Year 1 books are 🤩 and so excited for you to connect over them with your kiddo!
Loved this! I appreciate how you asses combining them for certain books. And the tip of using audiobooks - I think I’ll be doing a lot more audiobooks next year.
Yes, I was initially so confused why I would read 3 different chunks of a book for all our levels, say parables from nature. It tripled my workload to do that, so out of desperation and necessity we chose one kiddos year for certain books and all read those chapters together. Made a huge difference in this being a doable year for us! And audiobooks are 🤩. It’s created so much more independence for my year 3 this year who needed me to read everything. Hope you have a great upcoming year!
Highly recommend Otto of the Silver Hand, for your Robin Hood sub 😊
Thanks for that suggestion! I actually own it (maybe it was on the free read list or something?) and haven’t ever read it so we may do that.
I’m thinking about do some of year 2 readings. Mostly literature and geography. I didn’t really enjoy the literature curriculum we did this year and the geography was ok. I love the books listed on AO so hopefully we get to read some of those
Sounds like some of these might be a good change for you! It’s so nice AO makes their book choices free so we can pick and choose what we want to use instead of having to pay to see the book selections. Very thankful for that!
@@LizBlueandHazel yes I love that it’s free
Great video!
Thank you!
There is a modern version of Parables that one of the women in the Ambleside group created.
I didn’t know that, thanks!
Hi there! New to your channel and needing some advice
I have a 10 yr old and an 8 yr old and according to some suggestions I should start a grade or level down if we have never used charlottes methods. am I right in thinking I should do year 2 and year 4?
How would you approach history if we have not covered much of what I am seeing in year 1 should I just plan on doing history from year 1?
I think year 2 and 4 sounds like a good plan! You’ll probably be reading 100% of the year 2 books out loud, and possibly a good chunk of the year 4 books (at least initially, until you find you can slowly start handing certain ones over to your 10 year old to read). Our first year doing AO was also our 1st year doing the Charlotte Mason method of narration. We held off doing any written narrations that first year with my year 4, and only did oral narrations (till the last few weeks of school). This took off the pressure of writing until narrations were normal to us and easy to do orally. I got that advice to from Karen Glass in Know and Tell, and found it to be spot on. Def read her whole book before starting as narration is a cornerstone of this curriculum and way of learning! Also, jump into whatever history year they’re in, don’t go back and try to fill in extra because it’ll overwhelm them with too much info. They’ll start making connections with the people in their books in whatever year they’re in. Also, don’t be afraid to postpone some subjects for the first term, or even first year if you need. We ditched Plutarch and foreign language for my sanity of figuring out this new way of doing school. Or, you could aim for doing less of a subject (example one Shakespeare play per year instead of 1 per term). Good luck and be sure to check out my year 4 book stack video to see what books are covered! You got this.
@ thank you so much. This is comforting and helpful. Will def check that one out as well.