Third Grade Curriculum Choices | 2020-2021 School Year
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Our third grade homeschool curriculum and resources for the upcoming 2020-2021 school year.
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Love your choices and the lack of pressure of finishing thick workbooks. It should be fun and engaging! Love that you follow her lead. I always have a huge amazon cart after your videos!
My daughter is a third grader this year. We are going to use different workbooks for math and language (mostly Evan Moor) we do a lot of reading and documentaries also unit studies that I am creating for her and her little brother. You are such an inspiration!!! We have been doing the night basket and they love it thank you for your ideas😃can’t wait to see traveling around the world.
I also plan on using Evan Moor curriculum. How do you put together unit studies?
I just subscribed to your channel and have been hooked....I love lots of your resources! I have been so disappointed when buying box curriculum and it is refreshing to listen to you and how you homeschool. Thank you for all the information! I am going to binge watch your channel. I have a 3rd grader and a 5th grader!
This is our first year homeschooling. Kindergarten. 😊😊 your videos have been so helpful to me because you have an only & so do I.
I am absolutely amazed at the amount of planning you have put into your homeschool.
I love that Emily is in third grade and ahead of my daughter because I get to look ahead and plan which is what love to do. Excited to try something you've created as well!
SAME! My daughter shares SO many interests with Emily and is a year behind so we always loves seeing ideas we can use next
I always enjoy seeing your resources. Thanks for this video! I would love to see an in-depth flip through of the Math Journey series. Best wishes for 3rd grade!
I love these resources. We are not in 3rd grade yet but I also love researching curriculums to use in the upcoming years!
My kiddo is starting 2nd grade this year. We are sticking with our morning basket hymn, bible reading, artis, and classic book. We are moving on from My Father's World to Gather Round and Five in a Row, which should be less time and more all around learning or subjects, as we will also be doing more student directed learning. I am trying to simplify with children that a 7,4, and 8 months, not keep getting more, but its so hard when there are so many amazing curriculums out there. I saw an adorable one on The Hundred Acre Woods yesterday!
As a new homeschooling momma I am so glad I found you in the beginning of my journey! I have my eye on your wizards & wands. Still trying to figure it all out.
Thank you for sharing your plans for this school year. I ordered the What Your Second Grader Needs to Know and the one for Fifth grade for my two kids. Your videos are so helpful and my son loved your Who Was George Washington unit study. We used it as part of his first grade social studies curriculum. I also ordered The Tuttle Twins series so I'm definitely interested in how that goes for you and Emily. I haven't figured out how to fit them into our schedule...I may start out just as family read alouds and see if they get interested enough to dive deeper. I'm looking forward to your upcoming videos!
We are just using our library mostly! We will see what the kids gravitate towards and maybe find some unit studies for that as we go.
This was such a helpful video! We have some similar things planned, it’s nice to know someone else is reading Sassafras’s Adventures without the additional parts. I love how you follow your daughter’s interests, I find myself at times getting caught up in curriculums, but they never go over well, and I have to remind myself to just follow my kid’s lead.
When things go sideways it is normally because I am teaching the curriculum and not the child.
I love seeing what you are using as my daughter is going into 3rd as well. I’d love to see the right start games in a future video!
Great to see your choices! I am super excited to see, travelling the world. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing. I’ve been down the curriculum rabbit hole all day!
We start our new school year Monday!! So excited!
Hi, new here to Homeschooling. I currently have a 3rd grader and recently stumbled upon your channel and have been binging on your videos today. So much awesome information and I cannot thank you enough for sharing your knowledge.
I just found your channel and I feel like I "found my people". I'm a covid homeschooler with an only child 3rd grade daughter. While homeschooling was accidental for me, I don't feel upset about it because the idea was always appealing to me (though i do wish circumstances to get here were better!). I am facing this upcoming year with a weird combo of both anxiety and excitement. Thank you for your content, I've already gleaned some good ideas to help me on this journey from your videos.
What a fun year you are planning. We are headed into 4th grade and doing Creation to the Greeks.
We love Exploring Nature with Children! I hope you’re able to start your nature group back up this school year.
Your choices are great. I look forward to your suggestions and feedbacks all the time. Really thankful that our daughters are the same age.
I wish you had been doing this years ago when I was homeschooling my oldest kid. Such fabulous resources! Lucky that I have found you now though, because I’m sure that my younger children will really benefit from your videos in the future.
Love your videos, super informative! Love to see how you tailor your homeschool for your daughter.
We are using the gather round homeschool curriculum along with your survival school, national parks, & I plan on getting some of the who was unit studies thru out the year.
We are doing third grade this year too, but i haven't had much time to plan yet! Thank you for all of your wonderful ideas, as usual. Gets me motivated!
