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Aww that’s great to hear!! I hope it works well for you- it’s the only thing keeping me organized this first week of school 😂😅

It really is! I’m very Type A, but I also love when things are aesthetically pleasing, and Trello fulfills both of those requirements for me! 🥰🥰

Thank you so much! Amazon has the large bucket of White Clay: amzn.to/4dqyh4Q - but none of the other colors. However, Walmart sells the other buckets with different colors! 🥰 I will say that I prefer the white clay because the other colors stain the girls hands. So we use them sparingly and then paint the white clay models they make, after they dry!

I try my best 😂

I’ve heard such great things about these books! We have enjoyed some of Mary Pope Osbornes other books, so we are excited for next years Ancient History!

Thank you so much! I’m glad it was helpful! I actually created them via a template on Canva and customized it to what I needed for our spines 🥰. I can definitely attest to the sturdiness of the cardboard magazine holders! They are better than even I was expecting!

Hi there! My girls and I really enjoy doing this Spanish curriculum together. 3rd grade is the perfect age to use this program. Also, I have heard testimonials from other moms with kiddos in middle school, where their older learner enjoyed the program alongside their younger sibling too, but I can't personally attest to that since my girls are 5 and 7 years old. I think it depends heavily on your older learners learning style and personality, but overall I could see this program being a good fit for a middle schooler, if you also incorporate a writing component to beef it up for them! :)

I got it from littleschoolofsmiths.com - she has great units! We are doing her American Girl History Units this year for history!

Thank you for sharing about the CZcams read alouds! That’s a great option to help keep the cost down for this curriculum! I was honestly shocked too by the price of Kayas world. Especially when I was able to find all the other girls world books for anywhere between $7-$15. I hope you and your girls enjoy the curriculum! We are 2 weeks into Kayas unit and loving it! 🥰

@@MaryBarfield the videos aren’t the same has holding the book though. If that makes any sense! Lol But on the days we have appts or something we can download the videos and listen to them in the car!!

@@MandyLou82 definitely makes sense! I prefer to have a book in my hand personally, but it’s nice to have the option of CZcams readalouds ☺️

Thank you so much! For the artist study, we are using AmblesideOnline! And we use pompoms as a way to reward good behavior and once they fill up their jar with pompoms, they get to pick a ticket from my mason jar. I created the tickets in Canva with special treats on them, like “Lunch date with Mom”, or “Pool day” or “30 extra minutes of tv”.

Thank you! 🥰

Thank you! We are still pulling some of the geography specific books from Torchlight Level K and incorporating them into Build Your Library level 0. But we chose to use Build Your Library’s level as our main curriculum because it was more cohesive than TL, with all its subjects, surrounding the country/region you are learning about that week. 🥰

I love those types of videos too! Gives me so much motivation! 🥰

It’s from the Blossom and Root Grade 2 LA 🥰

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Thank you! It's such a great manipulative for learning how to tell both digital and analog time! I got it through TEMU last summer, but I don't buy through them anymore and Amazon doesn't sell this specific model. However, I found one very similar on Amazon if you do not want to buy through TEMU: amzn.to/3SqCsFB

Thank you! You are absolutely correct and it's nice to be able to just close the doors and not look at it! lol

I’m glad the video was helpful for you! 🥰

I’m glad Dimensions is working for him! 🥰

That's so awesome that you have kept all your original boxed sets! We are using a set curriculum from Little School of Smiths. It's technically 8 individual unit studies that are 4 weeks long (1 unit study per girl), but if you do them back to back in chronological order, it creates a full year's American History from 1760s-1950s (technically 32 weeks altogether). I have a video I did on the curriculum that you can watch for more details: czcams.com/video/-o-k130g9Yo/video.htmlsi=UWTwiW2uj08w1RTM

@@MaryBarfield Thank you so much!

The group is called “AmblesideOnline” - they are on a temporary hold at the time of me writing this for the day. Im not sure if that affects it’s search-ability? But by tomorrow you should be able to gain access!

Thank you! I’m glad it was helpful and I hope you and your boys enjoy the curriculum! 🥰

😂😂 I can’t function without organization 😅 so I’m the same way! I kept the flashcards in the box because at the beginning of each lesson, we will review previous lessons cards for 2-3 minutes and I didn’t want to have to flip back and forth through the page protectors in the binders to find the right cards. Im able to keep them organized in the box in a way that lets me seamlessly pick up with where we left off in our previous lesson 🥰

@@MaryBarfield ahh! Make more sense. Thanks for another great tip. Please keep making videos they are very helpful ❤️

Thank you! 🥰 We haven’t started to do formal vocabulary yet - but I encourage the girls to ask me if they don’t know what a word means and we talk about it right there in the context of the reading which helps them understand the meaning better. I review the definition of the word and then explain it further in the context of the passage/story we are reading 🥰

That’s wonderful! I’m glad he enjoyed it! What age is he? I think if my 6 year old was writing full sentences more fluently she would have enjoyed the lap book more (and it would have been less work on me 😅).

@@MaryBarfield He's 7, he did mostly pictures/ drawings or copy work from the book. He's writing sentences with help, not independently.

