We switched to Answers Bible Curriculun from Answers in Genesis for our kids this year, and it has been such a blessing in our homeschool. It teaches them the Bible throughly. Not just Sunday school type lessons. And then how to respond to others when asked questions about the Bible. I have been amazed how much our kids have learned this year so far!
McGraw Hill has a textbook called Microsoft 365 In Practice. I learned from their 2007 edition when I was in HS and it was very good. I assume the update 365 version is just as good.
We have been on the writing curriculum hunt all year. I have a 5th grader this year and after Christmas we used the 3 week sample from IEW, and the samples from EIW. He loved IEW. So that’s what we will be doing in 6th grade.
You could do Teaching Textbooks with your youngest daughter as well. They have a print version as well. It does come with discs or online option, but we just use the workbooks.
IEW Phonetic Zoo Spelling has been a game changer! For history: We have loved Bibiloplan. We use the Remember the Days book, maps, timelines, and activity books. All are wonderful!
When I was in middle school (I was homeschooled!) I used a lot of Progeny Press literature study guides. My kids will be going into 4th, 2nd, and preschool next year and I just picked up some of those guides at a homeschool store to try out with them soon, probably doing together as a group for now and see how it goes. But those are an excellent way to expand on your student’s literature engagement beyond just reading the book. It covers things like literary analysis, reading comprehension, writing, etc. One thing I have started with my older two is assigning one historical fiction book to go along usually with our history (we are also doing beautiful feet books American history), or a biography, and then let them choose a book of their choice. So they are reading from two books per day.
Rod and Staff have a great spelling series through 8th grade. Super affordable. 12 for the studend book. 12 for teacher guide. You don't need a teacher guide. It's traditional. You are seriously SO gorgeous!!!!
I don't remember ever having any 'formal' learning with Word/Excel/Powerpoint...my parents used those programs a lot in their own work so I think they just taught me in the context of different school assignments. Nowadays whenever I'm trying to learn how to do something in computer programs I use, I just type it into UA-cam to look for a specific tutorial for that program.
I’m also pondering writing curriculum options. And I’m looking at US history options and want more modern as well. I’m also considering Sonlight, and also looking at Notgrass America the Beautiful, which is less lit based but so beautiful, and does have a book pack.
Ashlee from Gathered and Grounded Homeschool was talking about a Tech program yesterday on her podcast and saying something about excel and power point. Try asking her about that maybe. I can’t remember the name of the program but I want to do more research for my girls next year.
My favorite thing from BJU is their new editions of math. Most you have to do teacher led, but I love the math 3 fourth edition. Has the squirrel on the front. It teaches such good math concepts and includes stories before each chapter about real world math. So far my boys between the two have used K, 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th. Next year we will be using 2nd and 6th grade math (newer editions).
I am thinking about doing the space little hearts an hands unit for my 1st grader next year. It looks so sweet. I haven’t used, but have heard that master books academy has an online Spanish curriculum that is good for all ages.
I started having my kids occasionally do presentations at the end of a science unit or history unit so they can practice using Google slides. Plus they get to work on presenting their information in front of others which we need some work on.
We will be using my fathers world 1850 to modern times history. Designed to do family style with 2nd-8th grade. We have used them one other time and loved it.
Are they? I just quickly looked at the sample because I was sure my daughter wanted to do it so I didn’t notice if they brought them in with the lesson (level 2 doesn’t so I figured it was the same for level 3).
The level 3 readers are great, each lesson tell you when to read which chapter but other than that they aren’t lesson specific, I will still use them with my kids even if some don’t do that level.
Masterbooks Academy has Spanish 1 and its been super fun! My kids are 11, 9 and 4 and somethings are a little young feeling for my 11 year old, but over all its been a big hit!
I'm planning an elective directly from Microsoft for their Office Suite in high school. Or perhaps Google, which has programs similar to Microsoft. But they're free online if you search around.
