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Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Hello! My name is Geneva, and I'm a homeschool mom to my son. I've been homeschooling since my son was in kindergarten and currently he is going to the 8th grade for the 2024/2025 school year. I hope you'll find useful content on my channel for your own homeschool. I'll post mainly homeschool content. Stick around and subscribe. Have a blessed day!
Building Thinking Skills Flip Through | Timberdoodle
Here's a look at the Building Thinking Skills workbook I bought through Timberdoodle. This was a part of their 8th grade curriculum kit.
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Word Roots Level 1 Flip Through | Timberdoodle
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Here's a look at the Word Roots Level 1 I bought through Timberdoodle. This was a part of their 8th grade curriculum kit. Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds Gracious Blessings Crochet & Crafts www.youtube.com/@GraciousBlessingsCrochetCrafts
DITL How a day with Abeka video goes | 8th grade | Homeschool Schedule
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Ever wonder how long a day with Abeka video is? Well in this video I'll go through how our whole day is scheduled.
Sonlight Eastern Hemisphere
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So this video is clipped together from a previous video I made a few years ago. This summer we are using the portions we didn't finish, but we are kind of just using books we are interested in. We are using this more as a guide and using the questions as discussion questions. So I've been posting flip throughs of the curriculum we are using over the summer, and instead of making a whole new vid...
Bank Account Math Flip Through | Life Skills
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Here is a look at the Bank Account Math workbook, I'll be using this along with the Life Skills Unit Study through Gather Round Homeschool. I think it makes a great supplement with this unit. Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds Gracious Blessings Crochet & Crafts www.youtube.com/@GraciousBlessingsCrochetCrafts
Disney World Firework Show | Florida Vacation pt. 3
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Here is part 3 of our Florida vacation featuring the firework show at Disney World Magic Kingdom. Enjoy and thank you for watching. Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds
A Simple Plan | Homeschool Planner | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Take a look inside this homeschool planner, A Simple Plan, by Mardel. It's a great planner and works for anyone with a range of homeschool students. I hope you enjoy. Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds Gracious Blessings Crochet & Crafts www.youtube.com/@GraciousBlessingsCrochetCrafts Watch Us Play www.youtube.com...
Festival of Fantasy | Disney Parade | Florida Vacation Pt. 2
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Here is part 2 of our Florida Vacation. This part includes the Disney Parade Festival of Fantasy. I hope you enjoy! Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds Watch Us Play www.youtube.com/@WatchUsPlayFamilyGameNight
Life Skills Flip Through | Gather Round Homeschool
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Here is a flip through of the life skills unit study through Gather Round Homeschool. We will be using this during our summer homeschool. Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds Gracious Blessings Crochet & Crafts www.youtube.com/@GraciousBlessingsCrochetCrafts
Florida Vacation Pt. 1 | Cross Country Flight | Disney World Opening Ceremony
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Here is part 1 of our Florida Vacation. This part includes the opening ceremony at Disney World. I hope you enjoy! Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds Gracious Blessings Crochet & Crafts www.youtube.com/@GraciousBlessingsCrochetCrafts
Christian Studies Flip Through | Memoria Press
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Hello, in this video I'll be giving an in dept look at Christian Studies 1 through Memoria Press. If you'd like to see more in dept looks at any of the curriculum I've posted recently, please let me know in the comments below and I'll try my best to get that made. I love that this curriculum goes through all the major events in the Bible, If you use all 3 Christian Studies. This first Christian...
Sonlight Science H Conservation, Robotics, and Technology | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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This summer we will be using Science H through Sonlight for our summer homeschool program. In this video I will be sharing a quick flip through of the curriculum and also what is included. Over the weekends we do the projects together as a family, here is the link to the video of us doing the project together. ua-cam.com/video/KC-lLMr1DnU/v-deo.htmlsi=dekd_dTDNPcu7uaT Instagram gr...
