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I did it!! I sold the previous curriculum we were planning to use and bought this one. This curious Kinder program is so good! Y’all really did an amazing job, this is exactly what I was looking for but couldn’t find. I was having to piece together different things, but now I have it all in one place. I feel really good about this decision. I feel so at peace knowing all of the things my child will be learning/enjoying. With him being 5 and a late birthday and gifted it was like everything was either too much too soon, or not challenging or engaging enough. The literature pics are A+ & the activities are so different, creative and engaging.
Oh I am so, so happy to hear this! This is truly the curriculum that I was looking for and couldn't find. I hope you guys have an absolute blast using it together and learning together!
I just bought this and I’m so excited! I have a gifted kindergartener and upcoming preschooler and I think this curriculum may be a great fit for my daughter next year but we are NOT waiting. We are going to use it this year as a resource and guide this year, which I highly recommend, since it is so reasonably priced. The Bible focus, the Messner books (which we own already, brilliant) and the Elephant and Piggie social emotional learning are what we are most excited about and I’m pretty sure my almost five and almost three year old will be able to do most of those subjects together with some extensions for my rising gifted kindergardener. Rachel, you really should make a 10 second recorded blurb and stick it in every video mentioning your homeschool curriculums. Happy to give you a review once we get started (it may be from my husband we tag team hormschool and working from home different hours)!
I'm so, so happy to hear this! And that's a good idea with coming up with a concise clip to stick into other videos--all too often I hear from followers who say they never realized that I write curriculum, and then I realize that my promotion/advertising skills are in need of sharpening. I will for sure appreciate reviews when the time comes!
We’ve completed week 2 of this curriculum and so far my daughter and I love it!
Oh, I'm so excited to hear that!
I'm 5 minutes in and already sold! Curious Kinder saves me money by including several components that I planned to use separate curriculums for 🙂
That's exactly my goal--affordable resources that cover a lot of the "riches" that we want to teach our kids.
I absolutely LOVE this. The Bible component with the sequencing cards really fills in the gaps of the Gentle Classical Primer Program that focuses on narration of the storybook, but lacks resources to help you with narration of the Bible. The summary statements are spot on too to help with the main idea for each reading. I am a small channel so it probably wouldn’t help you so much yet, lol, but would love to highlight this curriculum at some point as a really good Kinder curriculum option ❤️
Wow--I would absolutely love the chance to get this featured in a video on another homeschool channel. Send me an email: wheredyoulearnthat (a) gmail.com
My grandson won't be kinder age for about three more years, but I'm saving this till then. It looks good. Thank you!
Thank you!
Rachel, this is such a phenomenal resource for Kindergarten!! The book list is superb. I appreciate that you didn't just pick the usual Kinder lit books most K literature curriculums choose, but then again, I wouldn't expect that from you. :) There are many titles I am not familiar with and I look forward to reading them with my boys although I think they are past doing a Kinder curriculum at this point. But I can tell this is a high quality very thorough Kinder curriculum and those with Kindergarten students are BLESSED to have this as their curriculum. This is a testimony also to the fact that we can do anything we put our minds to as long as we have the ability to prioritize our time and the discipline to make it happen since you put this together while having a newborn! Beautiful work, Rachel, your mom and your artistic sister!
Edited to add: I went ahead and purchased this because #1) I wanted to support your work, 2) I am intrigued by the literature and want to incorporate many of these titles into our read alouds this year. I figured it would be fun to have the activity pages too, #3) I LOVED those Bible cards and could see using them as well with my sons and 4) if I get the opportunity to help in homeschooling my nephew and niece this would be my top choice for Kinder curriculum for sure. Never too early to start planning, right? (They are currently 20 months & 4 months old. hehehe) Thanks again for this fantastic resource to add to my curriculum collections. :)
Gotta be thankful to that newborn for all those 4 am feeds that left me feeling like I couldn't go back to sleep...plus the person who asked for the "next level" of Purely Preschool and it finally clicked and I figured out what that ought to look like.
And yes, I appreciate that you noticed I didn't just pick all the "usual suspects" for the booklist. We have a few classics - Charlotte's Web, Roxaboxen, Owl Moon....but largely I went "outside the box" and sought to create a "survey of children's literature," introducing a variety of styles from a variety of authors and illustrators, many of whom are names well worth looking out for on bookshelves.
Glad you loved the Bible cards--those were my mom's idea: sequencing is such a common activity to help kids get a good understanding of the flow of the story, and it's very helpful when it comes to really understanding the "big story" of the Old Testament. 20 months and 4 months might be a tiny bit too early to plan but hey, who am I to talk, I have a 6 month old and look forward to using this with him!
