Whew! That looks like a lot of prep work!!! But sounds like it will be a fun time!!!🥰

I hope you have a great time. We are prepping to head camping, too, but we are going to the upper peninsula of Michigan.

When teaching letters before the child writes, use sand paper letters. CUT LETTERS OUT OF SANDPAPER AND TEACH STROKE ORDER WITH THESE LETTERS. They will not write letters backwardm because they will learn by touch.

So many of those I used as well until finally finding Denison, it has been so great!

Thank you for sharing all this! I’ve got Denison on my radar for my special needs kids when they get to pre algebra! So I wasn’t sure what I was going to do for my first grader and debated between continuing with Math With Confidence or try Apologia Math. For now decided to continue with MWC only because my child did so well with it and it seems to teach in a good way that worked very well for my child. I agree with the teacher guide though being overwhelming and frustrating at times!🤪 My fall back is Apologia Math if MWC becomes so overwhelming I can’t keep up. In a couple months will be having a C-section for baby #6!

Great video. I had received this at a homeschool swap and was mind boggled on how to use and I never did. Long story short, my youngest 6th grader needs work on spelling so I'm circling right around to this 11 years later. At the beginning of summer, I sat down and read through the "quick start", took notes, and just read all the instructions. It's been a few months now and I'm looking at this program thinking how did this all work again? Ugh. The quick start is NOT quick. The terms are not fitting ,in my opinion, to remember and it's super complicated. I've watched several videos on how to use and each one tells how they use it, NOT how the program actually works. I just needed a refresher and was hoping I didn't have to drudge through the instructions again lol. Many seem to just use the program for the word list. That's great and all but I remembered there was a reason for the madness lol. I'll adapt later but I would like to know how the actual program works. Your video actually explained how the program works so thank you.

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You are well prepared and came up with some great ideas. I hope you have a great trip! 😊 🚘

Girl, you are gonna love it!! We went on our first BIG road trip in 2021. It was the best trip I have ever been on and we travel quite a bit. The parks usually have activity packs for the kids & Rocky Mountain National Park gives out pins if you complete the packet. Also, you can get a stamp book to have stamped at each of the parks. :)

Looks like a fun trip!!! Love all these resources! Thanks for sharing!!!

Sounds like so much fun! We’re a big road-tripping family - we’ve done a Florida to Oregon road trip and a Idaho to Florida road trip, as well as tons of small road trips (which for us is anything less than 8 hours 😂)! Looks like you’ve got some great resources ready!

I always love ideas on how to keep kids busy in the car. We have a few road trips planned so this is great

Those are great ideaa. Resources are fun and educational , perfect for a long trip. 💖☺️

I'm so excited about the movie thing you mentioned last. That's just what I've been looking for!

Loved learning about the piano resource!

Thanks!! One I found was 123homeschool4me with Beth Gordon she has free and paid items. Lots of science, history and so on

Here to see what other resources you found! Lol

This summer has been a whirlwind for us too! I keep waiting for things to slow down, but my summer bucket list is still full 😂

We are always wayyyy more busy than expected in the summer! Whoops🤣

Hope y’all have a wonderful family road trip!!!🥰

We love camp! Cant wait to see more. Arlo is doing his first day camp this week

I'm excited to see more of your camp trip to the West!

Cousins are great!

Where is “out west” for your trip? Coming to Oregon? 😉

You are on a roll with the resources. Thank you Stephanie. 🌻

Awesome resources!!! Whoa, 12 pages worth of planning!!!!! I may need to stick with the minimalist route/planning!😂

You aren’t a hot mess Stephanie! You are a normal, busy homeschool mom who is enjoying the Summer! ☀️ ❤

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

These are all great resources! I loved Pam Barnhill's Plan Your Year workbook from years ago. Can't wait to see more of how you are going to start your year!

I love that you’re sharing free resources!!

I’ll be checking these resources out. Thank you!

Love all the resources you mentioned. So helpful!

Great list of resources! Thank you!

I love utilizing peoples free downloadable resources and pick what I want to use.

So helpful 6:23

Do you know of any good online reading programs for this age?

Just subscribed!! Thanks for sharing so many great resources 😍

I’ve often wondered what the online music lessons are like, I might check this one out!

I’ve been wanting to find a resource for my kids to learn typing. I will definitely be checking this one out!

What a great compilation of resources! :) Sweet of you to do the research and put this together!

I am definitely going to be saving this playlist so that I can keep referencing it as we continue our homeschool journey! We’ve been homeschooling for 7 years, going into our 8th year and my oldest is 12 ☺️

Loved seeing the secret world of unicorns. I’m going to get that for my daughter too. These are great ideas too. I have a few parties this summer I might have to get these 😃 7:36

We used Under the Home for Art and Music last year and kiddo enjoyed it so much we will be doing it again. For these free PDFs if you have a tablet with a pen you can write directly on the PDF and then only have to print the lessons with measuring as it won't be right on the tablet.

So many free resources 😊

Thank you for sharing your resources! 🌻

It’s amazing how many free resources there are!!! Thank you for sharing!!!

I've been using TGTB math for years now. This last year was the first time I just used their free PDF. I printed the papers at home and bound them with comb binding. I was able to separate by units, so the book wasn't as big. It saved me a lot of money, including shipping. I purchased the Mental Math locally as well. We love their math program! I'll be doing it again this next year too. I'm not a fan of their language arts, so we don't use that.

I love it. I'm sure my son will love this, too.❤ He loves black holes and all things related to astronomy!❤

I like that you created this series of videos. The homeschool community will find it all helpful. 🌻

Loved hearing your review on Davene’s study! It sounds like such a great study to use for middle school and DK books are always a hit!