I enjoyed how realistic this video is. The balance of big kids and little kids. The sound of kids in the house. The business and happiness of it all. Very encouraging about what home schooling looks like. Thanks for a little look into your family.
Hi, I live on the southwestern coast of Norway. I've never been homeschooled or knew anyone who was homeschooled growing up in Pennsylvania. Here in Norway it is almost not heard of
I love it! Your children have an abundance of things to learn in your space! We live in a small house with a pretty small yard, but we are using our space well by tending to the plants in our yard and starting a garden this year. We also love to spend a lot of unstructured play time at county/state parks and nature centers. I love the inspiration to teach what is available! Thank you for sharing!
Wow I love how natural this video was made instead of making things so perfect just for presentation you went ahead and let your video be as you carry on on a daily basis with interacting and doing daily chores as normal.was great and I picked up a few ideas from your space for my kids study area as we live in a small home.
I love your homeschool space!! We live on 5 acres so there is definitely a lot of outside time and I love that! We just got chickens again so my nine-year-old wants to spend a lot of time outside with the chickens!! My older daughter who's now an adult, and a mama herself, used to love to do the same thing! She would take her school books out and sit on a stump in the chicken yard and do her school. :-) My nine-year-old also likes to spend time by our pond. She catches all kinds of critters and the goldfish that we put in it. LOL! My 11 year old daughter likes to do things like build forts, practice archery, and sometimes build things. where also working on a small garden. We've had goats, pigs and bunnies over the years. We'll probably get some more of those in the future too. Sometimes when it's nice out, we do our sit-down school time in our gazebo. We all enjoy that! When we lived in the city, our boys did the things that you mentioned: they worked on their bikes and our younger son loved taking things apart!! Whittling was also something that one of my sons did. We've always used our inside and our outside space. Most of the inside schooling is done on the couch or in recliners. Sometimes in blanket forts or in my bed on a cozy rainy day or if I'm not feeling well. We do have times when we use the table or our breakfast counter too. Learning pretty much happens anywhere in or out of the house! Oh, can't forget in the car or in waiting rooms at appointments! LOL! When we were helping to care for my parents, there were quite a few doctors appointments so waiting-room school was a common thing that we did. We had a bag all packed and ready to go, we just slipped that day's school into it. Again, flexibility is the key, isn't it?! Great video! Sorry, didn't mean to make that comment so long but where homeschooling happens for us isn't just a cut-and-dry statement. :-)
Hi Julie. What a lovely informative vlog. Thank you for taking us around your home and showing us the school routine. I love how the chairs open up and serve as a toyboy. Very clever. I like to watch your vlogs. I'm finished my schooling days as I'm 55.and my girls are in their 30s now. But I love to watch and still learn all about ways of teaching. Thank you . Love your vlogs. And your children too. James and his mixing song was soooo adorable . Take care all xx
Today's video was incredible !!!! we loved everything you showed, as they have advanced on the property. I hope you can build your house soon. We live in a small apartment in the city and we have a a tiny terrace, where unfortunately we do not have sun, therefore we cannot cultivate. The extra jobs my children do is to control household expenses, to put in good condition the toys they no longer use to donate, they recycle clothes and everything that is useful for the house or for those who need it, cooking. Thanks again for sharing your videos. Blessings.
Oooh, I LOVE your subscriber map! I'm from Saskatchewan, Canada, I think it looked like that one wasn't scratched off. But that is a BRILLIANT idea. (The wheels are turning . . .) Thanks for the tour of your house and yard, it looks like a great space for raising a family!
You do such a great job of keeping everyone busy and happy in a small space. Great garden space! The chicks hadn’t hatched when I watched last so I am behind! I’ve missed you all and look forward to getting caught up.
We live in a city but in a house with a decent size yard. My homeschooler (16) is very art focused. I try to make sure she has art supplies. The budget is tight right now, but at the beginning of our school year I got her drawing pencils, a few different types of sketch books (including one that's 18" x 24"!). She has some paints, but she's working on her drawing mostly. She does her schoolwork in her room, my room, the kitchen, and sometimes on the porch. She still enjoys Lego and recently discovered she likes looking around our yard taking nature picture (I need to get her a camera!). Because of this series your doing I talked with my daughter and we're going to switch up here curriculum next year. I've already registered her for her math and spanish, but she's also going to take a computer course where she's going to learn computer basics, coding, 2D and 3D art, and will have projects to work on. Also, I found a chemistry course that uses food and recipes to teach chemistry and incorporates doing a sketch journal. I'm going to try and incorporate more art next year and make sure she has time to persue other interests. She only has a couple more years and I want her to be able to explore and discover what really interests her. Thanks for sharing! It's been a great inspiration for me.