Summer Homeschool Plans | 2024
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Come along with me as I show our summer homeschool plans. We will be using some curriculum we already have like Sonlight Eastern Hemisphere, plus some new ones from Gather Round. Eastern Hemisphere flip through ua-cam.com/video/mc3s1I_U5Y8/v-deo.html Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds
Henle Latin Year 1 | Memoria Press | Elective
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Our homeschool pick for foreign language, Henle Latin Year 1 from Memoria Press. Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds
Barnes & Noble Book Haul
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We love books in our house! Check out our book haul from Barnes and Nobles! There was a 75% off sale! So it was time to stock up, especially since we're a homeschooling family. Instagram gracious_blessings_homeschool Toys Reviews and Builds www.youtube.com/@toysreviewsandbuilds
Timberdoodle Haul | Homeschool Electives | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Timberdoodle Haul | Homeschool Electives | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
How To Order Abeka Curriculum | Video Led | Parent Led
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How To Order Abeka Curriculum | Video Led | Parent Led
How I Bind Curriculum | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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How I Bind Curriculum | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
8th Grade Abeka | Homeschool Organization | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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8th Grade Abeka | Homeschool Organization | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
Sonlight World History Book Haul | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Sonlight World History Book Haul | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
Homeschool Organization | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Homeschool Organization | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
Abeka Full 8th Grade Curriculum Flip Through | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Abeka Full 8th Grade Curriculum Flip Through | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
Abeka 8th grade Science | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Abeka 8th grade Science | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
Abeka 8th Grade Pre-Algebra| Flip-through | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Abeka 8th Grade Pre-Algebra| Flip-through | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
Abeka 8th Grade History| Flip-through | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Abeka 8th Grade History| Flip-through | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
Abeka 8th Grade English | Flip-through | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
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Abeka 8th Grade English | Flip-through | Gracious Blessings Homeschool
Abeka 8th Grade Bible Curriculum Flip Through
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Abeka 8th Grade Bible Curriculum Flip Through
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Abeka 7th grade Science | Flip through 2023
nice workbook...
hi! may i ask if you do a science subject in the school year and then having sonlight science for summer? if yes is it a complete different topics? i thought about doing this too thank you😊
Hello, yes we use the full Abeka grade level, comes with science, during the regular school year. and in summer we play around a bit. We've used different science in the summer. We like to pick from Master books, Sonlight, TGTB and even Gather Round just depending on what seems interesting. And yes it's different topics just depends on what interests my son has that summer.
Is their a online teacher
@Woman812 no, it's pre- recorded.
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Did you do accreditation? We did and I believe we did teacher video led. He started 9/3. Our abeka box 😊 should be here next week.🎉
Hi, we didn't do accredited this year, but plan on it for high school. We started back at the beginning of July and it's going great so far. Have a wonderful school year!
Love your homeschool - Abeka videos. I'm a licensed teacher now at home with a new baby and homeschooling my 8th grader. 💜🩵💜🩵
Congrats on your baby! Have a blessed homeschool year! Thank you for watching!
I know this was a year ago, but I hope you see this and it’s able to respond. Did you find necessary the lesson plans? Or just getting books and answers key is enough to know what to do? Thank you for sharing 😊
Personally, I like having the lesson plans. I feel that they are helpful and necessary. It helps with pacing, knowing what to teach and when. If you are taking tests/quizzes it tells you when to do those. Also, helps you with teaching the subjects/lessons. I feel like your student would gain more if you utilize the lesson plans. If you're not using the videos I would recommend getting the parent kit along with the student kit. It will give you everything you need to teach.
@@graciousblessingshomeschool thank you so much for replying. I was on the fence cause I usually have the lesson plans but never use them cause the workbook it’s very self explanatory with the lessons numbers on the page for lower grades but then the junior high didn’t have it but I asked myself how important would that be. Thank you for your insight. I really appreciate your quick response. Let me go shopping again 😅 God bless your homeschool year 🙏🏼
@@mayrlabauer I'm glad I could help! God bless you! have a wonderful homeschool year!
By chance did you ever do a review video after using this for the year? Would love to know how it went!
No sorry, I didn't do a review. We ended up going back to Abeka, Sonlight wasn't a good fit for us. we got to about week 12. I loved the History aspect of it. There were a few books, that I wasn't entirely comfortable with. There were notes for any questionable books. One of the main science books leaned towards evolutionary concepts, however there were notes in the instructors guide when that occurred. And as for the math, we preferred the more traditional math ABeka offered. Since we weren't really liking the science, math, language arts portion; we just made a decision to go back to Abeka for all subjects. Over this past summer we did read some of the books from the HBL, I picked and choose which to read. Like I said there were some questionable books, but we liked some of the books so we read those ones. Hope this helps!
This is very helpful!! Thank you so much for the feedback! God bless you and your homeschool!
@@katiegallagher3831 God bless you! And blessing for your homeschool as well
Do you have students do homework at NIGHT or do they work on it during the day? We can't get thru a full day because my boys does it during the day.
I have a schedule written out, and I have a specific homework time scheduled for that very reason. we used to do homework right after the subject but it made the day seem longer. So now we will complete all our subjects first, then homework. Once we are done with all subjects and homework, chores.. my son has the whole rest of the day (it seems to be motivation). Sometimes in between subjects, (only if the video finishes early) he'll work on some homework assignments; but just until the next subject is scheduled to start. Hope that makes sense.
