Homeschool Curriculum Choices 2022-2023 - Full Look Through

hey everyone welcome back for another video and you know what it is an exciting time of the year it is spring time and when springtime comes it is all about thinking about the next school year and planning out those resources and some of us are really excited about that and then some of us can sometimes be really overwhelmed and exhausted by that so i am really happy to share with you my game plan and the curriculum choices and resources i'll be using for this coming school year in 2022 and 2023 alright so before i get into all the resources that i have back here i want to just put it out there we are very relaxed homeschoolers in the state of illinois we have very very few homeschool laws so that just gives me just a tremendous amount of freedom when choosing my resources and how fast we do things i personally do not follow any of the like board of education or like my public school like grade level guidelines i teach my kids based on what they're interested in and at their own pace so i just want to throw that out there i have three kids and one my oldest she is going to be nine soon and she's gonna be between like the third and fourth grade level and then i have a five-year-old going on six she's gonna be between that k to first grade level and then i have a four-year-old that will very soon be five and he's in between that preschool kindergarten already so i'm going to show you the choices for each individual child and then group subjects so another big change if you watch my video from last year about our curriculum choices i can link that below in the comments is we are doing a huge push into interest-led literature-based learning so you will definitely understand what i'm talking about when i go through these resources but as this year really unfolded and just living your life and seeing how your kids change throughout the year it just really became apparent to me that i had to make some changes and even though we were very relaxed and we take breaks whenever we really want to to be honest um my kids were just really wanting to do their own thing now i love the idea of unschooling and but i'm not quite there yet so interest led learning i am all for and i want my kids to have more of a say this year in what they are learning so i what i did differently this year from last year is i only picked out curriculum that would probably only last us about a quarter of the school year obviously i'll have my language arts and my math that would last the entire year but all the other subjects i'm just going to kind of play it by ear let my kids have a lot of say in what they want to learn and not get that crazy itchy feeling of i have to buy everything early and then get my resources set in stone right here in the spring or in the summer and we also homeschool all year long and that is another reason why we are so relaxed is we actually get more homeschooling done in the summer than we actually do any other time of the year when it's really boiling outside and we am super duper humid we just want to be inside and we just kind of buckle down and get a lot of our school done in the summertime where when it's nice and cool in the fall the sun is warm the breeze is cool we just want to be outside exploring all those things so the seasons um just really affect how we school as well but anywho without getting just too blabbery um let's get into the resources that i chose this year i'm gonna flip the camera around and we are going to start with my oldest and then we'll go to my middle and then my youngest and then we're going to do our group subjects so we're going to do quite a few subjects as an entire family all right so we are going to start with the handwriting book that my eight-year-old soon-to-be nine-year-old is going to be using um so far so because we homeschool all year long we just whenever she finishes with a level i just immediately buy the next level if it's still working for her so currently she is on level five with the good and the beautiful i have used their handwriting all the way through with my kids and i have just really really loved it so in level five there is a lot of cursive and my daughter just absolutely loves cursive she has been writing a cursive since she was five six years old it's just something she's always wanted to do so she's been doing this book on and off for months we do handwriting daily but i've lately been substituting one week with spelling words as her handwriting and then one week with this book just to stretch it out a little bit longer because i just felt she was going a bit fast through this book for just being so young so um i have been able to stretch out this level i'm just going to skip a few pages here and i just really love their program with poems and they write poems out there's little things of scripture my daughter loves like the little drawing prompts at the bottom and let's see so this is where she has currently finished and she still has about half of the book she has about half of the book left and this will last her for quite a few more months with us alternating between the spelling words that are with her current language arts that we're just going to kind of wrap up here but no the good and the beautiful their handwriting is i feel it's just really top-notch and we have loved it and then when you get all the way to the back obviously it gets more difficult so that's why i wanted to slow her down on this just a little bit and you get the little certificate at the back so we do the master books math for a living education my daughter is on level four and it is suggested that this book is for eight to ten year olds um grade level four and we have used master books um math lessons for a living education since the very very beginning and my kids have just thrived on this and it's extremely affordable this whole book and it goes on sale a couple times a year which is great um you know it's about 40 bucks so i just can't beat the price and i just feel that it's very thorough and it's