Abeka K-5 Home School Parent Lead Curriculum.

hey guys welcome to my channel in today's video i'm going to share with you um some questions that i've gotten about my curriculum that i use at home with my kids and um most of those questions have come in the form of emails some i believe have been left on various videos but i thought it would be better to just make a video and answer some questions just because i haven't had time to put out content on a regular basis i don't know if i filmed an end of the year review or shared with everyone what our changes were throughout the school year last year okay so with that said i'm going to answer some questions i received about my kindergartener last year so my kindergartener last year is now my first grader but last year we were doing some different types of curriculum and he was starting to read with a program called um all about reading which we used for pre-k and that was the the pre-k program that all about learning press puts out and it was fabulous i actually use all about reading with my daughter who has autism and it works beautifully for her she she loves the program she's still going strong with it but for my son however it just wasn't working for him it wasn't clicking and um i had to find something different to teach him how to read um he did learn some three-letter words and he he learned how to read some short sentences and phrases and things but he just wasn't interested it wasn't fun for him he didn't um want to read so i decided to look into a program that a becca has which is the k5 phonics and reading i just so happened to already be doing the numbers with him which is the math program last year and so i decided that i would do everything from a becca just to make it easier on myself i would just teach from one teacher's book and buy all of the materials i needed and just do everything so that it was kind of more cohesive so what did i get i got everything you see pictured here which is all the student books this is like a logic book this is the math book this is the phonics book that's going to teach and it's not going to teach your child anything it's going to reinforce what you've already taught him so these are worksheets that have the phonics concepts that you're learning this is writing with phonics which is either cursive or you can get manuscript and we have at our house so it reinforces the phonics that you're learning but then it teaches the handwriting to go with it and this is just an extra writing tablet with you know blank sheets and things okay so i purchased this book um so this is the lesson plans you can't teach everything from these books these books are just a tool for reinforcing the concepts that you're learning um during other times during school that makes sense so there's a lot of writing on the whiteboard or a piece of paper however you want to do it there's a lot of teaching concepts that are not coming off of one of these worksheets so i'll show you what i mean by that but beckham makes use of a lot of different charts um this is a vowel chart there's the consonant chart here um so there's charts for everything that you're learning in the program if you're learning just the reading then you would use just the phonics charts but if you're doing everything you'd also get charts for the math this is just skip counting there's you know a number chart there's letter formation card there's a number of words on this chart here there's a bunch of different flash cards that you can use there's one vowel flash cards there are two vowel flash cards when the children are learning to read they use blend ladders so there's also flash cards with just the blends a blend is a consonant in a vowel stuck together and they're sounded together so um instead of having the child say each sound and then glue it together the first two sounds are already glued together so the child will learn za so that when you put a consonant at the end it's a little bit easier for for them to read it quickly so they just say zap and that's worked really well for for my son learning the blends so there's a bunch of these i don't know if i have everything out here with me so you're gonna also teach through some sight words um and here there are number cards and combination dot cards these combination dot cards just have like the number of sentences as they're learning you can use these as well you have um short vowel cards and then the long vowel cards so the children aren't going to learn their long vowels at the same time that they learn they're short vowels at least not as it has to do with reading them in a word so they'll learn at the very beginning they're going to learn all the letter sounds so from a to z a says abby says ba you get the idea and they're going to learn the letter names a b c d e f g all the way to z and they're going gonna keep practicing that throughout i'd say the first i don't know 70 lessons or so um they're also in between there they're also going to be learning um the vowel sounds and then they're going to learn a rule about um there's at least one vowel in a word and if there's one vowel in a word it usually says it's short sound they're going to learn how to mark vowels which you put the little u symbol above the vowel if it's short so they're going to learn how to mark vowels they're going to learn how to blend and then around i think less than 80 or so don't quote me on that um they're gonna learn the two vowel rule which is when there's two vowels in a word the first vowel says it's long sound and the second vowel is silent so they can learn how to read words like hope and cain and write words like that so while they're learning these rules they're constantly practicing their vowel sounds they're learning their short vowel sounds with and their long vowel sounds so these cards come out i think later on like i said once they've practiced for a while it's basically taught to them in the sense of that the vowels also say another sound they say a second sound a long sound and you already know what it is because they sing the alphabet song so they already know what