So much fun! I’m so excited to see your new products coming out. We’re using math facts that stick per your suggestion along with minecraft math work books, we will also be using Waldock’s Wizards & Wands for our history, language arts and a few unit studies, all about reading, and laying down the rails with lots of other fun games and books thrown in there.
Loving all these videos and ideas! I can't wait to include Who was and passport to adventures this year!!!
Wonderful plans! I love that your daughter is a year ahead of mine. 💕
Your videos provide such great inspiration for me! We’re going to be using Waldocks Wizards and Wands, so I am SUPER excited for that!
We just discovered the Who Was Series and love it. I need to check out your resources that correspond. Thanks for all the work you do. I have Grade 3 and Grade 4 boys so I'm always looking for new "out of the box" ways to teach them.
I have an only child too. I was nervous about home educating an only until I came across your channel. Thank you for giving me the confidence to home school my daughter.
Oh you can TOTALLY do this!!
We are using the Tuttle Twins this year too. I'm excited about it. I love that you incorporate yum boxes. What a great idea!
I love that you follow her lead and interests. I can't wait to follow along this year.
Love your choices. My oldest will be in 1st grade, but you always give me plenty of inspiration which I appreciate.
Sounds like a fun year. Can't wait to see what else you have planned. I would love to see what the Right Start math games look like.
I love your around the world theme this year! I have a third grader also, so I love seeing your ideas. You are beyond inspiring...thank you for sharing your gifting with us!
Love your videos! This one was great! I’m very excited to see more of the Travel the world. I love that you go based upon her interests! ❤️
As always, your school plans look fantastic!!! I am super eager to see Exploring the World...especially excited to see which spine you choose. :)
Even though I only have a pre-K/kinder kid. I enjoy your videos so much! A friend introduced me to your UA-cam a few months ago and I enjoy learning from you.
My daughter is going into 4th grade. We use Gather ‘Round and a coordinating Brave Writer Book and dart/quiver of arrows guide. Then I pull in resources that coordinate with the unit study theme. I get most of my ideas from you! We have enjoyed your Traveling the Parks this summer. Looking forward to Traveling the World! For math, we use Good and Beautiful, Touch Math, Mathtacular, Bedtime Math, Mathematical Reasoning, and a variety of games. Math is her weak subject so we use a variety.
Wow. Your name has come up a bunch in the fb homeschool groups I've been following thia year, but I had no idea you wrote so much of your own curriculum!!! Fun!!! Can't wait to explore your site more. My kiddo is 3rd grade, too😁
I love all your ideas for themes! I’ve bought so much that you recommend. Thank you for sharing!!
I can’t wait to check some of these items out! We are doing Waldock Wizards and Wands and a few other things next year.
Thank you! Love your Who was series! And can’t wait to see more of your zoology unit study!
I have a 1st and 2nd grader so I love seeing what you use. We love our Usborne products!
Love watching curriculum choice videos, thanks for sharing. We are doing sassafras science this year too. Looking forward to getting around the world curriculum when it comes out.
This is our first year homeschooling and we're considering Masterbooks for our first and third graders.
Such a fun year planned! I have gleaned so many useful tips from you and actually feel somewhat confident heading into my first year homeschooling my prek/kindergarten aged daughter after binging all of your videos. Thank you for sharing your homeschool journey with us, Jessica! 🥰
I love how you incorporate a lot of Usborne books into your curriculum! Thanks for sharing! I will have a fifth grader, a third grader, and a second grader this year. We use Life of Fred, Explode the Code, and The Good and the Beautiful for our core subjects, but I love to add The Who Was? series, DK books, and Usborne books to beef things up and make them more fun!
I love all of your ideas, you sound like such a fun homeschool mom! I would like to see inside the Tuttle Twins books, Usborne Wipe Clean books, and the Right Start Math Games!
Love your videos and your planner!! I have a 4th, 1st 3 year old and 9 month old. The materials I’m most excited about are Brave Writer and Wild Math💕
We are using TG&TB for our spine and adding lots of other fun things.
I hadn’t heard of some of these. Thank you for sharing! I love your creative approach.
I love how you are so student led. 😍 we are doing math u see, all about reading, and spelling you see. I'm planning on adding in unit studies this year, but this will be new for us!
Excited to see The Who Was units that you cover. We are also doing a zoology unit that will be a simplified version of what my son does for his senior year.
Love your choices. My daughter is excited to learn cursive this year. The wooden cursive tracing board looks neat!!!
This is my 1st year homeschooling. You have given me so many ideas. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Oooh! I can’t wait for Traveling the World! Love how you incorporate games into everything! Thanks for sharing!
