Homeschool Curriculum Q&A
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2022
- Tackling a lot in this Homeschool Curriculum Q&A!
We are starting with more general curriculum questions and then moving on to questions that are specific to particular curriculums.
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9 Things to Consider Before Choosing Homeschool Curriculum (video)
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Cathy Duffy's Website
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All About Reading Blog Post
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Math U See Video
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BJU Press vs MUS
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Family Worship (book)*
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Truth and Grace Memory Books*
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Phonics, Spelling, Reading Video
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Online/Video Curriculum Blog Post
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Homeschool Vision Statement (blog post)
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All About Learning*
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Logic of English*
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BJU Press Curriculum*
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Thank you for every word of this. You have been such an encouragement in my family’s homeschool journey, both academically and spiritually.
Thank you for speaking truth with boldness and grace! ❤️
I feel the exact same way ❤
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom, especially the last portion of this video 🙏 being a new mom to homeschooling I cherish veterans like you 🙏
Thank you again!
Great video Janelle! I value your recommendations so much because of your strong faith! 💕 And I agree with all you said about TGATB. It takes a significant amount of courage to speak out against popular opinion.
Thank you. ❤️ Thankful to have you in this wonderful community of homeschool moms.
Your heart is so sweet and pure. I appreciate your desire to seek God in all areas and share with us. God bless you and your family.
We loved that leading Littles to God book when our boys were little.
I love that you record your podcast from your closet! ❤️
Thank you so much, I almost didn’t watch the end, I’m so glad I did. We quit using TGTB, for other reasons and now I feel much better about the decision. You explained this topic so well!
Glad I could help.
It was so kind of you to spend so much time with us, educating us on how you pick homeschool curricula!!! I’m sure you are incredibly busy so taking the time to walk us through your thinking has been incredibly helpful. Thank you!
I'm glad it was helpful for you. I really enjoy this UA-cam community and interacting with you all. Thank you for commenting. :)
@@JanelleKnutson you’re welcome! Yes, I agree that this community is so incredible and supportive!
Your passion for Christ and concern for fellow believers is so moving! I love how obvious it is that Christ is in the center of your homeschool, home, and life. Looking forward to trying out the family devotion book for little ones to use with my boys!
I love all your videos and podcasts! You truly are an inspiration to me. As a homeschooler and mom to 3 little ones, I have excused away missing my quiet time because I have been “too busy”. What a devastating loss as I have missed out on so many days growing closer to my Lord. Thank you for all you share and reminding us all that it is not only possible, but necessary to get time with God daily… no matter how many kids we have and how “busy” our schedule is. Thank you for sharing your Godly wisdom with us all!
You're so welcome. I am blessed and thankful that God has given me this little platform to share with so many homeschool moms. I'm currently working on a new podcast episode all about our struggle to make time to read God's Word on a daily basis. Praying it blesses many moms.
Excellent point about TGATB. Thank you so much for the amount of time you spent making this video.
It was a joy to make. I’m always blessed by sharing videos with this community of homeschool moms. ❤️ Thank you for commenting!
SO true about the “there is no perfect curriculum!“ I have to remind myself of that often!
Thank you, thank you. I'm completing my first year of homeschool and this is so encouraging!! God bless you.
You are so welcome!
This was excellent. You are really good at articulating yourself. I love that you have a heart for Jesus and people but you are not afraid to say what the Lord would have you to say without apology. Not many people have the boldness to stand firm with such gentleness and love. I really admire that and am inspired by it in my faith walk with Christ. 💖💖
I love this so much!!!! ❤️❤️
Glad to hear it!
I love Cathy Duffy! She’s unbiased and thorough.
Agreed! She's a great resource.
