Thank you for sharing how you use FIAR with your family. One of the best things I noticed about the way you do school with your kids is how peaceful it seems. I really appreciate the way you incorporated your entire family and the best part of that was all of the relationship connections you made as you went to the arboretum together! Trying out the pastels and taking the pictures of the trees they drew were great ideas too!! It really doesn't matter which "curriculum" we use, as long as it brings peace, and it allows us to deepen our relationships with our kids. I mean, we need to choose wisely, but there is a ton of freedom-the curriculum is a tool in the toolbox-not the boss! ☺ P.S. If schools can count field trip days as 'official days' of learning, please let yourself count glorious days at the arboretum as an official day. Because it was. And it was super valuable. If you need more encouragement, like most of us, The Smiling Homeschooler podcast is excellent!!!
Your videos are BY FAR the most helpful, God sent homeschool Mama videos that I have come across. I have switched my children to cle for math, reading, language arts and I was thinking what will I use for science, social studies, and art. I'm moving away from masterbooks which was a great fit for my first year of homeschooling but now that I'm more in the groove of things it seems less likely I'll stay with it. This looks like a really fun curriculum to cover those areas for my younger children!! Keep up the fantastic work!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much! Wow, what an encouragement you are to me! 🥰 I’m so glad you tried CLE and love it! I hope you find a good fit for your other subjects too!
Seriously so informative! Thank you for sharing, I am so excited to be doing these lapbooks with my kiddo. She is going to have a new and fun way to learn with this! I'm not a crafty person, very book work, and I'm always looking to make school time an enjoyable experience for her!!! Thank you
Thank you so much for this video!! I had finally decided on using Five in a Row for this coming year, and I was looking for a video that would chat about it more! Your demeanor and your information was all so great! 🤗 I’m a fellow homeschool mama (with a TH-cam channel focusing on that, too) and I look forward to following along with you!
I haven't found many good videos about FIAR. This was one of the best, and I'm glad to see how you use it. I love the lapbooks but I haven't figured out how to use them more effectively. I like how you formatted them simply!
This was the best review of five in a row (I watched a few videos!) thank you so much. Do you think this is good for teaching a kindergarten and second grade at the same time?
We did FIAR when my older two were little, and we LOVED it! Thank you for this sweet reminder. I'm going to jump back in for my little one now. These memories are way too sweet to miss out on. BTW-Love the tree idea! So very neat!
I was able to get a copy of the first edition of Five in a Row at a used book store for super cheap. I didn’t know how my daughter would like it, but she loves it. Thank you for showing the new edition. We’re definitely going to continue using it.
I'm having a really hard time finding good, free printable lapbook resources other than for basically Madeline and Ping. Where are you finding great resources to grap for some of the other books? I have so many littles i just don't have time to try to reinvent the wheel. I'm ok paying a little for Teachers Pay Teachers, too.
Ha, ha! LUVS all of the above!! TY!! You & your channel are such a huge blessing to me & mine.. Seriously TY! Such a tremendous blessing & encouragement!!
I absolutely loved this video ❤️ That intro 😂 your family are so beautiful and it really looks like you are having a blast with five in a row. I have volume 1 of 5 in a row and really wanted to do it with my 6 and 13 year olds and just beef it up for my teen. (I was going to try and include cooking etc for my big girl) But we haven't started it yet cause I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the stuff. I also already had kindergarten blossom and root that we barely started last year then math mammoth and hooked on phonics for my little guy. We have made a good start with B & R la, he is doing awesome with hooked on phonics, maths is a bit ropey but he is trying. But our day feels boring and repetitive and seeing this awesome video makes me want to dump what we have started and just do five in a row. Please help 😂 what should I do? X
Thank you ❤️ You really just need to weigh what is working and what’s not and what is worth keeping. If something really isn’t working, I don’t think it’s worth wasting time on. I really love Five In A Row and I think as long as you add in Language and Math at least, you have what they need. And for you oldest, it would be pretty easy to assign books and other reading to really beef it up. I hope you figure out what’s going to work for your family ❤️
I'm sold! This looks amazing! I think perfect for my younger two kids. Is the recommended method to do lap booking? I am curious how else one would keep track of the information. We don't have a printer.