always spiraling which is wonderful now my daughter is already on lesson 15 in this book again because we homeschool all year long she'll probably finish this book probably mid summer and then she'll be moving on to level five but the first couple chapters is just review from the previous um book level so all of this is just review from the previous book but what i really love about this program is it's just short and sweet the pages are not busy and it just my daughter just gets really overwhelmed with just if there's just too much going on on a page and so she just says oh wow there's only you know four problems here i can get that done and she just always feels like she's winning when we use master books and her comprehension of math has been really amazing and so i just don't see any point in changing things up but again she is currently up to level fifth or lesson 15 and she is learning long division and we've been going slow through that and she's been comprehending it really well so i'm very proud of her and again everything is spiraling going back to time and you know the multiplication and they're oh they're never forgetting what they've learned because they're always throwing things back in all the time and also once you get to level three they do have all of the answers in the back of the book for us parents that have a hard time remembering some of the math so i can't lie i have popped back here a couple of times when i felt confused about whatever i was teaching and it's come in handy but um if you have a child that likes to sneak answers you may want to rip that out but level four with master books has been wonderful for my eight to going on nine year old for my oldest daughter's language arts we are going to use brave writer and she is in the dart level and we tried using brave writer two years ago and honestly it was only my inconsistency that really um took us away from it and brave writer is a digital product i keep everything on my ipad and it is a fabulous program where you are reading really great literature you are doing a small copy passage and then you are teaching the grammar straight from that copy passage each week to teach your child about grammar and how to appreciate really great literature we did the prairie thief two years ago and the story was amazing the books that brave writer chooses are extremely high quality and we were just writing the passage each week i would have my daughter write the passage out every single day and then we would talk about some of the things that were in the passage commas and periods and colorful language and um you know nouns and adjectives and all of these things and she remembered all of it it just really jived with her and her learning style and being that i do my whole life on my ipad it's been wonderful to just sit down with her in the ipad read the novel like it's just a regular read aloud like there's no pressure that this is school you know and just spend another 10 15 minutes talking about some grammar and then you go into week two and there's another sentence straight from the book you ask some questions about it and you just learn a little bit more and once you finish your entire book and you get through the four weeks so typically you do one book a month they offer some ideas you don't have to do it but you can have a book party and invite some friends over and they give you some ideas on how you could celebrate the literature having a little book party which i really really loved and it's just practicing some handwriting and all of the things so brave writer really they're learning how to spell through writing the passages they're doing handwriting on top of just learning all that language arts without it being really really dry which my daughter is really picky about and so this just seems to be a really great fit and she's asked me over the last couple years why don't we do this anymore why don't we do this anymore honestly it's mama's fault if you have any specific questions about brave writer i'd be more than happy to answer them down in the comments below there are several levels based on your child's age range but honestly if you've never done brave writer before there is nothing wrong with starting with a level that is below it just has less copy work in it so there's the language arts portion which you just saw and then there's the writing projects so as a group my kids are going to be doing the writing projects together but my daughter as her main language arts we're going to be reading the novels and doing the corresponding darts that go with it but it's also going to be great read alouds for my younger kids too all right now we're going to move over to my middle child which is mia and she is going to be in that kindergarten first grade level all right so for mia she is doing the good and the beautiful handwriting level two and she will be working through this over the summer as well and once again we just really love um the good and the beautiful and she's been doing a really great job through this she does one page a day and i just kind of let them do their thing i'm not really picky um too much like here they they're telling her to be careful not to squish those letters you know this is the incorrect way and this is the correct way and then to try to do it honestly if i was really trying to make her do it really straight like this and not obviously like this where she's putting forth some really great effort i mean we would have meltdowns every day so i just let her do her thing it will all come in time and no pressure but she loves the coloring that happens at the bottom it's always a treat and let's see we haven't gotten too far this is page 24 and she's been doing some other stuff during table time when we do our handwriting so that's why we haven't quite gotten through this but again there's really no pressure she does writing every single day in other areas of things that we work on and it all will be good but no the good and the beautiful handwriting books top-notch and you may or may not be able to get