For word /powerpoint that was something I wish knew sooner. Because this year in highschool (grade nine) it’s so needed.had to my son myself in rapid speed to not get behind. But I’m thinking check out TPT or rainbow resource or skill share
I’m convinced The good and beautiful LA level 3 is their best level of any subject… just saying. Also we just switched from GaB math3 to MWC3 and love the switch.
Hi @papuakacie how fun to find you here! 🤣 I second Math with Confidence. We switched from TGATB to MWC and have been so pleased! I am using it for 2nd grade and we will continue for 3rd. I used TT for my older kids in the older grades and I think MWC will transition well to that. ❤️
We switched from tgatb simply math to math with confidence my sons second grade year and love it. Very open and go. He is learning and retaining his math facts to much quicker. Very happy we made the switch. We will be doing mwc for 3rd grade.
Is MWC really open and go even with the teacher’s manual component? I’m considering using it with my son as well, but am turned off with the massive teacher’s manual 😅.
@@melissacardona1747 I think so. I spiral bound it at Office Depot. I keep teachers manual with my stuff and the independent work book is in his back pack. We do it at end of lesson. Sometimes I have him do the review part while I look over the lesson for a minute to get out what we need. There are more games and we use a deck of cards or dice. I loved how easy tgatb was for open and go one big book. This seems to be just as easy and so much deeper. He is actually retaining his math facts.
@@melissacardona1747 yes, it is open and go! You assemble your math box, and which is mostly things you’d have on hand, but may need to buy some simple stuff. Then every day before our lesson I’ll just look over the lesson for the day in the teachers guide to see what we are doing and grab anything I need from the math box. It is scripted so you just follow along. Then the kids workbook is just a single sheet (both sides) of a math worksheet. Our lesson takes about 20 minutes. The math sheet takes them 5-10 minutes. I have 2 first graders and a 4 year old who does the math with us just because he loves math. They have been enjoying it because there is some sort of game/activity every day. I just alter the game so the 3 kids can play or all of us together.
I second Phonetic Zoo! We started it this year and bought all the levels so my high schooler all the way down to my little one in elementary is using phonetic zoo and they are loving it. I can tell a huge improvement in their spelling too.
I honestly just let my kids use the word, powerpoint and excel on their own and they just kinda figured it out. Half the time theyre teaching me stuff with it
Ill be starting Writing & Rhetoric with my 4th grader! We currently do Phonetic Zoo, he likes it and can do it independent but even though he can pass the lessons he still misspells words in order subjects.
We use Compuscholar's Digital Savvy, but my kids are in 8th and 10th grades. I do highly recommend it, but I recommend it for no younger than 8th grade.
Yes, they still teach word and excel my kids (3 of the 4) did public school until 2-3 years ago. They had computer class. We have used a few things but I know off hand Easy Peasy All-One-Homeschool has free computer classes. We have used Foundations in Faith with my 8th grader this year and she said she didn’t get much out of it. When I asked what she means by that she said,”I don’t feel it is helping strengthen my relationship with God. I would rather just read from the Bible.” I’m sure that is just personal preference. She did enjoy the reader that went with it though.
I did BF's American History for 2nd grade and since I could never find a modern history that was age appropriate, I took the year off. We are just doing BF's around the world instead. I add in fun history videos and do all the extra books so I'm counting it as world history too. I am thinking about using Truthquest and combining it with Biblioplan's craft book for modern history. I am too picky and TQ has all the options so I can choose what I want. It requires intensive planning though which is why I shelved it for a year. I am also thinking of reading the Genevieve Foster collection from BF to see if it would be suitable for a 4th grader. She teaches American history along with world at the same time.
I have the four reader for the 3 grade TGTB if you want them i dont have facebook to sale them lol. My granddaughter and i enjoy them we are on the last book.
If you're looking for a great apologetics anything from Master books is awesome. Foundations and faith is geared towards upper middle to high school, however if you take a look at the sample pages and you feel that your girls could handle it then go for it. If not I highly recommend to do it in a few years. They do have some amazing apologetics. For history I've looked into not grass which looks awesome. Personally for elementary I will be using Generations history and then going into nothrass for the 7th grade going up. That is the plan so far even though I only have a first grader.
