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I needed to hear this. God *is* so gracious. Thanks for sharing.

Hi! It did sound like a wonderful year with just a miss here or there. Ambleside is such a rich resource. 🌻

What did you use for Y4 Latin? And what did Adelaide think about it?

the Northern states of America most definitely experience the power of cold and ice. Not just a "European" or "England" thing

We had the same problem with our book of centuries. It’s not really something I can schedule, I’m just telling my kids to keep it out on the table during all readings so they can put people and events in every day. 😅

For the Genevieve Foster books, I assigned a single section per day. The sections are short and we got through all of it.

I highly recommend looking into a book by Generations Curriculum called Worldviews in Conflict a study of western philosophy, literature, and culture by Kevin Swanson before teaching your children about Shakespeare and other Classical Writers. I had no idea the true darkness that some of these writers had until looking into this. We no longer will be studying Shakespeare and some others in the younger years. As a Christian family we will be looking at them in high school through a different lens.

I think we are doing GWW twice a week through the whole year so we can just do a story at a time. I definitely think it’s a hefty read for year four!

Is there a prompt anywhere for what to put in the book of centuries or do you just put what you want when it comes up in reading? Thank you

We have gotten some of the Holling C Holling books from the library but I decided to buy the set recently. They are excellent!

Are you still using MUS?

I've met Steve Demme, too. It was great!

Very cute video! Your daughter's are beautiful! Would you ever do a home library tour?

This was so sweet 🎂 happy birthdays 🎁 Great finds I love thrifting. What a great idea to take them thrifting on their birthdays 💞

This was such a sweet video, I love taking my kids to shop on their birthdays too. ❤❤❤ (p.s. My Once Upon A Child prices their books according to their condition and maybe what they think is worth more. My Goodwill is always 2.99 for childrens books......the internet flippers have really ruined thrifting at old school garage sale prices, it's sad but I'll continue to thrift as long as I can. 😅💃) 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Happy Birthday Julia and Adelaide!

Loved this video. Great hauls! Happy birthday girls! Our Once Upon a Child has some great books! No one is ever looking at them when I’m there. Goodwill usually has good ones also but they take a while to pick through. Usually .50-$1.50.

Thank you so much for sharing your homeschool journey! You have no idea how many tactical questions you have answered just in a few videos that I have watched of yours. :) Question - Do your girls do only oral narrations? If so, when in your schedule do you schedule listening to their narrations?

One of the things I've done for the AO-specific books is use the no-rush shipping rewards to purchase the ebooks. Ebooks aren't my favorite, but when I can get 2-3 books for free each year, it's worth it for us.

Are you registered as a homeschool educator on ThriftBooks? For every 4 used books you purchase, the 5th one is free (I believe they have to be purchased at the same time!).

We’re also using A Visit to North America! I’m super excited

Great to see similar books and curriculum choices that we have used or will use. I LOVED everything about the Math U See program until my kids got to Algebra. It was at that time that I noticed that my kids had struggles with understanding the concept after watching the videos. This past year I had my two high school students switch to the Denison Algebra math curriculum. Best decision ever! My oldest who was in tears at least once a week last year and needed my help with every problem and still didn’t seem to get it did her entire year of Geometry without any help from me and received a solid A for a grade. It is an AMAZING curriculum! It starts at Pre-Algebra and goes through all the high school math courses.

Are you supposed to complete a-g each day? Or do you do that over a week? Or for a set amount of time?

What curriculum do you use?

How helpful is this! I’ve been thinking of incorporating Ambleside to our SCM schedule and this removes all intimidation. :) Question - What do you do for “morning time”? When do you hear or read their narrations? Do you read the books yourself to corroborate their narrations or just receive them?

When you spoke with so much gratitude for your Mom laying her life down for her children, it made me cry. It truly touched my heart because there are so many nights where I lie awake wondering if my children will appreciate the lifestyle my husband and I have chosen to live (which is often against the grain of the rest of the world). We do dedicate ourselves to them all day, everyday and we'll continue to whether we know if they appreciate it or not......but your video gave me hope. Heheheh. ❤😄🙂💞

It’s winter here (Australia) so no summer plans yet 😅

I love how real life this is. Thank you for taking this video!

We’re in a similar boat. We have about 5-6 weeks left of AO readings left. I’m debating “speeding” through some of them and keeping others to read slowly throughout summer (Robin Hood, Children of the Nee Forest).

Yes please give an update on how your summer "schooling" went please! Considering this for next year!

Where do you find the playlist for the hymns ?

What does she add to the ramen noodles?

This is the first video of yours I’ve watched and I love it! I’m a second generation homeschooler also and we just fished up our first year homeschooling (kindergarten). I’m learning more and more Charlotte Mason as I learn more also. Excited to watch and learn from you!

You forgot to mention your paper route lol and how you hired you brothers

You were such a hard worker

Thanks Hannah those homeschooling years were and are my best memories as a mom

Those Bob Jones books got trashed lol

So good for concentration

I was low on Rosemary too

Thank you for sharing!!! You sound very similar to my homeschool experience back in the early 90s. My mom homeschooled us back when it was taboo, not much out there. We did Konos for awhile, A Beka, BJU, Rod and Staff, Saxon...all the old big names.. spellingpower. But the thing I loved the best was allll the books we read. When we did Beautiful Feet, I loved it. Now starting homeschooling my children..I want to instill that same love of reading GOOD books.

Love this! I am a second generation homeschool mom too! Listening to this was so funny for me because you sound just like me! I grew up hating history too and I can’t remember anything 😂 I feel like I am learning right along with my kids and I’m finding it interesting for the first time in my life. We are starting a CM style homeschool this year. I am looking at Simply Charlotte Mason and Ambleside. I keep coming back to SCM because it’s family style. I would love to know how you make Ambleside work for the morning time. I’m still trying to put this all together for next year!

100 years ago there weren’t good child labor laws…🥴

I would love a follow up video with your mom and sister too.

Very encouraging video! I struggle to not regret how I've done things in the past. Thank you for your reminder of God's graciousness❤ we use KONOS a little bit too😊

Loved this video. Thank you for sharing! I am planning to read Home Education this summer and this video gave me the encouragement to do so!

God Bless your Mom 🙏 for putting all her time , energy, and love for you and your siblings to homeschool for so many years. Homeschooling can be hard to stick to for so many years.

So helpful Ty!

Very great ❤👏🏻

How do you teach punctuation through copywork if you aren’t great at grammar? For example commas… I need handholding with grammar and punctuation. Lol

Thank you so much for sharing your experience! It is so helpful as a first generation homeschool mom to hear from grown children who were homeschooled. I loved what you said about starting small and adding little by little.