them in digital and just print it yourself but honestly i just feel it's so much easier to get it sent to you rather than worrying about ink and paper and doing it yourself yeah this is level two obviously it gets a little harder towards the end and then you get your certificate all right so for what i'm going to call mia's language arts though it is pretty much everything we are using gather round homeschool for mia and eli and i'm not completely sure if we will continue to use this once they're done with their current levels so mia is doing the ready to read and she's been thriving on it it is a solid program if you have a lot of children more than me that you know that you could pass down this curriculum to many levels i think it is totally worth your money um i don't have that many children i only have three so this ready to read could definitely their digital products you print them out yourself so you have to consider paper and ink you can buy these printed from canada where gather round is located but it's best to just buy their digital files and print it out yourself and if you have you know four five six kids ranging in levels that you could pass down these files to it is completely worth your money but um the ready to read program my daughter loved it we did um ready to read we're doing ready to read two and i was thinking about discontinuing it and when i told her she got really really upset so i had to go and we bought the other two levels so there's four levels of ready to read and each level so when she's done with the two it moves on to a different theme so each one is themed this is at the pond and it also incorporates math though i use a separate math curriculum as well so you i have a full rundown of the um how gather round works i have full reviews of the ready to read program which is this and of the letters and numbers that my son is using for preschool but my daughter has really really loved this if you want those full walkthroughs and more thorough explanation please watch those videos i will link them below um but you print them out and you just do like three or four worksheets a day and then there's the teacher's guide and so she's been reading and there's writing i mean this is a very thorough program and she has really really liked it um and then as far as the teacher's guide goes and there's a lot of scissor practice here too so if you're a mama that like forgets to have their child do like small motor skills uh there's a lot of really simple gluing and pasting and scissors in here which is really great but the teacher's guide i love it's right on my ipad and i just sit with her and you just read one page well here let's give you a look of that all right so gather around is digital files so i like to save my digital files onto my ipad and then i personally like to share those files with my ibooks app on my ipad and i just click on the teacher's guide this particular one is all about the savannah we haven't gotten to this one but i just flip through it'll give you the scope the sequence what they're going to learn which is great in that particular unit but it's going to be all about the savannah all of the animals and the climate and maybe some people that are living in the savannah and you just read one page a day so about lions that particular week will kind of just focus on lions and their kind of habitat and all of these different kinds of animals you have your bible you have your social studies you have your science you have your handwriting and you're going to have your math too so it is all inclusive you could just buy gather around and have you know all of your subjects covered though i still choose to do math as well with a separate curriculum and finally for mia for her individual subject we are using the master books math lesson for a living education again my daughter eden went through this entire program and it has been absolutely wonderful um it you know starts off very simple with just do writing a lot of numbers which is great so you could honestly just use this book for handwriting as well but it's all about the stories it's about a set of twins going to their grandparents house and learning about math through the farm which is so cute and again they're learning how to write these numbers and by the end we'll be finishing this particular book most likely at the end of summer i feel if we really buckle down and do a lesson every day sometimes if there's a lot of math in her gather round we won't do the math in this book um so we kind of just kind of pick and choose what day we are going to do whatever particular math but no i am loving math lessons for a living education it has given my children a wonderful grasp of math concepts without overwhelming them with too much on the page or too many things to get done per day i mean it takes us five to ten minutes to get math done it is glued in their brain and i don't have to repeat anything because it spirals just so so well so i almost forgot to mention my daughter is learning how to read using that gather round curriculum but we like to reinforce the reading um with bob books and then the good and the beautiful have these beginner box sets now i know the good and the beautiful is revamping their language arts program so i don't know if these box sets will still be available i bought them while they were on sale and what i just like about them is how vivid they are um as far as illustrations and just the different type each book is just completely different from the other so my daughter is currently reading these and not really having too much of an issue obviously she's sounding out each letter but then she can push all those sounds together and make the word and read them which is wonderful and there's you know there's a ton of them just in one box set so i'm hoping by the end of this year she'll be moving on to box c which is just the next level up and we'll just see it you know it's all in her time i'm not worried about it and gather rounds doing a great job along with i will throw in there we are doing