About how long does it take you to do a GATB science unit? Also, they just added workbooks for the littles for their science units 🥰 I'm looking forward to using it alongside the main curriculum Also, have you ever looked at Notgrass for history?
Depends on the lesson but I try to keep it around 20-30 minutes so sometimes we have to do just half a lesson. But we do science daily not just twice a week (shorter lessons more often works for us)
For upper grade spelling, Spelling Power or Spell to Write and read has lists you can follow. If Larissa just wants a list and a test at the end, I would just use one of those. ❤
Hi Lauren, I was watching your BFB Early US history primary grades - have you finished this? Did you like it? Just wondering hoping you perhaps did a review on it? 😊
@@thepracticalhomeschooler new course /release works history for high school🤗. I think y’all will really like Book Shark. There science is amazing too.
If your kids are ready for deeper bible stuff you might like the Proverb studies from Generations curriculum. We’re doing one and I would say is most definitely high school material but my middle schooler is in as well. We do it together as a family before school and Bible reading. It’s probably the best stuff I’ve seen so far. So much so that I got their 10th grade history curriculum for my son. So far so good.
I’ve tried bits from most of the major curriculums. We’ve done TGATB, Sonlight, and Abeka. We’re moving into classical and going with Memoria Press. I like getting everything together and everything fitting together cohesively. 🤍
This is great! We love soaring with spelling by JacKris publishing. It's goes according to levels 1 through 8 but you can start at any level you think your child is at. My eighth-grader is on level 5 now. Because we've been so successful for the last few years with it I also got her the winning with writing program and the growing with grammar. Those are both great also.
Don’t quote me but I think Sonlight modern history year is for 10-13 and says grades 5-8 also . So I think it’s the same age range as beautiful feet books . Some of the books are used in both . I think the year 1 American history what your covering now in beautiful feet’s books is the ones that’s for ages 9-12 grades 4-7 .
We’re using the elementary one from BFB this year. I spoke with someone who uses both BFB modern and Sonlight E for the modern American history simultaneously, and they said the resources from Sonlight were a bit easier to comprehend for younger kids and that BFB is probably better for upper middle schoolers definitely at that 7th-8th grade level (that will go over the heads of my younger two unfortunately).
For computer skills the kids all use the free versions now like google sheets slides and docs. I just teach them and also let them play on it. Those are important to know for sure!
Also, just in case you weren’t aware, BJU Press Biblical Worldviews brings up “hot topics” such as abortion, transgenderism, exc. I did it with my 7th grader last year. It’s fabulous. Not that you couldn’t use it with younger kiddos I just thought I’d mention that.
Do you have links to videos showing what y’all did as a path from grade K on for your Biblical curriculum? I know you’re a Pastor’s daughter so I would love to see your progression and feedback after having finished and using discernment. Thank you!!!
I don’t but we’ve mostly used just kids Bible story books when they were younger, and More Than Words from masterbooks, some kids devotionals (How Great is our God, etc) and apologia worldview this year and last year
We did so light combo of American history this year for 4th and 5th and very much enjoyed it. However, we are going to use Notgrass Uncle Sam and you for next year because it is an election year and that teaches middle school level government and civics so it’s supposed to be for fifth through eighth grade but after looking at it I feel like if you did it as a whole class you could definitely bring a younger student also.. so I will plan on having my first and second grader also sit in with us. And teaching those things during an election year so they understand all of it. I think will be super fun. And it also goes over all American holidays so maybe that would be something for you to look into 😊
@@thepracticalhomeschooler Yes for sure! 😃 I have the whole list of all the way up through 12th grade so I totally get just throwing things down the line hahaha
I would not recommend foundations in faith until mid to high school. My 7th grader is doing it this year and it’s still a lot for him. I’m doing it with him, and I even find it difficult to understand. It’s very very thorough, not just about deep conversation or discussion. The wording is very intense, and if you want them to get the fullness that is the curriculum and not just surface level. Def wait.
