Homeschool Curriculum Q&A

hello homeschool moms today i'm going to be doing a homeschool curriculum q a video so i know it's that time of year when we are starting to think about curriculum for next year and a lot of questions about curriculum have been rolling in on youtube comments and instagram messages and email and all of that and a lot of them have been very similar and so i thought it would be a good use of my time and helpful for more people if i just addressed all of those questions here in a video so what i did is i'm going to divide the video kind of into two sections the first half i will focus on more general questions that would probably apply to most homeschool moms and then i'll get to more specific ones about specific curriculum towards the end of the video i did want to say really quickly um just a thank you to those of you who've reached out and just said that you miss seeing me on youtube i miss making youtube videos i hope though that you are enjoying the homeschool mom podcast those are on podcast platforms i've also been putting them up here on youtube i know that you don't get to see my face but i hope you are enjoying just the audio and the encouragement that come from those those are much easier for me to record right now in our current living situation we're just a small house with a lot of people so there just isn't a lot of good opportunity for me to record video but i can record podcast episodes from my closet which is where i record them so um i will keep trying to get those podcast episodes out to you and um hopefully i'll make videos as time allows but let's jump into this curriculum q a all right the first question is curriculum choices are overwhelming tips for how to narrow down choices and choose the best for my family well there is a lot that goes in to curriculum choices especially because there are so many options and i totally get the overwhelm i've been homeschooling i think this is my 18th year that we're finishing up i still get overwhelmed by all the options and so i actually did a video um let me see what was it entitled nine things to consider before choosing homeschool curriculum i encourage you to go watch that i'll leave it linked down in the description below it's really i think gonna help you think through um what your priorities are with curriculum and help you maybe narrow some of those options down a little bit more but a few things that i wanted to just share or kind of highlight in this video number one there is no perfect curriculum and i think maybe we know that but we don't really know that as homeschool moms because we keep searching and looking and second guessing ourselves is there something more perfect out there for my family and we just keep looking and if we just take that weight off of ourselves there is no perfect curriculum um we can certainly find something that's going to work well for our family but it's not going to be perfect and so if we just take that off of ourselves we're not going to find a perfect curriculum there is no perfect curriculum even if you wrote a curriculum for your particular child for that particular year that you're in that might be perfect in that season it still probably isn't going to be perfect and the next school year when you try to use it with another child it's not going to be perfect because that child is going to be different so um there just is no perfect curriculum so that's the first thing i wanted to point out secondly remember that curriculum is there to serve you and so what i mean by that is that you can get a curriculum if you don't necessarily like an aspect of it or a part of it isn't working for your family you can change what is not working for your family you can skip things that you think your child already knows or that seem like busy work you can add things in that you think it's missing maybe there's a writing assignment and you just think that's not going to interest my child at all pick a different writing assignment for them to do so the curriculum's there to serve you and help you educate your children at home you can certainly adapt it and change it to fit your family's needs and so don't again get so worked up and finding this perfect curriculum that you're going to be able to check all the boxes off of no the curriculum's there to serve you you don't need to be a slave to it um you can adapt it you can change it you can add things in you can leave things out and then the third thing is that when we are choosing curriculum this is not like a marriage where this is we're committed to it for a lifetime or for the whole homeschool lifetime um when you commit to a curriculum for the next school year you're committing to that curriculum for the next school year and even then you could change it um we're not married to the curriculum and so i think especially for new homeschool moms i know for me i was so overwhelmed with picking curriculum because i'm thinking for my first grader that's when we started homeschooling our oldest for my first grader i was thinking all right i think this is going to work well for first grade but is this curriculum going to work well for her in high school i don't know maybe i need to consider something else because i don't know if this is going to work for high school but i think it'll work for first grade but i don't know if it's going to work for high school okay i'm not married to that curriculum what you choose for your first grader you do not have to use every single year for all of your kids through your home's whole homeschool curriculum or homeschool career you can change okay so you're not married to that curriculum is it nice to think that if we pick a curriculum and we use we could just use it for all our kids all the way through absolutely that's a nice idea and that actually works well for some families i know like for my sister she has picked sunlight and that has worked for her for both of her kids so far for their homeschool journey and and she might very well use it for her entire um homeschool career of teaching her kids at home and that's wonderful but that's not the case for everyone and i think we we tend to want that because we think if we use the same curriculum all the way through then there's not going to be any gaps but the truth is whether you use the same curriculum or you switch curriculums multiple times there's always going to be gaps in people's education your children cannot possibly learn everything there is to learn and understand everything that is taught to them and retain everything um that's just not possible we're not god um we're human and we cannot know all things and understand all things there's always going to be gaps so if you're feeling overwhelmed by the homeschool curriculum options because you're thinking oh i've got to pick the curriculum that's going to work for my entire family and every single kid for all of our homeschool journey take that weight off of you you are not married to this curriculum you can switch it out you can change it you can move to something else and come back to it later and don't be worried about gaps in your children's education there's always going to be gaps even if you use the same curriculum that curriculum cannot teach every single thing so i know that doesn't maybe help you narrow things down that's why i encourage you to go watch um my video that i did on nine things to consider before choosing homeschool curriculum go watch that video but hopefully those help you kind of take a deep breath and take some of that weight off of yourself and that overwhelm of trying to find the perfect curriculum you're not going to find a perfect curriculum you're not married to any curriculum that you choose you can certainly switch it out later and the curriculum's there to serve you so you can change it you can add things in leave things out all right next question do you have any go-to places to research curriculum choices so um my first recommendation is my website i do have a curriculum homeschool curriculum page and i have information there all my reviews that i've done for curriculum are there but i also have links to other pages that do curriculum reviews and have information about curriculum i have information about how to choose curriculum and narrow narrow your options down and all of that kind of stuff is on my home school curriculum page so i will link to that down below or you can just go to janelle knutson.com and scroll down and you'll see that homeschool curriculum page the other place that i go to when i am thinking about new curriculum is first i just go to the curriculum website and check it out and see what it's all about but then i also find the kathy duffy um her website her reviews very helpful they're very just matter of fact here's what the curriculum is like and how it's laid out and how it works and so i find that that's really really helpful so i like kathy duffy um her website and then as i slowly narrow things down a little bit more then i'm gonna get probably on google and on youtube and search for other homeschool mom moms sharing um what they thought of how they used the curriculum and if they liked it they didn't like it what worked for them how the curriculum is set up and all of that and so i do do that as well as i should i'm sure you are you do the same thing and so those are really helpful for me one of the things that i take into consideration when i am watching a curriculum video review