a lot of reading eggs which is a computer website and she's doing a lot of reading eggs lessons and that has just been really great for her reading as well so um again like we love these bob books we've been reading them for a very long time but you can tell the difference as far as the illustrations between bob books and and these gorgeous ones again each child's different i like to have a variety these will also get passed down to eli but these are just great to have i know a lot of libraries will have bob books and you can check them out i personally just like to buy them because when i go to the library and i can't find what i'm looking for i get kind of frustrated so um yeah they're not expensive and i can link those below for you if that is something you are interested in okay we are moving on to my little guy he is four years old he will be five this summer and he is on the doodles and pre-writing for littles part two there's another book there's a one book he's on the second one some days he likes to do this and some days he doesn't um he's definitely still learning his letters um he knows all his letters he can recognize them but he's definitely not ready to write those letters so he does one to two pages of this a day if he feels like it um because i don't know about you and little boys i just think doing everything a bit slower um is and just having them play a lot more is just way more of value than trying to push academics on them way too soon i mean that's just kids in general but i definitely feel that is the case with boys so he kind of just does whatever he wants sometimes he just scribbles on the page and whatnot but he's had this book for quite some time and we're still just working our way through it and so far so good he also has a really large dry erase mat that has the alphabet on it he likes to trace on that as well if he's not um doing this book so yeah it goes from you know doing these little doodles and towards the back here they start putting in some letters um and then things start getting a little smaller filling in some ooh find an image you know find these things in the picture that's a little challenging but yeah there's definitely it's cute and it gives them something to do to learn that pencil grip and just you know get some writing in so eli is using the gather round curriculum as well and he's doing letters and numbers and this is the letters and numbers number three there's four levels of letters and numbers so he's already gone through all his letters and his letter sounds and he knows all of them so now at level three he is really starting to get into how to write these letters and other miscellaneous things um we talk about bible in this curriculum from the teacher's guide i read my one page that talks all about animals this particular level is all about the rain forest and learning about the animals of the rainforest the ecosystem of the rain forest and everything else in between it's very thorough so he's going to start learning all of the letters not their sounds but how to write them again and how to write numbers as well as getting in a little bit of social studies some writing talent narrating to me stories and i write those stories in for him and then he re-does all of his little letter books we cut out and staple together our letter books and then he's realizing where he's always hearing those sounds within um those words and just yeah building on those phonics so so far everything just takes about 10 minutes to do and he loves it and we're just going to continue through until we move on to ready to read okay so those are the individual subjects that my kids will be doing independently with just me teaching them so they have their math and their language arts and obviously gather around is a mix of like all the things but now i am very excited to share our group subjects so we do a table time in the morning and that always has our handwriting our devotional um sometimes a read-aloud we listen to a catholic podcast called catholic sprouts which teaches us so much about god and um our catechism and things like that um but with these other group subjects that we're going to be doing together i am just personally really excited about what we're learning and how we're going about it and this is definitely going to push into that more literature-based interest-led learning so i'm going to turn the camera around one more time and we're going to be going through the subjects we're all going to be doing together and obviously at the different ages of my kids they will do them at the ability that they can whether that's narration um or writing things out with worksheets and whatever else but honestly the the literature and just listening and comprehending i just think they're gonna get so much out of that whether they're doing busy work um involved with it so let's get to these group subjects and i know they're going to change um throughout the year so being that i am only choosing curriculum right now that would only last us you know like a quarter maybe a little less than a semester um for these things i can just make a video later in the year that of other things that we're learning and then i can share those with you but this is what we're gonna probably i'm pretty almost positive we're going to be starting this probably late spring early summer all right so my oldest is doing brave writer for her language arts starting this summer most likely and this is the writing program that would go with kind of her age group from five to eight you can beef this up or simplify it down but it's called jot it down and it's a year-long language arts plan um and 10-month writing project so my plan right now is to spend a month reading one of the novels and doing one of the darts that go along learning all of that um grammar and writing and things like that for the one month and then we're gonna take a month or maybe two weeks again we're just gonna see how long everything takes and we're gonna do let's we're just gonna say a month for a writing project and then the