Can I just say how excited I am for this new resource you’re working on!! I have four kids from 12 to 2. My oldest is self led but likes a guided resource for her day but she picks what she’s interested in. For example she’s into Vikings(Danes) and Saxons so she’s reading and watching things on that. I’m using a delight directed journal for her. We definitely like interest led and independent.
Just finished up Home Education by Charlotte Mason and now I’m reading For The Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay so I’m into all the Charlotte Mason things right now. My oldest is in Preschool and we used The Good and The Beautiful curriculum but after researching homeschool styles we’ll be switching to Charlotte Mason. Feeling inspired by this video! 😄
I am soooo interested in the Charlotte Mason inspired curriculum guide. My 5 year old will be 6 in August so anything geared toward kindergarten and first grade is helpful. There are a few things that I will even be using from this video that are exactly what I was looking for for Family devotions. And I love the idea of abridged versions of classics because it’s actually hard for me to even get into classics. So thank you! This was very helpful!
Trial and Triumph we have been reading through this year, and it is so good. I really like how it goes through all of church history in a short amount of time. An excellent history book Ambleside recommends is Our Child’s History. Our kids have really enjoyed that one.
Oh! I have a book rec for you in a similar vein to Lee Strobel - written by a cold case detective, “Cold Case Christianity” spends half of each chapter with example cold cases he worked on, and then the 2nd half applying the principles of cold case detectivery to the Resurrection. It was so good! And they have a kids version that we’re going through with our 2nd/3rd-ish grader. I bet you would love it since you love mysteries! They’re by J Warner Wallace. He was not religious, not raised religious, and started investigating from disbelief as an adult.
I am really excited about using your poetry booklet in our homeschool for our next term! That author of Poem for Every Day/Night of the Year has a Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year. I did it myself last year, and look forward to reading through it with my kids some day.
I am a retired science teacher and would highly recommend Theodore Gray’s book The Elements for your son working on the periodic table. The photography and layout for each element is stunning and it makes the elements come alive. I gave a copy to my 10 year old grandson last year and he loves it.
Sounds like a great plan!! My oldest is 10yo and sounds so similar to your son, so I always love to hear what you guys are reading! We’re using Build Your Library Level 5 for my 10yo and the readers she schedules have been awesome! He just finished Krista Kim Bap and that was a great one! He also loved A Wolf Called Wander and Sees Behind Trees. We also just finished Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus together and we both loved that one!! You can go on her website and see all the readers/literature she schedules if you’re ever looking for more ideas!! Also her Level 3 schedules Story of the world 3- so that could be worth looking into because she always ties in amazing literature to history!! And then she has copywork/dictation/narration for each book!
0 seconds ago Thank you for sharing, looks like a lot of great books. For “The Swiss Family Robinson” there is an unabridged version available from Generations Curriculum that has the original Christian principles in it that have been removed from some of the more recent printings. After they read the kid version and are ready for the unabridged I definitely recommend going with that one. They also have a lot of other older Christian classics that they brought back into publishing as well.
Yes, very interested in your Charlotte Mason resource! We've been pulling some books from AO as well and just trying to change how we do some things. I have a 2nd and 5th grader!
My rising 7th grader will be reading The Phantom Tollbooth and The Hobbit next year. I am trying to figure out how to weave Trial and Triumph into our morning basket next year, ands we used the Indescribable devotional (it’s in the same series as the science devotional you showed) last year. I guess great minds think alike! 🤷🏼♀️
I just decided to do "Trial and Triumph" too...and I am starting out by reading it with our Bible time (which we do while eating breakfast). I don't know if it will work yet since we are currently on break BUT my hopes and plans.
I am very much interested in your CM resource! My kids are 14, 11, and 8. We've always followed a CM style in our homeschool, puling resources from various places. It is a lot of work, which I don't mind doing, but having a resource to help simplify and make it easier sounds fantastic!!
