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What is your favorite SCM product and why?
I recently purchased and downloaded Planning Your Charlotte Mason Education. I’ve been homeschooling for 8 years and I thought I was actually pretty good at the planning part, but there are so many subjects with CM that I was getting bogged down in the details. Anyway, what I learned is that I’ve been doing it all wrong. In the past I would research curriculum, choose what I like and then find a way to fit it in. However, I should have been first setting my goals, then choosing my classes and then finding my curriuclum. That’s what I am doing this year and it makes so much more sense. And, yes, there are books that I would love to use but the don’t fit the plan for this year. Maybe another year. But, I won’t feel the stress of trying to add them in this year.
So, since Planning YOur CM Education is all that I own, it is currently my favorite. 🙂
Ditto, Jenny! It’s also my only item and my absolute favorite. Sometimes I wonder if I’m reluctant to purchase more because Sonia set the bar so, so high with that first amazing product…. 🙂
You want me to pick just one?! I have The All Day Seminar, Books and Things, Planning your CM Education, Laying down the rails, the Mathmatics book and several of the free e-books. The All Day Seminar, Books and things, and Laying down the rails are the ones I turn to most frequently when I get in a rut or I have lost my way.
Ruth, I’m glad you listed the All Day Seminar! I ordered it last week. Since I can’t go to the state homeschool convention where Sonja is speaking, I decided to have my own mini-convention at home with the DVD’s. 🙂
I’m not sure I can pick just one!
I love Planning Your CM Education as well as both seminars on dvd (All Day CM and Books & THings). I rewatch the seminars in small pieces for inspiration at least twice a year.
We have Your Business Math Pet Store and that is the first math curriculum my math phobic daughter loved and did in her free time (even when she had to learn new skills to use it). It inspired her that there was a meaningful reason to do some math.
I will stop there, though we’ve had and used many SCM products over the years and enjoyed them.
I cannot imagine the insanity I would still be living in, if I hadn’t purchased the Planning Your CM Education almost 3 years ago 🙂 I have recommended that countless times, I am a loyal fan of that one! My other real favorite has been (so far..) the Mod 5 Stories of America and Stories of the Nations….I wISh I had been taught history this way!
I’d have a hard time sharing just one, but if I had to, it would be the All Day SeminarBooks ‘n Things…Sonya has a way of simplifying everything and I need that ‘when I lose my way’.
I love the guides to history. Even tweaked, they are priceless. Haven’t use the Math series, even though I own a copy of the Pet Store.
I have many more items, but I’ll stop there.
Well, ladies, I didn’t mean you had to limit yourself to one product..
I should have said, “What are your favorite products?”
Keep sharing!
I just love SCM!! LOL
I think the things that helped me the most were the free e-books, the Planning book and The All-Day Seminar with Books and Things. Those gave me the confidence and permission to break with tradition and go with my instincts. 😉
I love the history and science resources…the books are wonderful. I love the Scripture Memory Box – it is brilliant and I now have 3: scriptures, sign language practice cards, and math memorization. Not to mention the Organizer…
And the Forum…I have learned SO MUCH from all of you!
I know the forum is not a “product” but without I would be lost when it comes to the “meat and potatoes” of CM homeschooling (or in general). I have learned so much as well. And, to be able to speak of other products as substitues has been soo helpful as each family is different..it helps just to bounce ideas off on each other, but know that we are all still pretty CM, so we get what each other is trying to say (I think, anyway).
I love most of the book selections (only a few were so, so).
The free curriculum guide is priceless! To be able to use it as a “spine” and tailor my dc’s education has been so wonderful.
I love everything I’ve seen from SCM….
That said, no one has mentioned the online organizer – and that is something we absolutely LOVE
We have used almost all of the Bible studies. I’ve used lots of studies over the years and the SCM ones are the best of the best.
Definitely the All Day Seminar and Books and Things, and Planning Your CM.
Hearing, Reading, Telling, and Writing has made me a more confident teacher.
We have also enjoyed the handicrafts: knitting video.
Right now my youngest girls are loving the Outdoor Secrets mp3 and Companion guide.
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