following month we'll move back to reading a novel and learning the grammar and the things like that so again this was a pdf everything bravery is a pv pdf and i printed this out a couple years ago i bought this when my child was just way too young you guys it's been sitting in my closet for quite some time and i'm ready to pull it out and i know i can use this with all three of my kids this year and just keep using it um in years to come so obviously she'll have her introduction um this is mostly like julie bogart's like when she was homeschooling these are all of the things like she did but there's different types of writing programs so there's the jot it down from five to eight partnership writing from nine to ten now do not go by these ages um it is most likely you'll have to go one thing uh or like one grade up or whatever um but again just i would check out her website for more information on this but what i love once you actually get to she'll talk about poetry tea time and music appreciation and just how to enrich your homeschool but let's see let's get to the actual writing projects so the very first writing project is the fairy tale project so you're going to read a fairy tale book of your choice you can read several and then it tells you how to do it and if your child is not a writer drawing pictures and narrating to you is without a doubt writing so you could type it out for them but it she's going to give these are actual projects of her children she has five adult children now she's starting to have grandchildren of her own julie bogart she's a lot of fun on instagram if you want to follow her on instagram but these are actual projects of her children in the 90s when they did it so just the fairy tale project could last me the entire year i could choose to just not do any of these other projects you could do you know rapunzel for the month and the next month you could do the frog prints and so on and so forth goldilocks princess and the pea or you could just spend one week on this project um it's completely up to you the ugly ducky wings the three little pigs cinderella so again um and then she'll you know give you little things that you can do along with it to make it more fun our project two um is art appreciation and it says this month you're gonna go to an art museum with your kids the goal is to start a love affair between you and your kids and artwork you'll expand their powers of observation and put them in touch with new vocabulary both of which will enhance their writing abilities and it tells you what to do when you're there and it'll tell you the project and yeah so let's see what else do we have in here there is the photo journal um one which just seems like a ton of fun and this is a month long you could do the entire month with your photojournal project which is way cool animal mini book again it's just very dynamic it's very different and it shows you how you can do your animal book posters teaching them how to do posters lists are also writing like you know making your grocery list and things like that obviously this goes into much more detail a letterbox which is super cute let's see some examples here of writing a letter let's see obviously the letterbox one takes quite a while big wonderful numbers um so so yeah you're gonna have an entire year of writing projects here um and i'm just really excited to finally get to this it's just been sitting forever and a day years really in my um in my house and i'm just really excited to finally implement this for all of my kids so next up i got some who was books um a while ago and i just haven't gotten to reading them and then i discovered this woman called stephanie waldock from thewaldockway.com a girlfriend of mine introduced me to her and i've been kind of you know trolling her her website for a while and it just it just seemed like it was time it was time uh stephanie waldock does unit studies and i've never really quite gotten into the unit studies i decided to organize it in a binder form so we're going to start with who was helen keller so these are once again all digital products i have printed it out for this video but also for myself so you're going to you can go to the library and get tons of these books so don't feel obligated that you have to purchase any of these books because you can save tons of money just by going to your local library to get it so we're going to do these as family read-alouds and we're going to learn about helen keller and what i just loved about the waldock ways unit studies is she gives you some books now these are like all optional right like if you are like a minimalist homeschooler awesome i am like with you there but she just gives you so many great resources to enrich this study so you're using obviously the who was books but here are some more books if you want to enrich more and learn more about helen keller she gives you a youtube playlist she gives you a pinterest board some videos um movies and things some games and also other resources that you can do at any time while you are doing this unit study so some coloring pages while you're reading your kids can color what i loved was the copy work which was great so obviously my five and four-year-old or soon six to five-year-old they can just write you know copy this out for her or for me as their handwriting where my older one can do her copy work here um or do cursive which i really really loved and then you know here's some stuff all about the unit study all about helen keller and it's simple but thorough and that's what i really appreciated about it you know we're gonna get our geography in um map her life learning about braille which i thought was really excellent um fill in the blank about her life nothing is overkill um compare and contrast yourself with helen keller a timeline for her and then she has some trivia games i'm sure you could laminate deep laminate these again you don't have to use it um but so there's a trivia game in there timeline matching game and i am just really excited to finally read these books that i've