Yay! You will love it! So actually I’m not really sure how else people do it. They don’t mention anything about lapbooking in the actual curriculum, that’s just what a lot of people do. I’m sure you could just do what’s in the book with no extras and be totally fine! ❤️
❤❤❤❤❤Not only have you inspired and motivated me to stick it out with CLE, but now I’m adding in FIAR and dropping other curriculum we are doing to just put a check in the box. I feel like this could make the other subjects aside from the CLE LA, Math, and Reading much more enjoyable and engaging for us. I really want to find a way to continue this as they get older and past the quote unquote age recommendations for the levels. Thank you so much for an awesome video on how you use it. ❤❤❤❤❤
Do you prepare anything ahead of time for the Lap book? Or the kids just put them together piece by piece throughout the week? Does the book give the explanations behind the experiments? This looks so lovely, like the quality things I'm missing....but I still gotta keep it simple with little kids!
I print everything ahead of time, but my kids and I cut and piece things together as we go each day. It doesn't take much prep from me at all. The book does explain experiments and things and even has some printables with each lesson. I will be doing a video this month showing how I put together plans for a week of FIAR and how simple it really can be!
What are the big differences between the new and old edition of Volume 1? I can find the old edition for $7 on eBay, but I’m worried I’ll be missing out on something by not purchasing the new edition! 😂
I don't think there is a huge difference. The newer one might have a few added activities and it has some worksheets at the end of each lesson that you can photocopy, but I definitely think the original book is amazing and I'd probably just grab that for a fraction of the price.
Thank you for your response! I’m going to go with the older version. And thanks so much for this video- it was super helpful! I love the lap book idea!
Maybe….10 min. Honestly. I just search Pinterest for lap books for the specific book we’re doing, print out what I want to use, put it in my folder and it’s ready for the week!
I watched your video last night and I want to try 5 in a row but I was wondering if I could use it with my kindergarten and 4th grader at the same time and just move from each level together instead of bumping my 4th grader up to a new volume. I mainly want to keep them learning together as long as I can. Idk if I’m making any since lol
So, I’m not an expert on FIAR….but I would think that as long as you have a math and language curriculum, you could keep them together and could beef hers up if you think she needs more!
Yes, I add Math and Reading from Christian light to this. I think you probably wouldn’t have to bc there is a lot in FIAR if you do most of it, but I have had so much success with CLE Reading and Math that I wanted to do it with my son this year.
Our favorites….ooooooh! Let’s see….Lentil, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Very Last First Time, Madeline, The Glorious Flight and Ping! Those all must be on your shelf at home! In my opinion ❤️
Thank you for sharing how you use FIAR with your family. One of the best things I noticed about the way you do school with your kids is how peaceful it seems. I really appreciate the way you incorporated your entire family and the best part of that was all of the relationship connections you made as you went to the arboretum together! Trying out the pastels and taking the pictures of the trees they drew were great ideas too!! It really doesn't matter which "curriculum" we use, as long as it brings peace, and it allows us to deepen our relationships with our kids. I mean, we need to choose wisely, but there is a ton of freedom-the curriculum is a tool in the toolbox-not the boss! ☺ P.S. If schools can count field trip days as 'official days' of learning, please let yourself count glorious days at the arboretum as an official day. Because it was. And it was super valuable. If you need more encouragement, like most of us, The Smiling Homeschooler podcast is excellent!!!
Your videos are BY FAR the most helpful, God sent homeschool Mama videos that I have come across. I have switched my children to cle for math, reading, language arts and I was thinking what will I use for science, social studies, and art. I'm moving away from masterbooks which was a great fit for my first year of homeschooling but now that I'm more in the groove of things it seems less likely I'll stay with it. This looks like a really fun curriculum to cover those areas for my younger children!! Keep up the fantastic work!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much! Wow, what an encouragement you are to me! 🥰
I’m so glad you tried CLE and love it! I hope you find a good fit for your other subjects too!