Looks like a fun year! My son is third grade also this coming school year and we like you play a lot of games. We are excited to do the National Parks curriculum you made and will also try one of The Who was units as well as Survival School. I’d love to check out those Usborne times and Division dry erase ones... we are doing beast academy 2 C and D, just a couple lessons a week so we will go slowly w them as well as life of Fred and lots of games. We are also doing AAR and AAS as those seem to work best for my son. Everything else is interest led and what I already mentioned above. Love your videos and FB page! 🤗
We have a 2nd and 4th grader (and youngers)! I just finished our curriculum hauls....mostly The Good and The Beautiful! There are a few subjects that you definitely inspire me to be a little more free with (and not tied to a curriculum)!
Very much looking forward to hearing more about zoology and animals around the word!
I love your videos. I am so excited for the traveling the world curriculum. We are starting Passport to Adventures next week.
Oh I would really like to do your national parks curriculum! Thanks for sharing. ❤️
You are going to have such a fun year! I’m still narrowing down choices for our family. It’s so helpful to see what you’re using.
I have a third grader and definitely taking note of your curriculum choices! Thank you!
We love our Evan Moor workbooks for language arts right now. I'm so intrigued by your new Traveling the World curriculum!! We're doing Traveling the Parks now and my second grader loves it!!
I enjoyed seeing your choices! The illustrated grammar book from Usborne looks so cool! Hurray for Edgewood and Farming! We really enjoy reading the Life of Fred series. That set of math card games is really cool! We need to do better at including games in our math lessons.
We are new to homeschooling and to your channel. I loved this video and your unit study ideas!
Looks like fun! Another vote for a Look Inside Tuttle Twins...I've been eyeing that.
I am excited to see the Traveling Around the World unit! My son is very interested in learning about different countries and cultures. I would love to see a look through this unit when you are finished creating it.
I am excited to see more of Travelling the World! Looks like another exciting year for Emily and yourself. We have been using the nature curriculum for a while now and loving it.
I just checked out your shop ❤️ We love the Bear Grylls books and the Who Was series. Totally keeping those in mind for the future. I love how relaxed and fun you keep school but still challenge her. It's very encouraging to watch your videos.
I have a third grader and love seeing all the Usborne books you are using!
I have a third grade daughter this year too (and a 1st grader and 6th grader---both boys). We'll be using The Good and the Beautiful for her LA and Math. History and Science will be kind of hodge-podgy with some TGATB units mixed in with other topics of interest. We're also going to do All About Spelling as a group since her older brother struggles with spelling and her younger brother is just getting started, so I figured we could all start at the beginning with everyone together. Since it's only our second year of homeschooling, I still feel a little overwhelmed with all of the possibilities, but my "one thing" for this year is to incorporate a morning basket. I appreciate so much all of your ideas on morning basket themes!
Thanks so much for showing us your curriculum! We have a third grader also. One Evan Moor book we will be using is their Paragraph book.
We just started Passport to Adventure this week! I can't wait to see more about Traveling the World.
I love that you are letting her take the path on subjects. When I was in elementary school we had are regular English math subjects but then a unit study, you don't realize how much you are actually learning. I'm horrible at spelling but was already learning about doing research and interesting things with real math science and math directly mixed in. This helped in middle school because are English and social studies do a joint project every semester where we had to research things and write a full 5 paragraph essay. Then in 8th grade English worked with science, we had a science fair, but it wasn't just doing an experiment, it was learning how to write up the experiment in the proper way with then sitting sources. High school continued like that but I went to an ultra orthodox all girls high school do I had dual education my entire school life. But they tied things together where we ended up producing a unit study all written up and sorced the correct way with the reasrch coming from the Torah and other things but put together in the presentation mode. Science and math worked close together sometimes and with history and literature it was always on the same topic like Greek literature and Greek history. I was very fortunate and in 12th grade they brought in community College teachers and we took actual college courses that counted for both. When I got to college first I got to skip most of the intro classes which worked much better than a.p. credits. But people had some much trouble figuring out how to research, how to write papers and even how to present topics. Do i use my college degree no, but learning with everything put together is how the real world works. Yes you need the core things but you also have to nurture intrests because the kids don't realize how much they are actually learning. I wish I could home school but I'm a single foster mom who works full-time at home and had an in house babysitter before the virus so I could work. I did buy a ton of the books and games you mentioned to supplement but I never know when they are going to leave my home, reunification is the best, though one of the kids is looking more like an adoption case. Outschool has saved my life and depending on what school is for this coming year it might be 2 days a week in school and the other online I have been looking into hiring someone to supplement their education.it will keep them busy letting me work but also letting them learn. Even if I adopted i doubt I would go the home school way just because of the nature of my job. We do tons of read a louds and crafting things. I'm loving the kiwi company subscription boxes. You are setting her up for a great future
This is my first year homeschooling. My son is in 3rd grade. We will be using The Good and the Beautiful.