Science H looks really interesting. We are starting C soon, so a long while to we get to H, but it makes me want to speeed up a bit 😃, my son would love to do this one now. I know some of the higher levels use Apologia Science, which I just cannot stand, it’s that that made us find Sonlight tbh and now we use all their programs. I think guest hollow is a science lit program but not sure of other options there is out there for when we sadly get to the end of Sonlight science programs, they are so good and enjoyable and easy to implement and plan. Thank you for sharing,
It is! We're really enjoying it! Thank you for watching! Hmm, I think Ambleside Online is literature based. I know they always include literature for every subject. I'm not really sure though. I looked at it for the younger years a while back.
I’d like to see the Christian Studies in depth 😊
Sure! I have it up coming on my schedule for the next week ☺
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Will you be doing this for your son’s 8th grade year as well?
Yes! Some of the books we will be using are in my thriftbooks haul video.
@@graciousblessingshomeschool Okay, I just watched that one. Thanks for sharing.
@@juliequezada7504 Have a wonderful weekend, thank you for watching!!
Question, The solution key have all the answers to the problems in the text? I was thinking of getting the solution key only.
Yes the solution keys have the answers to the problems in the text. Are you doing parent led? or video led? If your doing parent led I would suggest the TE book as well, it has some useful information for you, especially if your planning to utilize the tests, quizzes and flashcards.
@@graciousblessingshomeschool Parent led. I really just wanted the answers to the question if I need them. Looking to save on costs 😊
@@alexwest2689 well then the solution key should suit your needs, all the answers are there 😀Have a wonderful day!
What's the different between parent led and the video teachings? We did the kit with videos, I guess through Abeka academy. But I found myself teaching it more for my 4th grader... math is my weak subject so the parent led scares me in that lol. I'll have a 5th and 7th grader in the Fall.
Parent led you get lesson plans to teach all the lessons, there's no videos at all.
My son was supposed to start on 10th April, but as they didn't send all books (and also sent Doble books)😢 I think it will not be possible to start...
I would call them, they're usually good about taking care of those types of things. Did you order the whole abeka video kit?
@graciousblessingshomeschool yes I ordered 😟 . My husband just sent a message to them and they said that they are not going to send it to us.
I have a friend who ordered the same (for class 8) they also did not send many books. . But my friend sent a message to them and they apologized and said that will send the books to my friend. I'm so disappointed 😞
@@BifaLia-ss7up I've never really had that issue with Abeka. They usually always send me everything I need. Praying it goes well for you.
@@graciousblessingshomeschool thanks a lot, dear. 🙏
... and this is so confusing 😕
😢 they did not send so many books
😅my son will start homeschool... 1st time... 😂we are a bit scared.. Thanks for the videos. Im very sure it will be so helpful.
Awesome! praying for a good school year for you both. Stick with it, the first year is an adjustment but eventually you get into a routine.
🙏 thanks
Thanks for sharing, i just recently tried out a Flash A Card set this month. We have really enjoyed it!
Awesome glad you enjoyed the Bible. Thank you for watching!
New subscriber! I also have a homeschool UA-cam channel that I would love for you to check out. My oldest will be in 8th grade next year.
Thank you! I'll go check it out and subscribe 😊
Hey! So I just wanted to leave a message in the comments, I actually filmed this a several months ago. So there's a reference to be being a month or so into the curriculum. Currently we are almost finished with 7th grade. Have a blessed day everyone!
Thank you so much for sharing a flip through❤I’m debating on Abeka or BJU for my upcoming middle schooler.
Hope it helped, thank you for watching! I had been debating between Abeka and BJU (for 8th grade) as well. I have personally never used BJU but I hear its good. We ultimately decided with Abeka because its a great all around curriculum.
@@graciousblessingshomeschool I have used Abeka for grade 4, but the videos were too distracting at the time. I like the Abeka layout more than the BJU for middle school. My daughter did learn a lot from the short time she did it. Maybe she will have a better experience since she will be older.
We did videos for Abeka 1-3 grade and then 4-7 parent led but decided to go back to video's for 8th and above. We had tried to switch in 6th grade but just came back to Abeka @@luv4all43
This was very helpful!
I'm so happy it was helpful. Thank you for watching!
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The student kit did not come with the Bible study?
No, it's separate. Unless you do the videos; then it's included
If I don't buy the parent kit do we still get the answer keys?
This is very helpful thank you
Glad it was helpful, thank you for watching. Have a wonderful day!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for your video! It’s very helpful to see inside the books!
I'm glad it was helpful. Have a wonderful day and thank you for watching!