Seriously so informative! Thank you for sharing, I am so excited to be doing these lapbooks with my kiddo. She is going to have a new and fun way to learn with this! I'm not a crafty person, very book work, and I'm always looking to make school time an enjoyable experience for her!!! Thank you
I’m so glad it was helpful! ❤️
Thank you so much for this video!! I had finally decided on using Five in a Row for this coming year, and I was looking for a video that would chat about it more! Your demeanor and your information was all so great! 🤗 I’m a fellow homeschool mama (with a TH-cam channel focusing on that, too) and I look forward to following along with you!
I haven't found many good videos about FIAR. This was one of the best, and I'm glad to see how you use it. I love the lapbooks but I haven't figured out how to use them more effectively. I like how you formatted them simply!
Thank you for saying that! I’m so glad this as helpful! ❤️
This was the best review of five in a row (I watched a few videos!) thank you so much. Do you think this is good for teaching a kindergarten and second grade at the same time?
Looooove FIAR! So fun that we both started using it when our now 8th graders were in K!
That is so cool! I am enjoying it so much doing FIAR with my 2 youngest! ❤️
We did FIAR when my older two were little, and we LOVED it! Thank you for this sweet reminder. I'm going to jump back in for my little one now. These memories are way too sweet to miss out on. BTW-Love the tree idea! So very neat!
I’m so glad! I needed this reminder too after so many years not doing FIAR! It’s such a sweet curriculum! ❤️
Thank you!
You're making FIAR sustainable. I use it as well and when I get on pinterest and try to do ALLLL the things, I burn out. Love watching your day.
Thank you! ❤️ Yes, we have to limit ourselves and make sure we don’t plan too much or we will get overwhelmed!
I was able to get a copy of the first edition of Five in a Row at a used book store for super cheap. I didn’t know how my daughter would like it, but she loves it. Thank you for showing the new edition. We’re definitely going to continue using it.
That’s awesome! What a cool find! ❤️
Me too! Just found one for $10. Was looking up how others used it
❤❤❤love this...going to look at this curriculum now for future with my youngest two.
I’m so glad! ❤️ I love it so much!
Really love how you did this video! Thanks so much!
Thank you! I’m so glad it helped! ❤️
So many great ideas! Thank you!❤
I’m so glad this helped! ❤️
I'm having a really hard time finding good, free printable lapbook resources other than for basically Madeline and Ping. Where are you finding great resources to grap for some of the other books? I have so many littles i just don't have time to try to reinvent the wheel. I'm ok paying a little for Teachers Pay Teachers, too.
I love it!!
Thank you! ❤️
Ha, ha! LUVS all of the above!! TY!! You & your channel are such a huge blessing to me & mine.. Seriously TY! Such a tremendous blessing & encouragement!!
Thank you for the sweet words 🥰
I’m so glad this was a blessing! ❤️
I absolutely loved this video ❤️ That intro 😂 your family are so beautiful and it really looks like you are having a blast with five in a row. I have volume 1 of 5 in a row and really wanted to do it with my 6 and 13 year olds and just beef it up for my teen. (I was going to try and include cooking etc for my big girl) But we haven't started it yet cause I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the stuff.
I also already had kindergarten blossom and root that we barely started last year then math mammoth and hooked on phonics for my little guy. We have made a good start with B & R la, he is doing awesome with hooked on phonics, maths is a bit ropey but he is trying. But our day feels boring and repetitive and seeing this awesome video makes me want to dump what we have started and just do five in a row. Please help 😂 what should I do? X
Thank you ❤️
You really just need to weigh what is working and what’s not and what is worth keeping. If something really isn’t working, I don’t think it’s worth wasting time on. I really love Five In A Row and I think as long as you add in Language and Math at least, you have what they need. And for you oldest, it would be pretty easy to assign books and other reading to really beef it up. I hope you figure out what’s going to work for your family ❤️
I'm sold! This looks amazing! I think perfect for my younger two kids. Is the recommended method to do lap booking? I am curious how else one would keep track of the information. We don't have a printer.