or reading one on a blog is i like to go and try to find out how long has that person been homeschooling and um what is their belief um you know what are they are they believers are they christians that helps me um think through a little bit um and understand where they're coming from i guess if they're brand new to homeschooling their opinion on curriculum and what worked and what didn't work is absolutely valuable but they might have a different view or take on a curriculum just because they different than somebody who's been a veteran homeschooler and who's been doing it a long time and is familiar with homeschooling so i take that into consideration take into consideration um the person's you know world view um if they're not believers i'm going to take that into consideration when i'm listening to their review of a curriculum so those are some of the places that you can go for curriculum reviews my website kathy duffy and just you know here on youtube a lot of other great homeschool moms out there that do curriculum reviews okay the next question is one that i get over and over and over again so i just kind of reworded all of the questions into one and then i'll read through a couple specific ones but first let me get a drink of water here all right here is what it is it kind of goes like this all these questions go like this why are you using curriculum x now when before you have said that you loved curriculum a um so basically janelle you said you loved a particular curriculum and you're not using it anymore why not and so some specific questions that came in um kind of related to this is the first one i watched several videos where you talked about how much you liked swr which is spell to write and read why did you stop using it um another person wrote in saying lots of posts about bju press math do you like it better than math you see now and i got a couple um that were about veritas press so why aren't you using veritas press self-paced courses anymore so again there's there was tons of these questions um just about you like this one and you're not using it anymore why not so let me address that question there is a lot that goes to my curriculum choice decisions each year um and my video that i mentioned about my the nine things to consider when choosing homeschool curriculum that video will help you understand a little bit more about what i am thinking through when i'm choosing curriculum but there's actually three things uh specific things that i think go with this question of why i might have loved something and i'm not using it right now and so i want to just walk through those three things that are um really important for me each year as i'm choosing curriculum so the first one is my individual child's need i need to think about what what does that individual child need i have six children that i'm going to be homeschooling um next year also homeschooled six of them last year but six that are i'm homeschooling next year so six kids i'm thinking about and i need to think about individually what does each of those which is each child need next year what do they need to accomplish next year what are their struggles right now that they're dealing with that we need to address next year what does that particular child um need to maybe grow in or advance in or that we need to address in our home school curriculum choices next year and so i'm thinking about each individual child and so a curriculum that may have worked really well for an older child might not work well for my a younger child and so i might have absolutely loved matthew c and it worked so well for one child and it might not be working for another child and so i'm not going to just say well i love math you see and it clicks for me and it worked for my other kids so i have to use it with this next child that's coming up no i want to think about my individual child's needs is that the best math curriculum for that child and if it's not i'm going to find something that's going to be the best fit for that unique individual child so i got to think about individual child needs the second thing that i got to think about each year is can i implement it next year in this season of homeschooling that i'm in i'm homeschooling six kids can i implement that curriculum and so there might be a curriculum that i have loved using but it requires too much of my time to implement it and so i'm not able to use it even though i loved it my kids loved it we all like to use it i don't have the time to implement it and i've said in past videos if you don't have the time if you aren't able to implement a curriculum it doesn't do you any good even if it's a a wonderful curriculum and you love it and your kids love it if you can't implement it then one of two things is going to happen either it's going to sit on the shelf and never get used which doesn't do your kids any good better to use something that you can implement so that you're actually educating them in that subject or you're going to try to implement it and you're going to stress yourself out in the process and you're going to burn yourself out and you're going to want to give up on homeschooling because you have made this curriculum that you love so much and idle that you are just sacrificing everything else your time your energy everything to try to implement something that really is not you're not able to implement effectively and so i have to think about individual child i have to think about myself can i even implement this curriculum and so there's a lot of curriculum that we've loved in the past we're just not using because i can't implement it um in the current season of homeschooling that i'm in and then the third thing that i have to consider is what are my family needs and dynamics in this upcoming school year is the curriculum going to meet the needs of our family and our family dynamics and so how this comes into play or one way this comes into play is choosing curriculum where either my kids are working really independently or we're working together so several years ago we changed a lot of our curriculum because although that curriculum had been working really really well i just felt like we were in a season where we needed to do things together as a family we needed to be doing more curriculum together we were going through some hard things as a family and i thought i need to have all of us together all of us having conversations all of us taking the same rabbit trails we need to be together and so we switched curriculum even though the other curriculum was working well for us and my kids liked it and it was easy to implement because it was more individual work for them we needed to switch to something that we could all do together because that was a season where we needed to be learning i just felt like we needed to be more united as a family and learning together then we just went into a season where i had a lot going on we weren't really sure where we're gonna be living and still don't know all of that but um i needed curriculum that my kids could do on their own in this last season that we were in and so we had a lot of curriculum that was more independent that they could do on their own now we're going into a season again where i think really next year a lot of my curriculum choices choices are going to be um more based on trying to do things again together as a family and our family dynamic is such and our family need is such so i think we need to implement more read-alouds together and things like that and so i'm switching curriculum again because our family needs and our family dynamics have changed and when you put all three of those together what an individual child needs what i can implement what our family needs and dynamics are that means that curriculum that we used to love that we still love we can't use or we need to try something new or we're gonna go back to something we used years ago and so that's why um you might see me talking about in the past how much i love matthew c or spell to write and read or veritas press self-paced courses but we aren't necessarily using some of those um in our current school year or you know when you look at my curriculum choices you go wait but janelle's not using that but i thought she loved it so hopefully that helps you not just understand why i might not be using something but also to help you think through what's going to be best for your family that maybe you're using something that you love but you can't implement and you need to switch it out or maybe you're using something that's worked so well for all your kids and you're not really thinking about an individual child and maybe you need to change curriculum just because you need to find what meets that individual child or your family dynamic or whatever that is but i did want to answer some of these questions more specific questions so the first one was about spell to write and read why did i stop using it and i didn't necessarily stop using spell to write and read but i did start adding in other things and what this came down to really was um the first two points that i made individual child's needs and can i implement it spell to write and read is a wonderful curriculum i still love it i still recommend it but it is teacher intensive and so there had been some seasons that we were in and i'm still in because i've got six kids to homeschool where i just could not implement it and i had to have a friend point out to