@@SevenInAll after purchasing and printing the teacher guide, I am even more impressed!!!! My goal for this school year is to be very literature heavy (even more so than we have been) with all my children, so the Curious Kinder definitely fits the bill as a resource to use that will help me meet this goal. I think I can easily fit the Bible, picture books, chapter books and the social emotional learning books into morning basket reading time with the boys when the girls won’t be able to join us for various reasons (like the day they are at CC community day). As I was reading the social emotional sections I realized my boys could benefit from these lessons. Also, we love Elephant & Piggy. In fact I will have to rebuy these books because when we had them for my younger daughter years ago they were read so much they fell apart!
I am so thrilled with these book titles as I know they are trusted titles because you picked them and the vast majority are new titles to me. You’ve done the hard work for me in compiling this book list/curriculum- THANK YOU!!!
This reminds me somewhat of Gentle & Classical curriculum, which did not really work well for my boys. However, the Curious Kinder is set up in a way that jives with my brain and I absolutely LOVE IT. Everything is organized incredibly well, it’s user friendly where I won’t be flipping back and forth to access & reference pages while teaching/reading. And- I appreciate the formatting 😂. If the pages didn’t line up exactly you inserted some beautiful art so the first over view page of the week is always in the same spot followed by the next two pages opening beautifully on the following two pages so you can see everything together. I really appreciate that! It helps me stay organized.
Rachel, this is PHENOMENAL!! Five stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
@@faithfullyinfertile I'm so glad that you noticed these details. I would really love to get some reviews on my website--the website sends an automatic review request email two weeks after your purchase. If you have a few minutes to spare when that comes, if you fill out the form in that email to leave a review, having a few reviews on my site is so helpful when new customers are browsing!
I'm glad you noticed the purpose for the 'random' art in the TG--it's all to help make sure the schedule page stays on the same side, plus adds a little bit of on-theme eye candy. My goal is always to make things very user-friendly and consistent, so that we aren't using too much of that precious brain power trying to look for things or figure out what's needed. And I am especially glad that I went for the somewhat unconventional approach of scheduling the entirety of Elephant and Piggie into the year. They are such fun books, but truly offer great opportunities to discuss emotions and different relational situations with our kids. Gems!
@@SevenInAll I will certainly fill out the review when it comes!
I think I’m most excited about the Bible and elephant piggy books. 😄
So excited for this kindergarten curriculum release! ❤
I'm so happy with how it has all come together.
Congratulations! Looks amazing!
Thank you!!
been waiting for this video since i bought the curriculum. i love the link page website, its really cool to look at with the ocean. our library has almost all the books. later this year they are releasing another over and under book.
That is awesome that your library has so many of the books, that will make it very convenient--and yes, I hope the course webpage comes in handy with all those links! And yes, I heard they're releasing another in the "Over and Under" series, I'm sure I'll have to get it!
This looks like an incredible resource. First of all, congratulations on accomplishing this. Second of all, thank you! This is the type of resource that "lays it all out for me," and isn't overly fussy or consuming. I'm really looking forward to using this with my son (and my daughter, who is older, but will still love joining in!)
Thank you--I'm so glad that stood out to you because that's exactly the type of curriculum I'm trying to create. Yes, it does take a little bit of effort to get your hands on the books, but practical, not fussy, easy to implement: those are my goals. I know that it's those "easy to implement" resources that actually get done. :)
It looks amazing. You are an incredible homeschool mom. I am going to use this curriculum with my first grader. Many of the activities are so fabulous, especially the Bible and the emotional learning portion. ❤
Oh, I'm so thrilled to hear that!
Rachel! I’m so excited about this! This looks so amazing and wonderful! I love that the books are not all the books that are usually suggested for this age group, lots of different ones that I’ve never read or heard of and they all look so good. Also as usual, I love all the life skills you include. Such a sweet kindergarten program. You are a rockstar!
Thank you so much, Kristie! I definitely took my time creating the booklist--I wanted to create sort of a "survey" of children's literature featuring a variety of styles in the art and the writing, and quite a few authors and illustrators worth knowing. I hope you guys love it!
Rachel! This is phenomenal!! It looks incredible!❤❤❤
Congratulations to You, your Mom and your Sister! Amazing material!
Thank you so much!
This is excellent. I mean, excellent. I am heading to your website now. Now I do not have a Kinder anymore, I still want to do some elements from the curriculum, such as the bible portion.
Thank you so much for your comment & commendation!
I am so excited to dive in with my son! I haven't been able to find the right curriculum for him and this looks like the missing puzzle piece!! Thank you.
Oh, I'm so happy to hear that!
This looks so fantastic! My middle just finished kinder but I’m hoping to use this with my youngest when the time comes!
Thank you so much!
This looks amazing!!! I can't wait till my kiddo is ready for this!
It'll be a blast!!
My youngest is 3 and it looks like I just figured out what will be using for his kindergarten year! Looking forward to using this in the future.😊
Yay!! :)
Wow! Congratulations on all you hard work! Looks amazing!
Thank you so much! It has been quite the process to bring it all together.
