Our Curriculum Picks for Next Year - NEW PODCAST S3, E37
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Welcome to season 3, episode 37 of my podcast, Finding Joy in Your Home! You can listen to my show as an audio podcast as normal. Or you can also watch it here on UA-cam!!!
In this episode, Jami takes a look at what curriculum she used for homeschool this year and shares what she is planning to use this next year!
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We had issues with TGATB Language Arts and Math we did this year. As much as I have always wanted to love them(it’s a truly beautiful curriculum in my opinion)it just has never worked for us. And if I am being honest, I really believe the hype makes me want to love it more than I normally would. I really feel like they introduce new concepts constantly and it never really has a chance to solidify any one concept. I just found my kids were really frustrated a lot! We switched to BJU mid year and my kids have been thriving. And I even found Teacher’s books for really cheap on, I believe Abe books so that helped.
Is BJU reasonable for just one course? I was thinking of doing their heritage study online class for my 5th grader. But not their English or math. Its pricey!
We use a gentle feast and some of ambleside online. History through Charlotte Mason living books is so fun! My kids LOVE our island story! We love math u see for math! Also If you love CAP I would look at their Bible Gods Great covenant. I know you said you don’t do Bible with them but it’s so good and I really love making it a study for us aside from our other Bible stuff we do. They have catechisms, latin terms, how you see Jesus in the OT. So so good. It is also helpful to print out Charlotte masons principles and know how to do short lessons and varying them. It helps a lot with the riches and enrichment studies!
Really want to hear more on Omnibus from veritas press! I'm considering their self paced history course.
We love simply Charlotte Mason ❤
Absolutely love Math Lessons for a Living Education! We have used 2 years now. Also I highly recommend the practice book. Starting in Level 4 they have video lessons ❤
I always enjoy seeing what works and what doesn't for different people. I loved Master Books math...but it didn't work for my kids... so sad. After trying a couple different tries, we've ended up back on Saxon's homeschool programs. It worked for my older kids and I tried to do something different for my younger ones...and here I am back again. But we do Masterbooks Language Program and a lot of Science from them. History I run in about 6 years cycles..4 using Mystery of History and 2 using Notgrass.
Really looking forward to seeing how your new curriculum goes!!
Square Foot Gardening was the least favorite of Campfire’s units we’ve done. It was just too much prep and planning to make it work like it should have. But we’ve liked the others much better.
Congrats on new baby to come!!!
We used Math for a Living Education for my son grades 1-5. We loved it!
Love Notgrass!!!!!! And the historical fiction that goes with it ❤❤❤❤
I can't wait to see your review of Curious Historian I have had my eye on it!!!
First of all, I love listening to your podcast 🤩 I am very interested to know more about unit studies and using your group-learning style for different grades. We have 4 boys 6, 5, 3, and 1, so they will all be in very close in grades as we keep going on our homeschool journey. How does this work? I was homeschooled using Abeka and just can't completely visualize how this idea practically looks and works. TIA!
Hey Anna! I also was raised using a mix of ABeka and occasionally public school. I have five kiddos. We love love group learning and it has been the center of our home for years! I would just find something that looked fun and like a fit for us like Idlewild Curriculum or Passport to Adventure from Waldock Way using the Magic Treehouse books or Hearth Magic Literature studies. I have also put together a lot of Unit studies myself based on interests. Then I would gather the kiddos and we would enjoy the materials together with an explore and learn attitude. Taking time to answer questions, look up videos and going to the library for extra learning. Then later in the day I would work individually on Math and Language arts with kids on their level. As they got older they have naturally split into two groups bigs and small because our ages range from 14 down to 3. We have also managed to teach language arts and math as together subject successfully.
Now we use a lot of Sonlight and we also really really enjoy that. My littles still use an eclectic mix Beautiful Feet Books, Idlewild, Sonlight etc whatever is working for us and whatever we are enjoying using real living books! My big kids take science and electives at our hands on co-op and the littles take hands on classes as well.
We have cultivated a habit of read aloud at bed time with fun literature books like Little House or Ralph and the Motorcycle and we listen to podcasts and audiobooks in the car to spread learning into chunks. You will find your groove and it can be SO fun!!!!
Your planner matches your dress. Lol
What printer do you use? You print a lot!