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Thank you for sharing your experiences! I’m looking into the Alveary for next year. Currently with CMEC. Do there seem to be a lot of extra supplies needed for science and/or other subjects? Also do you use their math? Thank you for any insight!

Thank you for sharing. I love these videos! I will have grades k, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 next school year so I need to combine my forms 1-3 as much as possible. Do you have any tips for narrations? I find when my okder kids want to narrate, they have to wait for me to become available and then it feels rushed. Trying to figure out a better rhythm for adding them in!

How long do your days typically take using the Alveary?

Thanks for sharing! I love this insight into Alveary and I would love to see a syllabird tour/ review!

I saw that we can purchase individual subjects. I kind of put together my own Charlotte Mason curriculum, but I need help with science. What are your thoughts on the Alveary science? I have Form 1 and 2 if that helps 😉

I love your little planners!

I love that your son listens in on his younger brother’s Pilgrims Progress readings. 😊❤

Yay!! I am so glad you did this video!! Thanks so much!

It says the educator must have a high school diploma or GED. How does one send proof of this to them ? Do they even ask for it ?

I hope Logic of English works for your son!!! As a mom of a severely dyslexic son and also a certified dyslexia and OG trained specialist, I agree that it’s so important to go with an OG program!! 🩷🩷

The Anne White Guides are so helpful for Plutarch, and we also absolutely love Little Pilgrims Progress (though we have an older printing) and because of so many kids we read it every 2-3 years before starting Pilgrims Progress again. Formal Spanish also was on our chopping block unfortunately, but I can speak a few things and so sometimes I just start talking to my kids in Spanish and they try to figure it out. Though its not their favorite when I do that, but my high schooler is doing independent German lessons, and she will mimic me by speaking to me in German because I can't usually figure it out (though I know a few from my Grandma and she hates when I figure it out). She did this with Latin too when we did that, and it cracks me up because she thinks its a small way to make fun of me, but it secretly a homeschool mama win😁 My kids absolutely love Shakespeare and I hope to be able to attend some plays with them some day.

Hello! Which grade of science are you using for your 4th/6th graders?

I love the language you use--adjustments instead of ditched!

Best wishes with LOE! We used another Orton-Gillingham program, All About Reading, with my struggling reader and it helped him tremendously! He really needed that daily repetition of phonograms and a slow, incremental approach.

Loved hearing your own experience with this. We did mid term CM exams for the first time in Dec and it was fun! I recorded her voice at a coffee shop over hot chocolate. Got some great ideas here, thanks!

I just love listening to you and how your family runs! It blesses me every time 🫶🏽

I’d love to hear your thoughts on how the alveary book lists compare to those of Ambleside online or even cmec. I know they’re deemed as more progressive or modern books so I’m curious about your thoughts. From a fellow homeschool mom currently in decision making process 😅

We love LOE over here. It has worked really well for us. My son's reading took off near the beginning of level C. We have slowed down using it since his reading has actually now exceeded where they expect it to be in the curriculum. I skip things now but I'd like him to finish learning the rest of the spelling rules and phonograms. I really like how it teaches spelling and found videos on UA-cam helpful when learning the "finger spelling" method. Look forward to hearing how it works for your son!

I love your dress my daughter and I have the same one and love it. I would love to learn how you do your nature co-op it’s something that I would love to do something more in nature with my children

We struggled to add a foreign language as well! I love that you’re using LOE. We loved Foundations!!! Also, I am a type A person! But my children are not. Often MY systems don’t work for them and flexibility is so important! I love that you consider them and their needs above the curriculum or what others say you “should” do. Way to go Momma!

I enjoyed this, thank you! Do you have any other videos about your son’s struggle with reading? I’m in the same boat.

We are doing spanish 3 times a week and I feel like we are so far behind but that is currently all we can fit in and im just going at our pace. I was having a really hard time with plutarch until I bought another resource that is alittle easier to understand for my daughter. We do hymms, composer study, and art at our Charlotte mason co-op once a week so that takes some off of my plate. We are loving this curriculum I didnt think I would enjoy the Alveary as much as I do.

Ooh logic of English was exactly what my daughter needed. It did take time and I was getting nervous it wouldn’t ever click and maybe logic of English was actually a bad choice then all of a sudden things clicked she’s reading every free second. I’m constantly tearing up finding her staying up late bc she just had to read next chapter. Rn I’m totally letting her indulge 😂

Do you think you’ll stick with the Alveary for next school year?

We started the year with the Alveary too and we had to drop A LOT. This was our second year with the Alveary and it just feels like the feast was too large for us. 😩 We are just burnt out. My kids take an art class, a Spanish class, and also attend our local BSF. We were just tapped out and lost some of the joy and love of learning. I love the book selections so I decided to use their books and ditch their plans for now and almost turn them into unit studies. We ADORE the book selections but I feel like our neuro atypical (ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and dysgraphia) family doesn't click well with the typical CM schedule/lesson style, especially with having a toddler and having a large age gap between my older two. 😅 So currently we are focusing in on the US history, we are using some unit studies and we already have to dig in to the US history topics and time period the Alveary has planned. I still stand by the Alveary being an AMAZING program and I NEVER thought we would love Shakespeare as much as we do thanks to the Alveary. My 5th grader became obsessed with Hamlet! We just got to a very similar spot as you guys. ❤ I literally cried a bit and felt so horrible pulling way way back and dropping stuff but at the same time, I felt such a huge relief.

