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Yah!!! You’re so welcome!!! I’m so happy I am able to encourage other moms even by sharing my own “mistakes!” Sometimes we just need to hear another perspective to nudge us in one way or another. 😁

You’re welcome!! Glad it was helpful!!! 😁

😂💕 I’m just saying!!!!

It’s cheaper as a total to total. But when you consider 5 days/week vs 1 d/week, it’s pretty expensive. But there’s definitely a a reason even homeschool families are willing to pay for it….. there’s something wonderful about community and even the classical model and the way that CC does things. I actually heard of a private school a few hours from us, that not only is a classical private school, but they use the CC curriculum!! That would be an interesting option! If you love the CC model, but maybe cannot homeschool the kids yourself. I don’t know what that schools tuition is…. I only learned about it when I was interviewing moms to be a practicum worker one summer.

Scribblers wasn’t much when I left. What does it have now? I think the things I saw were more like copy work. I love your simple plan!!! You’re in such a sweet phase of your homeschool! So fun about the shirt! 🩷 I wear this shirt all the time! It must be that Bella Canvas material bc it is so soft!

@@OurHOMEschoolPlanso CC released the Scribblers at Home curriculum last year. It takes all the grammar plus phonics, math, writing, reading, and gives daily “recipes” of what to do with them. Now that I have this I really don’t need a phonics curriculum. It’s there. So is grammar, diagramming, writing, geography, math facts practice, etc. all that would need to be added are books to read. A family can could just do CC and Scribblers at Home and be good to go until Challenge. It’s awesome!

@@Homeschooling_with_the_Riveras oh wow!!! I have a lot to learn about what’s changed! That sounds great! But you incorporate McGuffy readers still??

@@OurHOMEschoolPlanyes! Still doing McGuffeys. Any reading material will work. It gives a read aloud conversation guide that can be used for any book. I also got the Prescripts writing for the boys age levels and the CopperLodge read alouds. Those are recommended by the Scribblers at Home curriculum. There is also Nature Walk guides, learning about moon cycles and constellations, drawing maps, Bible reading plans, Latin lessons that are all singing or playing games. Each day the family prays together, plays together, reads together, explores together, and serves together. Pick and choose what to do in each of these sections.

@@Homeschooling_with_the_Riveras that sounds wonderful!

It’s definitely a conundrum! I’m still choosing our math and since we’re not doing Latin, we’ll be doing something else for foreign language. Still doing Bible study together. And maybe some life skills added in to requirementa. But yeah….you can’t choose much else or else you’re wasting your money on the CC experience.

That’s awesome!! Maybe they should formalize what they do and sell the vision!!! 🤔 I know another community structured the same way also and using different curriculum than CC. The benefit to CC is the music, etc and products they e already created. That is harder to compete with. But creating a classical community on itself…..that’s where it will start. Someday, like I said, CC may get some competition.

Oh wow!!!! Thank you for sharing! I’m gonna have to check that channel out bc listening to audio books is such a great alternative!!!

License fee goes to SR to pay for the training that they do for the directors. The SR is not getting rich, by any means, supporting the ditectors. Having said that, some SRs probably support the directors more than others. But a license fee is like getting a “permit” to be able to teach. I did list in the video that the directors get the tuition - (license fee + director fee) = director pay. I’m not sure the new director fee is for though. 😬

@@OurHOMEschoolPlan The directors and SRs definitely aren’t getting rich! It’s a huge investment of time and money to prepare for class each week. I appreciate your videos!

@@elisabethquigley7399 I’m so glad!! 😊 thank you for supporting me as well even with a simple comment! 😘

@@elisabethquigley7399 Challenge Directors (grades 7th-12th) pay a $100 licensing fee to the SR, and an additional $335 to CC corporate. This fee comes from the tuition money paid to the Director from the parents. So you are correct; 100% of the tuition money does NOT stay in the community when it comes to the Challenge levels.

It’s not even close to an MLM! 🤪 No price break for more than 1 child in foundations. Supply fees can definitely vary. They have a suggested fee, but your director gets to set it and some of it might depend on what the community typically does with it. And the facility fee….yep! All depends on what the building manager charges.

Idek where the notion that it's an MLM came from. Wow. This is the first I've heard of that. MLMs ruins lives. I avoid them like the Plague!!

@@katie7748 me too!

I will take a look eventually. But even just seeing what you’ve listed sounds overwhelming. Death by information overload! 🤪😁 there’s never an end to info. But my point is, if I WANT that extra info, great!!! But I have to work hard to clear my mind of all the info overload to keep my homeschool simple. That’s just me.

That’s a bummer!!! I don’t think they’re supposed to REQUIRE you to pay for the daycare. You let supposed go be able to bring the young ones to class with you, even to class. I’ve heard Leigh Bortins herself say that as part of the original vision.

You use the CC memory apps?!?! That app is so wonderful for independent learning!!!