This looks REALLY good. I’m so picky. I already bought everything for the G+C kindergarten curriculum, but I like yours even better for my son. 😅
I put a lot of thought into designed a kindergarten curriculum that I'd love to use with my own son--I hope it's a good fit for many!
Oh this looks so wonderful. Love it!
Thank you so much!
I’m super excited about this curriculum. I just bought my copy. 🎉❤
Oh wonderful! I hope you guys have an absolute blast using it!
@@SevenInAll The intentionality of all the components had me from the start! I will be using this curriculum with my 5th child. My experience tells me it will be a blast! ❤️
Bravo!! It looks wonderful. Congratulations
Thank you so much!
Congratulations! 🎉👏 This looks amazing.
Thank you, Stacey!
I’m so excited for this for my 4 year old son who will be turning 5 in October. My daughter is turning 3 in August and I was wondering if she is the right age to start with alongside my son. She is still learning all of her sounds and hopefully will have them perfected by the end of the summer and I will then start her with some simple phonics instructions. My goal is to start their new curriculum at the “beginning of the school year” in August.
This resource is definitely NOT dependent on being at a particular level of phonics/reading skill. Children are not expected to be able to read/write on the activity pages, and I have reminders of that throughout the Parent Guide--if the activity is "making a list" related to the book, the idea is that the children are brainstorming the list together with you, and the parent is actually writing down the list. So reading/writing skills are not required, however, if I child is a little bit older/more advanced they could do more reading/writing.
I definitely think it could be used with a combined age group, although with a younger sibling, depending on their attention span/comprehension skills they may not get as much out of listening to the stories as the older sibling does--and that's perfectly fine and expected. I would probably add in some shorter/simpler reads just for the 3 year old, too.
Love this!! Are you planning to do any other grades in the future??
There is already another year-long literature-based curriculum in the works....early elementary... ;)
I've been looking forward to this one!
Thank you!
Rachel, this is amazing!
Thank you!
Congratulations! Really interested in using this for my kids when they are ready (they are all under 5 at the moment).
I was wondering, can the Bible component be adapted to a different children’s Bible?
Yes, I think it would be pretty easy to adapt and use a children's Bible of your choice--we make it clear in the Teacher's Guide and from the event sequencing cards which story is the focus for the week, the goal is learning one key event from OT history each week and working toward the child being able to tell the story in their own words.
this is wonderful 🎉
Glad you think so! Thank you!
Do you plan on releasing this in Spanish? Are the Bible components easy to leave out, or is it woven into all activities?
I really love it 💖
I don't plan to release this in Spanish at this point, but thanks for asking, because I do keep Spanish resources in mind. This one feels a bit too long and too complicated to do a completely new Spanish version. Many of the books scheduled in the program are available in Spanish, I should probably try to find out how many of them are: all of the Elephant and Piggie series, the Kobi Yamada series, as well as a fair number of other picture book and chapter book titles.
The Bible portion is mainly contained in that top row of "Bible", not interwoven into all the activities. There is also a Bible reference or two connected to the literature when it happened to already be a part of the book itself: i.e. There's a hilarious book about manners and interacting with others (who happen to be otters in the book) called "Do Unto Otters" - so we reference the Bible verse where the phrase "Do Unto Others" comes from.
Wow this looks amazing wondering if this will be available in spanish? 🤞
At this point, I'm not planning to release this in Spanish, however, MANY of the books scheduled are available in Spanish editions. In my own family, we will be reading some of the titles in Spanish.
🎉🎉🎉
Time to party!
Could you link to the FAQ
Here's the link to the FAQs page: www.wheredyoulearnthat.com/the-curious-kinder-faqs
Is there a math component?
No, this covers Bible, memory work, social emotional learning, nature science, literature, poetry, and practical skills. For phonics, handwriting, and math you would need to use separate resources.
@@SevenInAlldo you have any supplemental ones that’s you think would work particularly well with your program? ❤
@@mariahw3041 I have used and enjoyed Math with Confidence for math and All About Reading for phonics instruction and I have detailed videos on those curriculums as well as comparisons to other options here on this channel...but there definitely isn't one "right" answer--it's all about finding the resource that makes the most sense for you do use.
I just bought this and I’m so excited! I have a gifted kindergartener and upcoming preschooler and I think this curriculum may be a great fit for my daughter next year but we are NOT waiting. We are going to use it this year as a resource and guide this year, which I highly recommend, since it is so reasonably priced. The Bible focus, the Messner books (which we own already, brilliant) and the Elephant and Piggie social emotional learning are what we are most excited about and I’m pretty sure my almost five and almost three year old will be able to do most of those subjects together with some extensions for my rising gifted kindergardener. Rachel, you really should make a 10 second recorded blurb and stick it in every video mentioning your homeschool curriculums. Happy to give you a review once we get started (it may be from my husband we tag team hormschool and working from home different hours)!
Rachel! This is phenomenal!! It looks incredible!❤❤❤
Thank you!!