the long vowel sound is but now it's just connecting that when it's in a word you say the long vowel sound if there's two vowels you say the long vowel sound first and then the second vowel that's in the word is silent but anyway that's all laid out here so you're going to go through the lesson plans and you're going to teach them in like this chronological order and for my son it worked really well um so whilst i guess that's if that's even a word all of this is happening um in the lesson 80 or something like that you're also going to be introduced to this little book here this is called the blend and word book so in this book they have the blend ladders so if your child has never had a book before this would technically be their very first book um my son reads little um vowel readers beginner books and things like that that have the short vowels and now he's worked his way through the longer vowels and things like that as they progress they're going to be able to learn um i'm sorry they're going to be able to read books that have more words in it because between learning the sight words between learning some rules there's going to be a more variety of words that they can read okay but let's say you've never taught your child any reading at all this would be considered the very first book so there's blends in here and again the curriculum walks you through how you're going to use this book but you're going to do the chart you're going to read the chart they're going to read the vowels and then they read the consonants and then they do their blend ladders so blend ladder is basically the kids will get to a point where they can just say la la la la la and then going to go up the ladder la la la okay so that might sound weird but they're understanding that l and i together say le so when a consonant is put here like p they're going to quickly hopefully say lip instead of saying l so for my son i think that's the connection he needed to help him kind of excel more quickly with reading so anyway this is the book that they're going to use for blends and it tells you when to start when to stop like i marked pages here depending on where he was at um and then there's also words to read in the back so if i think some of them yeah so it's blends so they go out of order too sometimes they'll do uh ladders with just the f blend so it would be the f with all the vowels but then they have mixed blends so that the child can say far hella and quickly be able to identify that consonant and that vowel sound and just blend it together really quickly and then there's three letter words here and then i think towards the back yeah is the two letter words and they learn special sounds like c and k so when they see a c in k they call it a special sound so they know that it only says the sound in a word so how they mark it is just they circle it excuse me um it just helps them identify um what's different about a word if if they're having trouble remembering what ck says it's just reinforcing um the concept over and over again that when they say c c c k they know it's a special sound you say it once and they don't try to say like or something they also learn that when there's two consonants at the end of a word you say the sound only once so if there's two l's for example in will or well they'd only say it once instead of saying they would just say will so they learned that pretty early on as well um so this is a pretty advanced i feel anyway way of teaching phonics but it's really working for my son um and so i this is kind of what we switched to we switched to the whole rebecca curriculum for grade one but this is k5 so i just wanted to show you the stuff that we got um not that you need all of these things because honestly in the back i like having the charts the colorful ness of the charts it just is very helpful for my son he doesn't like black and white but if you absolutely needed just what's here and nothing more you could get the blend ladders from the back so here's all the blend ladders that you use so you can make copies of these if you wanted to or just use them right out of the book and then also in the back you have the short and long sounds of the vowels you have these little letter cards that you cut out and then you add these consonants to the blend ladders and then you make the words so you just slide the letter down the ladder and then up the ladder and then the child would say words um what else is here that's useful yeah so they have some just little picture cutouts they have a lot of different songs to help the kids learn like if they have vowel songs they just have some fun fun different things to play some games oh actually they do have a bunch of games that we didn't really play too many of them um because they were kind of babyish for him because he was already beyond knowing excuse me letter sounds and things so he wasn't too interested in playing too many of the games but there's some fun songs that he liked that we signed so these are all pages of that the vowel song he loved the farm one uh for the vowels that was really fun there's even some um musical notes here if you want to play an instrument to go along with it so back here you also have some helpful ways to grade their handwriting so my son did not use um cursive we just do manuscript because he has learned from handwriting without tears and so i've taught him how to write since preschool with handwriting without tears so he knows how to form his letters but a becca has a different way where the placement of the dots i guess you can say they place the dots differently than where he would start a letter uh with handwriting without tears so i just have him just ignore the dot and do his letter next to it just because he sees the dot and it distracts him from what he knows to do so he just ignores the dot but um also he doesn't do cursive so this is cursive so if you're teaching your child cursive um this just helps you to grade their their handwriting and it also gives you some helpful things to say um i forget where that part is yeah so there's some positive comments page here it