Oh I miss the 5th grade years! I currently have 7th-10th graders and the time is just plugging along. Thanks for sharing so that others can learn from you. 🌻
I've just been reading Whole Hearted Education too! For Shakespeare and Nature study we are using Under the Home online. We are using science 2nd grade (it's divided by grade but i think you could just choose topically as well 2nd grade: animals, 3rd: flowers? 4th is trees?...) and I also think it just sort of happens too.... I am trying to have a more Charlotte mason homeschool as well and trying to start a together time. How do you set expectations with your kids? Do you give them a checklist, an explanation beforehand, consequences for not doing it....? I'm trying to figure out what to require, how much and then how to expect those things from my kids. Also love your drag and drop idea! I've been trying to do that for my kids; this year i will have two kindergartners, a seven year old doing 1st and 2nd grade work and an 8 year old doing 3rd and 4th grade work, so trying to figure out what should be combined or independent or just my big kids...
First off I think our daughters have very similar interests! Also, you can still do nature study without prep or plan. Head outside find a spot, sit quietly for 3-5 minutes and notice whatever you can. Then talk about it with one another. Either bring sketchbook or when get home sketch something you saw in as much detail as you can! Also, don't you love when God arranges things so that "it just so happens to match." Oh my word, I love Phantom Tollbooth! I'm not sure why more people don't share about it! There is a great audio version of Pyle's Robin Hood that helped us get through it. I also struggled with reading it aloud, but we loved it on audio. Lego Shakespeare sounds amazing, but we do love Lamb's version- PS creepy image for that one :D Ours is a bit more child friendly image. I love Swiss Family Robinson because it's basically a cumulative of bedtime stories a father made up for his children. Also the part where one of the boys is like can I stay alone on the whale island and play Robinson Crusoe, and the dad is so relatable you can almost hear him sigh as the father explains their whole life is like Robinson Crusoe :D It cracks me up every time.
Yes, that's exactly the kind of nature study I plan on doing, nice and low key and just fitting it in when works! I'm just reading Tales from Shakespeare from the Kindle so there's no actual cover. 🤣
Definitely interested in Charlotte Mason inspired book- curriculum/homeschooling/ideas/ videos whatever you come up with. We are a relaxed Charlotte Mason sometimes unschooling family...but always "relaxed". I have a 11, 9, 6, and 3 year olds. I was already planning on using your preschool program with my 3 year old next school year (24/25). I will have a 5th/6th grader, 3rd grader, a 1st grader, and a preschooler (I plan to do 2 years of preschool and maybe 2 years of Kindergarten...I don't like pushing too fast in the younger years).
My oldest is 11 and between grades (4&5 and up to 6th in her reading)...but our Spring/Summer plans: 1. I want her to finish her math. We took a break and used Khan academy for a month or so to build a more solid base in her division...so now I just want her to finish her math book. She is Using "Math Lessons for a Living Education level 4" 2. She has one last required reading book to finish: "The Swiss Family Robinson" and she us not halfway yet. She reads it on her own and also when I ask she reads portions aloud to me and we discuss vocabulary. 3. She will continue her copy-work & light Grammar work via "Fix it Grammar" during the summer we do "Fix-it Grammar" the old version and we are still on "Nose tree" which is fine with me. 4. We will finish writing her one big paper of the year. She has the body paragraphs finished. We need to polish them up and write the intro. & Conclusion. My next oldest is 9 and pretty firmish in grade 2. Her reading is slow but steady. 1. We will continue our reading. We have bounced around ALOT with reading programs. We are back to one I tried and wish I stayed with. It comes from "Under the home" website. You can use online for free but I chose to order the book version because I like physical books. It is called, "Elementary Phonics" (fondly called the blue book). It is a 3 year program and it also uses the McGuffey Revised readers. So she will continue with this combo. It is the best thing that has worked for us. 2. For her math...I might pause her math and just do some review stuff or I might just continue till end of June. I haven't decided. She is doing Easy Peasy math and started Level 3 recently. 3. She will continue her "Fix it Grammar" as well. She isn't as far as her sister but good practice for her. My son is 6. We will continue his math (we use Easy Peasy math) and reading type practice in the blue book. He has some copy-work we do based on our scripture memory work. All his stuff is very game based so I feel like it isn't a burden...just fun. My 3 year old wants to do stuff...so I have some dry erase books she tinkers with. Our Group work is: 1. Reading: "From Sea to Shining Sea" for kids. It has questions at the end of each chapter. We have been enjoying this God-centered exploration of American history 2. We are also listening to the 4th book in the Wingfeather Saga 3. We do Mad libs 4. A family walk each day 5. Fridays my plan is to take off for just going outside- doing some nature study - being in God's creation ❤ 6. We study whatever they have an interest in Science. Lately that has been ocean-themed. We did Orcas last time we touched on it. We use DK books and National Geographic for kids books that I have owned for years PLUS you-tube. No real schedule when it comes up...we do it. This will change next school year ...but for now an unschooling approach. That is my plans...
