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Excellent, as always!

Im sorry but i didnt hear any examples of fluff to avoid.

Love your thoughts on education.❤

Great video! When you say you plan 6 weeks for unit studies, 4 weeks autodidact, and 6 weeks academics, do you do them in that order, or vary them out throughout the year?

This all wonderful advice! Thank you so much for sharing from your experience, wisdom, and heart. 🙏✨

Very encouraging, thank you!

I enjoy learning from your wisdom ❤

Thank you so much, I was literally confused about how to do phonics for elementary. ❤❤❤this is great

Thank you so so much for this video! You have no idea how much this has helped me. You are truly a blessing ❤

Thank you so much! Plan to watch again after the kids go to bed and take notes. I have been homeschooling for 10 years and am feeling overwhelmed with 5 officially school age. This is just what I need.

That “homeschool is not a circus…” quote made me giggle!! It’s so true though.

Mrs. Hayes thank you for this very helpful video. I know you're looking for ideas, so would you be able to do a video on how to put together a unit study and can you kindly explain a bit more on how the autodidact sessions work? God bless you and your family.

Mrs. Hayes, would you do a video on how to plan a unit study? Also, how do you do the autodidact session? Do you do give a guide? Thank you for this very valuable information. God Bless you and your family.

What age do you start Having your children read their own books?

Wow, THANK YOU!!

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What ages are you homeschooling in your home this year?

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Yes I would love a more detailed video on your autodidact.

You explain things so well! 😊❤

One thing , we have done, our entire HS journey, has been fun Fridays! We focus a lot more on interest led topics, playing educational games , baking , educational tv shows/movies , etc . As the kids got older, we were all reading different books , of our own choice . We had a “ book club”, where we would sit & drink decaf coffee or tea & share with one another what we liked & disliked about our books . This worked great if we were all reading the same book as well, but I discovered, it’s still so much fun when we are reading different books! We also had days where we would each get an encyclopedia , pick something random to read about, & share with each other . I think I need to start our “ book club “ & encyclopedia days, back up again!! 😊 It’s the most rewarding thing in the world, to get to bond with your kids ! To break up the monotony, sometimes, one of the kids will do the teaching on a subject ! That is really fun ! 😀

You are amazing !! Even though , I’m homeschooling older children, I gained valuable knowledge from your video. I had no u-tube, when I first started our HS journey . I was primarily dependent on God leading me daily ! I still depend on Him , however, these informative videos of yours, is a blessing & much needed encouragement ! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart !!! God bless you, sweet sis in Christ ❤ I look forward to all your videos and I have been watching your older videos, as well . 😊🌸💗

You are amazing !! Even though , I’m homeschooling older children, I gained valuable knowledge from your video. I had no u-tube, when I first started our HS journey . I was primarily dependent on God leading me daily ! I still depend on Him , however, these informative videos of yours, is a blessing & much needed encouragement ! My prayer is for God to help us get through Algebra 2, this year! We will spend the first part of the semester, reviewing Algebra 1. We took a big portion of the summer off . Normally, we do quite a bit of school during the summer. We REALLY needed the break this summer ! Thank you, from the bottom of my heart !!! God bless you, sweet sis in Christ ❤ I look forward to all your videos and I have been watching your older videos, as well . 😊🌸💗

Best homeschool planning video I have seen yet! Thank you Sherry 😊

Would love a video explaining autodidact! :)

Oh, this was exactly what I needed to hear today. Working at the child's pace. This is the key I have been missing. Thank you so much for sharing.

This videos has been really helpful!🙏

Do you happen to have the lists you created for your World Studies as a printout on your website?🙂

Jesus, thank you so much for this woman and the wisdom you’ve developed in her. Continue to give her strength to share and encourage the homeschool world. In Jesus name amen 🙏

Jesus, thank you so much for this woman and the wisdom you’ve developed in her. Continue to give her strength to share and encourage the homeschool world. In Jesus name amen 🙏

New video! Yay! 🎉

Love this. Thank you for the wisdom 🙏

Woah hold on a bit…. My ten year old is in 5th grade and he is about half way done in book one. Are you sure he should be in book 3??? I am so confused. And the math is just about 5th grade level too.

You are a treasure Sherry. 💖 In a world of buy, buy, buy it is refreshing to see what you have to offer and have done with free books.

Thank you!! I was looking at science curriculum... realizing the time consuming books weren't going to be worth the expense. Then I remembered Sherry and came back to rewatch ❤

I love the covers. Great work! I look forward to them.

Have you seen mystery of history? Would you recommend it?

At what age/grade level would you start going over history with your children? And would you recommend I start by just doing something like a read aloud using the autobiographies?

I love your guide and use it for book shopping when I'm out. Very excited for your planning video. I would love to know how you pair down I'm always doing too much and also have a hard time gauging how to challenge and not frustrate my kids. On another note, I've recently heard about a new curriculum that uses John senior's booklist called the Children's tradition and I was wondering your thoughts on the different education philosophies out there.

The Lord knew I needed this right now! I’ve been asking around on what to do for my child who needs third grade material since we can’t afford curriculum for now. I’ve been on your website some but I haven’t heard of all of these so thank you! Thank you for all your generosity, it’s truly a blessing! Please will you do another for upper elementary? This child I’ve been talking about can do a grade level in six months, reads whole big chapter books in a day, at most a week, and loves to learn all things! This child is extremely curious about everything so there is lots of questions and rabbit trails happening daily. It’s a lot to keep up with but I’m doing all I can to help her with the Lord helping me 😂

I've been so impressed by Heritage History. I print their books the same way as you, but use 2-hole punch prongs for the binding. Super fast and easy. Thank you for all of your free resources and recommendations! I have used almost all of them.

Could you use this for an older child? Struggling reader, spelling wasn't a priority until now.

I use all of your freebies. I am so thankful that you have made so much available to us for free, and I also do the composition books too. Thank you for sharing how to homeschool for cheap or free. Without it, some of us may not have been able to afford to homeschool. God Bless your lovely soul.

Thank you! ❤

Thank you for this video. So much good information, I am going to share with friends. Looking forward to the next one!

You have been such and inspiration and blessing to the home education community. A modern day pioneer of simplicity and strength in teaching our children even with tight budgets. Personally, I have found the best curriculums have been old time programs that were popular forever ago. A First Year in Number, Primary and Intermediate Language Lessons, McGuffey readers and so much more!

Thank you so much! This is SO helpful❤️❤️❤️ I’m looking forward to your next video on planning. 😊

Looking forward to the upper years resources. I'm well acquainted with your younger resources but would like to start preparing for the next phase.

THANK YOU 🙏🏼

Nearly all the books I am studying from are public domain. I do not have a good printer so I try to get quality reprints.