WELCOME BACK, MAMAS! ❤ How are your homeschool plans for the 2020-2021 homeschool year coming along?! Here's how our current year is going:ua-cam.com/video/MwSRJLV7D6A/v-deo.html
@Amy Griggs Gather Round is NOT going anywhere! I explain in the video! I have always added in a few other things, nothing has changed there! Gather Round is here to stay! 😍🤗
I love that you buy a variety of different curriculum to determine what’s best for your kids and your homeschool, such a great tip for this new homeschooling mama!
I’m always so excited when curriculum comes in. All mine just came in last week 😊 we just moved to a new house and it had a little shed like building that the previous owner had turned in a bar. Has AC windows and everything. I just tore out all the bar stuff and I’m mudding and painting today to turn it into our school house
I still haven't gotten my hands on the Big Book of Stories from TG&TB.Sold out.. Aaaamnnd.....admittedly...I ordered from Notgrass the other day! Lol! I want to see it and then make my decision! 😍🤪😍😂
The teacher manual came in really handy for fix it grammar!! I used it last year with my oldest who is now going into 5th grade also. If your child loves reading, I think they'll really enjoy it
So excited for you! The Good and the Beautiful is SO, SO amazing!!! We've used it 3 years now, and it's so thorough and solid. I've tried a lot of different programs, and TGTB has a nice amount of variety and depth, too. :)
You are totally cracking me up!!! I’m so you!!!!! I have got to get my hands on the books!!!! FYI we have used the good and the beautiful and Masterbooks. I love love love both companies for different things. Have a great school year!
This is 100% the way I would plan for back to school if I had the upfront cash! Thank you for being so transparent! You are most certainly not alone in wanting to dissect curriculum hands on! Glad to have found your channel 🥰
I am definitely the same way about needing to get my hands on curriculum! I have to look at every page and really vision how it’s going to work for each individual child throughout our day. We are using The Good and The Beautiful and Gather Round! I think you will love it
Three boys over here too. So glad TGTB has a good resale value because it WAS NOT for us. Love love love everything IEW. Fix it is awesome! Short and sweet and so good.
Just found your channel. We are jumping into homeschooling this coming year with my 8th grader. We are using The Good and The Beautiful, Moving Beyond the Page, Fix-It Grammar, IEW, Math-U-See, and much more!
Would love a flip through of fix it grammar!! Thinking about using it along side Masterbooks this year. We have always used TGTB but decided to go a different direction this year with MB LA 2 and 4. Coming from TGTB I feel like I need to beef it up a bit though :)
I just recently found your channel and love your energy! You have really encouraged me to get more and more excited! How do you choose your curriculum? Is there a website that you follow for recommendations?! I'm overwhelmed at all the options!
Aw, thank you for being here, mama! Choosing curriculum...oh man! I research, research, and research even more! 😂😅😃💜💜💜💜 It is like an addiction...really! Lol! It can be very overwhelming but I enjoy it! 😃
I hear ya! I always over buy 😆 But a youtube flip thru isn't enough for me either...I HAVE to touch, look, pick apart and just see everything for myself. I like variety and options😁 Homeschool curriculum has come a long way since I started homeschooling...and I just LOVE all the choices😁📚 I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel a while back...you are real, relatable and just awesome 😁👍
I am the exact same way! I also NEVER use any curriculum EXACTLY the way it is. I go with the flow of our homeschool. We too have dove into the world of The Good & The Beautiful. We love it!
I can totally relate to your planning process! I decided to switch some things up this year as well for my youngest. So I've been purchasing curriculum all over the place so I can sit down and analyze it and feel it and touch it and agonize over it and overwhelm myself... but in the end it will make me very confident about what I end up using. The main difference is that I'm purchasing used so I've been heading to every curriculum sale I could find and scouring Facebook Marketplace and eBay for the things that I want to look at. So I haven't spent a whole lot of money on this stuff, but I did find some really cool gems that I probably would never have thought to try or look at if I hadn't done this. Interestingly enough, I also picked up The Good and the Beautiful level 4. And I'm really curious as to how you feel about it. I loved many aspects of it but I did not like the reading at all. It was so boring to me I couldn't even make it through one story. The reader in level 4 is built-in to the lesson guide so it's not a separate book like in your level six. But it's in there and I'm really curious as to what you think of it. I also felt like it crammed information in without a lot of practice or application. So it's very thorough but I just wonder if it moves too fast and pushes too much information at once. Again I would love to hear your thoughts on it.