Janelle I value your experience as a HS mom. I think your spot on in this video, regarding the hot topic. I have family who is LDS and it can be very confusing. When I first moved to UT I had no idea about the differences and would ask all these questions and get answers that sounded right. But I had a check in my spirit and didn't realize until years later why. I gained discernment once I study the Word and understood my bible and what they believe. Plus...here's another side to the issue, as born again believers, let's support other HS companies who have biblical worldview curriculum that have truly paved the way for us to home educate our children very easily in this season of increased HS. There are Soo many curriculum companies out there and unfortunately (IMO) new homeschooling mom's go right to the video reviews and miss tons of chances to find good solid curriculum that isn't re inventing the wheel. I speak from experience. I used Math u see a bunch when my kids where younger but was blessed when my stepmom found and sent me 4 levels of Saxon math textbooks and answer keys. Saxon has worked great for my older too. Just trying to say there are lots of options and they don't all have a video review from a vlogger. Though wouldn't it be nice!! Might catch one of your sessions at the conference in a few weeks. The kids and I are so excited, though I wish they would list which vendors will be there. Also loved leading little ones to God. Did it twice when my kids were little, I think you can get it on Amazon last I checked. Great video as always Janelle!
I love what you shared about supporting curriculum companies who hold a biblical worldview and/or helped pave the way for homeschoolers in the early years! Hope to meet you in person at Homeschool Idaho.
I think you handled the Good and Beautiful discussion gracefully. I have actually used it for a couple of years now. (Just Language Arts, and Math for a few of my children). I struggled with the LDS aspect too, but read (on their website, or in a FAQ somewhere) that the good and the beautiful employs people from many different denominations, which made me feel better. I don’t take any Biblical teaching from TGAB though. (I haven’t come across any either). The reason I went to it is because I was struggling with enough time to get everyone’s lessons in. I’m homeschooling six of my children, but the last five were born within six years, so I am teaching four children to read right now, and that’s a lot! You reminded to to have some good discussions with them all about this topic of truth. Thank you for standing firm for Christ!
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and share your experience with TGATB. Five kids in six years...what a blessing (and I'm sure a challenge at times as well). Sounds like God has given you exactly what you need to care for them and educate them at home. God is good!
@@JanelleKnutson, We are going to go back to All About Spelling and All About reading next year. Putting TGAB aside seems to be the right thing this year. Your blog post and videos about AAR were very informative.
You handled TGTB discussion wonderfully. I know it is difficult to speak about these things but you handled it with grace and love and stood firm on the truth. Praise the Lord. Way to please God and not man.
Thank you!!! Wish I could have coffee with you and glean some wisdom as a younger mom from a wise and experienced momma!
Wish I could sit down and chat with so many homeschool mamas from this UA-cam community. Looking forward to the day we will all be together for eternity, worshiping the Lord!
I agree 100% on what you said about The Good & the Beautiful curriculum. The deception is sad.
Thank you for this very informative video.
You're welcome. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment.
As someone who has used (and still uses) TGTB for a couple of subjects, I completely agree with your assessment. I spent a very large amount of time familiarizing myself with LDS doctrine and always approach the curriculum with a very skeptical eye. Thus far it has been a solid (if not slightly scattered) language arts program with lots of beautiful pictures and poetry along with verses from the Bible incorporated. No mention of the book of mormon or other books their church deems "inspired". All that to say, my kids are still quite young, 4th grade and below. We talk a lot about false religions and deception (we learned a lot through My Father's World Exploring Countries and Cultures) and I would never consider TGTB for any subject that includes worldview. Even when they talk about Christ they are referring to a different Christ. I'm very careful about acknowledging this with my children, but thus far in the language arts curriculum it hasn't been an issue, it's just very simple Bible verses. I would definitely recommend parents be prayerful and cautious because doctrine can sneak in the most unlikely places. Thank you for the very informative video!
Thank you so much for commenting and sharing your experience with TGTB. I was hoping someone who has used the curriculum would comment and share their experience. I think your insight and discernment will be helpful for other moms who are considering or already using TGTB curriculum. I appreciate you taking the time to leave such a detailed comment.
We use the BJU distance learning option for reading and I found that they do a great job incorporating and teaching new vocab. Not sure what grade they start but they do quite a bit in 4th grade and I feel it has helped my daughter a ton!
Yes, I forgot about that. Thank you for pointing that out!
