Love it: Logic of English Foundations, Beast Academy, Blossom and Root 0 Art, Blossom and Root River of Voices, Curiosity Chronicles, Lightning Literature, Exploring the World through Story Leave it: Trying to use Torchlight as a main curriculum and not as add ons/extensions. Trying to do everything in Torchlight K in kindergarten. Trying to combine Torchlight/Build Your Library/Blossom and Root 🤦♀️
OK you’ve sold me on Michael Clay Thompson! My oldest is 5 so we got a couple years but I’m excited to try it one day! Love it: Math-U-See for my 5 year old, Preschool subscription box for my 3 year old, Mystery Science, and Cultured kids!
Love it: Denison Algebra’s pre-algebra Leave it: Attempting to secularize the Good and the Beautiful Language Arts. So we ditched that in October and found a good mix with Teachers Pay Teachers novel studies and Essentials in Writing along with Evanmoor language arts workbooks.
@@MakingEverydayMagic I did buy it and we may use parts of it but with going into 7th grade I may need to continue my eclectic mush mash. I love what I have seen of it so far.
I’ve been thinking about MCT because of your reviews for some time now, but that breakdown of Language Arts cost via Timberdoodle PLUS the rewards you’re seeing in your kiddos AND how to make it easy to use… by golly, I’m sold! Love it: Mystery Science!!! Absolutely love. Still having so much trouble finding an additional secular curriculum to pair with it for upcoming 4th grade, but glad we have ONE THING that we’re happy with. Leave it: History Quest! Maybe. I can’t really find an alternative we love. Just not loving the stories other than the History Hops. Still on the fence and definitely thinking about at least trying the other levels if we can’t find a replacement.
@@MakingEverydayMagicAbsolutely! Excited for that! Plus my toddler may one day use the Poodle series so it would be nice to really see what it’s all about 😁
Thanks for this review of MCT. I was researching language arts for next school year and came across MCT, but their website seemed so confusing. I will spend some time going back to check it out this curriculum.
1st grade Love it: Explode the code, reading books like Frog & Toad Just meh: CLE math, Building Writers (from handwriting w/o tears), Evan Moor Spelling Leave it: Literally everything else was a disaster: B&R Science K (space), mashup of B&R/Torchlight Around the World, Singapore Math, and random bits and bobs of things we tried.
Love it: Core Knowledge We use Geography & History, ELA and Science from them[we don't always do all the parts] and love it. We have loved everything we've used from CK this year. I've loved the LA Learning strands to teach not only reading but spelling. Kiddo has learned a lot. Leave it: Other than ELA and Math I don't want to use the same curricula all year. We like doing units where we can switch it up learning different things maybe we don't feel like learning about mammals right now lets do a unit on simple machines and come back to this later. I don't want to be trapped with the same reader for half the year. We're over Composer/Artist studies and have switched gears to diversify our music/art History studies.
Yes! We love Core Knowledge! We dabbled in a few units last year for kindergarten and my goal this year was to really use it fully for first grade. It's been great! We love jumping around to different topics and not sticking with one thing for the whole year like some other curriculums have you do. My daughter has learned so much and made so many connections between seemingly unrelated topics.
Hey… Thanks for the video! We used timberdooodle kits too and we love them… I feel kind of the same way about Discover science as you do so We just started sassafras science. Which is fun and will use it starting this week and through the summer, And see how it goes… I just ordered Mosdos for my third grader, and we love it so far… How do you think it would pair with Michael clay Thompson (we have the poodle level). And my daughter is wanting to get away from so many workbooks. She can’t stand language smarts and we are almost done with word roots. Do you think Mosdos and MCT would complement each other or would it be too much?
I think they could pair well. I'm going to link the videos I have on both to give you an idea on how we have used the programs. I do have a new poodle vid coming next week.
Love it: Nicole the math lady for Saxon 8/7 and all the well trained mind academy live classes!! Leave it: blossom and root history and as much as I do love CkLA I need to leave it for some time before I can go back to it.
Thank you for this video!!! I'm curious, which 2 levels did you do in one year? And did you use and go through all the books in each level that year? Also, I too am a Timberdoodler, so if I did Poodle this year, could I not do Language Smarts, Daily 6 Trait Writing and Beginning Word Roots? Or would I still need all 3 of those with Poodle? Question for your upcoming Poodle video: Do you think Poodle is beneficial or easily skipped? Thank you again for all of your insight and help navigating this home school life!