Not Consumed is a great Biblical resource for Bible studies - we use them a lot! We are currently doing their Old Testament Survey with their Faithipedia alongside their God's Story Old Testament Bible Study.
For Bible/worldview/apologetics, you could look at Summit Ministries. They have Biblical foundations and worldview curriculum for all ages. I did their high school level when I was in school, and it was excellent.
If you love critical thinking, I think you'd love Lost Tools of Writing, which is really a thinking curriculum masked as a writing program. I used to teach it when I was on faculty at my previous school. AMAZING program. If you want your kids to learn to think through pros and cons before making decisions, this program will help train them to do just this!
Case for Christ is GOOD. I was more of an agnostic before I read The Case for Christianity by the same author. He has other books too like Case for a Creator and Case for Faith, and also has "For Kids" versions of those.
I decided to use EIW this year for my 7th and 8th graders, but beware ⚠EIW ⚠is an inclusive curriculum. On lesson 16, it is noted that "they" is acceptable in formal writing when the gender of a human is not specified. It also gives question to be corrected as Wanye and Lin's wedding? Yes, Lin could be a nickname for Linda but why wouldn't the company just use the whole name. Be prayerful!
I'm curious if you found any other examples where questionable stuff was included. We have been using and so far enjoy, but I now I am concerned. Personally, I would think Lin as a female name. In some languages, it means "pretty."
We switched to Answers Bible Curriculun from Answers in Genesis for our kids this year, and it has been such a blessing in our homeschool. It teaches them the Bible throughly. Not just Sunday school type lessons. And then how to respond to others when asked questions about the Bible. I have been amazed how much our kids have learned this year so far!
I agree-where is the Word/PowerPoint/Excel curriculum?! If you find something, I’d love to hear about it!!
McGraw Hill has a textbook called Microsoft 365 In Practice. I learned from their 2007 edition when I was in HS and it was very good. I assume the update 365 version is just as good.
The Mindful Heart Company bought the rights to the old TGTB Math. You should check out their Math if you want to continue TGTB Math. :)
I’ve looked but it doesn’t seem like they have 3rd grade 😕
We have been on the writing curriculum hunt all year. I have a 5th grader this year and after Christmas we used the 3 week sample from IEW, and the samples from EIW. He loved IEW. So that’s what we will be doing in 6th grade.
You could do Teaching Textbooks with your youngest daughter as well. They have a print version as well. It does come with discs or online option, but we just use the workbooks.
IEW Phonetic Zoo Spelling has been a game changer!
For history: We have loved Bibiloplan. We use the Remember the Days book, maps, timelines, and activity books. All are wonderful!
Ditto. I love the Phonetic Zoo spelling!
When I was in middle school (I was homeschooled!) I used a lot of Progeny Press literature study guides. My kids will be going into 4th, 2nd, and preschool next year and I just picked up some of those guides at a homeschool store to try out with them soon, probably doing together as a group for now and see how it goes. But those are an excellent way to expand on your student’s literature engagement beyond just reading the book. It covers things like literary analysis, reading comprehension, writing, etc.
One thing I have started with my older two is assigning one historical fiction book to go along usually with our history (we are also doing beautiful feet books American history), or a biography, and then let them choose a book of their choice. So they are reading from two books per day.
Added Progeny press to my list of things to look into!
Rod and Staff have a great spelling series through 8th grade. Super affordable. 12 for the studend book. 12 for teacher guide. You don't need a teacher guide. It's traditional. You are seriously SO gorgeous!!!!
Will check them out! And thank you…that’s so kind of you to say that!
I don't remember ever having any 'formal' learning with Word/Excel/Powerpoint...my parents used those programs a lot in their own work so I think they just taught me in the context of different school assignments. Nowadays whenever I'm trying to learn how to do something in computer programs I use, I just type it into UA-cam to look for a specific tutorial for that program.
