We are going to use Saxon & Nicole the math lady free trial at the beginning of the year too!
@livingthegandeelife5565
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome! I hope we both find it to be a good fit for our families!
@TheChan7
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I love getting ideas. New sub! I also have a channel mainly about homeschooling and glad to connect here. I need to watch again to see why your 5th grader will be going with Saxon 7/6 instead of 6/5.
@TheLearningLadder
2 жыл бұрын
Great to see your choices. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes for the new homeschool year.
@livingthegandeelife5565
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@creatingcommunity7022
2 жыл бұрын
We are using Saxon as well this year. It's our first year using it. We are brand new to IEW this year. Using their Structure and Style, Fix It Grammar and Phonetic Zoo Spelling. Thanks for sharing. God bless 🥰
@livingthegandeelife5565
2 жыл бұрын
I hope Saxon works well for your family. It seems to work with ours. Albeit, it's not cute and pretty like some curriculums, but it works! Good luck with IEW! We really like that too! Have a great year! God bless!
@creatingcommunity7022
2 жыл бұрын
@@livingthegandeelife5565 thank you! ❤️
@hippo1701
2 жыл бұрын
My son did the same thing, rocks, fossils, pebbles. We sat down with him and the 3 of us came up with a number. He had to find new homes for the excess. Our number was 15 total.
@livingthegandeelife5565
2 жыл бұрын
That's a good idea to come up with a number limit! I keep finding them in random nooks and crannies!
@hippo1701
2 жыл бұрын
@@livingthegandeelife5565 , he has 3 spots for his, or his pockets. To this day, my wife has to go through his pockets before laundry day (and my pockets, too). You know rocks and pebbles are cool.
@brookeslooks2440
2 жыл бұрын
Faith, my son is 8 (almost 9) years old and going into 4th grade this fall and we will be using everything you've suggested because I truly believe they are SOLID programs and I've researched A LOT!! We will be using the same levels for everything except math. I know you've used saxon 5/4 in the past with your son. Was that for 3rd grade? My son has all of his multiplication facts memorized and has briefly touched on division but no long division. What level of saxon do you suggest? Math comes pretty quickly to him but this past year in BJU I felt he didn't retain/grow much from its mastery approach! Any advice is appreciated!! LOVE all of your videos by the way!!
@jerilyn-ourhomeschooltable
2 жыл бұрын
Last year we used BJU Press English which is writing and grammar. My daughter liked it ok, but we had lots of arguments about the writing units. She wanted to continue on with it this coming year, but if we have the same problems we might be switching to IEW videos. I think she’d like it a lot better. 🤷🏻♀️
@livingthegandeelife5565
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, we still have some arguments about particular writing units. They aren't all well received. But I know in the end, they much prefer watching Andrew Pudewa's videos over listening to my instruction!
@L--C
2 жыл бұрын
I have a son that can not do traditional spelling lists/rules either, so we’re trying Spelling U See this year.
@livingthegandeelife5565
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome! I hope it works as well for your family as it does ours!
@LMB678
2 жыл бұрын
We just started using Nicole the Math Lady and it has definitely helped me time wise with teaching 3 kids! Hope much of the Mixed Practice do you have him do each day? I usually do evens or odds every other day. He complains that it's so much lol.
@livingthegandeelife5565
2 жыл бұрын
We do the same thing! On even lesson days, he does the evens. On odd lesson days he does the odds. I can’t imagine the pushback I’d get if I required him to do all of the problems!
@LMB678
2 жыл бұрын
@@livingthegandeelife5565 yes, exactly!!! We also started the trial for IEW writing today and he really enjoyed it. Reluctant writer too.
@kimberlyt1254
2 жыл бұрын
We've been using Nicole The Math Lady for two years - I love the grading option as well. Neither of my kids will do math on paper (they strive to mental math everything). I have them use small white boards (dollar store!) and dry erase markers on those problems they cannot get right on their own. The rule is they can call me over after getting two wrong answers, AND they must have work on a board to show me, so we can find the error. They try really hard to NOT have to call me over. 😂
@livingthegandeelife5565
2 жыл бұрын
I"m glad to hear that it's worked well for you! What a great idea of to use the white boards and then recording the answers online to be graded! I'll have to keep that in mind!
@juliequates9529
Жыл бұрын
Have you ever used the DIVE lessons to go with Saxon?
@livingthegandeelife5565
Жыл бұрын
We have not. We just stick with numbered lessons. Have you found them to be helpful?
@jaclyn4412
Жыл бұрын
Hi! So I’m wondering if IEW structure and style used with fix it grammar and a spelling curriculum is enough to be considered a full language arts curriculum? Or is there something else that would need to be added?
@livingthegandeelife5565
Жыл бұрын
I believe it is plenty. That's all we do. We do plenty of individual reading (not a formal curriculum) and group read alouds. I feel like it more than enough for us!
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