Island & Town levels. If you want to use Poodle, you could easily add it with those. In my experience with all of these products, I chose to not do another year with those and Mosdos and chose Island level for my oldest instead. You can skip the level easily. We used Poodle as a family read aloud long before my youngest was expected to do any activities in it. I also take the wild approach to not force writing early. We did the daily 6 and all the kit things....and it just wasn't for us. This video talks through my first 2 levels of MCT
Hi, I’m fairly new to your channel so you might’ve made a video about this already, but so far I haven’t found one… do you recommend any other LA curriculum that is more affordable and still does a really great job? Thank you so much.
We've personally used All About Reading, First Language Lessons, Word Roots, All About Spelling, and Mosdos. My favorite for early is AAR and later is MCT. It really does depend on the grade level needed. If you haven't, check out Hearth & Story!
@@MakingEverydayMagic thanks so much. I’m preparing for my soon to be 2nd grader. I think I figured out what I want to do for spelling/writing so just needing to figure out what to use for reading/language arts. Are those other ones you’ve mentioned able to be used as in all in one or do I need to supplement?
I have twins in Kinder Love It: Math With Confidence, Exploring the World Through Story (A), All About Reading, Zaner Bloser Handwriting, Little School of Smiths unit studies (Space, Human Body, Geography). Leave it: Blossom & Root Science (Space)…was too long (we don’t love spending a whole year on one subject) just so boring! Rooted in Language Pinwheels…was a beautiful program but just too many moving parts and things to prep for my brain,
Love it EIW, Mr D Math and Mosdos Press. Leave it Pandia Press RSO Bio 2 and History Odyssey Middle Ages. I think that it would be great for high school but it is a bit too much for middle school.
@@MakingEverydayMagic thank you, just watched this one too, I didn’t know this :) . I hadn’t heard of ‘faith neutral,’ so Bookshark is faith neutral but not secular? Secular means no Christian teaching? Interesting. We use Sonlight science, and I don’t see any faith or Christianity in any of the books used, but there are notes in the Instructor Guides though. I have looked at Bookshark’s 3 week samples and they use the same books, Usborne, but don’t have the Christian notes in the guides. I’d be genuinely really interested in learning more on this if you are happy to share. Always enjoy your videos and all your content,
Faith neutral in science usually means that they aren't addressing creation, big bang, or evolution. Not necessarily that they are or aren't mentioning God. They just avoid teaching things that would be in contrast to Christian teachings.
@@MakingEverydayMagic I see. Thanks so much for sharing this. I can see why faith neural isn’t that great an option, if it omits talking about the creation or anything that could be in opposition, missing great chunks of information. Thanks again for coming back and commenting, I’m learning, 😃
Not mastery based. It goes through everything every year but with increasing complexity. I would evaluate the placement. If your learner: Still learning to read: Poodle Reading to learn: Island Good sentences but not paragraphs: Town Good paragraphs Not essays: Voyage I will be sharing our use of Voyage level next Wed so that might be helpful.
We did not. I feel like it's enough. I think we tend to want to do a ton based on our public school counterparts. The focus is on a well written sentence but there are writing assignments in the instructor manuals. Every chapter of Sentence Island has writing assignments. I will be back with Town level again next year. I will add a spelling (AAS) and that's it.
@@MakingEverydayMagicVery true. This is my second year teaching and I should’ve went with my gut and did MCT from the beginning, but the price and lack of script spooked me. I’ll trust his process. Thanks for the advice.
That cost😬 but, then I did the math and it isn't grossly more than all the things I would use in its place. So it isn't like 0-100, it's more like 75-100.
I would love to hear what your love it and leave it are! What piece is it? Give me your why!
Love it: Logic of English Foundations, Beast Academy, Blossom and Root 0 Art, Blossom and Root River of Voices, Curiosity Chronicles, Lightning Literature, Exploring the World through Story
Leave it: Trying to use Torchlight as a main curriculum and not as add ons/extensions. Trying to do everything in Torchlight K in kindergarten. Trying to combine Torchlight/Build Your Library/Blossom and Root 🤦♀️
That sounds like a lot! Glad you found your center.
OK you’ve sold me on Michael Clay Thompson! My oldest is 5 so we got a couple years but I’m excited to try it one day!
Love it: Math-U-See for my 5 year old, Preschool subscription box for my 3 year old, Mystery Science, and Cultured kids!
Oooh these are some of my faves!!!
In depth mct vids coming next week!
Love it: Denison Algebra’s pre-algebra Leave it: Attempting to secularize the Good and the Beautiful Language Arts. So we ditched that in October and found a good mix with Teachers Pay Teachers novel studies and Essentials in Writing along with Evanmoor language arts workbooks.
Check out Hearth & Story if it's the right range for your learner.