UA-cam to the rescue for much of life! 😅
We absolutely love MWC3. So easy to use and right on level for grade 3.
I’m also pondering writing curriculum options. And I’m looking at US history options and want more modern as well. I’m also considering Sonlight, and also looking at Notgrass America the Beautiful, which is less lit based but so beautiful, and does have a book pack.
It's always exciting to figure our which curriculum that we want to use!
Ashlee from Gathered and Grounded Homeschool was talking about a Tech program yesterday on her podcast and saying something about excel and power point. Try asking her about that maybe. I can’t remember the name of the program but I want to do more research for my girls next year.
I started watching that one but got interrupted…I’ll have to go back and check it out
I am hoping to use the Coursera Microsoft 365 as a high school course to teach Word, Excel, & PowerPoint.
I’ll have to check that one out too!
My favorite thing from BJU is their new editions of math. Most you have to do teacher led, but I love the math 3 fourth edition. Has the squirrel on the front. It teaches such good math concepts and includes stories before each chapter about real world math. So far my boys between the two have used K, 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th. Next year we will be using 2nd and 6th grade math (newer editions).
I am thinking about doing the space little hearts an hands unit for my 1st grader next year. It looks so sweet. I haven’t used, but have heard that master books academy has an online Spanish curriculum that is good for all ages.
I started having my kids occasionally do presentations at the end of a science unit or history unit so they can practice using Google slides. Plus they get to work on presenting their information in front of others which we need some work on.
Oh google slides! I didn’t know that was a thing….totally not up to date on my tech 🙈
We will be using my fathers world 1850 to modern times history. Designed to do family style with 2nd-8th grade. We have used them one other time and loved it.
Get the G&B level 3 readers. They’re integrated into the daily lessons. They’re good books too.
Are they? I just quickly looked at the sample because I was sure my daughter wanted to do it so I didn’t notice if they brought them in with the lesson (level 2 doesn’t so I figured it was the same for level 3).
The level 3 readers are great, each lesson tell you when to read which chapter but other than that they aren’t lesson specific, I will still use them with my kids even if some don’t do that level.
Doing level 3 now..definitely intertwined!
I think you will love the Sonlight/Bookshark American History. My kids loved it at those ages.
Your videos have been so helpful!
Masterbooks Academy has Spanish 1 and its been super fun! My kids are 11, 9 and 4 and somethings are a little young feeling for my 11 year old, but over all its been a big hit!
Yes I forgot about that one!
I tried math with confidence for my son in grade 3 this year, it is such a great program. We will use it again for grade 4
I'm planning an elective directly from Microsoft for their Office Suite in high school. Or perhaps Google, which has programs similar to Microsoft. But they're free online if you search around.
For word /powerpoint that was something I wish knew sooner. Because this year in highschool (grade nine) it’s so needed.had to my son myself in rapid speed to not get behind. But I’m thinking check out TPT or rainbow resource or skill share
Thanks for letting me know that’s it’s definitely still needed!
Currently piloting MWC 5 and while we like it, it is mom-needy. So, *if* you have the time, I'd go for it!
I’m convinced The good and beautiful LA level 3 is their best level of any subject… just saying. Also we just switched from GaB math3 to MWC3 and love the switch.
Oh and also, I am loving Math with Confidence for my little one. It’s hands on (for teacher too) but I think it is teaching well.
Hi @papuakacie how fun to find you here! 🤣 I second Math with Confidence. We switched from TGATB to MWC and have been so pleased! I am using it for 2nd grade and we will continue for 3rd. I used TT for my older kids in the older grades and I think MWC will transition well to that. ❤️
We switched from tgatb simply math to math with confidence my sons second grade year and love it. Very open and go. He is learning and retaining his math facts to much quicker. Very happy we made the switch. We will be doing mwc for 3rd grade.
We are using math with confidence grade 1 and love it! We will definitely do grade 2 next year!
Is MWC really open and go even with the teacher’s manual component? I’m considering using it with my son as well, but am turned off with the massive teacher’s manual 😅.
