Thank you for sharing! I missed your videos and homeschooling updates!!! Would you be able to share how you assign your children school work in journals? I like this idea and am interested in implementing it in our school. We used planners for kids, but I want to try something new. I would greatly appreciate your advice and tips on how to start journal planning to encourage independence 🤍
Absolutely! That is a wonderful question. I am so sorry it has taken me so long to get to your comment. I realize it would be better to see a visual and I will try to get a video up very soon to show you, but here is generally what I do. (1) Before each week (usually over the weekend), I look over our plan for the week and write down a list of subjects that the child will be doing each day of the week. The list is similar each day, but if we have music lessons or something, they may have less. (2) I go look at each subject on the list (e.g. pull out the math book for math), and write down the specific pages or activity that they have to do that day. For group subjects, I am normally not specific. This gives us flexiblity to adjust each week as needed. (3) For my oldest, I started giving her subjects that I assign to "this week" which gives her flexibility (and responsibility) to decide when in the week to get those subjects done. I usually add that she needs to have them done by 2pm on Thursday or Friday, depending on the week. I hope that is somewhat helpful!
@juliaathome thank you SO MUCH for your reply!!! That sounds wonderful, and I will try implementing this system this year!! I appreciate your time and thorough explanation!!! You are truly missed here on RUclips. Have a blessed school year!!! You inspire me 🌟
Why study Latin? I did in 10th grade in the 1980s, and I was miserable. My native language derives from Latin, so it should have been easier, but no. The same with Ancient Greek in 11th grade, but that was an elective, Latin wasn't.
That's too bad that you had a bad experience with latin. I think curriculum and teachers can make a big difference, so I tried to find one that is clear and fun. I am choosing to have my children study latin for a couple of reasons. (1) The first is grammar - learning the grammar for latin helps to learn it for English and I am not making her do a separate grammar curriculum while she is doing latin. (2) Secondly is for vocabulary. There are many English words that derive from latin, and many of the tests required to get into universities here test students on vocabulary, so hopefully that will help them do better on those tests (and just have a better vocabulary). (3) Third is to give them a foundation to learn a modern foreign language. Even if they do not chose a language derived from latin, learning about conjugations and other aspects of grammar should make it a little easier. Of course, learning latin is not necessary to have a great education, so I am not judging anyone who does not chose to or does not have the opportunity to study it. But I do feel like it is a benefit to my children's education, so I chose to teach it to them. I hope that answers your question!
@@juliaathome Thank you for your answer, I see it from the other side, I'm a native bilingual Spanish/Portuguese and also speak French, all the vocabulary and verb forms and all that were already in my DNA, but the declensions weren't, and I found them a pain in the **.
Thanks for your review, I actually purchased this a few years ago and haven’t gotten to it yet, you inspired me to start printing for next year!
That's great! I hope you enjoy it! I am currently printing out book 2!
Thanks! We’re using this next year.
Oh, I hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for sharing! I missed your videos and homeschooling updates!!!
Would you be able to share how you assign your children school work in journals?
I like this idea and am interested in implementing it in our school.
We used planners for kids, but I want to try something new.
I would greatly appreciate your advice and tips on how to start journal planning to encourage independence 🤍
Absolutely! That is a wonderful question. I am so sorry it has taken me so long to get to your comment. I realize it would be better to see a visual and I will try to get a video up very soon to show you, but here is generally what I do.
(1) Before each week (usually over the weekend), I look over our plan for the week and write down a list of subjects that the child will be doing each day of the week. The list is similar each day, but if we have music lessons or something, they may have less.
(2) I go look at each subject on the list (e.g. pull out the math book for math), and write down the specific pages or activity that they have to do that day. For group subjects, I am normally not specific.
This gives us flexiblity to adjust each week as needed.
(3) For my oldest, I started giving her subjects that I assign to "this week" which gives her flexibility (and responsibility) to decide when in the week to get those subjects done. I usually add that she needs to have them done by 2pm on Thursday or Friday, depending on the week.
I hope that is somewhat helpful!
@juliaathome thank you SO MUCH for your reply!!! That sounds wonderful, and I will try implementing this system this year!! I appreciate your time and thorough explanation!!! You are truly missed here on RUclips. Have a blessed school year!!! You inspire me 🌟
Why study Latin? I did in 10th grade in the 1980s, and I was miserable. My native language derives from Latin, so it should have been easier, but no. The same with Ancient Greek in 11th grade, but that was an elective, Latin wasn't.
That's too bad that you had a bad experience with latin. I think curriculum and teachers can make a big difference, so I tried to find one that is clear and fun. I am choosing to have my children study latin for a couple of reasons.
(1) The first is grammar - learning the grammar for latin helps to learn it for English and I am not making her do a separate grammar curriculum while she is doing latin.
(2) Secondly is for vocabulary. There are many English words that derive from latin, and many of the tests required to get into universities here test students on vocabulary, so hopefully that will help them do better on those tests (and just have a better vocabulary).
(3) Third is to give them a foundation to learn a modern foreign language. Even if they do not chose a language derived from latin, learning about conjugations and other aspects of grammar should make it a little easier.
Of course, learning latin is not necessary to have a great education, so I am not judging anyone who does not chose to or does not have the opportunity to study it. But I do feel like it is a benefit to my children's education, so I chose to teach it to them. I hope that answers your question!
@@juliaathome Thank you for your answer, I see it from the other side, I'm a native bilingual Spanish/Portuguese and also speak French, all the vocabulary and verb forms and all that were already in my DNA, but the declensions weren't, and I found them a pain in the **.