Love how you manage and make your small space work. Your video is so real i love it. All the way from kingdom of Bahrain i don't know if you can even scatch it off it's so tiny lol
This is great! Thanks for sharing. If you can do it with 8 kids in a small space I think I can do it with just one kid in our 350 square feet! 😂 You're an inspiration--lucky kids!
We are not a homeschooling family but the current situation has changed things a bit. My daughter is 16 and in the 10th grade and goes to public school. She is doing all her school work online for the last 2 months. I have added a few things to help keep her from burning out. We have been watching "The Shows must go on" on you tube and have been able to enjoy Broadway musicals.A few weeks ago we observed the space station fly over our area and yesterday we saw the Blue Angels. Really enjoyed seeing these things with my daughter.
Great video! You guys have gotten a lot done with the bunnies and the orchard. Sam is currently growing some different types of flowers out front and I think he plans on growing some cherry tomatoes in a pot on our deck too.We don't get a ton of sun so it has been tricky to find a place to do that!
I've been watching your channel for ages but don't usually comment! Thank you for all of the great videos lately! I especially love this one! While my house is admittedly bigger, it is still "small" by today's standards and we don't have the space for a dedicated homeschool room. I love seeing tours of multi-use spaces and seeing ideas for storage/display of homeschool work! I love the rack for the art! I also love that you're also in MO as I love seeing ideas for logs/hours tracking! We are in the STL area too :) Anyway, stay safe and well and keep up the great work with the videos! ♡Amber
We hs & hs exactly the same. Nice to see other down to earth hs mamas with non-museum houses. 😂 We might be headed to southern MO next spring for work, so I’m glad I found your channel.
Hello dear Julie, i am Christine, just want you to know you have a big fan of your lifestyle and beliefs from Yerevan Armenia if you want to add on your map. You are just doing a great job!! God bless your beautiful family!!😍😘
We too live in the country! We are 4th generation (at least😁) cattle ranchers. We live on 560 acres in rural Nebraska but since we are surrounded by family and cousins (Thank you Grandpa!) my 7 very blessed kiddos get to traverse the countryside. We have creeks, mini forests, and lots of wildlife. This is where I grew up, but the first 12 years of marriage were spent elsewhere in the state surrounded by cornfields and flatland, and I prayed and dreamed to be here again until God made it possible. Like yours, our kids spend most of their days outside hunting, growing, building, and discovering. I agree that homeschooling is constantly changing to fit the season/circumstance your in or the personalities/interests of your kiddos. I've tried both Delight directed, and year round homeschooling before but got nervous and returned to more familiar territory during the school year. Lately I've been toying with the idea of revisiting both. Maybe this year, with all its changes and less distractions away from home will be a good year to do just that!
It sounds like you have the perfect set up for your children to grow and learn! Mixing delight directed learning with a few daily requirements from me has been the right thing for me. God is so faithful to guide us in our homeschooling journey. It sounds like he has already convicted your heart of the way you should go to allow your children to thrive ❤️
@@jasonandjulie Julie, on rereading my comment I felt like it sounded like I was bragging. Sorry about that! Like you said, no matter your living arrangements there are lots of ways to think outside the box about education and instill that love of learning in our kids. I DO think God is showing me what direction to go but I'm struggling with what that should look like. This year I will have a 9th grader who will be doing something different than the rest of his siblings for the first time. That in itself is throwing me for a loop. The younger kids will be studying World geography and cultures. We use My Father's World curriculum as a loose guideline. I want to make it fun and memorable, not a drudge. Something you said about digging deeper into just one subject instead of just touching lightly on 3 or 4...that stuck with me! Thank you!
We are Americans but we live ( and homeschool) in Panamá. I noticed that Panamá wasn’t scratched on your map. Great job with all the organization. We live a high rise apartment here in the big city, organization is a big deal when it comes to all the things we need for homeschooling.
Unrelated question, for Bella, I think. Do you leave the chicks and bunnies in the triangle tractor during the night? Are you concerned about something getting to the chicks and bunnies from underneath? In central Ohio we have red foxes, minks and skunks that will dig under the tractor to get to the animals! We have to put welded wire around the top of the tractor (our raccoons will rip up the chicken wire, it's too weak) AND the bottom to keep them protected from diggers. However, we plan to raise our meat bunnies in tractors like your's from weaning till roasting so I love your design, but we'd have to "fortify" it a bit for our location.