@@victoriasbooktalks8882 omg that would have been a much better idea - to have the girls draw pictures of their narrations/answers to the lap book questions! Maybe I’ll give them a second chance and adjust expectations of work! Thank you! 🥰

😂 I’m glad! 🥰

Yes! Thank you! The girls loved the series!

@@MaryBarfield Fyi, my daughter is a very advanced reader, but I listened to a few chapters of unabridged Little Women with her and it quickly became obvious it was going over her head. This was even after she had seen the show and was familiar with the plot and characters.

That’s good to know and makes me feel more confident in reading the classic starts version this time around (we will visit the original version when they are older) 🥰

@@MaryBarfield Reading the abridged doesn’t mean you are skipping for the unabridged, it means you are preparing for the unabridged! 🥰

@@BearBettermentSchool exactly! 🥰

Thank you 🥰 we certainly did our best to lift everyone’s spirits and enjoy the rest of the summer!

Thanks girl! I know, this summer went by way too fast 😅 but at the same time, the girls and I are so ready to get started on this next year. Especially since it’s just been way too hot/muggy out for us to enjoy being outside for long periods of time so we need something else to do lol. Thank you for your kind words about Baxter (my dog) - we miss him terribly but know it was the right time for him and he’s no longer in pain. 😔

I noticed that too when I was deciding to do the curriculum so I’m glad I was able to create this video for others! I hope you enjoy the unit study with your learners!

Wonderful! That will definitely be coming up as soon as I solidify my plans (probably once I have a few weeks of this school year under my belt) 🥰

Yay! I glad you found the video helpful! I hope y’all enjoy the unit as much as we did! 🥰🥰

You’re welcome! I’m glad it was helpful!

It’s quite possible it was you! I went back through my comments and realized I had multiple people recommend ASO 😂 I’m so excited to read paddle to the sea with my girls this upcoming year! I pre read it and I think they will really enjoy it! I’m really enjoying delving into Charlotte mason as well and feel like I have found “my place” and a good balance with CM and Well Trained Mind! 🥰

Lol I feel you could do both for a whole year! Especially since guest hollow has so many great literature options to pull from! I’m looking at them for future American history curriculum options! Have you used GH before? If so, did you enjoy it?

Oh thank you! I’m glad you are enjoying it! 🥰 let me know if there is anything in particular, you would like to see in a future video!

Oh thank you so much! It has become a very cozy and special space for us! 🥰

Aww thank you! I’m so glad you found the video helpful and I hope you and your learners enjoy it as much as we did! 🥰

We are actually doing the American Girl Units in chronological order this school year (we actually started last week) to create a whole US History curriculum! We also have the space unit too! I would say for Me and my Amazing Body the Age could be brought up to late elementary/early middle school with the addition of the Human Body Theater book and other more advanced spines!

@@MaryBarfield That is super helpful, thank you! Do you plan to use the space unit next year?

@@TheJonesClan6182011 we are doing blossom and roots level 0 science which is a space study this school year, so we probably won’t do that unit study from little school of smiths.

It was included in the files section of the AmblesideOnline Facebook group! Since it’s someone else’s personal creation I didn’t feel comfortable linking to it, but if you join the ASO Facebook group yo y will have access to it! 🥰

It’s funny how many of us are out there! Some of starting fully with classical and others with Charlotte Mason but we all end up meeting in the middle with different blends of both 🥰. Glad there are others like us!

Yes! Our plan is to do Biology for the Grammar stage from Elemental Science for the he 25-26 school year! I’m actually quite excited about it 😂. If we hadn’t already set our hearts on learning about Space this year I would have done for this coming school year!

@@MaryBarfield I just discovered them and made the switch already. So glad I stumbled upon your channel. Thank you.

It sounds like your son is similar to my daughter! She turned 6 right before the beginning of her 1st grade year and is exceptionally bright, which is why I thought Singapore would be a great fit for her. But personally, for her, it just didn't connect well, which is funny since Math with Confidence does, and it's mental math, mastery based, and Singapore based! All the same as Singapore Primary, but Math with Confidence approached it in a way that seemed gentler, but was quite rigorous. MWC is a program that challenges students, but in a fun way that is age appropriate. I think your best bet would be to check out the samples on welltrainedmind.com of Math with Confidence and maybe try out a lesson or two with your son! Unfortunately Singapore doesn't provide much in the way of sample so you can't really try that out unless you have a friend who has it? Hopefully trying out MWC will give you an idea of what direction you should go in for your son! :)

So true! We went through a similar set of phases where slowly over last year we were spending more time on school, not because we were overloading ourselves, but because we were having fun learning more and following "rabbit trails." I think this year should be a gentle transition year of adding in my youngest more, because she will only be doing phonics and her 10-15 minute lessons from Math with Confidence. So, at most I will be doing 20-30 minutes of one-on-one time with my soon to be 5 year old (during which I plan to have my oldest do some independent work from her curriculum or her independent reading or the Kahn Academy Kids App). I'll keep you posted in my updates if I come up with a better system! lol