THE BEST WAY to HOMESCHOOL KINDERGARTEN// CHARLOTTE MASON KINDERGARTEN// AMBLESIDE ONLINE YEAR 0

I’m half way through her kinder year. It’s not going at all as planned. I had such a beautiful vision and feel like I’m failing. Between life happening and covid it is what it is. She’s an only child. I watched this before we started and I’m watching again today months later. Cuz I loved it and I know it will help bring me back to where I need to go to finish out the best I can. She is 6 but has a fall birthday so she’s older for K. But she still loves her nursery rhymes. Thanks foe the great video.

This is such a encouragement to hear someone say the best thing you can do for your child is to keep it simple and allow them to learn through life. It's easy to watch other YouTube mothers have their children doing all kinds of curriculum and feel as if you are to have your child doing that at a very young age.

I am seriously thankful for this video. I'm a first generation home educator and have felt getting started is so daunting. But seriously between this video and reading your Feb 2019 NSHack post I think something clicked finally. I understand what is being said when people say, facilitating family life as education is a culture, or way of life. Education doesn't start on the day you turn 6... lol it's like giving a good, God glorifying education is almost so simple that we don't get it, and over complicate it. For example, I think so many moms out there who are quick to say "I could never homeschool" don't realize they are already doing the things that foster learning. i.e. reading, exploratory play, or even pushing in a swing. I also have heard moms say there wouldn't be enough time in the day for homeschooling so when you explained about getting regular rhythms down and addressing what it is like in your home currently, it was like 💡 having the discipline to just getting the basics down is foundationally important. It finally makes so much sense to think about education as not this marginalized thing that a government building provides. It's doing life well. I don't mean to overstate it but that just is so simple! I want to make it more complicated lol It was also really helpful to have you walk through a Nature Study, how to get started, how to learn with them, what to expect without crushing it with idealism. Maybe it's bc there is soooo much out there as far as possibilities, newbies like myself seize up. I have to be intentional to become a "learner" again, I think I've realized I just want to get tasks done and live a life of leisure. I so appreciate your wisdom and the hard work you've put in. Thanks for distilling it, and bringing us into your thought process.

I felt like I was listening to myself in this video. Thank you. I really needed the reminders of what kindergarten is supposed to look like as my third child is about to turn 5.

So much wisdom here! I LOVE how you keep kindergarten simple and wait on their development. But I also love how you address the need to have systems in place for meals, laundry etc. That’s huge! I think so many homeschool mamas get burnt out because they aren’t organized in life at home before tackling the education. As mamas we are modeling what we want our children to learn and if we can’t show order and discipline why should they? Thankful to have found you! I am looking at CM method this year after being a part of a CC community for years. Finding your videos has been a blessing!

Thank you so much for taking the time to create these videos for us other, sometimes struggling, moms!

Love this! Just looking to switch over to AO for my upcoming kinder, 3rd and 7th graders!

This is so helpful. Thank you 😊

This is helping me so much to get my mind right for starting homeschooling my child. Thank you!

Very helpful, thank you!

I so appreciate you sharing the simplicity of Kindergarten. I am starting Kinder with my one and only. I love what you are sharing... but she just turned 6 and I feel like she is past some of these things but yet so much wisdom in this message. I have been feeling like there is TOO much that I want to do and I really want a gentle start which is why I waited until she was 6. We do read aloud and include rhymes and such. She can count to 100 and such but I don't want to push her ahead. She's my only one and yet I worry am I holding her back to keep her little. I was very close to doing a formal CM Year one until I saw some samples and felt it was toooooo much in regards to writing and copywork and things like that. Uggg I need to pray over this. We are for sure doing nursery rhymes and classics as well as a calendar time. We LOVE being outside. I have not played with her in her mud kitchen much this summer, I NEED to do that before we get snow. I will be so sad when she outgrows it.

This is really helpful, I really appreciate you sharing this as it’s genuine and from the heart and so beneficial!❤

Thank you thank you for this video

Could you share, perhaps in another video sometime, about your method of family meals? That's a huge area that I struggle with, probably mainly because it wasn't modeled for me, my family did not sit down to eat together, sadly. I don't want that to be my children's experience!

Thank you so much! I did Abeka for kinder for my oldest son and while he learned it, it was terrible and he hated it. We are now fully Charlotte Mason, but now I have no idea how to teach kinder the CM way

Can’t begin to explain how helpful this video was to me! Thank you for sharing your wisdom. First time homeschool mama of 3 little ones: 4.5, 2.5 and 7 months. ❤️ There are so many overwhelming options out there. I love how Charlotte Mason’s method keeps things simple and focuses on our natural, God-given love for learning.

Thank you for this video! I really enjoyed it and feel like it has reset my focus with my four year old.

Thank you for this. So helpful. I’ve been enjoying your videos. :) Where did you get your calendar from?

Nursery rhymes also support phonemic awareness- crucial for reading and spelling.

Thanks for this helpful video! It does not have to be complicated, does it?