What We're Doing With Unfinished Ambleside Online Readings At The End Of The Year
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2024
- If you’re ready for summer but not going to finish all the Ambleside Online scheduled books, you’re not alone! We will end our year with about 5 weeks of unfinished materials...which mainly impacts my year 4. Here I’ll share 3 ideas for ending the year with unfinished books, and which one our family will be doing.
I will be going through book by book to see what I'll cut from each child's year (we have a year 1, 3, and 4 this year). Any that we will finish into summer will be read at their own pace and without narration. A few from the younger years I'll roll into a family read aloud, also without narration.
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I just discovered your vlog and it is so refreshing! Thank you! Keep the encouraging and honest content coming if you can. ❤️
Thank you for sharing so much about the flexibility that people should have when approaching Ambleside Online. I feel like I have seen so many mothers comment on forums online about Ambleside and acting like they have to robotically
I think it is important to note that CM scheduled far less reading than AO does. We switched to CMEC (which follows the PNEU scheduesl) from AO and I was shocked at how light the timetable readings were. Then the lighter literature, biographies etc are read are leisure reads, on weekends or 'holidays'. So I feel so much better about the 4 years we used AO and being swamped with books, although they are great books, it is a LOT of reading.
This was a wonderful video! Thanks for sharing your experience. I agree with your choice on how to end the school year on a flexible note. Our children need to have that leeway for the greater good of enjoying their education.
Great plan! Finish the ones you like! ❤ We don’t follow the full curriculum, but I do pull books from the list. My daughter will be reading Wind in the Willows (mostly just for fun), Abigail Adams and Robinson Crusoe this Summer! She’s currently in 4th, but we use Sonlight HBL E and the readers. So this will just be frosting on the cake. 😊
This is so helpful for me and I only have one who is starting Y1! Can you please make a video on how you're able to balance all of this in addition to housework with a toddler running around? I only have one homeschooler but its so hard to entertain our 18 month old during school time!
I'm going to make you feel much better about not finishing some of the reading from term 3: both my year 5 and year 6 are just about finishing term 2 before our summer break!! 🥴😝🥰 Life happened, other interests were followed, and that's life!! We will start our next school year in term 3. ❤❤ It sounds like you have a great plan! Have a great summer!
For us, we use the last 2-3 weeks to finish up books. So we will cut out anything that isn’t our unfinished books. And then read them daily until finished. Sometimes we will pick one book and read a few chapters each day until it is finished, then move onto the next one. Or we would read a chapter of each one a day until they are all complete.
This is our first year with AO (y3 and y5) as well and I'm anticipating having a few weeks left undone. Our plan is similar to yours, choosing our favorite books to continue as free reads without worrying about narrations. I'm hoping it helps us have a feeling of completion while not weighing us down during a time when we'll need the break (expecting baby #3 during that time). It does put my mind at ease seeing someone else doing the same thing!
So helpful! We had a few we were partially through that will be free reads this summer. I feel like having multiple years going is a bit full and I need a break just as much as my kids do.
Thank you for this video, I’m hesitating about Ambleside Online and CMEC when we start formal education so have been following people’s journey on both curriculums.
Abigail Adams was MY favorite year 4 book, but not my kids'. 😁
I'd love to hear what books were your children's favorites.