Homeschool Haul: Christian Light Education- K and 3rd grade
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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We are a homesteading, homeschooling family of 7. Due to recent events (job loss/career change, health issues, rising food costs, etc.) we are having a hard time making ends meet despite our best efforts at frugality. So we are tapping into our local food banks to help us feed our family. Come along as I show you what we are blessed with, what we add to it via grocery store and garden, and how I use it all to nourish our bodies.
Thanks for watching and God bless!
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I love CLE! We strayed away at the beginning of the school year for something flashier. It didn’t work and became too much. We are small business owners and we don’t have a lot of time to waste on flash and fuss. CLE is perfect for our lifestyle and for my 3rd grader who just wants to get it over with. There are no surprises and he knows what to expect on a day to day. It’s so clearly written. I also love the review and the practice of what he learned. He tends to forget quickly…so the repetitiveness is great for us.
So happy to see other families use CLE. We LOVE it so much!! ❤❤❤
We used CLE for most of our subjects for most of the time we homeschooled. My kids have graduated now but we did homeschool for 12 years. I loved how user friendly it was and that if we had a question I could just call. We did not use the upper level of high school history/social studies due to doctrinal differences. Pathway Readers are excellent.
Honestly I could listen to your videos all day,, your family are very lucky to have you
Hi, New sub here! Thanks for sharing I also have my kids in CLE and we love it!
We used the kindergarten curriculum and loved it. After that we switched over to the good and the beautiful. Very good choice for small children.
Great video, thank you 💐💐 Our kids are all out the house and married , but it was nice to hear how you do this all , awesome . Have a wonderful Sunday 🥰🥰
I don't know how you accomplish so much!
Good job with your home schooling , your garden, taking care of five kiddo's, making three great meals a day and staying in church! All of this and you have health issues to boot. Excellent job with everything!
God Bless You and Your Family!
By the Grace of God and a whole lot of vitamin B. 🤣
Amen, LOL!
I highly recommend Saxon Math for mathematical curriculum. I can tell you first hand that the Saxon Math curriculum translates exceptionally well to our universities. I have 3 children in large well respected universities, one of whom is a math major. Saxon Math brought her there. Congratulations on home schooling. It's well worth the effort. God bless
They were in my top 5 when I was searching. 😊
My oldest did CLE math through 600 level then moved seamlessly to Saxon Algebra 1. They are set up nearly identically. Most kids would probably benefit from jumping to Saxon 8/7 OR Saxon Algebra 1/2 first, but take the placement test when you decide to swap.
Excited to see this! I'm doing CLE with my 5 year old this fall.
Very helpful thank you
We love CLE especially the math!
My daughter loved Explode the Code for reading.
My husband and I are homeschooling my cousin in middle school and will probably be homeschooling other students soon after her. :) We will be using the curriculum with our own children.
I wish I would have had this when my kids were young. I had a daughter that was bullied so bad in public school. She is in her 30s now and still has self esteem issues.
I am so sorry you both had to go through that. 😔
Please tell us what you do for Science and history!!
This was an excellent review of Christian Light!!
We use Mystery of History for history as a family. We also do a lot of read alouds from all over history and the world.
And we use Apologia Science as a family and also enjoy the ocassional lap book/unit study. And we own a lot of science related kids books, atlases, encyclopedias, reference books, etc.
My child is only 2 but knows all his letter sounds and a word associated with each letter a is for apple, z for zebra, etc. He can count to 10. Knows as many animal sounds as I can think of. He sings whole songs and memories nursery rhymes. I am thinking of starting the abc series verbally with him because we are doing before five in a row with him now and it isn't enough like I hoped. I am not pushing him but he has this overwhelming eagerness to learn more and more. The preschool books from what I see won't be enough for him as he knows all the concepts but can't write.
I considered home school for my daughter here in England but I got worried that I wouldnt cope or be clever enough shes 3 days at a college now seems to be working out
The abc readiness series for your kindergartener do you complete one book then move to the next? Or just jump around however you feel?
@@KortnieHarris one book at a time. Each book coveres a different area of the world (like tropical, forests, oceans, arctic, etc. And they do build on each other.
Loved seeing that planner! Do you do anything with your littles before starting
the K?
Just lots of reading and playing games and doing puzzles and such. My oldest ended up teaching my 5 year old all his shapes, colors and numbers 0-10. Lol
Do they no longer have the last 3 of those kindergarten books?
Unfortunately Christian Light Education only sells the first ones. You can buy the last few from Rod and Staff Publishing or off Amazon.
How do you combine the rod and staff books with the K1?
We will do a lesson in K1 one day and several pages of the R&S the next day and just bounce back and forth.
Great that you are homeschooling your children. I know several families that are homeschooling their kids. The why they are homeschooling their children is because the public schools are terrible.
Do you do the ANCDEFGHI books alongside the CLE kinder?
Yes. We usually do a lesson in the K books one day and some pages from the ABCD series the next day. It mixes it up and keeps them interested. The ABCD series has lots of cutting and pasting which my kids love.
What do you use for math??
Christian Light Education
What do you use for science?
We use Apologia loosely. And we do a lot of reading.
Do you think for k you could just do the a-i books?
Sure! They are both independent kindergarten programs.
I'm looking at doing this curriculum for 3rd grade next school year! Do you supplement with anything else? Or do you find this is sufficient
It is very sufficient! That is one thing I like about CLE. I don't feel like I have to fill in any gaps.
@ashleybee7188 did you end up using it? We are using it for 3rd grade this year and I like but sometimes it feels like it takes a long time. Think I may try what she does and cross out a few problems here and there in the we remember sections.
@@wolverinemoviemaker6041 yes! Same here. We ended up skipping some because of that reason. I love the curriculum but I also added in some online websites to break it up a bit.
What do you use for history snd science?
Apologia Science
Mystery of History
We do them together as a family. We also have a lot of educational nature books on our shelves and read a lot of historical fiction books as read alouds.
@@weepingwillowhomestead aww, we have the same resources. We are finishing up CLE 2 and we also have Apologia and Mystery of History. We also have been reading through those together along with a ton of other books on every subject. I absolutely love CLE. It's rigorous, sound and yet gentle at the same time.
@@burkhousehold8880 I could not agree more!
What about their preschool?
We don't do much table work for preschool. We do a lot of playing games, every day life skills, etc. But not much formal seat work till they are in kindergarten.