me janelle you are not doing what you tell all the other homeschool moms you tell them if they can't implement something it doesn't do any good they need to find something that they can implement but you're not doing that you have made spell to write and read an idol and that good friends it is good to have good friends that speak truth into your life so i had to take that to heart and go you know what she's right i have made this an idol i can't implement it it is not doing my kids any good right now i need to lay that aside and find something else that i can implement and so um i started using logic of english that was something that i could implement into my home and that um was similar to speller write and read but then i could implement the other thing was individ individual child's needs spell to write reads a wonderful curriculum but like i said no perfect curriculum and one of the things that i was noticing was that one particular child was still struggling with reading and so i had to focus on what does that child need they need more help in reading and so i went and got all about reading and started implementing that and that that just completely changed this child's reading struggles and really help them to get back up to grade level with their reading which we were so thrilled about and so if i'm already using all about reading i was using it with spell to write and read i thought well why don't we just use it with all about spelling because those two go together and so over time i just started bringing in other curriculum the logic of english and all about reading and all about spelling and there have been seasons where we have used spell to write and read or i've used spelled write and read with a couple kids and logic of english with a couple kids where i've used spell to write and read alongside all about reading where i've used logic of english alongside all about reading where i've used just logic of english there's again what can i implement what do my children need and so i still love spill to write and read i still plan on using it um did not use it this last year because again children's needs what i could implement but i hope that answers your question about um spelt to write read i still love it i still think it's a great curriculum still hoping to go back to it at some point but again what does my child need what can i implement thinking about our family dynamics all right um the next question was about lots of posts about bju math do you like it better than math you see now so i have done videos and blog posts about how much i love matthew c it clicks for me it makes sense to me i wish i had that when i was growing up and so i thought for sure i'm gonna use it for all my kids all the way through several years ago i had a child matthew c was not clicking for them and so we had to find something different and bju press math clicked for that child so again individual child's needs and so we started using bju press math and then what i found was i could implement bju press math a little bit easier because we were using the the video lessons with it and so in the season that we were in the family dynamics that we had i needed some younger children to be learning math independently and i just couldn't implement math you see with all my older kids and my younger ones and it was clicking with one trial and i thought well maybe it'll still click with some of the younger ones and so i had the younger one start in bju press math and it has worked really well all that being said i have had kids who have used bju press math started with it and switched to matthew c once they've started math you see and switched to bgu press ones that have gone back and forth in the high school years a year maybe with bj press again with matthew c another um math level with you know algebra one or something with bju and kind of going back and forth so i love both of them they are both excellent i recommend both of them um it's not that one's better than the other they're different and they're going to work better for different kids different kids learn different ways so different kids one math is going to work better for the other and some of them i can implement easier than the other one as well and then the last specific question about that that i wanted to address was why are you using veritas press self-paced courses anymore and we my daughter did love and i did love and appreciate the veritas press self-paced courses the reason we did not continue using them really comes down to the fact that that particular curriculum was just a perfect fit that particular year for that student that child needed the books that were being read and the things that were being taught that's what they needed that year and and she loved it and she would have loved to continue doing it but that child's particular needs we were not following and and still aren't following a classical christian education and so we weren't doing history chronologically and we weren't we weren't following a classical model and that's really what veritas press follows and so it just the next one that she would have taken in that self-paced course the next level that she would have taken wasn't going to fit in with what we had for her and kind of the plan that we had for her for high school and things like that and so it just wasn't a good fit we would have loved it to be a good fit we tried to make it a good fit because we really liked it but it just wasn't a good fit for that individual child's plan that we had for them that we had decided together on for high school and so we just didn't continue using it it's definitely an option for kids in the future but it really works best if you're following a classical uh christian model which we're not so still love it it is still a great option for homeschool families love to use it it's an option in the future for us but that's why we did not continue using it with that particular child okay the next question is we are new to homeschooling should i go with a boxed curriculum for our first year the answer to the question is yes maybe no it really depends um i think one of the pros to a box curriculum is that it really helps you narrow down your choices i mean you just have to pick which box curriculum you want to use everything's there for you it's all laid out for you it in some sense might be easier to implement so that could be nice for a brand new homeschooler it's just to get a box curriculum and everything's there it comes together you have to try to piece things you don't have to wonder am i missing something it's just all there together one of the downsides to a box curriculum is that it might not work for your family that particular method that that box curriculum uses might not be a good fit for your family and so at the end of your first year of homeschooling you might just go this homeschooling thing's not working for us and maybe it's not that it's not working for you it's that that particular type of curriculum is not working for you whereas if you kind of picked and choose maybe you're using math you see for math and you're using bju press heritage studies for your heritage studies and you're using maybe apologia for science and you're you're using a whole bunch of different uh curriculum options and piecing things together um you might realize man we really love this curriculum but this one doesn't work so well and this one doesn't work so well but then man these two work so these two work and you might have a little bit more confidence that next year you know what doesn't work and you know what does work and you can pick more of the things that work in the following school year the downside is that you could be overwhelmed and you could be worried that you're missing things and certainly it's a very real possibility that you might forget something that you might pick english stuff and leave out and forget to do spelling or forget to include grammar or something like that again don't panic if you missed it when you realize you missed it you add it in later you add it in the next year it's okay it'll be okay but there's pros and cons to using a box curriculum and pros and cons to kind of picking and choosing a different curriculum certainly if you use a box curriculum maybe the next year you say you know some of this worked for us but we're gonna we're gonna use the box curriculum except for math we're gonna go with something different for math and you can slowly add in different things that work for you so it really it really comes down to what's best for your family and you specifically as the home school mom if a box curriculum gives you comfort and makes you just feel more i can do this i can do this homeschool thing go with a box curriculum if the box curriculum you just think i don't know if it's going to work for all of my kids and i just don't know if this math is going to work i like this science but i'm not sure if this aspect of it's going to work pick and choose and try different things so i don't think there's a right way or wrong way uh the best way it it really is pros and cons to both do what you think is going to be the best for your family and then if it doesn't work guess what try again the next year try something different the next year so that's my answer to that question next question is if a curriculum isn't working for my family should we switch in the middle of the year or wait until the new school year