We don’t have those animals commonly come around but it has happened a couple times in past years. They are planning to add the welded wire to the tractor. Originally our tractor was going to be just a daytime spot for them, when our dog is outside with them. Right now they’ve been in it at night too, until they have a separate hutch type thing built. So much to do! 🤪
In Missouri (and in most states) there are no requirements of what subjects are taught. Check out your state’s requirements. HSLDA is the website to go to for the details.
Enjoyed your video. Did I see you using "Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons" book? I've used that book with all my kids and they have been early readers who enjoy reading.
Questo video mi piace molto siete fantastici e simpatici vi adoro vi seguo sempre ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing! This is a great realistic video =)
I enjoyed how realistic this video is. The balance of big kids and little kids. The sound of kids in the house. The business and happiness of it all. Very encouraging about what home schooling looks like. Thanks for a little look into your family.
Small but beautiful specaillay when filled with so many smiles and so much love🥰
Love the scratch map! Not sure if you have one yet, but I'm a new subscriber from Hawaii 🤙 This playlist has been very encouraging. Mahalo!
Welcome! So glad you joined us
Loved watching this! Im from Saskatchewan Canada 😁
I just tooned in from Canada calgary alberta- u are amazing love u make small home work
Thank you!
Hi, I live on the southwestern coast of Norway. I've never been homeschooled or knew anyone who was homeschooled growing up in Pennsylvania. Here in Norway it is almost not heard of
I love it! Your children have an abundance of things to learn in your space! We live in a small house with a pretty small yard, but we are using our space well by tending to the plants in our yard and starting a garden this year. We also love to spend a lot of unstructured play time at county/state parks and nature centers. I love the inspiration to teach what is available! Thank you for sharing!
It sounds like you’re making great use of your space
This was great, it was like just having a conversation with a friend and learning how you do school.
first time watching I love that you did not cut any interruption and you show how homeschooling day looks like !!
Thank you Sandra! I’m so glad you found us 😍
Wow I love how natural this video was made instead of making things so perfect just for presentation you went ahead and let your video be as you carry on on a daily basis with interacting and doing daily chores as normal.was great and I picked up a few ideas from your space for my kids study area as we live in a small home.
I’m glad it encouraged you 🥰 We definitely keep it real over here
I am stealing the mixing time song! They always love to bake, but argue over mixing lol
It’s a lifesaver! 😆
Me too! I have 4 and love this idea.
I'm so in love with the way u make homeschooling happen in such a small space by the way I'm from St.Kitts
Thank you so much! 🥰
(We’ll add you to our map!)
Love your mixing song! ❤️I’m going to have to use that!
Love yhe mixing song! What area of Missouri arebyou guys in!!
Hi! We’re 45 minutes west of St Louis
James is so sweet. So huggable.
Yes he is 🥰
I love your homeschool space!! We live on 5 acres so there is definitely a lot of outside time and I love that! We just got chickens again so my nine-year-old wants to spend a lot of time outside with the chickens!! My older daughter who's now an adult, and a mama herself, used to love to do the same thing! She would take her school books out and sit on a stump in the chicken yard and do her school. :-) My nine-year-old also likes to spend time by our pond. She catches all kinds of critters and the goldfish that we put in it. LOL! My 11 year old daughter likes to do things like build forts, practice archery, and sometimes build things. where also working on a small garden. We've had goats, pigs and bunnies over the years. We'll probably get some more of those in the future too. Sometimes when it's nice out, we do our sit-down school time in our gazebo. We all enjoy that! When we lived in the city, our boys did the things that you mentioned: they worked on their bikes and our younger son loved taking things apart!! Whittling was also something that one of my sons did. We've always used our inside and our outside space. Most of the inside schooling is done on the couch or in recliners. Sometimes in blanket forts or in my bed on a cozy rainy day or if I'm not feeling well. We do have times when we use the table or our breakfast counter too. Learning pretty much happens anywhere in or out of the house! Oh, can't forget in the car or in waiting rooms at appointments! LOL! When we were helping to care for my parents, there were quite a few doctors appointments so waiting-room school was a common thing that we did. We had a bag all packed and ready to go, we just slipped that day's school into it. Again, flexibility is the key, isn't it?! Great video! Sorry, didn't mean to make that comment so long but where homeschooling happens for us isn't just a cut-and-dry statement. :-)
It sounds like your kids would get along great with mine! 😍 What a wonderful childhood you are giving them.
The Kreke Family, yes, I think they would get along great! 😊
Hi Julie. What a lovely informative vlog. Thank you for taking us around your home and showing us the school routine. I love how the chairs open up and serve as a toyboy. Very clever. I like to watch your vlogs. I'm finished my schooling days as I'm 55.and my girls are in their 30s now. But I love to watch and still learn all about ways of teaching. Thank you . Love your vlogs. And your children too. James and his mixing song was soooo adorable . Take care all xx
Aww thanks Mary. We’re so glad to have you here, part of our community! ❤️
Enjoying this series!