had for a while so we're going to learn about helen keller and then we are also going to learn about amelia earhart and i have her book right here and we watched night at the museum the second movie the second night of the museum movie and it had amelia earhart in it so my kids were like who's that oh i really like her so i was like you know what i have her book let's you know learn more about her so my kids are already really excited to learn about her and so the wall dock waist um units are all laid out the same she gives you i mean how easy is the qr code um for these optional resources and the same goes you're going to read the story you can have your kids do copy work and then just like the helen keller you're going to learn about her you're going to map her life great geography and there's a trivia game and so on there's also jane goodall i forgot to grab her book i do have this downstairs of the who was and the same thing goes we're going to learn about jane goodall and then lastly this was a free one on her website and that is learning about snowflake bentley we read this story every single winter my oldest asks for me to read snowflake bentley every single winter for like the last three years this is just a beautiful pitch picture book biography totally worth learn uh owning and so you know you're reading here but then they on the side there's just really nice little tidbits of additional information about bentley's life and he was the first one to photograph snowflakes and learn about the science of snowflakes and precipitation and things like that and he lived in vermont and this is just a sweet sweet story i can link this below but this was free on her site so i haven't told my oldest that we're going to do this towards winter time she's going to be so excited about this but again it all runs the same and this is just going to be a ton of fun for my family and like i say what i took from julie bogart from brave writer is you can teach everything from anything so just because we're reading about some people's lives here doesn't mean we're not going to learn about so many other things in the process next up we are going to be studying space i got this space unit from the waldock way as well she had a really good sale and i was looking through a bunch of her stuff and she just had such a really cool variety and i have other space studies from different programs and again i just science really isn't my thing it's not something that i seek out um but it's just so simple and i want simple right now i don't want anything to be complicated um i just want it to be straightforward and if we want to dive in we will dive in so the table of contents of everything that we are learning additional books again you don't have to use any of this or you can use some of it she gives you books games videos and hands-on activities to enrich your study of space if you have really young kids you can have a space sensory bin which is super cute um my ocd and all these like little pieces i doubt i will do this but you know you never know maybe i'll feel uh unorthodox one day and just throw it together but again how simple can she make it for you youtube playlist pinterest board um supplemental book list your instructions down here hands-on activity draw your own milky way and she'll give you the materials for that with some really good pictures and then in this particular study if i don't want to use a single other if i don't want to go to the library and buy a book on space so i have space books downstairs um in our library all i would do is read this like she gives you the stuff you're going to read on space if you don't want to supplement it with anything else so that's what i really liked about it so you're going to just read the page and then there is a roll of space story roll dice and then you're going to make a story and then you're gonna write that story out and that's what you do for the day right there done day two what is an astronomer again you could play some youtube videos if you want to do the hands-on activity there's the thing you're going to read to your child what is an astronomer she tells you there's some discussion questions that you can have with your child a coloring page learning the anatomy of a telescope and then labeling it and then you're done for the day again so i'm not going to go through this because like this is this is pretty hefty here but it's short and sweet and to the point and it's not gonna take you all day to get it done you know 30 minutes i would say probably um at most to get your science done for the day so i am very excited to do this space unit with the kids so i think this is going to be the most exciting thing my kids are really going to love that we're definitely going to start over the summer and this is also from thewaldockway.com this is the survival unit study i bought these books a year ago from usborne so you will need this set of 12 books of the bear grylls adventures in order to do this unit study my daughter loves watching the bear grylls television series that's on netflix and so when i bought these books i thought for sure she was going to be really excited but my daughter is a reluctant reader right now so she really loves to be read to despite her knowing how to read she just looks at all these words on a page and gets really overwhelmed so these are just going to be fun read alouds um that i'm going to do with the kids and you're going to read one of these books a week so if you are diligent you can get this unit study done in 12 weeks or you can stretch it out again it's completely up to you so with this unit study they give you the table of contents here these are all of the books um required now because these are digital um files all of these underlined things that are here they're actually links that you can just click on if you kept it on your computer your ipad um and it would just take you right there so anywho your first day you would read the introduction to us to survival and it introduces you to bear grylls who is bear grylls um and