well my answer to this question is it depends it really depends so you've got to think first of all let me set my drink down here um you have to remember that there is no perfect homeschool curriculum so if a curriculum isn't working for you really think through why is this not working and can i change things adapt things add things take things out to make it work for me can i adapt it a little bit and make it work for the rest of the year so we don't have to invest more money in new homeschool curriculum in my i think 18 years of homeschooling um i think that's how long i've been homeschooling um i think i have switched curriculum mid-year maybe twice and that's it i've always been able to not always because i switched twice but for the most part i've been able to take a curriculum that maybe isn't working super well for for a particular child or for just us as a family and i've been able to adapt it and change it enough to make it work well enough for us to finish using it for the rest of the school year now that being said there are times when there's a curriculum it just is not working especially maybe for a particular child or you just can't implement you just realize several months in we are never getting to this and maybe the reason you're not getting to it is because it's too uh teacher intensive and you you just need to switch it out and find something else and you certainly can do that there's nothing wrong with that i did a video on youtube i don't remember the title of it but it's about switching curriculum mid-year maybe that's the title i will find it and link it down below in the description but in there i offer some encouragement that if you are switching curriculum in the middle of the school year and this is really you've pr you prayed about the what am i trying to say here if you have prayed about it getting tongue-tied if you have prayed about it and you really feel like this is what is going to be best for your family i give some encouragement for you because i think our tendency is to then to think now we're behind we're starting a new curriculum we're picking it up at the very beginning in the middle of the school year now we're like a half a school year behind and i just give some encouragement that you're not behind you're not behind you're right where god wants you to be if you have prayed about it and you really feel like this is what the lord wants then you're not behind you're where the lord wants you to be and so i encourage you if you are ever in a situation where you are thinking about switching curriculum mid-year watch that video for some encouragement on whether or not you should switch and if you do you're not behind here's what the lord has for you so i will leave that video linked down below as well next question is family style bible curriculum recommendations and by family style this person was saying ones not just that mom's doing but mom and dad and kids all together the whole family including dad can do so yes i have some family style bible curriculums suggestions they're sitting right over here so i will pull them over in just a minute i do want to um just say that what your family does um for family devotions or family bible time or whatever is gonna look different than what my family does and what some other family does it's also going to vary from season to season how much time you have the attention span of your kids the ages of your kids all the activities and things that you have going on when you do family bible time if it's in the morning if it's at night if it's at lunch time because your husband works from home that's all going to vary um there is a really good book that just came to mind about family worship family devotional time cannot remember the name it is a super short read and it really just it's just a great book to know just some basic components of family time in the word i will link it down below i cannot remember the name but i will link it down below but that being said the way that it works in our house is that i do some bible time with my kids usually at lunch time and that usually is reading bible stories we're reading through the bible and we use a lot of different resources for that some things that i've put together myself right now we're using a becca's like their flashlight card little stories that they have so i do the bible stories um with my kids along with a lot of bible memory um stuff um just a lot of different things that i do with my kids as i'm homeschooling them in the evening is the time when my husband will do kind of family devotions and so those are the resources that i'm going to share with you are the ones that my husband and i have used with our kids during our family devotional time or ones that we are hoping to use in the future so let me grab this stack and show them to you all right so the first one that i wanted to share with you is this one it is leading little children or leading little ones to god and this is a wonderful wonderful family devotional book to go through if you have little ones because it's short and sweet and will keep their attention and it has some pictures in it but not every lesson has pictures that like i said they're very short so you can see here here's lesson 39 and then lesson 40 starts over here so very very short it has like a little thing that your you know husband i'm assuming if you're asking for family devotions that includes your husband that he's going to be leading those so there's a little short thing that he would read and then depending on your time and your kids attention span you can do some all few none of these things here so it has questions to talk about with your kids about what you just read it has a bible verse it also has suggested reading so additional bible verses that you could read it has a hymn as well as a prayer that you can pray at the end and so i love this because it kind of incorporates um you know the bible reading singing a song and praying together as a family but it's really short and sweet so this is a great one leading little ones to god i don't even know if they make this anymore um you might have to try to find a used copy but this one is excellent another option is let me find it here my stack this one right here training hearts teaching minds this is um one that is going through the shorter i believe westminster catechism and these are very short as well so it's gonna take you through this question is question number 33 what is justification and as you can see on both of these pages is monday here's tuesday wednesday thursday friday and saturday um and they're short as you can see and so it has something that you would read that helps answer that question um what is justification what does that mean and um a little bible verse and so there's very short in helping your kids understand some very basic um doctrine of the christian faith and so again nice short and sweet and easy to implement with um older kids and younger kids and helps them understand the um doctrines of the faith so that's one option another option that's very similar is this one comforting hearts teaching minds by the same author can you see that and this is set up the same way um this one has some different questions and answers you know following like a catechism thing and then a short little short thing to read each day with some scripture um so this is another great option i think this one is set up for monday through saturday as well please know that again it is here to serve you and help you teach your kids so if you can't have family devotions monday through saturday that's fine what we do is we just we read we might read wednesdays on monday and we write read thursdays on tuesday and we might not get to it on wednesday when i get to on thursday and we just pick up where we left off so we don't really pay attention to the specific day of the week that it says we just do the next one and keep moving along as faithfully as we can as we disciple our children so that's another great option um these both follow i should say this one follows the heidelberg catechism this one follows the uh westminster catechism both of those are um presbyterian um more minded uh catechisms one that's a little bit more baptist in nature if you lean more towards that realm is this one big truth for young hearts teaching and learning the greatness of god this is not a catechism one but this just goes through um like this one says let me see here find one for you that okay pain and suffering in the world god controls so answering that question about suffering in the world so you're gonna read this page this one's a little bit longer it has a couple more pages that you'd read and then there's questions and memory verses at the end so this is another great one it's a little bit longer so your child would need to have a little bit more of attention span so maybe as you're getting into the elementary age junior high high school with your kids and things like that another option is these truth and grace memory books these are wonderful options they let me tell you what they are so there's three levels this is level one i think this is more for younger kids it says in here the age i should just tell you instead of guessing let me look here okay so this is book one and it's for ages two to nine all right then they have truth and grace memory book two and this is for ages 10 to 13. and this book three is for ages 14 to 17. and what it has is