Hiya! I’ve been a silent watcher since you started your channel. I love how far you’ve come and how hard you worked for it, it’s so nice to hear things are going so well for you❤ we’ve had a lovely January as well. It’s so nice to hear how much your children love to be read to. Mine are exactly the same. Although I have younger children (my oldest turned 6 in December, then 4 and 2) they’ll sit there and listen until I say- no more😂 my 6 year oldest is reading Molly and the falcons of tgtb, and we really enjoy the story! (Both my boys have started reading under 4 years of age!?!? ) i love hearing all these updates, thank you so much, it’s such an inspiration! All the best for your health too!

Loved hearing your update! I remember reading The Cricket in Times Square as a kid!

Love your updates! So glad things are mostly going well, and good luck with your health needs in February.

Praying for you Angie!

Love these videos! You're doing so great!

I always love your videos sharing about how you love this-or-that Sonlight book. Your excitement is contagious! :)

My children are young but we first encountered suicide in the hanging of Judas 🤷. I wasn't really thinking it through at the time (it was a video). But it did allow for conversation and we talked about not taking easy way out and putting trust in the Lord .

This is our first year using Sonlight HBL and Redding based on all your reviews. We just completed our first week and we are loving it!

Oh, I hear you on the handwriting thing! I know why we do the things we do in LA or Math, but I don't understand the why behind many of the things they say you "should" do in handwriting.

I wish there was a channel just like yours only reviewing Sonlight about three levels ahead. We are in level E (teaching down to my daughter at a LA/ reader level 3). We completed D last year. Now I’m trying to navigate my son moving into a middle school/ high school track and when to cycle back with my daughter.

Wait until you read The Kingdom and Kind book. It was our favorite so far. We like Timothy on the 10th floor but the other one was great. My daughter and I has about 6 ch. left in that book. We are ahead in reading the book than what is on our lesson. She is only 7 and she loves them. I got to go order that series also.

We are doing Bookshark C and the Bookshark instructors guide did have a note to the parents about suicide in the book. We are still in middle of that book and I had considered skipping it altogether but I read that it was a favorite. We are enjoying it but there is some language that’s not my favorite and I’m not sure if we’d do it again. I guess I’ll see how I feel when we finish it.

Can you talk about how you handle read alouds between the two age groups? I’m on my second year of homeschooling, and have been reading aloud for at least that long. I have a 2nd and 1st grader and then a 4 and 3 year old. We read all the Sonlight books plus whatever I’ve chosen to read as well - usually children’s classics. Once my littles are older and “in school” I’m wondering how to read them all the same books I want them to experience but continue to read to my older kids, without subjecting them to a ton of rereads. Or is that just going to be an impossible task? This is something I actually haven’t heard much about in the homeschool KZfaq/podcast world.

I am about to have a baby and I knew I wanted to take writing and grammar off of my plate for the upcoming school year for my 3rd grader. We are going to try BJU English 3 distance learning. But they also have a teacher lead version. It looked like a good option for my 3rd grader to be more independent and structured for grammar and writing, since I know I won't be able to do it all with a new baby.

Thinking about HS- in your opinion does Sonlight curriculum is “ready to go?” For the parent? Is hard to tell from their site. Also do you use only for LA?

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Sorry, to hear about your auto immune system. I just wanted to give you a little advice on that. I also had an auto immune disorder back in 2014-2015. I was diagnosed with graves disease. Which is basically a thyroid problem. I had a hyper thyroid. My heart would beat about 124-132 beats a minute and it was insane. I had every symptom that grave disease had. I almost lost my mind and thank God that everything is okay now. I just wanted to give you a little back story from where I came from. If you want to know more I will be gladly to share it with you. I just want you to know I no longer have this disorder all because I became a Vegan. I just changed the way I ate and my body naturally fixed itself. I became a vegan in 2016 and could see the results happening after about 3 weeks of being vegan. I started off as a raw vegan. Now I eat cooked food. All this to be said is you can heal your body naturally without having to be treated. The doctors wanted to take my thyroid out because they said, It was one of a kind. They had never seen a thyroid like me before. I was going to have the surgery but, luckily I had someone that loved me enough to stay by my side and talked me out of the surgery. Then God brought it to our attention to become vegan. My whole family is vegan. We never go to the dr. for anything at all. I stopped going and never looked back. I hope this could help you. Just do a little research on veganism and maybe this will help you. Good luck.

How did you talk to your kids about suicide? What kind of things did you say to keep it at their level? That’s such a hard topic and scary, I think, to talk to them about. But I understand completely about them hearing about it at home first.