you're learning all about him you can watch a video scanning the qr code do the discussion questions and you're coloring a picture of him learning about his life so the very first day you're not actually reading from your storybook um this is what i really appreciated about this unit study is this is week one so it tells you you're gonna be reading the blizzard challenge book you're gonna be reading pages two through five and if you wanna do the youtube list it's here you can watch those at any time so it's telling you the chapters you're reading complete the backpack activity there is also a survival handbook so i just separated this out i have these two things separated but they're all in one deal so anyway i just loved how quick and easy each day is just laid out for you you're gonna read your chat you know your few pages you're gonna put tips that i've learned for surviving a blizzard and then the backpack right you're gonna write in and draw pictures of what you would need for that challenge and then if it tells you to read from the survival handbook wilderness survival preparation and what you'd have to do we are just so excited to get outside and learn all sorts of different types of survival skills and this is just going to be a really fun way to read books learn about surviving in the wild and just thinking outside the box this is just fun education right here and i and the kids are just really psyched to do this also as a family we are doing beautiful feet books this program is going to take us two years to get through i do have a video that i can link below of us doing a lesson from the early american history for primary grades and this is the teacher's guide and everything has just been going wonderful we have my nieces coming over every wednesday we eat lunch together we do a lesson and it's just been so rewarding and nothing is overdone our kids are just absorbing everything and again it is literature based so the teacher's guide tells you what book you're going to read what pages the discussion questions sometimes they have some youtube videos that you can watch and the early american history starts with ancient peoples it moves all the way through until like the early american west and if you buy the entire program it's about 250 dollars but it's going to last you two to three years to get through the books are such high quality if you're trying to build your home library beautiful feet books honestly is the way to go and it is so exciting to teach history in this way sure [Music] again i just don't think there is a better way to teach history than through really high quality picture books it just really makes it come alive and nothing has been dry with beautiful feet so i've been super happy with that investment because it is an investment you you're building your library you have really high quality literature in your home and it can be used down the line like my hope and dream would be that my kids choose to homeschool their own children and i will say hey i have the teacher's guide and i have all the books for this and i can pass it down to them but the very last thing i'm going to show you is give your child the world and i am going to be using this book for geography this year and this is an amazing resource by jamie martin um she's a pretty well home well-known homeschooling person in just the world of homeschooling she has the introverted mom is one of another book that she has written she has um a really great website as well that for some reason i just can't think of the name so i found this book through a facebook group that i'm a part of and the mom quickly realized that she was listening to this book on audio that it was a resource guide for how to raise globally minded kids one book at a time so in the beginning of the book it just talks about her journey into homeschooling and how her family loves to travel and she has an international family she has adopted several children from different countries and her husband is from england as well so and they travel and do missionary work and all sorts of things half of the book is a book list broken down between ages four to six and almost all of them are picture books and some of them are novels and it gives a brief description and she breaks them down into continent so as i'm just trying to find a page here um bringing the rain and talking about africa so african books for ages four to six and so she has several pages about that and breaking it down into different countries as well within africa and then books between six to eight-year-olds and then you have your 10 to 12 or your 8 to 10 year olds and then from there you have your 10 to 12 year olds and she just i mean how cool is that to just learn about the continents through really high quality literature and then my plan is to get a probably through beautiful feet books to be honest they have really great maps that you can actually draw and color on so my hope is to find a decent world map that is blank that my kids can color the countries as we're reading about them and then diving deeper probably using youtube as well as these books that i plan on getting from my library which will be super cheap and a safe and just save us a ton of money yes she has every continent in here and just really trying to help your kids think about that there are other people that live in the world and not just in the united states while while learning geography while learning geography so i'm super excited this will probably take me years to get through so and i'm okay with that so that's again just another money saver all right you guys i hope you found this video really helpful i will link absolutely everything i possibly can that was in this video in the description below if you have any questions i am here to help you and i hope you have a fabulous day we'll see you in the next video bye-bye

Channel: Robertson Tribe

Views: 7,652

Keywords: #curriculum, #homeschool, #resources

Id: gzNQNNrCSsM

Length: 55min 48sec (3348 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 11 2022