Our Homeschool Room Tour In 2020 / Abeka Homeschool Organization & Encouragement.

[Music] do [Music] aloha friends welcome back today i'm going to show you briefly our homeschool room our homeschool setup and a little bit of what it looks like this year when we're doing homeschool as well as some encouragement for those of you who are feeling overwhelmed the school year but before we start if you like these type of videos about home school or just home school life in general go ahead and give this video a like if you're new here consider subscribing click notification bell so you don't miss any of my new videos and also you're always welcome to leave a comment whether with a question or just a comment i always love to hear from you now before i show you the classroom i just wanted to explain what we're doing this year um or more like what we're doing different this year because most of you have seen the video of our home school day in the life from last year that was at the end of last year's school and for those of you who didn't i'm going to link it up right here it's one of my most popular videos i think you will really enjoy it now this year i decided to give children a school room a separate room that they can both do school in it took me a long time to figure it out um that i should put them both together i tried putting skye downstairs my oldest downstairs in the separate room and then my youngest i tried to have him nearby um doing school in the living room with atv but i found very quickly that he was just way too distracted in the living room perhaps of the big space that he was in and the tv was kind of far away and he was just sitting on the couch and you know it's not the feeling of school it's like feeling off you know laying down watching a movie so he was just always getting distracted and having a very hard time getting school done so two things i did to help him with the distraction i moved him downstairs with his own desk i gave him a laptop and earphones so now his school is right in front of him the earphones i believe also help to kind of focus on where he's at it gives him the feeling that he's in the classroom and of course you need the earphones when you have two kids in the same room doing school and second thing is i decided to do seat work with him previously i just ripped out papers and gave it to him in a little folder and i said this is your seat work go ahead and do it your teacher can explain to you what to do now he's in the first grade so he's still learning how to read he can read somewhat but not very proficiently yet and i found that he was just dreading doing seat work he was dragging on for actually hours something that could have been done in minutes so i finally decided to do a binder system with him as well so i am doing seat work with him so that's the point number two if you have a distracted child and you feel like they're having a hard time focusing on their school do the seat work with them any paperwork that they need to do do it with them it will take you max five minutes well depending on the grade i'm talking about first grade and you will be done they will be done they can move on and just listen and and watch the videos and that way your school day will go a lot smoother now i have more encouragement for you and more tips for you at the end of this video but for now let's go ahead and take a look at our classroom okay guys so this is our home school right here we have sky station where she does her homeschool with a computer and a dvd player and we have a reading chair with a bookshelf right next to it where we organized most of their books and things that they need and right next to the chair we have a foldable table from ikea that we use for a variety of things but mostly it's a craft table for the kids and on this side of the room we have a station for caden my youngest so he is doing his school with a laptop and a dvd player with the earphones and he's got a little bookshelf here and all of his things here that he needs he has this nice ikea desk all to himself and a nice comfy swivel chair we've got most of his books here that we use every day he's got a caddy with all kinds of things that he needs for school also um this is a dry erase board that i showed you in a different video he has a water bottle here and his special binder with all of his seat work and a book that he's going through with a class right now back to sky station she has the same binder just a different color with all of her seat work and the video manual for the grade three skye has an actual desk this year so we have some of her books here so these are the books that she's mostly using every day and she also has her caddy there and she has a drawer here with her earphones and some other essentials you know pencils rulers notebook she has her cursive formation guide here i do need to put up cadence one next to his station she has her water bottle here this is a nice little reading nook or i can use this chair to be here with them when they do school or i can do something at the desk here or do other chores around them so i can keep an eye on them here we have well the real clock and our wooden clock that we're using for school plus we have a couple of posters here we have the books of the bible poster map of the world and the united states map here are the rest of the books that we don't use as often so i store them here including one of the cases of dvds for the first 60 lessons down here we have some wooden toys just for fun i guess and we have our exacto sharpener which is really good i really recommend it and some of these baskets have extra things in them for school and these two baskets have all of their crafts that they do they can store them in these baskets here then on this side we just have some simple plastic drawers where we keep all of their like coloring supplies painting supplies um construction paper and then this little drawer set up on top is mine so i have some things like pants here and stapler all the different things that i need for school here here we have lots of different stickers that we use for school as well as some scrap paper and here i have just extra things that are still new that they'll need later like glue and markers and more pencils and that's pretty much it this is the setup it's simple it's doable we just use things we already had in the house i do have a place upstairs where i file all of their seat work and all of their school work papers but this is just the room where they do the actual school so now let's go ahead and see this homeschool in action here comes skye our student number one always reading go ahead and set up for your school sky walk us through what do you do every day to get ready for school i turn on my computer i put the lightning man and then i start my school welcome to bible let's start with our [Music] of pledge united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all now since kaiden is going to be doing school in the same room skye will have to put her earphones on look at me oh wow okay then what did you make see how nice are you ready to do your school now okay now because they are both in the same room and they have to have earphones and the beginning of school is usually pretty loud with