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  1. I have four. We have done everyone all together and everyone separate and all the variations in between. Depends on season of life. the year my husbad was deployed and the kids were 3-12 we did winter promise sea and sky. We need a “morning basket” we have to have some sort of coming together else the only time anyone talks or interacts with someone else is meals. Sometime our read aloud basket is history driven, or a premade booklist bundle or some years it’s just a collection of books that had a specific kid in mind when I added it to the basket but it’s all beneficial to the everyone else. I found when comparing schedules it helped to compare when their youngest was the same age as my youngest or their oldest was the same age as my oldest. so this was when we had a newborn, 3, 6, and 9 and husband was deployed 7:30 nurse 8:00 brush teeth, get dress what up any kid who isn’t awake yet 8:30 breakfast 9:00 morning shuffle: clean off table, bigs empty dishwasher, start load of laundry, sweep kitchen 9:30 baby nap, phonics/handwriting and math with 6 year old, 9 year old educational apps, 3 year old play 10:00 lesson with 9 year old: grammar, math and reading, 9 screen time 11:30 nurse. 12 gets screen time noon lunch prep 12:30 lunch 1 clean kitchen 1:30 to 3:30 quiet time aka leave mommy alone 3:30 nurse 4:00 kids outside (neighbor kids were home from school. Back when they still came out to play) 5:00 dinner prep 6:00 dinner and clean up 7:00 baby bath 7:30 nurse,kids brush teeth and get ready for bed 8 read to 6 year old, check on 12 year old, read to 3 year till he fell asleep 9 shower this is when eldest was 12 and youngest was 3 and hubby was also deployed 9:00 breakfast 10-1 I worked one on one for an hour three kids on their 3rs or what ever they needed me for. the rest had study hall a menu of independent work they could pick from. 1p—4 prep, lunch, tidy the house 4-6 two hour rotation. I picked four rooms and four activities and they cycle between them. Aka no kid was in the same room as another aka they can’t get in trouble for fighting. (Screen time in tv room, read on their bed, crafts on the kitchen table, movement in the basement) thirty minutes in each room then rotate. Because they all wanted their full 30 mins on screens things ran rather smoothly. 6pm one on one lessons with kid who didn’t get lessons earlier 7 dinner 8 one on one fun time with a kid or whole family activity 9:00 sea and sky 10:00 bath, brush, book, bed both schedules the kids only got thirty minutes of screen in the first it was a reward for finishing their one on one lesson with me and the later was part of their two hour rotation. We have since loosen up on screens and looking back I wish we could have kept it to thirty minutes a day. (Husband is the weakest link lol)
  2. Here is a frog and toad unit study: https://wilkinsonnest.com/frog---toad.html
  3. long version: We have too much stuff. But I'm currently in a mindset that I know our time is at a premium and honestly we rarely do arts and crafts. The co-op the kids go to once a week has an hour called flex lab where they rotate through strewing all sorts of craft supplies so i know just because we no longer have it they will still have some level of access to it. Help me pair down what we have. short version: If you could only have a bankers box worth of craft supplies, what would you fill it with?
  4. Youngest is 6. I feel like such a slacker with her compared to what I did with the olders. But life dynamics have changed, not only is she one or four competing for my time I now have a part time job so my time is super limited. I started her on Phonics Pathways last week, I have explode the code pulled out for her and the All about readers. We worked started through Barefoot Meanderings Handwriting lessons through literature for beginner readers back in the spring but took a break from it during the summer, need to start it up again. still haven’t decided what I want to do for math. I think because i don’t have much time I want to use my one on one time with her to focus on only math facts. I have the whole math facts that stick series but I’m not sure that’s the route I want to take. She chooses to play prodigy/Boddle as her fun screens so she is getting all the other math stuff presented. it’s really funny: it was pulling teeth to get the olders to watch letter factory and such when they were younger but she just gobbles it up and asks for more. He favorite show is number blocks. Really wish that had been around for the olders. she sometimes joins the middles for group read aloud: we are reading through life of fred, American history using the Memoria press simply classical three book list, and the child’s introduction to books. in the car she gets story of the world and lyrical science. co-op she is doing a Waldorf numbers class, a science class, and a makers class. written all out she actually has a pretty well rounded kindergarten lined up. Just need to be consistent with my one on one lessons.