For 8th grader, she writes notes, a summary or something that jumped out at her. She spends her free time writing stories so I'm not really concerned about writing with her. With my 5th grader we mostly do oral narration, he struggles with dyslexia and dysgraphia so doing it orally helps a lot.
We have A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories (amzn.to/3TWzfO7), we haven't read through yet but it's in the same series as the Dickens one we are enjoying.
Marcia Williams has two Shakespeare books in comic form. My kids really like her books (we have done her Egyptian Tales, Her Elephant and Friends one with Indian Folktales, and Her Canterbury Tales. I have her Shakespeare coming in the mail. I want to get back into doing Shakespeare 👍
Can I just say how excited I am for this new resource you’re working on!! I have four kids from 12 to 2. My oldest is self led but likes a guided resource for her day but she picks what she’s interested in. For example she’s into Vikings(Danes) and Saxons so she’s reading and watching things on that. I’m using a delight directed journal for her. We definitely like interest led and independent.
Your oldest sounds just like my oldest!
Just finished up Home Education by Charlotte Mason and now I’m reading For The Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay so I’m into all the Charlotte Mason things right now. My oldest is in Preschool and we used The Good and The Beautiful curriculum but after researching homeschool styles we’ll be switching to Charlotte Mason. Feeling inspired by this video! 😄
I am soooo interested in the Charlotte Mason inspired curriculum guide. My 5 year old will be 6 in August so anything geared toward kindergarten and first grade is helpful. There are a few things that I will even be using from this video that are exactly what I was looking for for Family devotions. And I love the idea of abridged versions of classics because it’s actually hard for me to even get into classics.
So thank you! This was very helpful!
Trial and Triumph we have been reading through this year, and it is so good. I really like how it goes through all of church history in a short amount of time. An excellent history book Ambleside recommends is Our Child’s History. Our kids have really enjoyed that one.
Who is Our Child's History by? I can't seem to find that one.
@@IntentionalHomeschooling oh it’s called A child’s History of the world by Vm Hillyer
Oh! I have a book rec for you in a similar vein to Lee Strobel - written by a cold case detective, “Cold Case Christianity” spends half of each chapter with example cold cases he worked on, and then the 2nd half applying the principles of cold case detectivery to the Resurrection. It was so good! And they have a kids version that we’re going through with our 2nd/3rd-ish grader. I bet you would love it since you love mysteries! They’re by J Warner Wallace. He was not religious, not raised religious, and started investigating from disbelief as an adult.
I am really excited about using your poetry booklet in our homeschool for our next term!
That author of Poem for Every Day/Night of the Year has a Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year. I did it myself last year, and look forward to reading through it with my kids some day.
Oh, I didn't realize she had a Shakespeare one too, how cool, I'll have to look into that!
I am a retired science teacher and would highly recommend Theodore Gray’s book The Elements for your son working on the periodic table. The photography and layout for each element is stunning and it makes the elements come alive. I gave a copy to my 10 year old grandson last year and he loves it.
We've gotten that one out from the library a few times, this year may be the time to purchase it!
Sounds like a great plan!! My oldest is 10yo and sounds so similar to your son, so I always love to hear what you guys are reading!
We’re using Build Your Library Level 5 for my 10yo and the readers she schedules have been awesome! He just finished Krista Kim Bap and that was a great one! He also loved A Wolf Called Wander and Sees Behind Trees. We also just finished Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus together and we both loved that one!! You can go on her website and see all the readers/literature she schedules if you’re ever looking for more ideas!! Also her Level 3 schedules Story of the world 3- so that could be worth looking into because she always ties in amazing literature to history!! And then she has copywork/dictation/narration for each book!
