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What do you use with a first grader?

I love it! I really want my kids doing checklists this year. Do your kids get screen time?

THANK YOU so much for providing the Canva template for your homeschool schedule. 💖 I’ll be homeschooling 7th, 4th, and kindergarten this year along with a 2 year old and 5 month old. 😅 I’ve been wrestling for a few months now wondering how I was going to be able to spread my time out and the visual color coding just helped me SO MUCH to figure that out. 🫶🏻 I am in love with the “sibling time” and I think it’ll work so much better than letting my 2 year old run wild all day while we try to get our studies done! ✅

Side note; I know sometimes Pitocin is necessary but in Kaiser they did not try anything else for me and didn't tell anyone it's a black box medication. Thankfully it didn't end up worse but I did have some significant side effects from that. If I could have been at home with a midwife or at least in another hospital I am convinced it would've been better.

I had both for my first, that's at least what I say though technically only the labor was partly epidural. They had to get me off the meds before pushing because the epidural medication was dangerous to my baby's heart. I felt everything. I am thankful I had an epidural after waiting for three hours in the waiting room, and I wasn't able to sleep for two days before that...I couldn't sleep on the epidural either because obviously I was still in labor and a lot was happening. If you can sleep, let yourself sleep. If you can't sleep (I had a major rash for example, and other issues due to pregnancy) at least try not to panic. You WILL make it through. It took about four hours to push which felt like hell since I was so exhausted and nauseous. The pain didn't compare to how bad the nausea was and I was afraid I was going to pass out or choke on vomit. I don't know many women with that experience so chances are unlikely. But just keep focusing on the desire to birth a healthy baby as much as is possible.

Hey! Do you mind sharing the link to the ballet?

How did you create the name tracing sheet for your daughter?

This is the first video of yours that I have seen but just let me say, you seem like the sweetest ever! I absolutely LOVE your style, your house is so gorgeous.

I actually have a few DWN books if any mommas on here want them I can mail them to yall. I think we have 1.2. 7. And maybe 8

I absolutely love your homeschool area! And I love how organized you are! I’m not 😅 but I’m praying I get better at it lol

This video was awesome to hear different perspectives of birth from the same individual. Thank you

Have you shared the link for the chore charts you made? If not, I would love to see closer. 😊

Ah, trying to fight the envy! In some ways I love homeschooling in our dining area, in other ways I'd LOVE to be able to hide it all away and not look at it lol.

Wow, you are so organized!! Go mama! I like those bins from Target, may have to purchase one of those.

Can you please share the information on the ballet you tube lessons? Sounds so fun. Thanks for sharing.

My son just turned 5 in May and completed TG&TB preschool program last year, which he did fine with. However, after looking at TG&TB kindergarten, it looks way too advanced for him. I looked at their kindergarten prep, but I still think switching curriculums might be the way to go. That being said, I don't know if he should start with AAR pre-reading level or level 1. We did the placement test, and he got 16 out of 17 so they are recommending pre-reading level, however, I'm concerned it may be redundant being that he already knows all of his letters and sounds. He can also generally tell you what letter a word starts with or ends with. In your experience, where would you start a child who already knows all of his letters and sounds?

I enjoyed this video so much as I love to see how others organize their school rooms. I love the cd/MP3 player as it's the perfect size. Where did you get that as I need one to play the kids cd and MP3 for school as well?

That's so cool! My kids are also taking a Legos class in homeschool co-op this coming fall.

hi i love the ideas :) are the target bins that you are using the large or smalls?

I tore so much with my epidural birth and not at all with my natural birth, since I was able to control the pushing and position. For my epidural I was pushing so hard for two hours with the practitioner directed pushing while for my natural birth I was able to wait until my body instinctively was pushing and not bear down hardly at all. Also, breast feeding was a lot easier with my natural birth, made a huge difference for us! I would definitely prepare for a natural birth if I were you too, since I had zero pain relief with the epidural for my first baby, was on pitocin (which made it continuous, horrible pain), and ended up needing a c-section. Apparently more than 10% of people have little to no pain relief with their epidurals, so it really helps to go in psychologically prepared for anything

Thanks for sharing this! I just purchased morning manna and am very excited! I would love to see a flip through of your binder that you keep for records and logs. If you have one. This will be our first year homeschooling. It was a very sudden decision but I have felt like god has put it on my heart to do so for a while now. But it’s definitely overwhelming getting everything prepared in such a short time frame. But I am so grateful for all the homeschool mother’s on TH-cam. All have been so helpful.

This is a very helpful resource. Thanks a bunch!

