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Nicole the Math Lady is awesome. We needed to switch to a mastery math style, but it was Nicole the Math Lady we missed when we switched programs! love your math updates. You are ahead of me by a few years so I appreciate where you are now.

My 7th grader and I also were not fans of Shormann Pre Algebra, after about 6 weeks we changed to Mr D Math. It is wonderful. It is online, but his voice is not dry- he seems to enjoy math! Ha! It also has printable work, quizzes, and chapter tests. We highly recommend for middle/upper level math!

My son is using Shormann this year. He struggled the first two lessons, but now we have a system. 1. He prints the rules and definitions. 2. He does the flashcards 3. He watches lecture and takes notes. 4. Does the practice problems. 5. He prints the solutions for future reference. 6. After I determine his notes are well done I print the textbook for that lesson. Then he refers back to these if he needs to reference a previous lesson, rather than having to change the screen. So far so good, but I do wonder about additional practice when he gets to a concept that requires additional practice. Because I do feel like it goes pretty fast.

I'm a little behind, but do you have a video or more detailed explanation of what your difficulties were with Shormann. We just started my oldest on Shormann PreAlgebra after several TH-cam homeschooler recs and now you have me a little worried. So far, it's going well, but it sounds like your issues were with the higher-level classes.

Where do you have him work out all of his problems so it is easy for you to grade and see his work? In a designated spiral? On the grid paper? Thanks so much for all you share!

I agree that having an actual Math textbook and Solution manual is important for Math, but also a visual component that teaches how to work thru the problems is too. I don't think my daughter would like Shoreman Math.

Yes, this is also my question.

That was my 10th and 11th grade math textbook in private school. Lol. Good times.

I love your videos! I have my son in Shormann Algebra I this year but I wasn’t (and still am not) settled in that decision. I needed to make a decision before the school year started so I did. What made me lean toward Shormann in the end was getting three credits in two years. My question for you is if you had to do it over would you have done Shormann at all? Is it really so important not to have a separate Geometry year? Before becoming a SAHM I was an electrical engineer so I’m not afraid of math. I love it actually but I’ve got 4 kiddos and needed some things off my plate. Lastly, this son who is my eldest is only in 6th grade so I’m not in a rush either. He’s just an extremely bright kid. Thanks!

This is great! Thank you for sharing. Do you use a rubric for grading the projects for the Guest Hollow course? How do you decide what grade to assign to the project?

How many weeks were each course? When I called the Foundations course was said to be 39-weeks? Recommended 3-5 days ax week for an hour? Seemed like a lot when your video says you did 20 mins a couple days a week? Could you break down each course how many weeks and how long to do each day? Roughly. Not sure if I need to account for a semester or full year. We year round from July-June. Thank you.

This is SO helpful so glad I discovered your channel. Do you think the jr curriculum would be appropriate for 5th and 7th grade?

I loved all your choices! What do you recommend for a base phonics/early reading course? I need a foundation for my daughter who is struggling with reading.

Thank you so much for sharing!

Great resource! Thank you!! Question...on daily work will you list out every day or will you do it more like by week? Wasnt sure as if daily would potentially have 180 lines just for that. Thank you!!

Just found your channel! This video was so helpful. Thank you for sharing!!

Guest Hollow sounds great! I know it says for a range of grades but now that you have done it would you suggest waiting until high school? My daughter is in the 3rd grade this year. thanks!

Very nice tour! I was watching someone the other day, and she said, "Don't be upset if you can't have a craft room like they display on TH-cam." The reason is that is set up a lot of times to look good. That was very encouraging to me. I have slanted ceilings, which is a problematic issue in my room. You have given me, so many ideas for a different way to look at storage. I'm trying to get my things, my sister's things and 2 of my friends things together so I will have some idea where anything is. It's very overwhelming to me. But I will get there, and you have some great ideas; I didn't think of. Thank you for doing your craft room tour, it's much more realistic than some of the others I have watched.

Thank you so much for creating this video! It is very helpful!

Thank you for showing the grade weighting breakdown, this makes a lot of sense now!

This was so helpful. Thank you! My older kids will be starting high school next year so I'm already trying to make some plans.

Thank you for sharing! This will be so helpful. If it would be possible, it could be very beneficial to denote in some way those resources which hold a Christian/Biblical worldview.

Thank you so much for this 😊

I am interested in seeing how your son likes his electronics course. It appears in-depth and thorough. I've not seen this curriculum before, so thanks! Also, if you have a HAMM radio group in your area, those guys are usually really good at electronics, too, or know someone who could help/mentor.