catechism questions and bible verses that children at that age should know foundational truth and scripture that children at that age should know and so you if you have a wide range you've got teenagers and you've got little ones you could certainly just start with where's book one you can start with book one and if you've never done family devotions before if you've never really had your kids learn doctrinal truths and memorize scripture start with one and work through that together as a family it'll have a catechism question like who made you uh god made me and then it has some verses that you would probably can't see that very well but verses that you could look up and talk about related to that catechism question and then there's scripture to memorize in the back that you can memorize as a family so that is another great option so hopefully those were helpful for the person who asked and for a lot of you out there who are just thinking we would love some resources to be able to do bible time as a family all right next question is what are your favorite phonics spelling and vocabulary curriculum so i have done an entire video on phonics and spelling and reading and so i will link to that down below um my favorite kind of phonics spelling reading curriculum really are spell to write and read all about reading all about spelling and logic of english those all follow the orton gillingham method of phonics and teaching spelling and reading that's why i like them if i was going to move out of that realm out of the orton gillingham method the next one in line for me as a favorite for phonics and spelling and teaching reading would be the becca phonics curriculum i think their phonics and teaching early young children early readers um is really good i i don't i'm not really familiar with their spelling as it you know as you move out of the phonic stage but i do like their phonics for you know the kindergarten first grade grade eight that is definitely would be a favorite but for me i don't use it because i stick i like to stick to the orton gillingham method and i've already got three great options spell to write and read all about learning they're all about reading and all about spelling and logic of english so those are the three that i stick with in terms of vocabulary curriculum i'm gonna have to ask all of you out there that are watching to leave your favorite recommendations for vocabulary curriculum down in the comments i have not found a favorite um i have used bju press vocabulary um i think that's more for like middle school years high school that has worked fine um i have used another one i want to see like vocabulary for the roots up or something like that that has worked great but still nothing that i absolutely love so please help us all out leave a comment down below of some vocabulary curriculum that you've used and you've loved and it has worked well for your family all right next question looking into dvd options for high school any tips tricks or advice all right well dvd options for high school are actually limited because a lot of um curriculum companies are moving to online where you either stream them online or they are a live online class or things like that so i know dv um in terms of dvd i know bju press and rebecca still offer the dvd option where you can purchase the dvds and have them in your home or at least rent them i think you have to rent them and send them back so it's in terms of dvd options i'm not sure how many are out there but i do have a blog post that says that has a list of a whole bunch of online video based that type of thing uh curriculum for homeschoolers from elementary through high school and so i will leave that link down below encourage you to check that out i'm trying to think there's a lot on there and so there's probably a ton that i'm missing so if you're looking for dvd options um or just online options video based options go check out that blog post but any tips tricks or advice for using i'm just going to say video based curriculum and i do have one i think big one and that is to remember that even though your child has another instructor that they are learning from there is another person on the other side of that screen that they are learning from that is telling them turn this paper in take this test do this assignment remember that you the parent are still the teacher you're still the teacher you still get to make the decisions and so keeping that in mind that if you're students getting overwhelmed with the video based curriculum you can change things you can say you don't have to do that assignment you can say um you're going to do a writing assignment but you're going to do a different one you know maybe they're asking them to um do a speech a presentation and you're going to say you know i'm going to have you do it on you know just make a board with pictures and summaries and stuff on it or i'd rather you write a paper instead of writing a paper i'd rather do a speech you are the teacher you are in charge so i think it's sometimes difficult when we when we see that there's that other teacher on the other side of the screen and they're telling the student to do something they're telling our child to do something and we think oh our child has to do that because that's their teacher remember if you're homeschooling you're the teacher you're in charge you get to decide what your child does and what they don't do the video based courses are there to help you educate your child at home they're there to assist you you use what you want and disregard what you don't want you change things adapt things so i think that's my biggest thing encouragement tip trick advice for you is to remember that you're the teacher and you can change things you can slow things down speed things up skip things and i think sometimes that's hard for us as homeschool moms at least it was for me when we first started using video based curriculum was oh but the teacher's telling them to do this and my kids were like well she told me to she's the teacher i'm like oh no no remember mommy's a teacher she is helping me teach you um mrs overley from bju press is helping me as your mom teach you but i'm the teacher i'm the one that makes the decisions your dad's the principal what he says goes um you know he's gonna back me up on this so just keep that in mind i think that's important to remember no matter what curriculum we're using okay i've got a couple um specific questions about specific curriculums so we're going to move over into that realm of specific questions so if you had a specific question about a specific curriculum hopefully i'll have time to answer it all right here is the first one how much time does iew's structure and style video course take each day is it teacher intensive i saw from someone that it takes up a lot of time watching the video and the parent usually has to be there to watch also i was also considering eiw which is essentials in writing instead for that very reason all right so kind of a lot in this question let me see if i can answer it the best that i can um iew's structure and style for students videos um the whole point of them is that it is not teacher intensive that being said it is true that if you are not familiar with iew's style of teaching writing that you are going to need to watch some of the videos now you don't have to watch them with your student you could certainly watch them and skip through quickly um in the evening before you go to bed or first thing in the morning or just you know have a saturday where you're just going to watch a lot of iew structure style for students videos so that you are familiar with how the whole method of iew works because that is important for you to understand that so that you can help your child when they have questions um and they need help with things and when you're grading their paper so that you know what you're supposed to be looking for so yes there is that aspect that you will probably need to watch some of the videos not necessarily with your students so you can understand the method once you understand the method though you don't need to keep watching the videos with your student now that being said um you probably do need to sit and watch the videos for several weeks with students who have never done iew before or who have never done writing you know any writing before so i had some kids last year structure and style for students i think came out last year or the year before but the first time it came out that we used it i was familiar with iew's writing method some of my kids had already used it but they just weren't familiar with how the whole s you know watching the video and writing the assignment and where papers go and how they didn't know how that all worked and so it i did for the first couple weeks have to sit with them and watch the videos and sit with them and help them do the assignments and so they could get familiar with how the whole process worked once they had that down we are at the point now where um even for my younger ones who are using it i do nothing except answer questions occasionally help them tell them how to spell a word and then you know grade their writing assignments that's all i do they put the videos in they watch them they do the work themselves and so it really is supposed to be a hands-off the parent doesn't have to do a lot of work but there is going to be some initial work that you're going to have