@@melissacardona1747 I think so. I spiral bound it at Office Depot. I keep teachers manual with my stuff and the independent work book is in his back pack. We do it at end of lesson. Sometimes I have him do the review part while I look over the lesson for a minute to get out what we need. There are more games and we use a deck of cards or dice. I loved how easy tgatb was for open and go one big book. This seems to be just as easy and so much deeper. He is actually retaining his math facts.
@@melissacardona1747 yes, it is open and go! You assemble your math box, and which is mostly things you’d have on hand, but may need to buy some simple stuff. Then every day before our lesson I’ll just look over the lesson for the day in the teachers guide to see what we are doing and grab anything I need from the math box. It is scripted so you just follow along. Then the kids workbook is just a single sheet (both sides) of a math worksheet. Our lesson takes about 20 minutes. The math sheet takes them 5-10 minutes. I have 2 first graders and a 4 year old who does the math with us just because he loves math. They have been enjoying it because there is some sort of game/activity every day. I just alter the game so the 3 kids can play or all of us together.
For older kids spelling, IEW Phonetic Zoo is good and independent.
Or spelling you see is more dictation method, but could also cover
Handwriting.
I second Phonetic Zoo! We started it this year and bought all the levels so my high schooler all the way down to my little one in elementary is using phonetic zoo and they are loving it. I can tell a huge improvement in their spelling too.
The Masterbooks living healthy course is awesome!
We use Americas story level 2 and I have a 6,4&2nd grade it works well
Omg ABC by answers in genesis is soooo good! You have workbooks for each level and the teaching is for the whole group! Try it! I love it!
I honestly just let my kids use the word, powerpoint and excel on their own and they just kinda figured it out. Half the time theyre teaching me stuff with it
I feel like you can pick up a lot just by dabbling!
Ill be starting Writing & Rhetoric with my 4th grader! We currently do Phonetic Zoo, he likes it and can do it independent but even though he can pass the lessons he still misspells words in order subjects.
We use Compuscholar's Digital Savvy, but my kids are in 8th and 10th grades. I do highly recommend it, but I recommend it for no younger than 8th grade.
Yes, they still teach word and excel my kids (3 of the 4) did public school until 2-3 years ago. They had computer class. We have used a few things but I know off hand Easy Peasy All-One-Homeschool has free computer classes. We have used Foundations in Faith with my 8th grader this year and she said she didn’t get much out of it. When I asked what she means by that she said,”I don’t feel it is helping strengthen my relationship with God. I would rather just read from the Bible.” I’m sure that is just personal preference. She did enjoy the reader that went with it though.
I have heard very good things about the BJU Worldview 6 for Bible.
I did BF's American History for 2nd grade and since I could never find a modern history that was age appropriate, I took the year off. We are just doing BF's around the world instead. I add in fun history videos and do all the extra books so I'm counting it as world history too. I am thinking about using Truthquest and combining it with Biblioplan's craft book for modern history. I am too picky and TQ has all the options so I can choose what I want. It requires intensive planning though which is why I shelved it for a year. I am also thinking of reading the Genevieve Foster collection from BF to see if it would be suitable for a 4th grader. She teaches American history along with world at the same time.
We LOVED BF around the World Series!
I have the four reader for the 3 grade TGTB if you want them i dont have facebook to sale them lol. My granddaughter and i enjoy them we are on the last book.
IEW Phonetic Zoo spelling goes into middle school and is list based. They have CDs if you want to make it mostly independent.
I will say, my daughter doesn’t even know what a CD is 😂 our computers don’t even have them anymore 🥴
If you're looking for a great apologetics anything from Master books is awesome. Foundations and faith is geared towards upper middle to high school, however if you take a look at the sample pages and you feel that your girls could handle it then go for it. If not I highly recommend to do it in a few years. They do have some amazing apologetics. For history I've looked into not grass which looks awesome. Personally for elementary I will be using Generations history and then going into nothrass for the 7th grade going up. That is the plan so far even though I only have a first grader.