Thank you so much for making things easier for those coming into the high school years! I love your content!

Thank you so much for sharing!

This sounds great, thanks so much!

Thank you, this is very helpful!

Amazing! Thank you so much Abbey!

Excellent video! I love this approach 😊

I’m not sure which national parks you will go to in Utah but look up Kanarra Falls hike. It’s close to Zion and it’s incredible!! You would not be disappointed. 😊

Your goal videos are always so inspiring! I especially love your shirt! ❤

I absolutely love the gardening and goals format! I learned so much!

I know you didn’t ask and I’m certain you know more about these things than I do, but I was also having bleeding issues and had an ablation. It was a good fit for me. I’m thinking of you.

How do you quilt, garden, plan physics, and nurse...you are a power house ❤ I am going to have to start becoming a planner like you versus my go-with-the-flow 😅😅❤ love your video

New subscriber here. I'm really enjoying your channel. The centerpiece was beautiful!

hi... great information.....did your daughters make it into D1 golf with scholarships....

Would this be possible to be an open and go curriculum for my 10th grader? Or is this going to be very teacher heavy for me?

Love your fun and Lovely back to school year ideas... would love the Pj links... ❤

Thank you so much for putting out this content! This may be a little late of a comment, but I have been watching your channel for a while and I have been very impressed with your choice for a German curriculum. I am a German-American dual citizen. I grew up in Germany and completed my bachelor's degree there. I moved to the US in 2012 and am now homeschooling my 4 children. You are the first person I have watched that uses a German curriculum similar to what I am using (brought out by a German publisher). I really tried to find something for the elementary grades that was made for homeschool and that would work for us, but what's out there really isn't that great. I thought it was just me being super critical since I am a native speaker, but you must have had similar experiences with American made German curriculum. I tried a few different German publishers and settled on Hueber for the elementary grades, as they are the only German publisher of a German as a second language curriculum I could find that takes into account the fact that children first need to be alphabetized in their mother tongue and can't do a ton of writing in a foreign language in the early grades. A lot of the other German made curricula for the elementary grades - which are far and few between to begin with - had a lot of writing in them (Klett & Cornelsen), but this one has games, audios and even some videos - all for just $20 or so for the interactive e-book that comes with the audios & videos! (I also order the physical textbooks and workbooks through my charter using Abe Books and use the interactive version as my teacher's version) We first used "Jana und Dino", and have recently moved on to "Paul, Lisa & Co", which is basically a continuation of the same method. Can highly recommend! PS: To all the bilingual parents out there - do yourselves a favor and raise your children bilingual from the start so as to avoid the whole foreign language dilemma I got myself into ;-).

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Girl, I think you are more organized than most mama’s I know. I am dreaming of how I can be as organized and manage a household and homeschool as you do. I’m already behind since I’m watching your goals for August in August. lol. I think you are doing an amazing job. Pat yourself on the back. I’m taking notes of how I can implement goal habits into my daily life. Thanks for the first step!

Hi.. I have question the textbook that you for physics. Do you have to buy the workbook along with textbook?

Oh my goodness! You are amazing!!! Thank you :) I am needing transcripts starting this school year, you saved me lol!

You are so beautifully authentic, thank you for sharing it all! I have a special needs kiddo entering grade 10 and there is so much you have opened my eyes too! Thank you.

Ohhhh!! SUCH good info! Thank you! I'm a veteran homeschool mom to a senior and two freshmen (freshmans?) lol, but I am SO glad I came across your video (I googled "best homeschool curriculum for visual learners" and this video came up!). I was up the creek without a paddle 1/2 and hour ago. I went to buy the curriculum I had long ago decided upon and realized its not a good fit after all. God must've guided the algorithms because I needed to see your video! I've either done, or heard of, most of these curricula, but I needed to hear your words on the rigor of Apologia Biology and see all the books laid out and flipped through while hearing your daily/weekly approach. And be reminded that IEW is the bomb! Even though I'm a veteran, my twins are so different than my senior, I might as well be a newbie. I'm SO excited to discover Seven Sisters and Guest Hollows! I'll be checking those out right now!

How did it go with your son doing both Chem in the Kitchen and BB Chemistry?

Getting ready to send outs off 9.5 hrs away… Our TIPS: get POA healthcare/ finance ( mama legal bear) that way you can be her voice if she’s injured,pay her bill if she can’t etc…we got Venmo put on her phone(you don’t have to attach bank acct but we can dump money in it)

My oldest is a junior, and I am so overwhelmed by the emotions from what is coming! He is working for the first time this year, and our school year is already looking so different.