Thanks for sharing with us. I love seeing your game choices. My son had dyslexia and I am wanting to include more games this year. I will have to look into the right start math games more in depth.
I have a third, sixth and eighth grader and I'm also looking forward to using the Right Start math games.
Those are awesome choices. I have a upcoming 3rd grader and a 1st grader. We are using Grammar Galaxy, Story of the World, and Fun Schooling journals as are main curriculum. I will be adding in a ton of books and games too.
We are a Charlotte Mason based family but I love unit studies! My son is starting second grade this year and is interested in cursive as well. I think we are going to start it midway through the year as I want him to work on his print a little bit more.
Super fun choices! We are also starting cursive this year, I really like the wooden cursive board you chose to add. I just uploaded my first-grade curriculum video today, I'm so excited to get started. We added quite a few new things for first grade, but we are continuing on with some of our favorites such as All About Reading and Dimensions Math! We love utilizing Outschool and Reading Eggs :)
You have so many great choices for next year. My daughter is going into third grade too. I was looking for a geography study for her next year and would really love to see yours when it is finished.
I have a third grader as well so I love seeing your selections and ideas! For my 3rd grader, we’re using All About Reading and All About Spelling, Math Made Fun, Evan Moor Geography Skill Sharpeners, Critical Thinking Company Mind Benders, the Lego class you recommended (which he’s in right now too and is loving!), your Traveling the Parks curriculum, then whatever else he wants to do. We’re also using Let’s Play School. It’s mainly for my kindergartener but my 3rd grader loves it too. I would love more info on the Right Start Games and the Tuttle Twins books and game. I can’t wait to see your Traveling the World curriculum!
I’ve been looking forward to this video. I have a third grader as well and we are very excited because we will be using your Passport to Adventures and Who Was Unit Studies. Can’t wait for Traveling the World!
What fantastic choices! I never would’ve thought to buy just the Right Start Math games set. We used that curriculum for 1st grade with my oldest daughter and it was overwhelming for her but getting just the games is a great idea!
I was SO excited and the games look SO good!
I’m so excited to see your new unit study!
We wont be adding much the first 2 quarters of homeschool because we have to finish what we have but I'm super excited for all the new read alouds we have and a few games! I love this time of the year!
Wow!!! I just stumbled upon your channel (thank you universe 🙏🏼). I too have a third grader and we are interest led/child led here as well. This video just opened my eyes up to so many options and choices!! Thank you so much!! I look forward to following a rabbit hole of your videos this weekend! Thanks again
It’s so fun to see your enthusiasm 😊. This will be my second year homeschooling and I put soooooo much time into researching curriculums to make this year go better for us. I’m excited about a curriculum called Lightning Literature... it should incorporate most language arts except for spelling so YAY!!
Hi, Jessica! We homeschool very similarly, and I love watching your channel and getting ideas. You've definitely inspired me this year to dig into our game collection (and add QUITE a bit!) and get into gameschooling. It's one of our favorite things- takes loads of pressure off and we're still learning! My oldest is in 3rd grade and we've decided to go with Brave Writer (Dart) and Math-U-See this year. We'll use a variety of books for learning early American History, geography, and science. We also enjoy Evan Moor workbooks. I have my eye on your National Parks curriculum for the Spring!
I’m a big fan of researching curriculum as well. It’s just so much fun!!
We are excited to be using your National Parks unit for geography this year. But I can't wait to see inside the Around the World!
I am a sucker for curriculum videos! I love seeing what other people use. It helps me know what all is out there!
I have one 1st grade daughter. We are using Sonlight History/Bible/Lit B, their Science A and their Language Arts 1. We also will move on to All About Reading 3 and 4 and All About Spelling 1-3 probably this year. Depends on how quickly we get through things. We use Math-U-See Alpha, A Reason for Handwriting, Explode the Code, My Story 1 (Masterbooks), and Starter Spanish (Carson Dellosa). I also just purchased Yellow Spot: Sun Color Theory so we'll see how that goes! It'll definitely be a busy year!
I am very interested in seeing more of your new curriculum. I already have my eye on your Magic Treehouse stuff. If it came in smaller bundles I'd be all over it, but I don't know yet if my daughter even likes them yet. We just got 1-4 for her birthday in June! 😊 If she does...well then you know where I'll be headed! ♥️
Love this-thanks for all of your inspiration Jessica! We’re using Sonlight for pre-school & pre-k, then next year will be back to using The Good and The Beautiful for pre-school year 2 & kindergarten!
Love all your choices! Sounds like a fun year ❤️ I would love to see a more in depth look at your Who Was Unit Studies & Traveling the World!
Traveling the World looks wonderful! Can’t wait to see the full resource
Great giveaway! You have so many fun things in your shop! I have a 4th grade and we use a mixture of things. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get to some of the fun things more, so I think we will implement the fun/enrichment day!!