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Ambleside!!! We used it for the first year, but once I had two kids going at the same time, I had to simplify. Would love to chat CM all day every day!

We’re doing Middle Ages for Ancient History this year and I’m reading Howard Pyle’s Adventures of Robin Hood to the girls - I’m going to look up this new King Arthur book. I feel like it would complement nicely for my own mama culture!

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I'd love to hear what you did to simplify CM to work for your family sometime! By the time Tennyson is in Y1, Arthur will be in Y4, so hopefully he'll be able to read a lot more independently and I'll be able to focus my read aloud energy more on Tennyson's work. I'm also trying to convince my type-A self that I don't have to be a purist and follow Ambleside to a T... we'll see how far I get in convincing myself. We've got Pyle's Robin Hood in our weekly rotation this year, and I can't believe I've never read it!

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