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Not needed at all. We’ve never used them. There are some TH-cam videos showing what’s in them and what people thought of them. I’d skip buying though.

Awesome, glad it helped! When I was searching I found it hard to find examples of actual dates on paper timelines too. Especially since I didn’t want 30+ pages in our timeline!

Yes, it can be scary to picture the year ahead without being able to imagine the leap in reading, independence, ease of writing, etc. Audio is also a huge help! I think even as my kids get older and read more scheduled books on their own, audio still relieves the mental load compared to reading everything!

I’m so glad!

I just added the link to the description but here is the link here too. She and her husband make videos together. We are also now paying for her patreon membership listed on her youtube page description which lets you download the mp3 files. I then add those to a make your own yoto card! youtube.com/@folksandhymns5313?feature=shared

You’re def not alone with a “later” reader! So much progress can be made in a year! Good job staying consistent with those 3 subjects. For nature study, it’s always good to ask what has kept it out of rotation. Lack of easy to find info, or lack of it being on the schedule, or lack of outside time being intentional to observe what you see, etc. That’s us too right now so I get it!

Thanks for sharing about your 2nd grader’s reading and what you’ve been doing! We are at Frog and Toad status too. And great job having a routine for the riches! That’s a huge win.

I don’t, but I think I talk about it in some of my AO update videos. We couldn’t do both well, because I couldn’t seem to fit in extra chapter books into their schedule or mine. AO was too full as is for us so we trimmed books from each child’s schedule. This year I ended up combining literature reads for my oldest 2 from AO, and in place of the darts and arrows we’re doing fix it grammar plus all about spelling for 4th and 5th grade. Hope that helps!

Awesome! We’re on our 2nd year adding to ours and I love it so much. Not sure I’m going to want the kids to stop this to use a book of centuries because I love how it’s developing! We are going to be making a 3rd one for my now 2nd grader. He’s been asking to have his own and I dropped the ball making his!

Glad this helped. I now have two kids doing this (year 4 & 5). The older usually does very short written narrations (he is a long winded oral narrator but doesn’t like writing as much), while the younger does longer written narrations and generally writes faster. I don’t mention it or emphasize it, or correct spelling. They’re both improving, and I’m happy to see progress a year later. I’m ready to get them both doing 2/week, but not in a rush. I would like to see more creative writing happening though and not just written narrations …How do y’all incorporate writing for fun in a Charlotte Mason homeschool?

Remind me which one you’re looking for, can’t remember which one I mentioned in here. If it’s the Ambleside Online FB group, I think they pause the group for the holidays and I wonder if the group if findable during that time?

U are the best 😍💖

Love this! This year we’ve also started doing a song for a month. You’re right, it’s been great and easier to learn the words better that way!

Good for you making changes that suit y’all’s family. This year we’ve found a much more peaceful way to still do AO but cut back. We are combining a few literature books with year 4&5 family style (like King Arthur and Kim) which means not getting to all of them from all years but I’m ok with that. It brings back the family read time I miss and lightens the schedule a bit. We’ve also just made peace with slashing a few books when needed. Having each in their own history year has been awesome as they become independent readers…they’re doing those books on their own more and more and not waiting on me to read. Hope y’all have a great year and enjoy the books you picked!

I think I could do a video soon for you on how we’ve made changes and edited the schedule a bit. I bet there’s a few others wondering the same! I don’t digitally edit the schedules provided on AO website, though there’s an editable version on there you could download. I just do it for now on the paper. I color in the readings we do as we go. For records, I’ve never lived in a state that required them, but we do keep the colored in schedule sheets as record of what we’ve done, and I want to get back to what we used to do for recording which is just writing down what we’ve done that day (besides readings) in a cheap planner. It’s called reverse planning and is where I could jot down family read alouds, timeline entry, crafts, etc. Hope that helps a little bit and congrats on your baby!!

You’ll still use the teachers guide to tell you what to do for the ‘together’ page. It’s not always obvious what to do without the guide. But I do feel like level 3 (and level 4) use the first page to give you more visuals for explaining, as well as a few problems to practice together. Overall, there’s fewer manipulatives to pull out it seems. For example, maybe instead of you setting down cards and reading the teachers guide for what to say, the first page now would have a picture of the cards and you’d still read the teacher’s guide for what to say, if that makes sense.

I agree on the home instructors guide. I have sat there for 15 mins confused at to how to go about explaining the concept and I will eventually get it but it does feel like I’m losing precious time. It’s very frustrating and it’s 1st grade! It shouldn’t be this confusing I think.

Two of my younger kids have loved Math with Confidence at level 1! You might like some of my other Math with Confidence videos if you’re considering using it. We’ve never used Math Mammoth for younger years though. If you’re not loving Singapore it’s a good time to switch while he’s young!

I have used Both MWC and MM grade 1-3rd. My feedback: Math Mammoth is to the point and I prefer their mental math approaches. My kids are confident in math heading into 4th grade. We've tried others and they were feeling insecure as littles. It's visual with optional videos, games, hands on. key word: optional. MWC Pros: If you have a hands-on learner that likes a splash of color then this is your jam. Each unit has a different color border. This almost feels like a reward to kids to show how far they've come. It spirals. it's pretty but not cluttered. Those are all the traits I like about it. Cons: teacher manual is cumbersome and b/w. I feel it's *too easy* but then there's retention issues without the use of critical talk and game play which, if your child dislikes the discussions and hands on lectures, then this may fall flat over time. It will be too easy for gifted kids. Yet excellent for anxious mathies who want more engagement with their parents at a calmer pace. MWC didn't work for us because the bread and butter of the program isn't how any of my kids prefer to be taught. They like independent work.

Yes! So technically you could just own one ‘make your own card’ and replace what’s on it. We do that all the time.

Too bad support has been sub par. Sorry to hear. I also cannot for the life of me remember my kids usernames and passwords (they assign very strange usernames too!), so we end up getting to their accounts by first logging in through my parent account and then I’ll choose one of their profiles to go to.