just tells you what things you can say to help your child um just be confident in what they're doing even though you're correcting their work so we don't start cursive in our house until third grade but rebecca starts cursive in like preschool so they teach it really early on if you do want manuscript lesson plans for the way a becca teaches the handwriting you need a separate book i just don't know what that is because i didn't need it but i think it's a black and white little supplemental spiral bound book um and if i can find a picture of it i'll i'll pop it up in this frame right here so that's what the back has so let me just go to a lesson so i marked this halfway because i kind of wanted to show you what it's like once they um get reading with a becca so the previous lessons a lot of it is just repetition repetition of letter sounds blending um saying the rules that they know uh reading some two letter i mean on three letter words so one ball words playing some games and things like that and then at some point they learn um some new newer concepts and harder concepts so around this lesson here i would say maybe even before i'm not sure but i just tabbed this to show you guys so let's go with like lesson 91 here so lesson 91 has you um do some preparation this is what you're gonna put on your whiteboard so this is basically i would write the words so all these markings here i wouldn't write the words with the markings that's what my son does when he goes up to the board he will end up with all these markings on the word so if you can see here if i wrote all these words on the board bat hit cut and tub when he came up to the board he would tell me what the word says would tell me how many vowels was in the word he would read the word and then he would mark the vowel so he knows all these words he marks the vowel and then um we go on to the next set of words so i'd write bait hide cute and tube um he would read the word well first he would tell me how many vowels are in it so if he knows that the two vowel rule which is if there's two vowels in a word the first vowel is long and the second vowel is silent then he would go ahead and mark it if he knows how to read it which at this point he could read it he would read it first and say bait and then he would mark it so he's putting the little stick above the a to show that it's long and then the eye he's crossing out because it's silent in this word and he would say bait and he'd do that for all of those all right then here it says some materials teddy bear my teddy bear poem if you want to do these things some of these things would too childish and babyish for him he didn't want to do it and other things he really liked so i would suggest just trying different things sometimes regardless of how old your child is what age they are sometimes they like more childish gains you know depends on their mood i guess all right so then you need some visuals which is the alphabet flash cards for long vowels two vowel word cards and it tells you which ones um let's see if i have it here so these and here's where i keep the different things um these letter picture flash cards we used early on this says that it's for preschool to k5 so if you did preschool with a becca they use these and then they use them in the k5 but we stopped using them pretty early on i'd say but yeah this is how they continue to learn how to sound out uh the sounds of the the consonants and things like that so we use this a lot at the beginning um let's see what else is in here all right so these are the mini flash cards i think i already showed you what they were um i have two sets of these this is the long they also have the short um vowels and all the consonants all the consonants i have in here all right so what i want to show you is the two vowel word cards which are these um so there's a number on the corner i don't know if you can see yeah see right there it says sp and then there's um a number so this tells you which ones of these you need and you grab those out this is the one vowel word cards um this goes with that uh what else do i have in here oh that's my daughter she is being so silly today um she's playing a game and she's just cracking up um so these are some readers i actually got at the beginning of the program this goes with their preschool program so you can see that they're advanced just based on these readers so for preschool they've already learned um the two-vowel rule and so they're reading words with two vowels in them so yeah so i got these because um i thought they would be easy for him at the beginning of k5 because they were preschool but little did i know that they were they were already teaching like these um more difficult concepts in phonics in k4 so i just got them and once we got to like this point he was able to read even these readers so we read those too um okay sorry back to this um so you would you know get what you need from there let's see what else so that's the phonics all right so then here you have the warm up and procedure if you're going to do this this is like a review you're just going to ask them how many vowels are in a word um what is the vowel depending on what you wrote on the board how would we mark it just reminding them of oopsy dips of the two vowel rule and one bowel rule so this is what you use once you've written these words here on the board you can use what they have to say about them here which i already ran through that with you but it tells you what to say in bold and by this point you'll probably get the hang of what it is you need to say that you can just not use the script and just use your own teaching methods so down here is the review so this is the letter picture flash cards oh wow they're still using these i didn't realize it because we stopped using them pretty early on um but yeah if you're if your child has difficulties still with um knowing their vowel sounds and knowing their consonant sounds um i think it's it's nice to have these types of things um out still so you can use them when it prompts you to um yeah we use these early on we'd put the picture