We love using morning virtues after dinner and that’s when we do our morning basket!!! It works for us and we do our readings in our morning basket and after the morning virtues my younger kids can go and play if needed!!! We included our younger kids last year with fables and I found that all my kids took something from them!!! We read the Bible portion of morning virtues especially as my younger homeschool kids sit in church often!!! We have a state puzzle app!!! 2nd language conversation is difficult!!!
I just recently got homeschool languages and will be doing that in the morning as well! So looking forward to the school year! Reading during breakfast (while I’m not eating lol) works the best for us in the past (using Sonlight).
Yes, I typically eat before they wake up (if I happen to wake up early enough...which is not as often right now because baby still wakes up frequently), or after breakfast and readings, while they have some playtime.
I am interested in the gentle and classical curriculum you referred too. I am trying to figure out what category it fits into. Is this just classical education or is it charlottes mason mixed in?
This is a detailed video on Gentle + Classical's Sequence 1: ua-cam.com/video/dMa-GDxcxXo/v-deo.htmlsi=nGj0A9jRp5E64sd7 Charlotte Mason's methodology can be considered part of the larger Classical education tradition. Gentle + Classical definitely incorporate some of the iconic principles of Charlotte Mason education (i.e. living books, narration, etc.)
I don't think for myself I'll ever feel super comfortable teaching math strategies in my second or third language (just reflecting on yesterday's Beast Academy lesson...sometimes the explanations of strategies are already getting a little complicated and this is just 2nd grade math, haha!). But on the basic level, we do teach numbers and the basic terms for how you would read an equation or expression in Spanish. We do some oral problem solving drills or if I'm reading aloud a word problem I might just switch it into Spanish...but for actual problem solving strategies, I stick to mine (and their) strongest language.
What book will you be moving to after the Fables book? I got that book for my son after watching this video. I only have two weeks left of the book and I was wondering what you might suggest next?
We love using morning virtues after dinner and that’s when we do our morning basket!!! It works for us and we do our readings in our morning basket and after the morning virtues my younger kids can go and play if needed!!! We included our younger kids last year with fables and I found that all my kids took something from them!!! We read the Bible portion of morning virtues especially as my younger homeschool kids sit in church often!!! We have a state puzzle app!!! 2nd language conversation is difficult!!!
Yes, it takes a lot of practice to build those conversation skills. Gradually!
Love hearing about the materials you are using for your sons. Thanks for sharing.
You are so welcome!
I just recently got homeschool languages and will be doing that in the morning as well! So looking forward to the school year!
Reading during breakfast (while I’m not eating lol) works the best for us in the past (using Sonlight).
Yes, I typically eat before they wake up (if I happen to wake up early enough...which is not as often right now because baby still wakes up frequently), or after breakfast and readings, while they have some playtime.
I am interested in the gentle and classical curriculum you referred too. I am trying to figure out what category it fits into. Is this just classical education or is it charlottes mason mixed in?
This is a detailed video on Gentle + Classical's Sequence 1: ua-cam.com/video/dMa-GDxcxXo/v-deo.htmlsi=nGj0A9jRp5E64sd7
Charlotte Mason's methodology can be considered part of the larger Classical education tradition. Gentle + Classical definitely incorporate some of the iconic principles of Charlotte Mason education (i.e. living books, narration, etc.)
We teach mathematics in our third language. Do you think you’ll get to that stage with your Spanish lessons?
I don't think for myself I'll ever feel super comfortable teaching math strategies in my second or third language (just reflecting on yesterday's Beast Academy lesson...sometimes the explanations of strategies are already getting a little complicated and this is just 2nd grade math, haha!). But on the basic level, we do teach numbers and the basic terms for how you would read an equation or expression in Spanish. We do some oral problem solving drills or if I'm reading aloud a word problem I might just switch it into Spanish...but for actual problem solving strategies, I stick to mine (and their) strongest language.
What book will you be moving to after the Fables book? I got that book for my son after watching this video. I only have two weeks left of the book and I was wondering what you might suggest next?
We're going to read a book of Aesop's Fables next. :)
@@SevenInAll thank you!
@@SevenInAll do you have a link to which Aesop's Fables book you're going to be using?
I also have early risers. It isn't uncommon for us to be sitting down for our 'meaty' reading at 730am 😂
Yep, bright and early! (Actually, dark and early most of the time around here because our sun doesn't rise especially early...)