to put in and so i think that maybe the person that was reviewing that's what they were experiencing the curriculum was new to their kids so they had to sit and help their kids the curriculum was new to them so they had to watch it to understand how this new method worked um but once you get over that hump i think it is very hands off the teacher doesn't have as a parent you don't have to do very much which is why i have been enjoying it and my kids have been i have been learning a lot about writing from it and i've had to do very little and so that's why i love it in terms of essentials in writing that's another great writing curriculum i've done videos on that as well um and that's a great option but the same thing applies if you're not familiar with their method you're going to have to probably watch some videos with your student if your student's not familiar with how that all works you're going to have to sit and watch some videos with them once you understand once they understand then it's going to be more hands-off and they'll be able to do a lot of it by themselves also coming back to iew structure and style videos the videos are about 20 minutes to half an hour long and there's usually two parts so they'll watch part one like a monday part two on tuesday and then wednesday thursday friday they're doing their own writing assignment so i don't find that it is any extra work or takes any longer than other writing curriculums that i have used so that's that's my experience again iew eiw both excellent options i've done reviews on them here on youtube and on my blog and they're just different methods and it really comes down to which method is going to click and work for your unique student all right next question is about bju math it says i read a review that their math is rigorous and takes their child a long time i like the conceptual understanding of bju math but i was wondering if it would be a dif um be a difficult jump from matthew c to that meaning from matthew c to bju press um [Music] bju press math in one sense is rigorous for this reason they include critical thinking more than any other math curriculum that i have seen um there is a lot of critical thinking and as we know to be critical thinkers it takes work it takes not just understanding a concept but knowing how to apply that concept to different situations and different math problems and so i think in that way it can feel more rigorous and it can seem more overwhelming to some students so i totally get that can is it going to be a difficult jump from matthew c to bju press math it really depends on the student and it depends on what level of math you see you're in and what grade level of bju press math you're jumping into so across the board for any math curriculum whether it's bju press whether it's math you see whether it's saxon whatever math curriculum it is i find that it is easier to switch curriculum in the high school levels because um most algebra 1 curriculum is going to cover about the same thing most geometry curriculums cover the same thing most algebra 2 curriculums are going to cover about the same thing so if they took algebra one from one curriculum and then they go to another curriculum for geometry and then you know algebra 2 for a different one it's it's not going to make a big difference because i think most math curriculum like i said covers about the same thing in those courses but in the elementary ages grades math curriculum introduces different concepts at different times and every curriculum is a little bit different so when when do they introduce um you know a single digit addition and then multiple digit addition and single digit subtraction and multiple digit subtraction and multiplication facts and more advanced concepts of multiplication and when do they introduce um fractions and percents and decimals and and all of these things every curriculum introduces them at a little different time and so it's a little bit more difficult to switch from one math curriculum in the elementary years to another one because there's going to be some things that when you switch your child is already going to learn have learned and then there's going to be things that maybe they're like wait we're adding fractions i don't even know what a fraction is i haven't even learned about fractions at all i don't even what is it i'm supposed to multiply and divide fractions i don't even know how to add and subtract so it's a little bit more difficult to switch math curriculum in the elementary age but it's certainly doable it's just a little bit more difficult and you really have to pay attention to what your student has already learned in the previous curriculum and what they need to know um for the next curriculum and so certainly um placement tests that a lot of math curriculums have is going to be a good thing here for you in terms of switching from math you see to bju press math i have had kids do that i have had kids in bg press math uh or matthew c switched to bju press and it has gone okay but the timing has been such that there wasn't it was either early on in the elementary years where they there wasn't that much that they had maybe missed or in one curriculum as we're switching to another or it's been that we've been switched in um more the high school years once they finished all of math you see they've switched for to bju press math for pre-algebra and algebra 1 and so on so um i don't know that matthew c isn't i'm sorry that bj press math is necessarily rigorous it might just feel rigorous because there's a lot more critical thinking skills that have to be applied um is one better than the other it really depends on what's going to work best for your child and also what you can implement and so that kind of leads me to the next question that says does bju press math video lessons take a lot of the teachers time or is it about the same as math you see bjupress math video lessons are going to take less of your time as a parent because you really shouldn't have to do anything except grade their papers um with bj you press math your student watches the video and hopefully with bg you press videos the videos are longer but that's because they're going into more detail about the new concept they're reviewing older concepts or previous concepts and so so there isn't any additional teaching that you as the parent is probably going to have to do and there probably aren't as many questions that your students gonna have because there is a lot of review and there is a lot of explanation those math videos for bju press are longer than the math you see videos because it's assuming that the parent isn't doing any of the teaching that all the teaching is coming from the videos math you see their videos is assuming that a parent is going to come now after the student has watched the videos a parent is going to come and teach and reinforce and help and answer questions and so the videos are shorter they don't go into a lot of detail and they're not reviewing past information and so for a parent i think that matthew c is more teacher intensive it takes more of the parents time and bju press math takes less of the parents time but for a student the videos for bj press are much longer and math you see the videos are much shorter but again it's it's because matthew sees assuming that parents are going to come along alongside that student and help them and teach them a little bit more and re help reinforce things so again one's not better than the other they're just different and different ways of learning math as well all right on to my i think this will be my last question this last question is actually a summary i kind of put a whole bunch of questions that i got together into this last one so this isn't nobody asked this specific word for word question but i got enough that i wasn't going to read everybody's single person's question so here's the general question janelle what are your thoughts on the good and the beautiful curriculum and you know that i'm smiling because you probably i don't know that anybody is not aware of the good and the beautiful curriculum they have done an excellent job of marketing whoever does marketing at that company has nailed it i think everybody knows about the good and the beautiful curriculum um so i'm smiling though because you probably know that it's controversial there have been whole youtube videos made about why we should love the good and beautiful curriculum there's been youtube videos made about why we shouldn't use the good and the beautiful curriculum and so i am going to answer this question i could say a lot let me just say that i could say a lot about not just the good the beautiful curriculum but about choosing curriculum for our families being discerning as moms teaching our kids to be discerning as well i could say a lot about that i'm not because i just don't this video is already long and i just want to keep this i want to wrap this video up um that being said if you have questions if you want clarification i want to be as clear as i can i want you to understand where i'm coming from and i don't want to confuse people i don't want people second guessing wait well what would would janelle use this would do you know i just don't have the time for all that in this video so i hope you understand that i'm going to share two things well i'm sure three things i'm going to share three things um an answer to my thoughts on the good