down and then he'd find the picture if i said um which picture begins with the sound and then he would you know go to the bib and grab that picture um so i think this portion here can you be very quiet because mommy's filming a video okay so i think this portion here is for review sometimes you're going to need it sometimes you just skip right over it so it doesn't lengthen your lesson so don't feel like you have to do something that it says to do if your child already gets the concept and has moved on from it once in a while i say definitely review it just even if they know it just so they can um you know practice but other than that i'd say just just skip it all right so here's the handwriting portion so as you can see this is how they teach um the handwriting with the cursive we didn't use this guide but you would do that and it comes over here as well still teaching them application and it tells you here it tells you here which page in the workbook to use so if you have the cursive workbook you're going to just get that page out so for handwriting we used all about i'm sorry handwriting without tears and when he was done with those books we just did handwriting with a becca and i didn't use any of the script i just he would just practice his handwriting and that was it so we didn't need any of that so down here is the math portion again it's going to tell you what you need there's some games you can play there's some manipulatives you can use there's flash cards um there's charts and they'll tell you what to do some weeks you're you're working on certain number families or you know addition flash cards and i'll tell you which ones to get out um so it tells you um what you're going to be working on so there i guess in this lesson it says they're working by counting by ones to a hundred um they skip count in their math book i remember and this is probably was it before this or after i don't know but um i think at this point they've already learned skip counting by tens my son is really good at math so he he's already learned skip counting by twos fives and tens um but not that he's learned it from a becca he learned it in matthew c because we used matthew c last year we actually used three different maths he did matthew c then he did um a becca alongside of it and then he did and then he ended up doing horizons math towards the end so he did a lot of math so he got these concepts in a lot of different ways um but yeah so they're learning different things this this teaches very well it teaches time it teaches them how to write their numbers um it teaches all those early math concepts so i really did like it all right so here continuing on with lesson 91 there's some skill development and this part is for the for this workbook this is like the um i don't know i guess it's skill sharpener type of thing it's a nice book but i feel like it's not as advanced as the curriculum is but it's good for developing skills like cutting and yeah see it says social and personal skills and i would agree with that it teaches them those really fundamental skills about listening waiting and things like that so that is important all right so there's some enrichment activities here there's poetry health and safety and social studies this is a lot of extra stuff and it's minimal learning it's just really getting their toes wet in these areas so in our house what we do is we teach all three of our kids together we teach them history geography bible um some social studies it's an expression for like you're just learning little bits of information um sorry that was my daughter asking me a question um so yeah so we do that in other areas as a group but you can certainly do this if you wanted to in fact i have all these books and we've used them so i i will try to pop up a um a little picture of what they look like if you're interested okay so that was it that was all of um lesson 91 now the only thing you didn't see in this lesson was the reading portion which it doesn't have it i guess here sometimes when they're what happens is when you're learning a lot about the phonics side you're not doing some of the reading so they go back and forth but they focus heavily on phonics and then the reading comes in so when you don't see any lessons for reading particularly like here here's a reading right here on lesson 92 so they're doing these little books so it'll tell you um so here they would be learning um using the i learned to read book for all right and you follow usual procedures so the book four looks like that and um so they would get that book and then they just they would read it to you um in a certain days they say which ones to read um like maybe it's it's page six and seven it depends the lesson will tell you when to um when to you know have them read it and then once my son did it i just gave him a star and he was done with that book and then you know you just move on to the next ones so overall i really liked this program and we're going to stick with the bec i really like how they teach the phonics the reading the writing all of it um so we're going to stick with a becca and i think that um i'm going to try my best at the end of this school year to do the grade 1 overview but if you have any questions about the k5 program please leave me a comment down below as i'm just going to upload this video i i will keep an eye on those comments um for a little bit and i'll i'll try my best to check my emails for any additional comments but i hope i answered your questions about a becca because i did mention that we had switched to it and some people asked me a lot of questions about it so hopefully this answered some questions for you thanks for watching see you next time bye

Channel: Home-School In The City

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Keywords: Abeka Homeschool Curriculum, Abeka Home school parent lead, Abeka K-5 homeschool curriculum review, Teach your child to read kindergarten, Kindergarten home school

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Length: 30min 30sec (1830 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 31 2021