I think you explained how your brain and “system” works so well. I feel it 🤣 some things are just very innate and the process is more of an internal feeling than a clear cut system. I enjoyed your update 💙

Also you are amazing! I appreciate your videos

We dropped Spanish because it wasn’t sticking two years ago; we switched to ASL and are doing great. We tried Shakespeare but due to having a new baby, we stopped it and will pick it back up next year. I had to drop a few extracurriculars because I couldn’t handle it. I’m grateful for that Grace.

I have another question did the sight and sound not work with your child?

Right now in our first year with the gentle feast cycle three I have a first grader and a third grader and we’re gonna be switching next year

Hope you come back soon! Miss your videos. 😊

I spy a super cute dress 👀🤭I thought I recognized your sweet face! I am so glad to have stumbled upon your videos!

I drool over her curriculum but the price of her digitals are far far more than I can afford!

School during naps doesn’t work for us either! Thanks for saying this! Now I’m off to go purchase a bell!! I also have 3 boys! 7, 5, 10 mos (super mobile! Can’t stand being contained!) and currently expecting! I’m so nervous for the next 2-3 years of schooling thinking through how tough it will be with a newborn and toddler!

Thank you for all this info! Im new to homeschooling, like so new that I'm trying to find what curriculum!!!! This is great info!

I appreciate your video! I have been teaching traditional homeschooling for 3 years now and I gradually want to make a swift to Charlotte Mason on specific subjects like history. I discovered BOC but have no clue how to create one since I am on a very tight budget. Is it possible if you can make an in depth video on how to exactly label pages etc. I would greatly appreciate it! TYIA! 😊 GOD BLESS!

CMEC mom here, second year with them, and i definitely recommended them even if you're not a purist like me. Thank you for your time.

How does the world history in this work? I see it in the plans, but can’t find any you tube videos on that part. Everyone only talks about the American history part of it. I am so confused by the world history part lol

What are your thoughts on SCM Arithmetic vs. Beauty & Truth now that you've used B&T for a while now? We've used Math With Confidence for K-2nd are are about a quarter of the way through 3rd, but it's never been a great fit and feel we really need to make a change. I'm researching Math U See, SCM Arithmetic, and B&T Math. I would love to hear any advice you may have!

This is going to be a random question, lol. But, I love the bookshelves you have in the background. Do you mind telling me where you purchased them>

This video was great and informative. I am interested in Alveary, and your videos so far have been very helpful. Also, I wanted to recommend Jady A's Elemental Phonics program. There are three levels. It's so simple for busy moms. At first, I thought this was too easy for me to teach. Will it really work? And yes! My son is very active, so the length of the lessons really helped.

Can I ask--how have you liked the community read-alouds referenced? (Understandably, I can't access book lists for those, but I am curious if you've found that a lot of the titles have been repeats from AGF.)

I was so interested in your video about how you switched from AGF to The Alveary--it surprised me, but the more I watched your video, the more I agreed with what brought you to make the change. I also need/love refreshment in our homeschool, and while I love AGF, it's been hard going back around to Cycle 1 again with most of the material being repeat for me as mom. :) Thanks for making this updated video on how it's going!

Hello! Do you have the link to your alphabet card swirl stand??

My daughter is 11 and my only homeschooler. Would Peaceful Press be a good fit for 1 child?

We have the same type of schedule and I’m super interested in those agendas you made for your kids. I don’t see the link to that video. I honestly never thought of scheduling our weeks as days 1-4 instead of Mon-Fri. We also do a 4 day week but complete in 3 days. I’ll definitely be rethinking my planner going forward. We use AGF so it’s pretty easy to manipulate the schedule and combine kids. Thanks for the ideas!

Do you don’t have to have a GED or high school diploma to home school in ga ?

This is one area my husband and I don't fully agree. We walk a balance, between the fairy tale world. For example some of the Blue Fairy Book is ok with him and Grimm's etc aka classic fables and fairy tales, but Narnia is a hard no for him. I respect my husband so, even though I see so much goodness in Narnia, LOTR, and many other fairy tales, I don't read those one's with my children.

If fairy tales were wrong why did Jesus teach with parables?

This was so fun to watch, we use the Alveary also, I have two Form 1 students and some littles. It's our 3rd year using it. I appreciate you sharing how you are using the Alveary for your family. It's not a super common CM curriculum yet so every time I see content about it I get really excited. Your morning combined subject list is actually very similar to ours. I like the idea of having the list visible for them to bring their own books to the table. I decided to get Syllabird this year also and I love paper too but Syllabird is saving me so much time it is well worth the investment. We have a small home for the size of our family so I am trying to be mindful of storage and the flow of supplies and books from the table and back to the living room where they are stored. I look forward to more videos from you :] subscribed