and the beautiful curriculum and again if you want more clarification i will try to answer that in the comments or i don't know maybe do a separate video although i really don't want to but here's the first thing that i want to say i have not used the good and the beautiful curriculum there you go i have not used the curriculum i can't tell you what i think about it in that sense i don't know i don't know if it's teacher intensive or if it's open and go i can't do a curriculum review on it because i've never used it so i mean that's just short and sweet never use the curriculum so i can't share my thoughts on how the curriculum works and what's in it and all of that okay so that's the first thing number two you need to know um you need to know as homeschool moms we need to know you need to know why you are homeschooling what your goals are for your family for your individual children what your goals are in homeschooling and and just discipling your family you need to know what your goals are and then you need to choose curriculum that's going to help you meet those goals i know what my goals are for my family i i've shared them i did a blog post where i shared my home school kind of vision statement or our home school vision statement which really is our family like life vision statement just our purpose as a family and what we want to do as parents in raising our kids i've shared that in a blog post i will leave that down below so i know why i'm homeschooling and what my goals and my hopes are and how i want to invest in my kids and so i'm going to then choose curriculum that's going to help me to meet those goals that i have for my family and that vision statement that we have you need to know what yours is and yours might very well be different than mine so different curriculum is going to help you meet those goals you might read my vision statement on my blog and think that is my vision statement but that still does not mean that the curriculum that you use is going to be the same curriculum that i use because i've got a unique family i've got unique family dynamics i've got unique kids and so i'm going to use different curriculum in different ways to help different kids to get them to the point that i'm hoping to point them in right to christ and to service to the lord and helping them develop skills and talents um my kids have different talents and skills than your kids do and so i'm going to use different curriculum to help build up their strengths and help them in their weaknesses and and all of that so your family what your family goals are and what your why your home schooling is going to be different than mine probably maybe similar but still you've got different dynamics and so all of that comes into play when we are choosing curriculum for our family i don't know if the good and the beautiful is going to be good for your family or not i know where i land on it for my family based on what our family goals are children's needs family dynamics all of that so that's the second thing i want to say so first i've never used the curriculum i can't really do a review secondly you need to know what your family goals are and find curriculum that's going to help you meet those goals here's the third thing that i'm going to say and then i'm not going to say anymore okay here's the third thing the good and the beautiful has been marketed whether it still is marketed but it has this way but it has been marketed in the past as a christian curriculum as a non-denominate non-denominational christian curriculum okay terms definitions matter how we define things matter so let's look at non-denominational when we say non-denominational what we mean is uh in christianity when we say non-denominational we are saying that this church or this person's beliefs don't fit into um maybe baptist or lutheran or calvary chapel even though calvary chapel says they're non-denominational but anyways you know what i mean it doesn't fit into uh presbyterian or baptist or lutheran or it doesn't fit into a specific doctrine where we get to those second tier um doctrinal things about you know believers baptism or infant baptism and things like that that's what non-denominational means you're saying that maybe that that curriculum doesn't adhere to a specific like you know we back we we're going to emphasize baptizing babies or we're going to emphasize only baptizing believers so it's non-denominational in that sense when we say christian we need to look at how we are defining christianity and what it means to be a believer when we define christianity we need to to define it based on how the bible defines what a christian is and then also look back at historical christianity and how has believers been defined historically but first and foremost from the bible so the bible the 66 books of the old and the new testament make up the bible as defined in the 66 books of the old and new testament in the bible how are christians defined and if you look at the historical traditional biblical definition of christianity mormons people of that are in the lds church latter-day saints which jenny the the the founder and writer of the curriculum of the good and the beautiful is from she's a mormon she's from um in the um latter-day saints church they by definition are not christians i know this is going to upset people and my goal is not to upset people my goal is not to in one sense divide all of us homeschoolers but we need to call out when somebody's not a believer my heart i don't have anything against jenny my heart is that as she interacts with true believers true christians as defined by the bible um as she interacts with them that she would hear the truth of god's word and come to saving faith in christ as her savior i hope that for her so i'm not i'm not trying to one since be divisive but in the same sense i don't want people to be deceived and i don't want people who think they're christians whether they're mormon or whether they're they attend some christian church but they have never put their faith in jesus christ i don't want them to be deceived i don't want them to think that they're going to be saved and they're not that breaks my heart to think that people who think that they are going to when they die stand before the lord and that he's going to say well done good and faithful servant that he's not going to say that he's going to say i don't even know you that breaks my heart so i don't want people to be deceived so i'm not trying to be divisive but in some ways the gospel the good news of jesus christ the truth of scripture divides it does and so all i'm saying is the definition of a christian biblically and historically means if you take that and that is what a christian is then mormons are not christians that being said if we are going to then look at the good and the beautiful curriculum we need to ask the question how can an unbeliever write christian curriculum how can someone who does not have a biblical worldview right curriculum from a biblical worldview and the answer to that is they can't someone who does not know the truth cannot write the truth and so my issue with the good and the beautiful isn't even primarily like my biggest issue isn't that jenny's a mormon that's not my biggest issue my biggest issue is that it's being marketed or it has been marketed as a non-denominational christian curriculum and it is not it cannot be a christian curriculum because an unbeliever cannot write christian curriculum someone who does not know the truth cannot write about the truth of god's word now can someone who's not a believer have the same morals and values that we have and incorporate that into a curriculum absolutely but moralism is not christianity so it still is not a christian curriculum it could have some of the same morals and values that we hold as christians as defined by the bible the 66 books of the old and new testament um it could still have the same values and morals that we hold to but it is not going to be a christian curriculum it might be christian friendly in that um it doesn't have anything that we would you know say no i don't want my kids learning that right now um so it could be christian friendly it could be a very good and beautiful curriculum but it is not a christian curriculum and that is my biggest issue is the deception that comes with that when it's being marketed as this is christian um that the author is a christian um that that if you're using this a lot of new homeschoolers maybe don't know that um a mormon wrote the curriculum and so they're thinking this i want christian curriculum i want a biblical worldview curriculum and they're purchasing it thinking that that's what it is and that's what where i want to just caution people i'm not saying use it or don't use it what i'm saying is that i've never used it so i can't tell you i can't give you a review of it i don't know what your goals for your family and your vision for your family is so i don't know if this curriculum is going to help you meet that or not but what i want you to be aware of is that it is not a christian curriculum because an unbeliever can not write christian curriculum could it still be good curriculum could it still have good values and morals integrated into it absolutely um yes it can but again you have to come back to what is the goal for your family my goal is not to teach my kids moralism and to be good and to do good um that's not my goal my goal is