Today's video was incredible !!!! we loved everything you showed, as they have advanced on the property. I hope you can build your house soon.
We live in a small apartment in the city and we have a
a tiny terrace, where unfortunately we do not have sun, therefore we cannot cultivate.
The extra jobs my children do is to control household expenses, to put in good condition the toys they no longer use to donate, they recycle clothes and everything that is useful for the house or for those who need it, cooking.
Thanks again for sharing your videos. Blessings.
Oooh, I LOVE your subscriber map! I'm from Saskatchewan, Canada, I think it looked like that one wasn't scratched off. But that is a BRILLIANT idea. (The wheels are turning . . .)
Thanks for the tour of your house and yard, it looks like a great space for raising a family!
Elsie is adding you to our map right now. 😊👏🏻
You do such a great job of keeping everyone busy and happy in a small space. Great garden space! The chicks hadn’t hatched when I watched last so I am behind! I’ve missed you all and look forward to getting caught up.
Yes they are growing quickly! We actually shared a video a couple weeks ago where you can see the whole hatching process 🥰
We live in a city but in a house with a decent size yard. My homeschooler (16) is very art focused. I try to make sure she has art supplies. The budget is tight right now, but at the beginning of our school year I got her drawing pencils, a few different types of sketch books (including one that's 18" x 24"!). She has some paints, but she's working on her drawing mostly. She does her schoolwork in her room, my room, the kitchen, and sometimes on the porch. She still enjoys Lego and recently discovered she likes looking around our yard taking nature picture (I need to get her a camera!). Because of this series your doing I talked with my daughter and we're going to switch up here curriculum next year. I've already registered her for her math and spanish, but she's also going to take a computer course where she's going to learn computer basics, coding, 2D and 3D art, and will have projects to work on. Also, I found a chemistry course that uses food and recipes to teach chemistry and incorporates doing a sketch journal. I'm going to try and incorporate more art next year and make sure she has time to persue other interests. She only has a couple more years and I want her to be able to explore and discover what really interests her. Thanks for sharing! It's been a great inspiration for me.
What a wonderful plan! 🥰
Your seed starts look so good! And I love your waterer!
Thanks! 😆
Your in Missouri!!!! Us too! Thanks for your video!!
Love how you manage and make your small space work. Your video is so real i love it. All the way from kingdom of Bahrain i don't know if you can even scatch it off it's so tiny lol
We use Teaching Textbooks too!
I love that your kids love to test! Lol! That's great!
Haha. I think it is so funny 😆
This is great! Thanks for sharing. If you can do it with 8 kids in a small space I think I can do it with just one kid in our 350 square feet! 😂 You're an inspiration--lucky kids!
Thank you 😍
Good morning 👍❤❤❤
thank you for sharing !! Cecile, from France !
Thanks for introducing yourself! 🥰 We didn’t have France colored in on our map of viewers around the world so we added you today
We are not a homeschooling family but the current situation has changed things a bit. My daughter is 16 and in the 10th grade and goes to public school. She is doing all her school work online for the last 2 months. I have added a few things to help keep her from burning out. We have been watching "The Shows must go on" on you tube and have been able to enjoy Broadway musicals.A few weeks ago we observed the space station fly over our area and yesterday we saw the Blue Angels. Really enjoyed seeing these things with my daughter.
How special that you get to share this extra time with your daughter 🥰
Great video! You guys have gotten a lot done with the bunnies and the orchard. Sam is currently growing some different types of flowers out front and I think he plans on growing some cherry tomatoes in a pot on our deck too.We don't get a ton of sun so it has been tricky to find a place to do that!
Totally agree with you! Bella is doing so wonderful!! Such a precious young lady! Your place is beautiful!! X O
Thank you 😊
I didn’t know you all live in MO too! I’ve watched since before you moved & had a home birth at your old house.
That’s so sweet! We’re outside of St. Louis.
I've been watching your channel for ages but don't usually comment! Thank you for all of the great videos lately! I especially love this one!
While my house is admittedly bigger, it is still "small" by today's standards and we don't have the space for a dedicated homeschool room. I love seeing tours of multi-use spaces and seeing ideas for storage/display of homeschool work! I love the rack for the art!
I also love that you're also in MO as I love seeing ideas for logs/hours tracking! We are in the STL area too :)
Anyway, stay safe and well and keep up the great work with the videos!