Love this! You're not married to the curriculum! We can change! The mom is "THE" teacher, anybody else is just helping mom get the job done. Also appreciated the thoughts at the end concerning the good and the beautiful. We've never used them either (budget restraints mostly) but I have some good points to consider concerning them. Thank you.
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful.
Thank you for the explanation about TGTB. I never thought about it. We tried it this year. What is a good high school English course? Yes the word of God divides and it’s supposed to!
I absolutely love this video and all of the wonderful information you gave. Also thank you for your courage to be bold for the faith and speak out according to what The Bible says. I agree with you 100%, and I can also say that I have used that curriculum before and it was not a good fit for my daughter for many reasons. It’s absolutely imperative that we teach to the truth of God’s Word. ~blessings 🌻
I’ve missed you!!
I've missed making videos and interacting with everyone in the comments! But I just recorded three videos and two podcast episodes! Hope to get them edited and out to you all soon.
Wordly Wise is a vocabulary book option. 😊
Thank you for sharing!
We come from a reformed OPC background and I never thought I would touch TGATB with a ten foot poll. This year we hit a wall with Saxon and all the writing our son had to do. He was diagnosed with dysgraphia and high functioning autism which made me rethink our math. We tried simply good and beautiful math and it was so much better. I know she's Mormon and I have been on my guard but it is math and I spoke with my hubby about it and we felt okay with it. I totally get where you are coming from but when you get a kid with special needs there's not a ton of resources out there. Thank you for this video! ❤️
I’m glad you found something that works for your son. ❤️ Every family and child has different needs. That’s why God gave parents this responsibility. Each parent knows their child better than anyone else and knows what they need and what is best for them. Thanks for taking the time to comment. I appreciate your insight.
Wow. I want to follow you more and more as I watched your videos!
Aw, thank you. Glad you are enjoying them.
I do agree on disadvantages of buying the whole box curriculum. We got one our first year of homeschooling and we hated it. But we spent our homeschooling allowance and couldn’t afford anything else , were stuck for the rest of the school year.
We are using Abeka vocabulary this year. It looks good, hope it will be.
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for this video Janelle !!! You’re always a favorite. We use tgtb for high school language arts. I like the booklets and how the program incorporates geography and art. I like the clean books they use too. We use Apologia for Bible and we will be using The Bible Recap when reading through the Bible chronologically in January. It’s my understanding that many different denominations write the curriculum. And I’ve never seen biblical commentary in the booklets. But my daughter really likes the program. As for my son, he uses Lightening Literature. It’s not from a biblical worldview, and again I’ve never seen anything suspicious or bias in the curriculum one way or the other. It’s just a straight literature program that suits my son well. In the past we have used LLATL, EIL,IEW (still use this for grammar and my son’s writing). And We use notgrass for all history , which I just adore. It’s like grandpa telling us about the good old days , mr and Mrs notgrass have so much love poured into their materials. You’re my favorite hs momma on UA-cam. And the first one I ever watched Thank you so much for making a new video 💖 Melissa
Oh ps. I’ve never considered tgtb as a Christian based literature program. I told my children that the author is Mormon and she thinks that she’s Christian, but that she has been deeply misled and that there is no part 2 to the Bible. The word of God is complete in the Bible and Christ accomplished everything on the cross. The end.
Thank you for sharing your experience with TGTB. Also, I'm planning on using Notgrass next year for history and what you said about it reading like grandpa talking about the past is one reason I'm looking forward to using it. I've only used their Uncle Sam and You curriculum so I'm excited to try some of their other ones.
For vocabulary we read aloud and start Latin once student is reading well (somewhere between 4th-6th grade)
That sounds like a great plan. What do you use for latin?
For vocabulary we are doing “Operation Lexicon: The Inklings” for my daughter who loves to write creatively. I think we’ll also use “1100 words you need to know” at some point in high school. I’d love to find a vocabulary flip card calendar because that would click for my daughter. For my son he’d fit better with Evan Moor’s vocabulary until he outgrows it.
Thank you for sharing!