to help my kids see this is god's standard of morality you can never reach that ever but you don't have to keep working and trying because there's a savior jesus christ who died on the cross for our sins and if you put your faith in him you don't have to work anymore he's done the work for you and what good news that's what i want to be teaching my kids and pointing them to and so for me you know the good and the beautiful hasn't been something that's going to help me in accomplishing that now there's a lot more that can be said do i use curriculum written by people who aren't believers do i do i use curriculum that's maybe written by believers that doesn't have a biblical worldview integrated into it um what do i do about you know library books do i read secular things to my kids do i let them let them use secular curriculum for different things or different books that's a whole different that's what i mean i could do a whole video on that because we do use things that don't have a biblical worldview and that aren't written by believers because i want to teach my kids to be discerning let's look at this and let's analyze this from a biblical worldview let's see let's try to discover the author's point of view and see how their point of view affects what they're sharing the information that they're sharing and the things that they're leaving out and oh so many things so i want to teach my kids to be discerning that means we're going to use things that aren't always from a biblical worldview or that are written by um you know people who aren't believers uh certainly if we're gonna do a research paper on japan which is one or one of the things that we're doing we're using the encyclopedia looking up things about japan online watching videos about japan for a research paper my son's doing none of those resources are from a biblical worldview so we certainly use things from people who are don't have a biblical worldview but i'm also teaching discernment in that situation so should you use good and the beautiful i don't know i've never used it i can't tell you how it works as a homeschool curriculum i don't know what your goals are for your family but i do want you to be aware and recognize that it is being marketed as a or at least in the past has been marketed as a christian curriculum and an unbeliever cannot write christian curriculum um i'm gonna say one more thing because i'm just just i'm just gonna say one more thing i also want you guys i i think we need to recognize for ourselves and be aware of this for ourselves but also help our kids to see this is that satan is a liar and a deceiver and he does it with subtlety and so i think for many years of my christian life i have just thought of satan as evil and dark and black and mean and scary and so if those things i see those things in the world that's what i'm going to turn from and that's what i'm going to flee from but that's not how satan always operates i mean we wouldn't believe him we wouldn't be deceived if it was just this stark darkness he comes as a liar and a deceiver he masquerades as an angel of light he makes things look good and beautiful that aren't good and beautiful to tempt us to get us to step a little bit further and further away from the truth to deceive us and get us to move a little bit a little bit further away from the truth so i i really this is why i really have a hard time with the good and the beautiful be marketed as a christian curriculum because to me that is deceptive i don't think jenny the author meant it to be deceptive i truly believe that she thinks she's a christian i know mormons define themselves as a christian and i understand that um so i don't think she's trying to be deceptive the enemy doesn't care whether you know that you're deceiving people or not and this is deceptive i i don't want to hurt the peop jenny who created the good the beautiful i don't want to um make i don't make people upset with me um but i want us to understand that if we're going to use certain things we need to make sure that as homeschool moms we are grounded in the truth of god's word we are in god's truth on a daily basis and that we understand the foundational principles of christian doctrine and that we can um see and we can recognize error and lies and the twisting of the truth and that we can help expose that to our kids whatever curriculum you use i hope that as a homeschool mom you are in the word of god that you are teaching your kids the truth and that you are able to discern the lies of the enemy and the subtle truths um the subtle lies that he puts he takes a truth and he just twists it just a little bit just like in the garden of eden did god really say um he just twists it just a little bit and so again my issue with the good and beautiful is not that a mormon wrote it that's not my biggest issue is this it's being marketed as a christian curriculum and it can't be christian if it's written by an unbeliever i probably said way more than i should have i feel like now that i've opened up this big bag of worms i should say more to clarify but i'm going to leave it at that if you have questions if you have comments you can leave them down below um i understand this is going to upset some people and i i don't mean to do that but i have gotten so many questions please understand my heart here i have gotten so many questions about this curriculum i just i felt like i needed to address it and i needed to answer it um it might be a wonderful curriculum to use it i don't know i have never used it but whatever curriculum you choose to use i hope that you've prayed about what your goals are for your family and that you're thinking through is this curriculum going to help me accomplish those goals and then if you're going to choose to use the good and the beautiful i hope this at least helps you to be aware that this is not a christian curriculum and so as you're using it don't just sit back and think this is a christian curriculum i don't need to be discerning make sure you're discerning think of it as a curriculum written by somebody who you do not agree with i mean i'm assuming you're a believer that's watching this make sure that you're discerning as you're reading and as you're using it in your home that you're being discerning that um what is being taught in there is this really the truth does it really line up with scripture and if it's moralism are you pointing that out to your kids this this is yes this is how we should act and behave but we could never do that we could never be that apart from christ are you incorporating that in i hope you're doing that with all the curriculum that you're using that you're being discerning and that you're um recognizing any deception or lies and that you're pointing those out to your kids and you're pointing your kids to christ so hopefully you're doing that with all of the curriculum but i think our tendency with christian curriculum is to kind of sit back a little bit and and not be so on guard to look for those things that are wrong that um that's my concern with the good and the beautiful bee market is the christian curriculum um that parents can easily sit back and think well this is christian i don't need to be so on guard when i'm using it and so that's just what i'm cautioning you as last thing that i'm going to say here is that just remember that um the term that the lds church uses a lot of the same terms that we use as um protestant christians they use the same terms but they mean different things their jesus is a different jesus than our jesus what they mean by god what they mean by salvation what they mean by justification they all have different meanings than what we mean by them and so what they say may seem in line with what we believe but it is different when you go back and you look at what they actually their term for justification really means what their term what they actually who they actually think jesus is those are different it is a different religion it's a different truth or not different truth because there's only one truth um it is different it is not the gospel of jesus christ that is in the bible so i almost feel like i should even put up this whole video because i don't want to be divisive but at the same time the word of god divides it divides and i i have seen too many families fall in to deception i just want to warn you i want to make you aware if you were not aware now you're aware now you can prayerfully make the best decision for your family might very well be different than the decision i make for my family and that's okay um but i just want you to be aware so overall besides this last little rant i hope the rest of the video was helpful for you and an encouragement to you if you have questions about other homeschool curriculum questions you can leave them down below i try to interact with you and answer them as best i can in the comments and always your feedback is helpful for future videos which i hope and pray that i will be able to record more and more um as i just try to find good times and good places to record videos but i hope you guys are enjoying the homeschool mom podcast as well make sure to check that out and if you want to follow me on a regular basis um instagram is a great place to keep up with me all right i'll see you guys later bye

Channel: Janelle Knutson

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Length: 81min 45sec (4905 seconds)

Published: Tue May 17 2022