Does generations bring theology into their history?
About how long does it take you to do a GATB science unit?
Also, they just added workbooks for the littles for their science units 🥰 I'm looking forward to using it alongside the main curriculum
Also, have you ever looked at Notgrass for history?
Depends on the lesson but I try to keep it around 20-30 minutes so sometimes we have to do just half a lesson. But we do science daily not just twice a week (shorter lessons more often works for us)
I haven’t tried it, but I’ve loved what I’ve seen so far. Have you checked into Redefining Homeschool classes for writing and literature?
I haven’t! Will have to look into it 😄
I heard that Cherrydale press is good. Looking into it but for French
One of my other girls does French too! Will look into it ❤️
Take a look at winning with writing! Jack Kris publishing.
For upper grade spelling, Spelling Power or Spell to Write and read has lists you can follow. If Larissa just wants a list and a test at the end, I would just use one of those. ❤
Hi Lauren, I was watching your BFB Early US history primary grades - have you finished this? Did you like it? Just wondering hoping you perhaps did a review on it? 😊
We’re still working on it. We really love it! I’ll give more of a review towards the end of the year
We are using bookshark this next school year!!!!
Ooh which course?
@@thepracticalhomeschooler new course /release works history for high school🤗. I think y’all will really like Book Shark. There science is amazing too.
What did you think of sonlight science ?
We’re liking it!
If your kids are ready for deeper bible stuff you might like the Proverb studies from Generations curriculum. We’re doing one and I would say is most definitely high school material but my middle schooler is in as well. We do it together as a family before school and Bible reading. It’s probably the best stuff I’ve seen so far. So much so that I got their 10th grade history curriculum for my son. So far so good.
From what I understand, Generations is reformed theology?
I would suggest doing things like Google suite, Canva, prezi 🙋🏽♀️
I’ve tried bits from most of the major curriculums. We’ve done TGATB, Sonlight, and Abeka. We’re moving into classical and going with Memoria Press. I like getting everything together and everything fitting together cohesively. 🤍
This is great! We love soaring with spelling by JacKris publishing. It's goes according to levels 1 through 8 but you can start at any level you think your child is at. My eighth-grader is on level 5 now. Because we've been so successful for the last few years with it I also got her the winning with writing program and the growing with grammar. Those are both great also.
Did you have the 50% off night zookeeper link? I couldn't find it in the link list. Thanks 😊
Yes it’s right at the very top in the description (not with the others) 😊 bit.ly/3UtZmh0
Don’t quote me but I think Sonlight modern history year is for 10-13 and says grades 5-8 also . So I think it’s the same age range as beautiful feet books . Some of the books are used in both . I think the year 1 American history what your covering now in beautiful feet’s books is the ones that’s for ages 9-12 grades 4-7 .
We’re using the elementary one from BFB this year.
I spoke with someone who uses both BFB modern and Sonlight E for the modern American history simultaneously, and they said the resources from Sonlight were a bit easier to comprehend for younger kids and that BFB is probably better for upper middle schoolers definitely at that 7th-8th grade level (that will go over the heads of my younger two unfortunately).
@@thepracticalhomeschooler Thank you good to know .
For computer skills the kids all use the free versions now like google sheets slides and docs. I just teach them and also let them play on it. Those are important to know for sure!
Yes they do google docs too…forgot to mention that one. But maybe it’s an antiquated question for me to ask 🙈😂
Highly recommend doing the trial of IEW and EIW. My kid did not like the IEW videos at all. Prefers the shorter daily videos of EIW.
Also, just in case you weren’t aware, BJU Press Biblical Worldviews brings up “hot topics” such as abortion, transgenderism, exc. I did it with my 7th grader last year. It’s fabulous. Not that you couldn’t use it with younger kiddos I just thought I’d mention that.
Go to know, thanks!
Do you have links to videos showing what y’all did as a path from grade K on for your Biblical curriculum? I know you’re a Pastor’s daughter so I would love to see your progression and feedback after having finished and using discernment. Thank you!!!