I like some of the Build Your Library stuff and enjoy her RUclips channel!
Cold Case Christianity for Kids and the others in the series are great too. They have video lessons too.
Oh cool, I had no idea about the video lessons!
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Thank you for sharing, looks like a lot of great books. For “The Swiss Family Robinson” there is an unabridged version available from Generations Curriculum that has the original Christian principles in it that have been removed from some of the more recent printings. After they read the kid version and are ready for the unabridged I definitely recommend going with that one. They also have a lot of other older Christian classics that they brought back into publishing as well.
“I wrote up a schedule like a good Charlotte Mason homeschooler. “ 😂👀 I love hearing what you’re doing. 🥰♥️
Yes, very interested in your Charlotte Mason resource! We've been pulling some books from AO as well and just trying to change how we do some things. I have a 2nd and 5th grader!
My rising 7th grader will be reading The Phantom Tollbooth and The Hobbit next year. I am trying to figure out how to weave Trial and Triumph into our morning basket next year, ands we used the Indescribable devotional (it’s in the same series as the science devotional you showed) last year. I guess great minds think alike! 🤷🏼♀️
I just decided to do "Trial and Triumph" too...and I am starting out by reading it with our Bible time (which we do while eating breakfast). I don't know if it will work yet since we are currently on break BUT my hopes and plans.
I am very much interested in your CM resource! My kids are 14, 11, and 8. We've always followed a CM style in our homeschool, puling resources from various places. It is a lot of work, which I don't mind doing, but having a resource to help simplify and make it easier sounds fantastic!!
Oh I miss the 5th grade years! I currently have 7th-10th graders and the time is just plugging along. Thanks for sharing so that others can learn from you. 🌻
I've just been reading Whole Hearted Education too! For Shakespeare and Nature study we are using Under the Home online. We are using science 2nd grade (it's divided by grade but i think you could just choose topically as well 2nd grade: animals, 3rd: flowers? 4th is trees?...) and I also think it just sort of happens too.... I am trying to have a more Charlotte mason homeschool as well and trying to start a together time. How do you set expectations with your kids? Do you give them a checklist, an explanation beforehand, consequences for not doing it....? I'm trying to figure out what to require, how much and then how to expect those things from my kids. Also love your drag and drop idea! I've been trying to do that for my kids; this year i will have two kindergartners, a seven year old doing 1st and 2nd grade work and an 8 year old doing 3rd and 4th grade work, so trying to figure out what should be combined or independent or just my big kids...
Yes the schedule planner sounds amazing! I have boys in K,3rd,5th and 6th.
First off I think our daughters have very similar interests! Also, you can still do nature study without prep or plan. Head outside find a spot, sit quietly for 3-5 minutes and notice whatever you can. Then talk about it with one another. Either bring sketchbook or when get home sketch something you saw in as much detail as you can! Also, don't you love when God arranges things so that "it just so happens to match." Oh my word, I love Phantom Tollbooth! I'm not sure why more people don't share about it! There is a great audio version of Pyle's Robin Hood that helped us get through it. I also struggled with reading it aloud, but we loved it on audio. Lego Shakespeare sounds amazing, but we do love Lamb's version- PS creepy image for that one :D Ours is a bit more child friendly image. I love Swiss Family Robinson because it's basically a cumulative of bedtime stories a father made up for his children. Also the part where one of the boys is like can I stay alone on the whale island and play Robinson Crusoe, and the dad is so relatable you can almost hear him sigh as the father explains their whole life is like Robinson Crusoe :D It cracks me up every time.
also I have a chart on my blog that I use for planning my kids school years and doing videos next month walking through how I do my own thing for CM 😉
Yes, that's exactly the kind of nature study I plan on doing, nice and low key and just fitting it in when works!
I'm just reading Tales from Shakespeare from the Kindle so there's no actual cover. 🤣
Definitely interested in Charlotte Mason inspired book- curriculum/homeschooling/ideas/ videos whatever you come up with. We are a relaxed Charlotte Mason sometimes unschooling family...but always "relaxed".
