I was reading your blog to try to narrow down our curriculum choices for next year. I saw that you did Living Healthy with your 6th grader. I would love to see a flip through of that and your review of it. So good to see you back on UA-cam!
We will start the 3rd grade level combo course this year with my kids I combined that for them and I am excited! I needed video lessons in this season and I know we will have a great year!
Love BJU, I’ve been doing Heritage Studies and Science since first grade with my almost 4th grader. I got all the new editions so I went Parent Led, but can’t wait to use DLO with my younger children in the upcoming years. They are upgrading the videos 🎉🎉.
It depends on the grade level (more hours for high schoolers), whether you use teacher-led or video based, how quickly your child works through assignments, and how much you choose to have your child do. None of my kids have ever done every lesson and every assignment from the BJU curriculum. As the parent, I pick and choose what is best for each of my kids. Here is a video I did on how to modify the BJU Press curriculum: ua-cam.com/video/fFMQDw8yWdU/v-deo.htmlsi=Jm0eayxNB_iOVTFv Think of the curriculum as a buffet table that you can pick from. If you did every single lesson and every single assignment for every single subject with BJU then it might take 6 hours. My elementary age kids are done with school work before lunch every day (unless we decided to sleep in or go on an outing in the morning). Hope that helps!
I have been a subscriber for some time but honestly havent been watching much of homeschool related anything lately. Until now because im struggling lol. You have a big list of videos that i think would be helpful and i plan to watch but do you have a video of your daily homeschool routine? I have 7 kids ages 1yr-11yrs. I teach everything myself and not sure how to fit it in the day. Also do the kids who watch video lessons watch at the same time on different devices or take turns? Even videos seem a little too much. Ive been using masterbooks for science and social studies and just doing all grades together. I cant imagine each kid having their own thing for each subject 😱
In the beginning of our homeschool journey, I taught everything. We did some group learning for science and history and then I rotated through helping each kid. I shared our "large family homeschool schedule" on my blog. Here is a link to it: www.janelleknutson.com/2015/11/23/large-family-homeschool-schedule/ This worked for quite awhile but then I hit a point where I was so overwhelmed and exhausted I wanted to give up on homeschooling. That is when I started using video lessons. I felt like a homeschool mom failure using them but God showed me that this was where He had us for a season. I share more about that in this video: ua-cam.com/video/P_1C-eT35Rc/v-deo.html Now we use a combination of group learning, one-on-one instruction, video lessons, and other independent work. If you click on the link below, it will take you to a blog post where I share our group learning/morning basket time. If you scroll down to the bottom of the post you can see links to all our curriculum choices for this past year (1st, 3rd, 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th grades). www.janelleknutson.com/2022/07/18/homeschool-morning-basket-family-bible-time/ I hope all of that is helpful for you. Praying that the Lord would direct you to the best curriculum options and schedule for your unique family.
I know this is an old video but I'm hoping you see this comment and respond. We are in our 2nd year of homeschooling. Both years we have used BJU Science and history parent led and done it family style. Our first year we used 5th grade for my 5th grader and 3rd grader. This year we are using 6th grade science and history for my now 6th grader and 4th grader. My question is have you ever used BJU Science or History family style? Have you ever done different grade levels but still done science experiments together? I'm considering switching to doing these subjects independently next year but I'm wondering if the topics, especially in science, overlap enough to do the experiments as a family. I see if you've used BJU in older grades that's why I'm asking for your insight. I hope my questions make sense. Thank you.
While the elementary science books do cover similar topics from year to year, they don't always match up well for group experiments. I have found that combining kids into one grade level for science or history works well with BJU Press curriculum. For example, a 2nd grader and 4th grader could do 3rd grade science and/or history together. Hope that helps.
I have always homeschooled on my own and love the freedom it allows me. Here is a playlist that includes a video about my homeschool mom binder and another video on how I organize all my records. ua-cam.com/play/PLiucPErdFky8_WA0OtX5Cvi61qHL5xkSj.html I also have a playlist on how I do my high school records. ua-cam.com/play/PLiucPErdFky_ak_gKo-Y1ETOWRQ1TjSgm.html You can also purchase the same forms that I use in my shop. www.janelleknutson.com/shop/ Hope that helps!
I’ll have a 3rd and 1st grader this upcoming school year as well but I’m wanting to teach science and social studies to them both together for the sake of time. Would this work well to accomplished that purpose and if so, would you use the older or the younger grade level textbooks and workbooks?
You can easily combine them for science and social studies. Which grade level curriculum you choose really depends on your kids as well as what topics you want to cover. You could use 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade curriculum.
Love that you're back on UA-cam! You've always been such a great encouragement to me...😊
We miss you! It is nice to see again! You did good mission in your videos! Thank you so much!
I was reading your blog to try to narrow down our curriculum choices for next year. I saw that you did Living Healthy with your 6th grader. I would love to see a flip through of that and your review of it. So good to see you back on UA-cam!
We will start the 3rd grade level combo course this year with my kids I combined that for them and I am excited! I needed video lessons in this season and I know we will have a great year!