I’m a see it first kind of mom too. I’m going to bug you soon about what you think about TGTB history to see how you think it compares to America’s Story 1. Also, I got level 4 LA for my 5th grader too. I was super hesitant about TGTB LA at first, but something about it keeps calling to me. I’m excited to try it this year.
This makes me happy to know I’m not the only one haha! I love curriculum. TGATB is an amazing company! Their history goes through all stages of history each year so it is totally fine to start with year 1. So excited for you! I think your son will do well with TT3. We did TGATB math 1 and it is more teacher led.
Thank you for not apologizing! That is what I need. I need a real time, real feeling review! I love your channel and all of your REAL reviews! :) Keep being you.
I love watching these!! It will be my first year homeschooling this fall. I am still waiting to buy the majority of my curriculum because some things are out of stock but am so so so excited to purchase everything. 🥳🥳 we are going with master books mainly but also TGATB handwriting and Sonlight reading. It’s so fun how we can customize things and mix and match to fit our kids’ needs!
Ok I LOVE this, and your channel! I homeschooled my TK age daughter last year but now I will be homeschooling my 5th grade and 3rd grade boys as well!! (Plus my crazy 3 yr old boy). Researching curriculum has been SO fun. Sometimes I wonder if I'm more in love with the curriculum than I am with the actual schooling part. LoL we shall see! Here is what I've picked so far: Horizons math, LLFLE language arts, Writing Strands, TGTB handwriting, America's Story plus tons of read aloud for history......and I have NO idea what to do for science!! We are doing a sample of GR earth science this week and so far its been fun!
This will be our first year doing homeschool. My kids are 10,8,6,4. Love that all you wonderful mommas do these videos to help us! It all feels very overwhelming.
You are so right! You have to look through and research what will be your own perfect fit and usually it isn't within just one curriculum company. Thank you for the walk through of each of these. I have also been wondering about some of these. :)
I want to add-- I love love love that you are changing curriculum even though your kiddos are not little. Our oldest is in 5th grade and I have 3 other kiddos---- going on our 7th year of homeschooling and I've always changed curriculum because I LOVE change!!!
Remember to teach them: The word Government actually means mind control. It is etymologically originated from the ancient Latin language. It Splits into two words:1) (guvernare) meaning “to control” and 2) (mens or mentis) meaning “mind”. SO GOVERNMENT MEANS “TO CONTROL THE MIND.
Girl!! This is me to a t!! I love it! I have to get my hands on curriculum as well for me to be able to really know what will work! I have used some of the good and beautiful stuff, and I have heard(and found to be true) that some of the things are advanced, so when my son was in 5th grade I put him in level 4. Some kids don’t need to go down. Every child is different. Awesome video!!
Haha UA-cam randomly suggested your channel to me. I haven't home schooled in several years. My kids are 18 and 21 and I homeschooled partway through middle school. I still miss it!! I enjoyed your unboxing and good for you! Don't apologize!! Curriculum is so much fun!!! My daughter is planning to home school one day and I can't wait to help her!! I told her any time you need a break I'm here for you! Lol
Love, love, love this video! I can't wait to see your grade break down videos. I have 3 kids, oldest 2 are girls, same grades as your boys. My youngest is a boy, age 8. Delayed reader and school has been SO HARD. I haven't figured out our language arts favorites, or math really. Everything you say resonates with me. Thank you for sharing!!