I have a 11, 9, 6, and 3 year olds. I was already planning on using your preschool program with my 3 year old next school year (24/25).
I will have a 5th/6th grader, 3rd grader, a 1st grader, and a preschooler (I plan to do 2 years of preschool and maybe 2 years of Kindergarten...I don't like pushing too fast in the younger years).
Book rec for you - Enhanced. For your son - Imaginary Veterinary Series!
Enhanced by Candace Kade? I read that one last week and enjoyed it!
New subscriber, love your ideas. We love Learn Math Fast too.
My oldest is 11 and between grades (4&5 and up to 6th in her reading)...but our Spring/Summer plans:
1. I want her to finish her math. We took a break and used Khan academy for a month or so to build a more solid base in her division...so now I just want her to finish her math book. She is Using "Math Lessons for a Living Education level 4"
2. She has one last required reading book to finish: "The Swiss Family Robinson" and she us not halfway yet. She reads it on her own and also when I ask she reads portions aloud to me and we discuss vocabulary.
3. She will continue her copy-work & light Grammar work via "Fix it Grammar" during the summer we do "Fix-it Grammar" the old version and we are still on "Nose tree" which is fine with me.
4. We will finish writing her one big paper of the year. She has the body paragraphs finished. We need to polish them up and write the intro. & Conclusion.
My next oldest is 9 and pretty firmish in grade 2. Her reading is slow but steady.
1. We will continue our reading. We have bounced around ALOT with reading programs. We are back to one I tried and wish I stayed with. It comes from "Under the home" website. You can use online for free but I chose to order the book version because I like physical books. It is called, "Elementary Phonics" (fondly called the blue book). It is a 3 year program and it also uses the McGuffey Revised readers. So she will continue with this combo. It is the best thing that has worked for us.
2. For her math...I might pause her math and just do some review stuff or I might just continue till end of June. I haven't decided. She is doing Easy Peasy math and started Level 3 recently.
3. She will continue her "Fix it Grammar" as well. She isn't as far as her sister but good practice for her.
My son is 6. We will continue his math (we use Easy Peasy math) and reading type practice in the blue book.
He has some copy-work we do based on our scripture memory work. All his stuff is very game based so I feel like it isn't a burden...just fun.
My 3 year old wants to do stuff...so I have some dry erase books she tinkers with.
Our Group work is:
1. Reading: "From Sea to Shining Sea" for kids. It has questions at the end of each chapter. We have been enjoying this God-centered exploration of American history
2. We are also listening to the 4th book in the Wingfeather Saga
3. We do Mad libs
4. A family walk each day
5. Fridays my plan is to take off for just going outside- doing some nature study - being in God's creation ❤
6. We study whatever they have an interest in Science. Lately that has been ocean-themed. We did Orcas last time we touched on it. We use DK books and National Geographic for kids books that I have owned for years PLUS you-tube. No real schedule when it comes up...we do it. This will change next school year ...but for now an unschooling approach.
That is my plans...
Trial & Triumph is also available as an audiobook on Everand (Scribd). I know you've said you guys use a lot of audiobooks. ❤️
What do they do with what they’ve read? I noticed the check box for “notes”. I’m curious what that means, and how you go about composition.
For 8th grader, she writes notes, a summary or something that jumped out at her. She spends her free time writing stories so I'm not really concerned about writing with her.
With my 5th grader we mostly do oral narration, he struggles with dyslexia and dysgraphia so doing it orally helps a lot.
Can you do a review / flip through learn math fast?
Do you have any suggestions for an easier version of Shakespeare? I was leaning towards the Usborne version but not sure.
We have A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories (amzn.to/3TWzfO7), we haven't read through yet but it's in the same series as the Dickens one we are enjoying.
@@IntentionalHomeschooling that's perfect and it's cheaper 🙂 Thank you
Marcia Williams has two Shakespeare books in comic form. My kids really like her books (we have done her Egyptian Tales, Her Elephant and Friends one with Indian Folktales, and Her Canterbury Tales. I have her Shakespeare coming in the mail. I want to get back into doing Shakespeare 👍