Ok you basically said you can accomodate your child as needed RIGHT after I wrote this comment and then continued watching. :) I want to add that I have a friend with a daughter with severe dyslexia and she is going in to Ch 2! She does all her "reading" of book via audiobook and has an app that scribes her papers. Her mom does have to help her some here and there and be creative in accommodating assignments to make it meaningful for her, but it is very doable and they both love CC, because the overall goal of the Challenge program is always on their mind (learning to think well) and that is something any kid can learn to do!

Great points!!! Also great tip on the scribing app!!

You’re welcome!!! ☺️

Directors pay the SR a license fee (and this part of how the SR gets paid. Fee is a little more than an app fee….its not a lot compared to the amount of hours the SR will have prepare for just to do the training FOR their directors) No, the SR doesn’t get paid even that, from directors they “recruit”. Only directors needed for their own communities. So even if an SR talks a friend into being a director, but that friend goes to a community outside that SR’s….the local SR is who does the training and the support. SR’s are not recruiting directors. They are filling the needs within their own community. “Our community needs a new CH A directors this year, is any mom willing to do it?” The SR might be asked by corporates if there is a growth potential in the area to start a new community so that people don’t have to drive a long distance for a CC community. Or bc communities within the area are consistently full. But they aren’t looking to just form new communities for new reason. Most of the time, those communities start organically anyway. It’s the mothers who want something closer or even at all! The SR is assigned to support them based on geography. But like I said, if I were to start a new community….if I already had 15 directors to support, and another community would start, they consider hiring another SR, rather than continue to ask me to support even more directors bc it’s a lot! I had 1x1 support calls with directors. SRs have to visit each classroom….the more directors, the more work. It’s in everybody’s best interest to have a “cap” on how many you can support. As for bonuses….i never got any bonuses. Any incentives they tried to give out….the juice was never worth the squeeze to me to even try. So I never even paid attention to them. It’s not a money maker like you are insinuating. .

@@OurHOMEschoolPlan oh, I am not trying to insinuate that SRs make a ton of money. Being in CC for six years as a F/E Director, and having been asked to be an SR, I know for a fact that Directors and SRs make next to nothing when you consider all the time they put into their communities. I was simply trying to point out the other ways they make money that ordinary mom’s singing up for CC don’t know about. It was my experience that SRs received bonuses for opening up new communities. Our SR was super pushy about constantly starting new ones and breaking up full and thriving communities. She told me straight up that she gets a bonus if she can meet her quota (opening up new communities). SRs also made money off how many people they could get to sign up for CCC (which isn’t an issue now that CC requires everyone to sign up for it). They’d also make a percentage off the sales from books sold during Practicum, as well as, books sold during ACBC nights disguised as mom’s nights. My SR was over multiple communities, not just the one she attended with her own children. She was constantly trying to recruit moms to direct in order to grow each community, but a lot of times she came off as being very pushy and manipulative. The fact is, you have to have moms step up to direct in order to keep communities growing. They won’t last if moms don’t step up. Most people coming into CC don’t realize this. Each Director would pay the SR a $100 fee per year, which she got to keep. This was paid before we could attend our one-day Director Licensing Orientation. She told me this when she was trying to recruit me to become an SR so she could try and become an AR. All this to say, I’m not trying to argue with you. I’m just attempting to offer more transparency when it comes to how CC makes money and where the money goes. I believe if CC as a whole was more open and honest about this, there wouldn’t be so many people questioning their tactics. (This is and was my personal experience.)

@@MamaSchopfer-vy4km I wonder if some of what you’re mentioning as an SR duty/bonus changed after I left. I never fully understood even HOW I got paid as an SR besides the app fee percentage. All the bonuses I heard about didn’t seem worth my effort to even try. So maybe they changed it. I was more about supporting my directors than trying to grow communities. Infact, the push for that part of the job is what I hated. I just wanted to homeschool my kids and support our communities. Everything else didn’t sit well with me. 😕 i like organic growth! But splitting apart communities doesn’t feel right unless there is a need or desire from the moms themselves.

@@OurHOMEschoolPlan I completely agree! The pushiness and what seemed like a constant focus on growth ultimately made me burnout. I’m with you; I just wanted to homeschool my own kids in a community of like-minded families. When my SR began pushing me to hold info meetings with potential families even though my own community was full with a waiting list, I told her I wasn’t comfortable “selling CC” and then telling the families they’d have to join one of the other communities that didn’t exist yet. By this I mean that my SR was advertising communities in locations that she didn’t even have Directors for yet. The communities were listed on the CC website! Like, what?! This part of CC is why my family ultimately left. Our area now only has one CC community, down from at least six at the peak. The fact that you were an SR and didn’t understand how you were even being paid is very concerning. This is why I believe CC needs way more transparency when it comes to how they do business. Not being transparent causes confusion and frustration, especially if you’re in a leadership position within CC and start asking questions. Anyway, not trying to bash CC or you. I LOVE your channel! You’re hilarious and very, very real!!! I pray you have a better experience in CC this time around. ❤️

@@MamaSchopfer-vy4km thank you so much!!! 💕 I want to be fair to CC. And sometimes there is misinformation out there. But at the same time….like you said….there are definitely things that don’t make sense. Thank you for clearing up what you meant!!! 🩷 sounds like your SR was very aggressive. And that can definitely turn people off. I was very conscientious of trying to do my job, but at the same time, the relationships within the communities and keeping the directors feeling as supported as possible was the most important to me. If you don’t have directors you don’t have community. And if you don’t support the directors, they won’t stick around. And that can turn off families too. I’m so fortunate that the community we e joined seems to be very focused on relationships. So I’m optimistic about that part!! Thank you again for the discussion. It’s all good info for any key asking questions!!