  5. simplex spelling apps http://www.pyxwise.com/ssphonics1.html
  6. Thank you, Lori! That was exactly what I was looking for!
  7. I'm looking for a road map? checklist? skill tree? for language arts. There are so many pieces to language arts: reading, composition, vocabulary, grammar, it feels like it goes on and on. My husband is getting more involved with our homeschool, and would like a skills tree. Something that spells out all the different parts and the steps that build upon each other needed to learn the skill. I tried searching the forums but didn't have much luck looking for specifically what I was looking for. But i did come across which I liked how the steps were listed out. If you know of any other threads that listed out skills step by step or know of any resources you could point me in the direction of I would greatly appreciate it.
  8. I have four kids. I could not do rotate by subject. I need to work with one kid and do all their one on one things, and then move on to the next kid. I call the time I'm working with any kid study hall hours. If it's study hall and they aren't working one on one with me it's basically anything goes as long as it's not fun screens. There is some assigned reading, maybe one or two specific assignments but it has a rather unschool sort of feel. One on One lessons i have a milk crate for each kid. It's filled with all sorts of things. I have three or four things I hit daily and the rest is what every strikes my mood. A math something, a reading something, a composition something, Ours day is something like this: Breakfast and morning chores an hour with second oldest kid an hour with second youngest kid make lunch, eat lunch, clean up (I read from our group read aloud during lunch: currently doing build your library 😎 an hour with youngest an hour with eldest clean the house free time make dinner, eat dinner, clean up
  9. I have been partner reading the Magic Tree House books with my eight year old. We enjoyed that it covered all sorts of topics but there was the common thread of kids. He went from really struggling to get through them to being able to read them solo with ease. Is there any other book series that covers different topics with a high reading level for us to partner read?
  10. I have the elementary one. Most of the entries are secular but you do have some entries that say things like "tell about a Bible verse or passage that comes to mind when you read this book. Why does it?" or "If you could meet the main character. . . How would you encourage this character’s faith? What would you tell him or her about God?"
  11. I personally was disappointed with the ADE templates. It help you create an ideal framework, but there wasn't much support in how to populate the plan. I didn't remember it last night, but between ADE templates and cmplenary.com Charlotte Mason your way, i preferred the Plenary one more. The challenge is always figuring out how much depth? how much breath? How much time? How often? How much individually? How much as a group? You create this amazing master plan and nothing puzzles into the format you want. you've found the perfect world history but its scheduled to be four days a week and you only have allotted one day a week. So do you then just take all the available resources and puzzle them into something? and back and forth. I've spent many years and who knows how much money trying to find the perfect solution/ puzzling and have given up. While it's still a chaotic mess, just accepting that it's going to be a chaotic mess nothing is going to line up right, has been rather freeing.
  12. I have the ADE curriculum templates. They are good if you are a Charlotte Mason purist but we are not. So while I pull them out and play with them each year nothing really plans out from it. As much as i use the curriculum templates, I also glean a lot of ideas and framework from looking at samples of other Charlotte Mason curriculum schedules. I've learn to look past precisely what they are scheduling and just look at the framework of how much and how often. I like looking at Barefoot Meanderings samples for their wayfarer curriculum http://barefootmeandering.com/site/wayfarers/ I seek inspiration from it when I'm leaning towards doing more things together as a group. I like looking at the one week samples from charlottemasonphilippines.com. My favorite resource is Minimalism Homeschooling with a Charlotte mason Education. I got it off Etsy for $6, but it looks like it's no longer being sold. There's an e-mail address in the file. If you are interested send me a PM and I can give you their e-mail address and hopefully you can buy a copy.
  13. I work for a Pace provider, basically someone who is allowed to use the Learning RX curriculum without having to be a Learning RX franchise. We use the Gibson Test as the pre and post assessment, I think the assessments are fairly accurate but I think many kids score lower in auditory processing than they may actually be at. Since it’s a teach to test sort of thing their post test scores are always higher. I would say what we do is like vision therapy in the sense that most kids don’t need it, but for those who need it, it’s life changing.