I don’t but we’ve mostly used just kids Bible story books when they were younger, and More Than Words from masterbooks, some kids devotionals (How Great is our God, etc) and apologia worldview this year and last year
Thank you so much!!! Have a blessed day :)
We did so light combo of American history this year for 4th and 5th and very much enjoyed it. However, we are going to use Notgrass Uncle Sam and you for next year because it is an election year and that teaches middle school level government and civics so it’s supposed to be for fifth through eighth grade but after looking at it I feel like if you did it as a whole class you could definitely bring a younger student also.. so I will plan on having my first and second grader also sit in with us. And teaching those things during an election year so they understand all of it. I think will be super fun. And it also goes over all American holidays so maybe that would be something for you to look into 😊
Ooh that’s a wonderful idea!! If not this year then for sure in 4 more years when they’re in 11th, 9th and 7th. Definitely keeping that one in mind! 😅
@@thepracticalhomeschooler Yes for sure! 😃 I have the whole list of all the way up through 12th grade so I totally get just throwing things down the line hahaha
I would not recommend foundations in faith until mid to high school. My 7th grader is doing it this year and it’s still a lot for him. I’m doing it with him, and I even find it difficult to understand. It’s very very thorough, not just about deep conversation or discussion. The wording is very intense, and if you want them to get the fullness that is the curriculum and not just surface level. Def wait.
Thank you! That helps a lot!
Not Consumed is a great Biblical resource for Bible studies - we use them a lot! We are currently doing their Old Testament Survey with their Faithipedia alongside their God's Story Old Testament Bible Study.
Pretty sure Easy Peasy has computer courses that go into using word etc
I thought about that one too…but had forgotten about it. Thanks!
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Easy peasy all in one homeschool has free computer courses which are nice
For Bible/worldview/apologetics, you could look at Summit Ministries. They have Biblical foundations and worldview curriculum for all ages. I did their high school level when I was in school, and it was excellent.
I thought it was just a camp…will definitely check it out!
If you love critical thinking, I think you'd love Lost Tools of Writing, which is really a thinking curriculum masked as a writing program. I used to teach it when I was on faculty at my previous school. AMAZING program. If you want your kids to learn to think through pros and cons before making decisions, this program will help train them to do just this!
Making a note of it!
Timberdoodle has some office courses.
I'm genuinely wondering about Word and Excel too!😂
Ok, thank you!! 😅😂
American girl for modern history! We had so much fun with that
For computer skills, check with your library! Ours hosts intro computer classes often.
100% Math with Confidence 3! It has been absolutely amazing!
Yes the that’s true! I’ll have to check into that more
You should get the TGTB level 3 readers. They are great and integrated.
TGTB old math is now published by the original author.
It is? How do I look that up?
I wasn’t able to find level 3 otherwise I would have 😕
Look into Apologia's math curriculum!
Go to teachers paid teachers for the word exel powerpoint outlook curriculum for your 7th grader
We love Notgrass History
Case for Christ is GOOD. I was more of an agnostic before I read The Case for Christianity by the same author. He has other books too like Case for a Creator and Case for Faith, and also has "For Kids" versions of those.
Wow! I’m glad to hear that book had a true impact on you! Thank you so much for sharing!
Foundations in faith was pretty dry and boring even for me!
I decided to use EIW this year for my 7th and 8th graders, but beware ⚠EIW ⚠is an inclusive curriculum. On lesson 16, it is noted that "they" is acceptable in formal writing when the gender of a human is not specified. It also gives question to be corrected as Wanye and Lin's wedding? Yes, Lin could be a nickname for Linda but why wouldn't the company just use the whole name. Be prayerful!
I had a Chinese roommate named Lin (female). It's common.
I'm curious if you found any other examples where questionable stuff was included. We have been using and so far enjoy, but I now I am concerned. Personally, I would think Lin as a female name. In some languages, it means "pretty."