@@MakingEverydayMagic I did buy it and we may use parts of it but with going into 7th grade I may need to continue my eclectic mush mash. I love what I have seen of it so far.
🥳🥳 I'm all for the mush mash!!
I’ve been thinking about MCT because of your reviews for some time now, but that breakdown of Language Arts cost via Timberdoodle PLUS the rewards you’re seeing in your kiddos AND how to make it easy to use… by golly, I’m sold!
Love it: Mystery Science!!! Absolutely love. Still having so much trouble finding an additional secular curriculum to pair with it for upcoming 4th grade, but glad we have ONE THING that we’re happy with.
Leave it: History Quest! Maybe. I can’t really find an alternative we love. Just not loving the stories other than the History Hops. Still on the fence and definitely thinking about at least trying the other levels if we can’t find a replacement.
In-depth MCT vids coming Monday & Wednesday if you want more of an inside look.
@@MakingEverydayMagicAbsolutely! Excited for that! Plus my toddler may one day use the Poodle series so it would be nice to really see what it’s all about 😁
Thanks for this review of MCT. I was researching language arts for next school year and came across MCT, but their website seemed so confusing. I will spend some time going back to check it out this curriculum.
I will have 2 reviews on it coming up next week, poodle and Voyage levels.
Yes, please show us more poodle and how you use it!!!
Guess what?!?!? NEXT WEEK!
@@MakingEverydayMagic Oh, good! I need to know what other people are doing with the exercises in Poodle.
@@MakingEverydayMagic you are the freakin best!!!
1st grade
Love it: Explode the code, reading books like Frog & Toad
Just meh: CLE math, Building Writers (from handwriting w/o tears), Evan Moor Spelling
Leave it: Literally everything else was a disaster: B&R Science K (space), mashup of B&R/Torchlight Around the World, Singapore Math, and random bits and bobs of things we tried.
Frog & Toad!! ❤️❤️❤️ love the addition of your meh list!
Love it: Core Knowledge We use Geography & History, ELA and Science from them[we don't always do all the parts] and love it. We have loved everything we've used from CK this year. I've loved the LA Learning strands to teach not only reading but spelling. Kiddo has learned a lot.
Leave it: Other than ELA and Math I don't want to use the same curricula all year. We like doing units where we can switch it up learning different things maybe we don't feel like learning about mammals right now lets do a unit on simple machines and come back to this later. I don't want to be trapped with the same reader for half the year.
We're over Composer/Artist studies and have switched gears to diversify our music/art History studies.
Thanks for sharing!!
Yes! We love Core Knowledge! We dabbled in a few units last year for kindergarten and my goal this year was to really use it fully for first grade. It's been great! We love jumping around to different topics and not sticking with one thing for the whole year like some other curriculums have you do. My daughter has learned so much and made so many connections between seemingly unrelated topics.
Hey… Thanks for the video! We used timberdooodle kits too and we love them… I feel kind of the same way about Discover science as you do so We just started sassafras science. Which is fun and will use it starting this week and through the summer, And see how it goes… I just ordered Mosdos for my third grader, and we love it so far… How do you think it would pair with Michael clay Thompson (we have the poodle level). And my daughter is wanting to get away from so many workbooks. She can’t stand language smarts and we are almost done with word roots. Do you think Mosdos and MCT would complement each other or would it be too much?
I think they could pair well. I'm going to link the videos I have on both to give you an idea on how we have used the programs. I do have a new poodle vid coming next week.
ruclips.net/video/bkOVgczpDDQ/видео.html
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Great! Thank you so much!!
Happy to help! Beyond poodle, I do think you'll have to decide between MCT and Mosdos.
Love it: Nicole the math lady for Saxon 8/7 and all the well trained mind academy live classes!! Leave it: blossom and root history and as much as I do love CkLA I need to leave it for some time before I can go back to it.
Remind me what CKLA is please.
Thank you for this video!!! I'm curious, which 2 levels did you do in one year? And did you use and go through all the books in each level that year? Also, I too am a Timberdoodler, so if I did Poodle this year, could I not do Language Smarts, Daily 6 Trait Writing and Beginning Word Roots? Or would I still need all 3 of those with Poodle? Question for your upcoming Poodle video: Do you think Poodle is beneficial or easily skipped? Thank you again for all of your insight and help navigating this home school life!
Island & Town levels.
If you want to use Poodle, you could easily add it with those. In my experience with all of these products, I chose to not do another year with those and Mosdos and chose Island level for my oldest instead. You can skip the level easily. We used Poodle as a family read aloud long before my youngest was expected to do any activities in it.
