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We lived under the homes phonics for kindergarten. It pairs nicely with McGuffey’s

How long are your school days?

I’m not done watching this video BUT you have totally sparked my interest in Under the Home again and I’m so doing it with my kids next year. I noticed the printing issue too and I’m not sure what phone you have but it’s possible to print the “non printable” lessons one by one if you have an iPhone without having to copy paste. You just have to click on the actual lesson number you want and hit the send to button where you can print directly from your iPhone. You still have to do one lesson at a time but it sure beats copy and pasting!

I’ve completely forgot about under the home 🤯

We have looked into (but have not started) Woke Homeschool for history. We are using BYL with History Quest because my 1st grader is really enjoying ancient history.

The AO facebook group has alot of coordinating maps for the history books.

There is a BFB curriculum book for the Holling Geography books.

So excited to follow your journey with Ambleside! We are currently doing year 1 loosely (we are secular) with my first grader and loving it so far. Going to check out under the home, thank you for sharing them!

Are you in an RV? Awesome

We do follow Ambleside Online's bible reading guide. The rest i use it more like a book list. I even include the free read list as main reading (i do ask for oral narration). But we don't read every book. Its just too much for us. We do follow CM but just loosely. Love the concept of reading living books, narration, and copywork. So we try to incorporate those elements.

You might want to drop the poetry in First lang. Les. And just do the poet study, you don't want to get overwhelmed.

Looking forward to your upcoming videos on curriculum choices!

Lovely plans. May you have a vere blessed year! 🙏☺️

You will love Understood Betsy. Both of my children enjoyed it. That looks like a beautiful poetry program, but if it gets overwhelming, especially when combined with First Language Lessons, you can do what AO does for poetry and just read the daily poem without any analysis or narration.

I also love under the home's geography!

I related so much to you, when you said that you felt so honored and excited to be able to read the books and do the curriculum that you’re doing next year! I feel the same exact way about our picks for next year! I can’t wait to see your videos about Under the Home and the rest of your curriculum picks for next year! 🥰

Spodify has arnold lobel reading frog and toad. And brambly hedge is a another books collection you might want to check out for your son

Gentle and classical its christian company but they have rooted childhood and you should look into it if you havent before. They have cool handicraft ideas.

We are listening to stories on spodify. Are you doing the hearth magic robin hood guide too?

You are going to have such a great year! I'm looking forward to your upcoming videos!

Absolutely love Land of Kakiak resources. We are using the Primer companion notebook with our reluctant reader (2nd grader). The companion notebook was a game changer for us. We are adding in the foundational phonics as well to build more confidence and mastery. I’m surprised at how much grammar my little one learned this year just using the McGuffey reader.

I have a son who struggles with letter recognition. Sounds he gets but I have to tell him the letter name a lot of times. Do you think the SCM delightfully reading level 1 would help him?

Where did you get the Charlotte's Web book study curriculum?!

Very relatable. I'm a curriculum junkie too and the amount of stuff I've bought and not used and/or stopped using could fill an hour long video. 🤦‍♀

I have already been researching for next year. I usually order by the end of Febuary actually. Then if I have to change anything I have time 😁.

I would love to hear more about under the home!

I’ve been wanting to try foundational phonics! This is my sign to order 😊

I stopped doing reading lessons and all with my newly 7 years old. He can’t read, and he was crying every lessons. So we just read together for now and he does orally narration. Every kids are different and some take more time to read and all. I’m not worried for him to read eventually 😉 it’s good sometimes to just take a break! I hope this new program works well for your daughter

There are some good things that Charlotte Mason has said but in my opinion most of her teaching style needs to stay in the 1800s.

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is still one of our favorite books we have read in our homeschool

Would you recommend AAR Pre-Reading for pre k or the foundational phonics book 1?

As someone who worked as a special education teacher who primarily worked with students with learning disabilities, for many students with reading struggles phonics can feel awful to them. It is very hard and it is very frustrating. Especially for the students who excel when speaking and listening. As someone who's taught many kids to read I found the best medicine are the short and sweet lessons you're speaking about even if the program is not the child's favorite. Continuing to build the love of reading with read alouds and audiobooks will help the child continue to have that curiosity about books even if phonics is not their favorite. I think of phonics as a vitamin that doesn't taste very good. Some kids just really need it to thrive, and keeping it short but consistent is what works. One thing I might suggest for the McGuffey reader is having the child build the difficult words with the moving alphabet before they attempt to read the story. Going through and sounding the word out as building it is very powerful in keeping it in the memory.