Yay! You will love it!
So actually I’m not really sure how else people do it. They don’t mention anything about lapbooking in the actual curriculum, that’s just what a lot of people do. I’m sure you could just do what’s in the book with no extras and be totally fine!
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Where did you get that map? This video was BEYOND helpful - thank you!
It was a thrift find! ❤️
Thank you! I’m so glad this helped!
❤❤❤❤❤Not only have you inspired and motivated me to stick it out with CLE, but now I’m adding in FIAR and dropping other curriculum we are doing to just put a check in the box. I feel like this could make the other subjects aside from the CLE LA, Math, and Reading much more enjoyable and engaging for us. I really want to find a way to continue this as they get older and past the quote unquote age recommendations for the levels. Thank you so much for an awesome video on how you use it. ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for the encouragement 🥰 I’m so glad this was helpful bc or you! ❤️
Do you need to use Pinterest for every book? Can you only use the FIAR book? Thanks!!
No you definitely don’t need to use Pinterest at all! I liked to find lap book ideas for each book, but there is plenty in the guide!
Do you prepare anything ahead of time for the Lap book? Or the kids just put them together piece by piece throughout the week? Does the book give the explanations behind the experiments? This looks so lovely, like the quality things I'm missing....but I still gotta keep it simple with little kids!
I print everything ahead of time, but my kids and I cut and piece things together as we go each day. It doesn't take much prep from me at all. The book does explain experiments and things and even has some printables with each lesson. I will be doing a video this month showing how I put together plans for a week of FIAR and how simple it really can be!
Thank you for sharing & explaining FIAR . Does any of the material that is needed for the lapbooks come with main book ?
There are usually 2 or 3 reproducible pages at the end of each lesson that can be used in a lap book or notebook!
The intro tickled me 😂
😆 I was a disaster during this video lol 😂
Do you go to one source for all your printables for your lap books?
I usually just search Pinterest for a quick look at what’s out there 😁
Where did you get your book stand that hold all your books for FIAR? I love that the covers are face out and visible
I got this so long ago….but I think it was a garage sale find! It really is pretty awesome!
What are the big differences between the new and old edition of Volume 1? I can find the old edition for $7 on eBay, but I’m worried I’ll be missing out on something by not purchasing the new edition! 😂
I don't think there is a huge difference. The newer one might have a few added activities and it has some worksheets at the end of each lesson that you can photocopy, but I definitely think the original book is amazing and I'd probably just grab that for a fraction of the price.
Thank you for your response! I’m going to go with the older version. And thanks so much for this video- it was super helpful! I love the lap book idea!
How much time does it take you to prepare your lap books and decisions on what project you’ll do for each book?
Maybe….10 min. Honestly. I just search Pinterest for lap books for the specific book we’re doing, print out what I want to use, put it in my folder and it’s ready for the week!
Thank you SO MUCH! Again, you’ve boosted my confidence! Lol
I watched your video last night and I want to try 5 in a row but I was wondering if I could use it with my kindergarten and 4th grader at the same time and just move from each level together instead of bumping my 4th grader up to a new volume. I mainly want to keep them learning together as long as I can. Idk if I’m making any since lol
So, I’m not an expert on FIAR….but I would think that as long as you have a math and language curriculum, you could keep them together and could beef hers up if you think she needs more!
Exploring switching for the lit based for my 7 year old. Do you add in a math curriculum or find it was enough?
Yes, I add Math and Reading from Christian light to this. I think you probably wouldn’t have to bc there is a lot in FIAR if you do most of it, but I have had so much success with CLE Reading and Math that I wanted to do it with my son this year.
Are the books easy to find?
Most of them are. There were a few I wasn’t able to get, but I found enough to make a full year out of it! ❤️
May I ask which books have been your favorite? Our library has most of them, so I'm debating whether to purchase or borrow the books!
Our favorites….ooooooh! Let’s see….Lentil, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Very Last First Time, Madeline, The Glorious Flight and Ping! Those all must be on your shelf at home! In my opinion ❤️
The beginning of this video…😂
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