I also take the wild approach to not force writing early. We did the daily 6 and all the kit things....and it just wasn't for us.
This video talks through my first 2 levels of MCT
ruclips.net/video/AjclGESaCi4/видео.html
Poodle video is going up this time tomorrow so check it out and see how it would fit for your plans.
@@MakingEverydayMagic Thank you so much! This really helps. Looking forward to the Poodle video tomorrow 😀
Hi, I’m fairly new to your channel so you might’ve made a video about this already, but so far I haven’t found one… do you recommend any other LA curriculum that is more affordable and still does a really great job? Thank you so much.
We've personally used All About Reading, First Language Lessons, Word Roots, All About Spelling, and Mosdos. My favorite for early is AAR and later is MCT. It really does depend on the grade level needed. If you haven't, check out Hearth & Story!
@@MakingEverydayMagic thanks so much. I’m preparing for my soon to be 2nd grader. I think I figured out what I want to do for spelling/writing so just needing to figure out what to use for reading/language arts. Are those other ones you’ve mentioned able to be used as in all in one or do I need to supplement?
Each does their piece of it, so All About Reading does reading and so forth
I have twins in Kinder
Love It: Math With Confidence, Exploring the World Through Story (A), All About Reading, Zaner Bloser Handwriting, Little School of Smiths unit studies (Space, Human Body, Geography).
Leave it: Blossom & Root Science (Space)…was too long (we don’t love spending a whole year on one subject) just so boring! Rooted in Language Pinwheels…was a beautiful program but just too many moving parts and things to prep for my brain,
Thanks for sharing!!
Love it: the good and the beautiful L.A., Spelling U see, math u see, A.C.E Science
LEAVE IT: The good and the beautiful Typing
We love math u see and used spelling u see for a few years.
Love it EIW, Mr D Math and Mosdos Press. Leave it Pandia Press RSO Bio 2 and History Odyssey Middle Ages. I think that it would be great for high school but it is a bit too much for middle school.
Thanks for sharing!
Have you tried Bookshark Science? We use Sonlight Science and love it, and Bookshark is a non religious option. X
I recently did a video looking at science options. Bookshark doesn't look like it would be a good fit for us.
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@@MakingEverydayMagic thank you, just watched this one too, I didn’t know this :) . I hadn’t heard of ‘faith neutral,’ so Bookshark is faith neutral but not secular? Secular means no Christian teaching? Interesting. We use Sonlight science, and I don’t see any faith or Christianity in any of the books used, but there are notes in the Instructor Guides though. I have looked at Bookshark’s 3 week samples and they use the same books, Usborne, but don’t have the Christian notes in the guides. I’d be genuinely really interested in learning more on this if you are happy to share. Always enjoy your videos and all your content,
Faith neutral in science usually means that they aren't addressing creation, big bang, or evolution. Not necessarily that they are or aren't mentioning God. They just avoid teaching things that would be in contrast to Christian teachings.
@@MakingEverydayMagic I see. Thanks so much for sharing this. I can see why faith neural isn’t that great an option, if it omits talking about the creation or anything that could be in opposition, missing great chunks of information. Thanks again for coming back and commenting, I’m learning, 😃
Is MCT mastery based or (as a first time homeschool family) am I able to start my to be 5th grader with the voyager level?
Not mastery based. It goes through everything every year but with increasing complexity. I would evaluate the placement.
If your learner:
Still learning to read: Poodle
Reading to learn: Island
Good sentences but not paragraphs: Town
Good paragraphs Not essays: Voyage
I will be sharing our use of Voyage level next Wed so that might be helpful.
Do you use any other LA’s with MCT Town level? I hear it is not strong in its writing assignments and punctuation.
We did not. I feel like it's enough. I think we tend to want to do a ton based on our public school counterparts. The focus is on a well written sentence but there are writing assignments in the instructor manuals. Every chapter of Sentence Island has writing assignments. I will be back with Town level again next year. I will add a spelling (AAS) and that's it.
And punctuation is covered with the understanding of grammar.
@@MakingEverydayMagicVery true. This is my second year teaching and I should’ve went with my gut and did MCT from the beginning, but the price and lack of script spooked me. I’ll trust his process. Thanks for the advice.
The complete homeschool package does come with a "script" but..... I can't live that life so I scrapped it. 😅😅😅
That cost😬 but, then I did the math and it isn't grossly more than all the things I would use in its place. So it isn't like 0-100, it's more like 75-100.
hi, what's is that curriculum you leave it, discovery science you have a link i tried to find it!!thanks
i founded!!
Discover Science.