  14. They are doing metronome work at brain training. they set it to 120 beats per minute and do things based on every other beat… would be the same as working at 60 non but have the extra beat makes it seem faster. they work at tempo so the coach will say something and expect the answer on the beat, or read a paragraph or down a list kn the beat. If they answer correctly but not on beat they’ll say good but on the beat and repeat till they are on the beat. Staying on beat seems more important than right answers but either way they repeat till it right and flows correctly.
  15. Eldest will be 15 this fall. He did the Gibson test at a local cognitive brain train center. working memory - 59 percentile auditory memory - 21 percentile visual memory - 99 visual processing - 60 logic-reasoning - 19 processing speed - 1 auditory processing - 27 word attack - 56 We will see how he does with the brain training. But what curriculum recommendations or what to focus on home school wise? We tried lots of things in middle school and I now understand why nothing really worked. My husband works, I work part time in the evening. We have three other kids that I'm also homeschooling. What should I focus my time helping him school wise and what can he do. Input versus output, what would reasonable for a high school course be?
  16. Eldest will be 15 this fall. He did the Gibson test at a local cognitive brain train center. working memory - 59 percentile auditory memory - 21 percentile visual memory - 99 visual processing - 60 logic-reasoning - 19 processing speed - 1 auditory processing - 27 word attack - 56 We will see how he does with the brain training. But what curriculum recommendations or what to focus on home school wise? We tried lots of things in middle school and I now understand why nothing really worked. My husband works, I work part time in the evening. We have three other kids that I'm also homeschooling. What should I focus my time helping him school wise and what can he do. Input versus output, what would reasonable for a high school course be?
  17. I’ve got four kids. we have study hall hours from 9 to 4 with lunch and recess tossed somewhere in there I spend about an hour with each kid one on one. A little less than a hour for the elementary and a little longer than an hour with my middle and high schooler. Study hall is basically just no fun screens. They each have a checklist of things I want them to do independently but once those are done they are free to “unschool”
  18. We were in the beta. We have it and use it. It’s 12 stages. First 5 stages are super duper short with maybe 4 assignments in a level. Stage 6 is when it starts ramping up, it has 37 assignments. we use the pdf the first year and then bought the hard copies. using the PDFs help us developed some good habits. I didn’t make my kids hand wrote theirs, they typed. I had the write out the assignment “write 10 sentences in the sentence pattern #11. Write one 1232323 paragraph using at least one sentence pattern #11” and then underneath that have them write out what a 1232323 paragraph was and then what the sentence variation was so they didn’t have to “flip” through the pdf as much. I find it dry and forced. But my kids like how straightforward it is.
  19. I need to put the "read to mom" book on auto pilot. I use to pick out the books making sure they were of interest and of the right level for Thing 1 and Thing 2. But I have really bad decision fatigue right now and the thought of doing that for Thing 3 and 4 seems unlikely. My husband suggested I just have them read what I had the older ones read, but I guess I have amnesia because I can't remember what they read to me.
  20. I love this idea. I think it's because it now puts the planning on him, instead of me having to plot out and make sure I included everything.
  21. I love this shift in thought on what output can be used for. I look forward to anything additional you add 🙂
  22. For the Cornell note did they hand write or any use any sort of assistive technology. We are at the point where I'm weighing the note taking option, with lecture/video he is working so hard to take the notes that he isn't able to pay attention to what is being said if that makes any sense.
  23. Dual Enrollment is available where we currently are living. I don't know how much longer we will be living here or if where we will end up will have the option. I'm hoping for the best, planning for the worst. Our library gives us access to the Great Course and Craftsy, which have a couple of video art classed that Eldest expressed interest in. I was trying to figure out the ratio of hours watching to hours working on what he learned. Oh that didn't come out the way I meant it. It was more of a "I asked the people around me, and I'm glad they found things that worked for their families, but I was hoping to hear more out of the box ideas to get the gears rolling" but anxiety took over.
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