♡Amber
Thank you for leaving a message! I’m glad the videos have been a help to you. 🥰 Maybe we’ll run into each other one day!
We hs & hs exactly the same. Nice to see other down to earth hs mamas with non-museum houses. 😂 We might be headed to southern MO next spring for work, so I’m glad I found your channel.
“Real life” is the only way to be! 😊
Grew up in North Dakota & live in Minnesota
Hello dear Julie, i am Christine, just want you to know you have a big fan of your lifestyle and beliefs from Yerevan Armenia if you want to add on your map. You are just doing a great job!! God bless your beautiful family!!😍😘
Thank you Christina for your encouragement! The kids will be excited to add you to the map 🥰
It must be a bit stressful having to keep records. In my state, we don't have requirements. Thanks for the tour! 🥰
We too live in the country! We are 4th generation (at least😁) cattle ranchers. We live on 560 acres in rural Nebraska but since we are surrounded by family and cousins (Thank you Grandpa!) my 7 very blessed kiddos get to traverse the countryside. We have creeks, mini forests, and lots of wildlife. This is where I grew up, but the first 12 years of marriage were spent elsewhere in the state surrounded by cornfields and flatland, and I prayed and dreamed to be here again until God made it possible. Like yours, our kids spend most of their days outside hunting, growing, building, and discovering. I agree that homeschooling is constantly changing to fit the season/circumstance your in or the personalities/interests of your kiddos. I've tried both Delight directed, and year round homeschooling before but got nervous and returned to more familiar territory during the school year. Lately I've been toying with the idea of revisiting both. Maybe this year, with all its changes and less distractions away from home will be a good year to do just that!
It sounds like you have the perfect set up for your children to grow and learn! Mixing delight directed learning with a few daily requirements from me has been the right thing for me. God is so faithful to guide us in our homeschooling journey. It sounds like he has already convicted your heart of the way you should go to allow your children to thrive ❤️
@@jasonandjulie Julie, on rereading my comment I felt like it sounded like I was bragging. Sorry about that! Like you said, no matter your living arrangements there are lots of ways to think outside the box about education and instill that love of learning in our kids. I DO think God is showing me what direction to go but I'm struggling with what that should look like. This year I will have a 9th grader who will be doing something different than the rest of his siblings for the first time. That in itself is throwing me for a loop. The younger kids will be studying World geography and cultures. We use My Father's World curriculum as a loose guideline. I want to make it fun and memorable, not a drudge. Something you said about digging deeper into just one subject instead of just touching lightly on 3 or 4...that stuck with me! Thank you!
We are Americans but we live ( and homeschool) in Panamá. I noticed that Panamá wasn’t scratched on your map. Great job with all the organization. We live a high rise apartment here in the big city, organization is a big deal when it comes to all the things we need for homeschooling.
Thanks for letting us know! The kids will be excited to add you to our map 🥰
I live in Michigan
Just found your channel. What is CBS?
Hi! Welcome 🥰
It stands for Community Bible Study. It is a world wide bible study group
Unrelated question, for Bella, I think. Do you leave the chicks and bunnies in the triangle tractor during the night? Are you concerned about something getting to the chicks and bunnies from underneath? In central Ohio we have red foxes, minks and skunks that will dig under the tractor to get to the animals! We have to put welded wire around the top of the tractor (our raccoons will rip up the chicken wire, it's too weak) AND the bottom to keep them protected from diggers. However, we plan to raise our meat bunnies in tractors like your's from weaning till roasting so I love your design, but we'd have to "fortify" it a bit for our location.
We don’t have those animals commonly come around but it has happened a couple times in past years. They are planning to add the welded wire to the tractor. Originally our tractor was going to be just a daytime spot for them, when our dog is outside with them. Right now they’ve been in it at night too, until they have a separate hutch type thing built. So much to do! 🤪
We have to do testing in our state at the end of the school year and my children love them. Haha!
So funny! I love it 😆
For a 5 year old that Is going to be in kindergarten. Is a computer a requirement?
In Missouri (and in most states) there are no requirements of what subjects are taught. Check out your state’s requirements. HSLDA is the website to go to for the details.
Enjoyed your video. Did I see you using "Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons" book? I've used that book with all my kids and they have been early readers who enjoy reading.
Yes we’ve used it for all our kids. Such a great book!
@@jasonandjulie I totally agree.
I from Holland, the Netherlands
Fun! We will add you to our map
I live in Nepal. Its between India and China 🤗
Thanks for sharing! We’ll add you to our map 🥰
I’m in Lviv Ukraine
Thanks for telling us! We added you to our map 😊