Wondering what things were "glorified"? This may help with my decision. We were going to do Sonlight next year but man it's sooo expensive. I thought Sonlight was a Christian based curriculum. It's concerning to me if the focus is not on Jesus!!
One of the things that comes to mind, in one of the books to read, they were talking about spirits, fortune telling, the grandma was a witch. But it was talked about like it was a good thing. IDK if that makes sense. Although, in the teachers guide it did give warnings. However, for the price of the curriculum I would have liked to use the whole thing or not be worried about what would come up in the next book or even the next chapter. Same thing with science, one of the main books, was narrated from a evolution stand point. At first I though I could use it as a teaching lesson. But like I said for the price, I would have liked the material not to be so secular. The teacher guides did give notes though and how to use it to open discussions about the topics. So at the end it comes down to what your looking for. Aside from Bible the portion, and a few missionary books, it didn't really seem to be Christ centered. But I only used up to week 10, so i couldn't say passed that.
And with Abeka these were things I didn't have to worry about. So I went back to what worked.
@@graciousblessingshomeschool thank you for your reply. That helps with my decision. :)
@@lisaboudreau5390 your welcome, glad I could help
How is this affordable? I wanted to get this curriculum so bad but we were looking at almost 800$ US . Good video!
We saved. and there was a $100 off offer for first time orders. so that helped. Thank you for watching!
Found ur channel from Sonlight searches. Have you switched from Sonlight? Saw your unboxing on Sonlight which is 9 months old and then saw this which is 5 months old and a review. I’m presuming Sonlight didn’t work from the outset? Would love to hear an update and review of Sonlight and this Abrka package. Was Sonlight full package too much? X
Hi! Actually I bought my Sonlight package a little earlier. We are using it now for 6th grade. I filmed this abeka one after we finished up for the 5th grade. We're about 8 weeks in to using Sonlight, love it for History! Not so much the language arts. The science is okay. Not a fan of some of the evolution references in the books, as we are believers that Jesus created everything. But it does give us some good discussion questions and opportunities to point out the faults in evolution. However, in the teachers guide Sonlight does a good job of preparing you as the teacher when these topics will come up. So really it's up to the parent how to present it. Math u see- I feel like it would have been more beneficial to start from the beginning (meaning from kindergarten). We had been using Abekas math from 1st to 5th grade. I prefer Abekas spiral approach compared to Math u sees mastery approach. I feel like even with the spiral approach you still get the "mastery" aspect of it with the review. So I guess that will come down to preference and what works best for your child. On whether or not its it's to much- I dont feel like it is, once history portion is done everything else goes rather quickly. We spend maybe 30 min with bible and 1 hour with history (including readers). So all together maybe 4 to 5 hours depending on the day. (Including breaks and a lunch). But after all that will mostly depend on the child. Abeka has a bit more work load but I feel overall Abeka is more thorough and better at teaching the key concepts in languages arts and math. History I feel is comparable. And science, at this point I prefer Abeka only because it creation based science. I thank you for watching! And thank you for your questions, I pray this was helpful for you. Have a blessed school year.
@@graciousblessingshomeschool oh 🙂, I see. Thank you for the reply. We are just embarking on Sonlight, would love to hear any tips.
@@jessicajones611 I actually put an edit in the above comment and go into more detail. As for tips, I would say start with HBL first. I like to get all the reading done when we are still fresh in the morning.
@@graciousblessingshomeschool hi, I just went back and found the edit to the reply. I see. At the moment we use Saxon, Rod & Staff for grammar and Writing & Rhetoric for composition. We use Apolgia for science, Aplogia for Bible plus Bible, SOTW for history and Sonlight with the I.G for mine to read out loud to me. They use the Robinson Curriculum for reading too. I’ve found the Sonlight readers great, because it’s enabled me to listen to my children and ask questions at each step of the way. Their RC books, for my 9 year old that is read silently and he reads quite a bit so I don’t as easily get to listen and slip in questions because I’m not constantly listening to that book. We are using the Sonlight readers for 💯 to read to mum 🙂. Have u used SOTW before? Sonlight history much better? X
@@jessicajones611 No, I haven't used SOTW before. I've used Abeka history. I like having the readers of Sonlight because I feel like it adds more to history.
Hello, Principle Dad here. I have a 5th and 11th graders. Love the program but it's my first year and we are on day 3. Lol Thanks for your video hope to see other content throughout the year.
Thank you for watching! Blessings on your homeschool year!
Is this what comes in the kits for parent led or video led ?
This is parent led [the parent kit and child kit]
I'm watching this has my pregame hype, before I tackle my decluttering. Thank you for posting
You got this! Thank you for watching!
Thank you so much for sharing👍
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Great homeschool room tour! Thanks for sharing
Thank you!