singing and pledge we try to stagger things where skye is doing writing right now and caden can start on his bible so kaiden also has a little dvd player and we are putting in lesson 23 in okay put on your earphones okay and start your bible i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america my country has the sweet land of liberty to be honest god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not pray for our return [Music] okay looks like hayden is done with his bible lesson and now it's seat work explanation and we usually skip that because i just explained seat work for him and we used to do something where we would come here i would come here with all of the books that we have here for him and i would open up my video manual and look at everything that he needs to get and then i would get every book that i need and tear out all of the pages but now we are actually trying out a binder method with him right how do you like i don't like it and i actually do the seed work with him you want to go sharpen your pencil okay good job now what does this say right the differences yeah big word differences five minus four equals one four minus three equals one good job draw draw a circle around each group of ten okay okay so this is language but let's read this one it says remember a sentence begins with a capital capital letter suppose i got a quiz and remember your dot over the eye you're doing so beautifully look at that such a beautiful writing now skye does everything independently so all of her seat work all of her quizzes tests and everything she does independently she doesn't need any help from me usually and i just check it all later in her binder right skype i'm doing a um history quiz aiden is finishing up his sentences his seat work skye is doing her quiz right there and notice how quiet it is here and usually when caden is done with his seat work and he's just watching videos i can go upstairs and do my chores now because the kids are all the way downstairs they have water bottles here so they can drink when they're thirsty well friends now you saw how we do it this year it's a little bit different but i like it a lot better i really like that i can leave them alone after i help kaden with this seat work i can leave them alone downstairs and i can actually have quiet and peace upstairs so i really like that they have a separate room downstairs where they do school and i can do my work and then i feel refreshed i think it's a win-win now i understand that not everybody can have a separate room i mean it's kind of a quite a luxury for us to have that room and quite frankly if that room was upstairs with us we would have just separated the kids and given them each a room where they would have done their school separately but if you don't have a room like that but you would like things to be a little quieter a little more peaceful consider giving your kids earphones if they're doing their school on the computer anyways just plug in some earphones and at least for part of the day you can have some quiet also before i finish this video i just wanted to leave you with some encouragement i know a lot of you write me and thank me for my videos and also tell me how overwhelmed you are that you just started your school um so i wanted to give you a little bit of encouragement um first of all when you feel overwhelmed stop and pray until you find the inner peace in god and ask him for help for wisdom how to do this whole homeschooling thing maybe you're doing it for the first time i've been there and i've been doing this for three years now and i still get overwhelmed so i totally understand but also just pause and take one day at a time don't try to think it all through the whole year or the whole semester or whatever even the whole week just take it one day at a time especially if some other things are happening in your life right now but you still have to homeschool we have a brand new land right now we're developing we're preparing for um planting and building eventually so there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes that are keeping us busy so i have to take this one day at a time that's why we started school back in july so i can ease my kids into school and it's been really a blessing if something doesn't work change it change it up like we did with kaden when the tv in the living room wasn't working for us we changed it around and i'm really happy with the results maybe you'll figure it out on the second time on the third time but just keep trying different things with your children um don't be afraid to change things up to switch things up also a lot of you will find a becca very hard and an advice i would like to give you is give it one year give it one year it gets better as you understand how it works as you understand um some of the fluff things that you can skip as your child get used to it as you get used to it don't give up a becca in the beginning of the year just because you're overwhelmed just take one day at a time press on and do it for one year and at the end of the year you can decide whether to go back with a backup or not again things get better as you go when i first started i was overwhelmed and i found that a lot of questions you have they're actually in your video manual so don't be lazy go back to that video manual and read all these things how to grade things you know how to um send the progress reports out how to do the online reading line all of these things are in there and if you have more questions that you can find in the books you can call a becca helpline you can email them you can also go on facebook and there are lots of um becca groups there even grade by grade um they're like first grade second grade third grade a becca groups just for that grade for parents to help each other and you can comment on my videos and i try to get back to you and answer if i know the answer to your question so these are the encouragements that i wanted to leave you with um i have lots of videos now about a becca homeschool i will link some of them up here there will be some in the end screen and also you can search for them and you can find all kinds of videos where i explained more things about how to make a becca work for you if you still have questions or if you just want to comment something go ahead and leave me a comment down below i love to hear from you and i try to get back to you as soon as possible also i wanted to ask you what kind of videos would you like to see on my channel this channel was originally made to be my personal channel it was not meant to be a homeschool channel although i enjoy making these homeschool videos i will be making different kind of videos [Music] as well but i wanted to hear from you what kind of videos would you like to see so thank you so much for watching this video again subscribe if you are new click notification bell so you don't miss my next video i also have an instagram at aloha double underscore marina you can check out my content there and as well as dm me and i think this is it for today thanks for watching and i'll see you in my next video [Music] you

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Length: 18min 57sec (1137 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 11 2020