It’s not cheap! But there’s a reason people are willing to pay or work to pay for it.

@@OurHOMEschoolPlan makes sense. 😊

Awe! Thanks! And I love to encourage!! 💕

I do not believe they have a list of suggested literature. Their sample essays are all based on “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” and “The Gift of the Magi.”

🩷❤️🩷 no homeschool year is alike!! It’s so great that we have this option! I hope you have a fantastic and blessed year!!

I’m so glad!!!! Thank you!😊

LMF definitely helped fill in some gaps I saw with my daughter. We’ve still moved slower than I anticipated, but because it’s mastery….i think that what is best anyway. It does have periodic tests that will go back and review. But for retention issues, for us, I think mastery has been helpful bc they really have to practice it over and over and over until they know it. So I feel like it less likely to forget. Having said that, it seems odd to say that bc spiral is also supposed to be excellent for retention issues. The one thing I will say about LMF, it’s inexpensive to try. You could just buy a couple books and see how it goes. It’s an excellent supplement if you want to pair it with another curriculum. I think for academic challenges that you and I are experiencing with our children, we have just keep reminding ourselves that it’s ok to just go the pace these kids need. If we have to review over and over and over again….so be it. As long as they’re making progress, that’s what counts. I’ve had to completely rewire my own thinking on this. I’m considering finding another math curriculum for my daughter this year to pair WITH LMF. Because I like LMF, but I also need help with teaching. I would really love to hire a tutor, but I can’t afford one. So I’m thinking about trying another online curriculum as well. We’ll see. I haven’t decided yet. (And it won’t be TT if I do go that route) I hope that helps! And it’s so fun to know how many fellow CC families watch my videos!!! 💕

You’re welcome!!!!! 😉

Thanks!

Bummer!!! I didn’t do much different for our Bible time this year so there’s not much to report. We continued to use the Generations of Grace Family Devotional. I may give an update on the Made In Our Image book I’m doing with my teens. But we haven’t finished the book yet. We’re slow! I just kept our Bible time simple this year because I had so many very specific spiritual needs of my kids to tackle 1x1. I have ideas for next year, in terms of spiritual things we will try to concentrate on. I always hate to say, “This is my plan.” And then not get to it bc something else came up. So I was thinking maybe I’d share if when we actually start it. 🤪 or maybe I’ll share what’s on my heart. These teen years have got me on my knees like no other time of motherhood! Completely helpless is a good place to be so that the power of Christ may rest upon me! 🩷

Do you have a brand of wet erase you like??

He will fill in the gaps bc He is faithful!! 🩷 thank you!!!

Thank you!! 🤪

Glad I can help!!

Hee hee!!! You’re in good company!😜

This is just grammar. I also use the IEW writing curriculum, WHICH IS AWESOME! I have a few videos about that explaining it if you aren’t sure how it works. But it’s an effective and thorough writing curriculum that goes thorough the mechanics of writing , not just the creative aspect.

Here is my IEW playlist that has every video I’ve made about anything IEW. The writing curriculums are explained in a few videos. ua-cam.com/play/PLSGIl3wBXjD8YgTu57dP6ds_9l4BNBxf3.html&si=ux24WuVSHcvuJ6dz

Yes! It is definitely possible! Also, all 1st years will cover the same units. Level A is geared for 3-5 graders. But IEW is very classical and spiral in nature. They will repeat the same lessons just using different material and audience focuses. If your child is in grade 3-5, then go with that. You’ll definitely learn too!

That’s a good idea!! Truth be told, I pay very little attention to the actual story. We’re so busy editing the sentences…. The OLD style of Fix It, you actually write each sentence in a separate notebook so you had a complete story in the end. Now you write each sentence on each page. So it’s not exactly the same “complete story” in the end.

You’re welcome! 😊

Yes! They give you an idea to scale it if you wanted to do it for JR HIGH and also how to do it for high school credit. They have two years of Latin. 2 credits.

@@OurHOMEschoolPlan oh that's awesome! I took Latin in high school and my son wants to take it. Maybe we will start it his 8th grade year and then do Latin 2 in 9th. Thanks so much!

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I don't disagree with you. We ended up leaving TT after a year and a half.

It worked awesome for about a year and half and then I wasn’t as consistent with it. But that was all me! As your kids grow, you may just need to adjust the rewards and whatever motivates them. I plan on doing something SLIGHTLY different for my high schoolers for next year. And honestly, my youngest was earning all her max stats on a weekly basis, so we may have outgrown this particular chart. But it seriously was a game changer when we first implemented it!!