Love BJU, I’ve been doing Heritage Studies and Science since first grade with my almost 4th grader. I got all the new editions so I went Parent Led, but can’t wait to use DLO with my younger children in the upcoming years. They are upgrading the videos 🎉🎉.
I read somewhere that BJU Press is 6 hours of work per child per day.. is this accurate?
It depends on the grade level (more hours for high schoolers), whether you use teacher-led or video based, how quickly your child works through assignments, and how much you choose to have your child do. None of my kids have ever done every lesson and every assignment from the BJU curriculum. As the parent, I pick and choose what is best for each of my kids.
Here is a video I did on how to modify the BJU Press curriculum: ua-cam.com/video/fFMQDw8yWdU/v-deo.htmlsi=Jm0eayxNB_iOVTFv
Think of the curriculum as a buffet table that you can pick from. If you did every single lesson and every single assignment for every single subject with BJU then it might take 6 hours. My elementary age kids are done with school work before lunch every day (unless we decided to sleep in or go on an outing in the morning). Hope that helps!
@@JanelleKnutson Thank you so much! Yes I’ll watch that video. I appreciate you.
@@AubreeFusselman you're welcome!
I have been a subscriber for some time but honestly havent been watching much of homeschool related anything lately. Until now because im struggling lol. You have a big list of videos that i think would be helpful and i plan to watch but do you have a video of your daily homeschool routine? I have 7 kids ages 1yr-11yrs. I teach everything myself and not sure how to fit it in the day. Also do the kids who watch video lessons watch at the same time on different devices or take turns? Even videos seem a little too much. Ive been using masterbooks for science and social studies and just doing all grades together. I cant imagine each kid having their own thing for each subject 😱
In the beginning of our homeschool journey, I taught everything. We did some group learning for science and history and then I rotated through helping each kid. I shared our "large family homeschool schedule" on my blog. Here is a link to it: www.janelleknutson.com/2015/11/23/large-family-homeschool-schedule/
This worked for quite awhile but then I hit a point where I was so overwhelmed and exhausted I wanted to give up on homeschooling. That is when I started using video lessons. I felt like a homeschool mom failure using them but God showed me that this was where He had us for a season. I share more about that in this video: ua-cam.com/video/P_1C-eT35Rc/v-deo.html
Now we use a combination of group learning, one-on-one instruction, video lessons, and other independent work. If you click on the link below, it will take you to a blog post where I share our group learning/morning basket time. If you scroll down to the bottom of the post you can see links to all our curriculum choices for this past year (1st, 3rd, 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th grades). www.janelleknutson.com/2022/07/18/homeschool-morning-basket-family-bible-time/
I hope all of that is helpful for you. Praying that the Lord would direct you to the best curriculum options and schedule for your unique family.
@@JanelleKnutson thank you! 😊
I know this is an old video but I'm hoping you see this comment and respond. We are in our 2nd year of homeschooling. Both years we have used BJU Science and history parent led and done it family style. Our first year we used 5th grade for my 5th grader and 3rd grader. This year we are using 6th grade science and history for my now 6th grader and 4th grader. My question is have you ever used BJU Science or History family style? Have you ever done different grade levels but still done science experiments together? I'm considering switching to doing these subjects independently next year but I'm wondering if the topics, especially in science, overlap enough to do the experiments as a family. I see if you've used BJU in older grades that's why I'm asking for your insight. I hope my questions make sense. Thank you.
While the elementary science books do cover similar topics from year to year, they don't always match up well for group experiments. I have found that combining kids into one grade level for science or history works well with BJU Press curriculum. For example, a 2nd grader and 4th grader could do 3rd grade science and/or history together. Hope that helps.
Hi love this video. I am curious if you are part of a program or if you homeschool on your own. If you homeschool on your own how do you keep records?
I have always homeschooled on my own and love the freedom it allows me.
Here is a playlist that includes a video about my homeschool mom binder and another video on how I organize all my records.
ua-cam.com/play/PLiucPErdFky8_WA0OtX5Cvi61qHL5xkSj.html
I also have a playlist on how I do my high school records.
ua-cam.com/play/PLiucPErdFky_ak_gKo-Y1ETOWRQ1TjSgm.html
You can also purchase the same forms that I use in my shop.
www.janelleknutson.com/shop/
Hope that helps!
I’ll have a 3rd and 1st grader this upcoming school year as well but I’m wanting to teach science and social studies to them both together for the sake of time. Would this work well to accomplished that purpose and if so, would you use the older or the younger grade level textbooks and workbooks?
You can easily combine them for science and social studies. Which grade level curriculum you choose really depends on your kids as well as what topics you want to cover. You could use 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade curriculum.
Just found this out!!! And I was so surprised!
If you’re not planning on using heritage 1st grade, I would like to buy it off you. I’m in your area
Send me an email and hopefully we can make it work! You can find my email by clicking on the "About" tab on my UA-cam channel's main page.
@@JanelleKnutson I can seem to find your email
@@karenu.7500 email (at) janelleknutson (dot) com