Great video!! Thanks for sharing.
Would like to know how did you implement Logic of English AND all about reading at the same time?? Both are great curriculum. Thanks
Great suggestion! I'll add that to my list of video ideas.
Great answers! Thank you for speaking the truth about The Good and the Beautiful. I felt convicted each time I went on to purchase. It's such a draw because IT IS so beautiful, but yes, Satan masquerades as an angel of light. Christians should not be supporting deceptive companies, even if the founders themselves are deceived. We should pray for Jenny, her family and fellow mormons. We all desperately need the One True Living God of Scripture.
Can you please talk about electives in high school? Maybe you already have?
I've talked a little about high school electives. I'll list the video and two blog posts that I've done about them below. Let me know if you have specific questions that weren't answered in the video and blog posts and I'll try to answer them in the future.
Video: ua-cam.com/video/v_K5cjeJt3Y/v-deo.html
High School Electives (blog): www.janelleknutson.com/2019/03/11/high-school-electives-for-homeschoolers/
How to Create Your Own High School Elective Courses (blog): www.janelleknutson.com/2019/03/22/how-to-create-high-school-elective-course/
I know this video was made months ago ago but hopefully you can help me out. How do you reuse the BJU distance learning curriculum? I want to get it for my kiddos but I want to be able to reuse as much curriculum as possible. Especially because of the price tag.
Logic of English or AAR/spelling… which is easier to implement overall?
Both are easy to implement for different reasons. Logic of English is all in one for reading, spelling, and eventually grammar and reading comprehension. AAR and AAS are two separate teachers manuals so might feel like you are doing two subjects. AAR/AAS does not include grammar. I loved Logic of English: Foundations but am currently using AAR/AAS for all my kids (that still need reading and/or spelling). Both are excellent options and easy to use.
@@JanelleKnutson thank you!
Great video! I appreciate you taking a stand with TGTB. I tried their math with my son last school year and it was okay. I don’t think the style of it worked well with him. But I ordered the next level of math and a level for my daughter and a science unit. But my spirit felt no peace and I realized I needed to heed that conviction. I sold all of it and definitely lost money, but I knew God would bless my obedience and like you said, there’s tons of curriculum out there.
I have a question about history, and pardon if you’ve already answered this previously. I’m wondering how to blend secular and biblical history. I have used Sonlight and Notgrass. I am wondering what you use for World History. Have you tried Mystery of History and if so, any thoughts? My kids are 8 and 11, by the way.
Yes, we have used Mystery of History and really enjoyed it. Here is a blog post I wrote on how I used it with multiple kids/grades.www.janelleknutson.com/2015/12/07/the-mystery-of-history-with-multiple-ages/
My son is going into 9th grade but he is going into public school. If there any materials you would supplement with in addition to his work load in PS. Like literature guides ? Or do you think that would be too much . I already have him doing bible study at home as well. Thank you
I think supplementing would be too much. I would encourage you to find some good apologetics books to have on hand to help him navigate all that he will be exposed to that is contrary to God's Word. Some helpful places to look for apologetic resources would be: Mama Bear Apologetics, Natasha Crain, and Master Books.
I don't want to start a debate, but could you clarify what in the bible makes Latter-Day Saints non-Christians? As a Latter-Day Saint, I know that the bible is true. I just want to know what makes us so different from all the other denominations that separates us from being Christian. Thanks for all you do to support homeschoolers!
Hi Meghann! I appreciate your thoughtful question and am glad you felt comfortable enough to leave a comment on my channel.
There are several differences between LDS doctrine and Christian doctrine. We also differ in how we define the terms that we use. The article linked below is a quick look at some of those differences. I hope it helps answer your question. I am always open to further discussion in the comments or in a private email.
Here is the article:
www.gotquestions.org/Mormons-Christians.html
If you would like to learn more about foundational Christian doctrine (and how it differs from LDS doctrine), I'd be happy to meet with you one-on-one via Zoom or FaceTime. You can reach me via email. My contact information is on my about page here on UA-cam or on my website.