I think this is a good idea! My son has a hard time transitioning from play to school so if I give him this in the morning maybe it’ll help. I made a Dino themed one and we’ll try it for two weeks and see how it goes!

This was very helpful, thanks for sharing! How do you do quiet time with your older kids?

Hi Anna!I had bought the 5 girls calendar yesterday and have been trying to print it out and it says website is not available 🫤😔Has anyone else had that issue?

We start around 830 with school. We also do world watch at 8ish!

I know you mentioned that your oldest will be taking Spanish in your co-op. Do you know of a good Spanish curriculum? Or maybe a TH-cam channel where they can watch videos to learn? I bought a Spanish curriculum book last year to try and teach them the basics…but I am super lost so just curious if you have any recommendations for this.

Thank you for sharing this! Best schedule I’ve come across. First video I’ve seen of yours. What do you do with your schedule if you do outings during the week days like errands or field trips?

So I have one of those children that loves to sleep in. It is not unusual for my kindergartner to sleep until 11am if I don't get her up. Her bedtime is 7. But she has always tried to stay up and play even though all we have on is a night light. If I do try and wake her at earlier times I sometimes get a very groggy, grumpy child that is problematic when we try to do homeschool. You said you had one child that sleeps in, what works for you in getting that child up earlier to start their day? Just curious. Oh and could you share the TH-cam channel you do for ballet, that sounds like a wonderful idea. Thank you.

For unit studies I made a list of unit studies I found and my 4th and 6th grader take turns picking a unit for us to do as a family! I always try go for units that take 2-4weeks to complete but sometimes if the unit is longer I may count it as 2 turns for that child!!! By doing it like this my children are way more interested, pay more attention and they get to learn a lot about their interests!!!

Can u plz plz plz do a video on how u get stuff on the tv like Form? I know so many homeschool mommas put things like Form, Classes, Schedules, n etc on their tv but how do I need a special laptop, device, tv what do I need and how do I do it? Plz help

What age would you start World watch news? I have one that scares easily.

I love this! Thank you for all this info and example! I especially Love The Sibling time idea. We start at 9am

Love this! I schedule out our days too and it makes all the difference in the world to be intentional with our time. I am also not a slave to the schedule, but it is definitely my guide! We start at 9am.

I loved this homeschool schedule for you, thank you for sharing it. It gives me ideas! I'll never get tired of you sharing schedule and routine videos ❤ I'm just starting to build my homeschool schedule for my 9 year old son, but I'm hoping to start school at 9:00 AM the latest. Also just had to say you look gorgeous! 💖💖💖💖 I love your outfit and earrings it looks very Mexican (I'm Mexican haha ☺️)

Thank you for sharing your schedule! We start around 8:30 as well. I’m trying to get more organized this year, and your video was helpful!

Thank you again for sharing this great schedule!!! I am definitely going to try this as I love the idea and concept! This will be my 4th year homeschooling and I have always been pulled in different directions (normally I feel like I'm always doing circles 😂). I love how you incorporate your older kids to entertain the little one and to do what he wants to do as it's not about the older kiddos during that time. Brilliant!!! 👏 I need more organization and a plan (as I always wing it and it doesn't work 😢 and have been trying to figure out a way to make it enjoyable for all of us). I think I found it thanks to you ❤. I am so excited to create our schedule and to use your guide as a template! My boys are 8, 6 and 18 months. I think I just found the best schedule ever!!! Thank you 🤗🥳. I haven't seen anything like this on M2H but maybe I missed it 🤷.

Love this. Thanks for sharing

@Anna Bruce I heard you can get bad backache longterm when you take an epidural. Did you experience that?

Hi! First time watching. Any suggestions for spelling? My son is a great reader but needs help in spelling.

Thank you so much for sharing your vacation with us! I am so excited to put the plantation you visited on my travel bucket list!

Where did you stay? We got married in Charleston ❤

Oh I want to cry. This is EXACTLY what I needed!!!!! Ordering now!!!!

Love yall ❤

We JUST got back from visiting Charleston last week! We loved Page’s Okra Grill! I had the fried chicken-yum! And of course we had dessert. Peanut butter pie for the win!

I would love to see your master checklist of beginning, middle, and end of year checklist from your Planning section in your teacher binder!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for taking us along! This was great and so much fun! Almost, like I was on vacation with you guys ❤.

Wow for fun! I love historical places!!

Love seeing your time in Charleston! We’re living in southeast Georgia for the next couple years for my husbands work, so we’ll definitely plan a trip to Charleston at some point to check it out!