You might like math with confidence….its very game based. TG&TB kindergarten math was also too easy for my son. I enjoy your content. Quick question did you print the McGuffey readers and get them bound? I would like to know how you did it?

Love how everything is incorporated in one lesson, brilliant!

I have also got a late talker. We have creeped our way with him through AAR1 interspursed with a cool program that is free!!!! Its called Treasure Hunt Reading. It has a video component with every lesson and a lit of fun activities that we use to change it up.

We got sick so we have to catch up on a christmas carol readings. For solstice we watch Little Bear episode and make potato soup

I just love your videos. I get so happy when i see you post. Have a great christmas

Great ideas! We celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah during December so our month is mostly playing games with a little sprinkling of school. Happy early birthday! I’m the 19th. ☺️

This video was motivational for me, thank you. I've really been slacking in my planning the past few weeks and I've let a lot of what I had planned for the year fall off. I have the same planner and am now ready to sit down and get planning for school after the new year.

I have noticed that traditional works for some and not for others. We used Abeka just for phonics and it really helped a lot switched to good and beautiful and my daughter forgets easily. It’s not as repetitive and some kids need repetition

So lovely, Merry Christmas!!!

I just cannot justify the cost of AAR, when there are just as great programs that are a half to a third of the price! We had great success with CLE learn to read program it was not my son's favorite, but we talked about how we have to do things we do not like or that are hard!

My daughter is in 3rd grade and dyslexic. We use treasure hunt reading. My daughter hates drawing the pictures so we don’t do that either. We stopped looking through books for the words, we get the words from the activities and stories and she practices them. I also have her reading books to me and I remind her of the phonics rules that we’ve learned as we go. We just started journey 3, been doing it since mid October and I’m seeing a huge difference in her reading. At first I was skeptical because some of it seemed too easy and some of it was pretty hard but we stuck with it and it’s been paying off! I hope you are able to find something to help your daughter really soon!

Reading specialist here: give her a paper bag with phonetic sounds and have her look for things around the house to place into the bag. Your example: (ir) girl, bird, swirl, twirl, etc. She will likely not be able to find “objects” but will need to have you help her write words that “sound” similar. However, this invokes three types of learning-kinesthetic, verbal, and visual. I hope this helps!

Thank you for sharing this. I have a struggling reader as well but this looks to be EXACTLY what Ive been looking for! I will definitely be purchasing this!!!

Yay!!! Someone else who has seen this. I have used both book one and book two with my three boys. They are simple and thorough. Love them so much! Great charlotte mason companion alongside the McGuffeys! Good job Momma. Great choice.

We shared a similar struggled with language arts until I tried something completely different that was not my “style” nor my daughters. Logic of English Foundations has been a HUGE game changer because of the strong phonics approach. It really took the struggle out of learned and made sense of the English language. She’s completed A-D and has since moved on to Cottage Press language arts which includes picture study, reading and narration, copywork and dictation, and nature study as well as their spelling/grammar/word usage section that follows the same approach as LOE. Another similar program is Spell to Write and Read or barefoot meandering Reading and Spelling through Literature which takes the Elson readers and teaches spelling analysis with the words in the stories. RSTL may pair best for your approach. Wishing you and your daughter the best!

I love Foundational Phonics! I've used both books with 3 of my 6 children so far, with 2 boys and a daughter who is very neurodivergent. They learned to read so much faster than my other kids who used other phonics programs, and I love the fact that it's one book, not alot of extra bells and whistles to teach phonics. Alongside this program, we practice with Bob Books and other readers and then we move on to the McGuffey readers and/or Explode the Code once they've finished the second book in this program. Hope it works for your family!

I recently found this program as well, for my son who has a similar reading journey. Your daughter and he seem very similar, very active and vocal 😆. I also had wanted to be more CM in my approach, which would have worked very well for my eldest (who taught himself to read at 5), but my younger (now 9) just needed more instruction. An excellent podcast docu/journalism series about the science of reading called “Sold a Story” made me feel much better about pursuing more phonics and relaxing in CM’s reading approach. Hopefully Foundational Phonics is a good fit for you, we are enjoying it so far as well.

Ashley, I’m so glad you found my videos helpful on this. Like you, I seem to be drawn to resources that are not used by many. Maybe it’s the creative in us that likes things to be different. 💜 I hope your daughter continues to enjoy using Foundational Phonics & you experience the same enjoyment and success that we have. For me, I wasn’t willing to rush thru reading fluency bc I know it will impact their grammar, spelling, and writing as we go along. With my oldest, I have been very pleased to see that exposing him to all those word families, the diacritical marks, and good sentence structure he was immersed in FP has paid off in building natural spelling and story telling skills as he’s gotten older.