Momma stop apologizing for loving your gift to pick what your child learners so that’s great. I am excited for u because u are so passionate about like the curriculum which is a gift. I am researching about homeschooling which I have wanted to do it for the last 10years but work and life always got in the way. Now that I am retired and health is really bad but now all I have it time. I love these videos keep them comings!!!!
Sweet mama...THANK YOU for encouraging me and reminding to STOP APOLOGIZING. I needed to hear that! THANK YOU. 💕❤💕 Happy homeschooling to you, sweet mama!
I absolutely love TGATB! This will be my third year using the LA from them. We’ve used K, 1st, 2nd. This year we’ll be using level 3 and level 1 for my two kiddos.
Love, Love, Love TGATB. My 7th grader is using level 6. I think you made a good choice by going to level 4 especially since he has never used it. We are using the science for the first time this year and I am super excited.
I don’t even homeschool but I love seeing these curriculum videos! I’m a workbook junkie! I like to find workbooks for my daughter for extra learning! Especially with how her schooling was at the end of the year with e-learning. Getting some ideas for this school year since I’m not sure how it’s going to go! In IL kids are supposed to be going back into the classroom in August but how will that work safely? Will the second wave come of COVID and more e-learning will happen! My daughter is in the gifted program and will need more than basic learning!
No need to apologize!! I totally understand the need to see and go through the curriculum thoroughly. This will be our second year homeschooling, so I totally understand! I’m going with the same curriculum that we used last year because I don’t want to confuse/overwhelm myself or my kids 😬😆
I started using TGTB last year with one kiddo just to test it out, we loved it! This year we're using TGTB for everything but math. We tried math level 2 last year from TGTB & it didn't work for us but most people love it! My kids are so excited to start school this year!
I love this channel!! You are real and open and you don't edit all od that out. I am all over the place just like you so this was so relatable for me. I have been wanting to check out TGATB as well. I believe in the Charlotte Mason philosophy of education and it seems like it is that style.
I am the same way. I love getting my hands on cirriculum and actually physically looking through it. This looks sooo fun. Thanks for showing us everything!
Please stop apologizing!!! I love it! I am the EXACT same way! I end up piecemealing it all together because there isn’t a perfect curriculum and so many work well together!
I love these Bible study books! We do online public school and the curriculum is amazing, but I'm always looking for Bible studies to supplement in this area.
I just was blessed by God to find you and PRAISE God!! You are such a wonderful mama and encourage me daily. I’m the exact way with homeschool curriculum- giddy, overwhelmed and thrilled. Ha!! Thank you 😍🙌🏼
OMG its so nice to see I'm not the only one who has to see it, touch it & just look through it to know what you want to use. It drives my husband nuts LOL!!! Thanks for sharing! There is one thing I have learned. If something is working don't switch!! You remind me so much of my self. I'm so scatterbrained its not funny. It drives me nuts!!! Good luck!!
Hey soul sister! You process and plan just like I do! What a great, refreshing video that I soooooo relate to! We adore Gather Round as well, but I also supplement with The Good and The Beautiful for LA, I use their math for my 2nd grader, and I'm trying to figure out what we will do for chronological history once we finish the GR continent studies. I can't wait to see what you will do this year!
I am the same way. A sample is just not enough!!!! That is probably why I have so much unused curriculum. Lol but hey sometimes I give what I don’t use away to friends who may want it. So, it’s not a complete waste. Lol
Yay!!!!!! I knew I couldn't be the only one! Lol! Giving away to one in need is an awesome idea, sweet mama! I have got a few drawers of unused items as well but I can't part with them just yet! You never know what you might want to use later! 😂💞
Also, if your son loves art you should check out www.yellowspotsun.com/ Her art courses are amazing and once you buy a course it’s yours forever and she also has a lot of free courses. Not sure how old your son is but I feel like it can be used for any age. Lol I see this because I love to sit down and do it along side my kids, too. Lol
Yes, lol...I have saved some stuff that I think my youngest will like but you never know with her. Lol...you are so welcome. I found out about the site from another UA-cam channel. I can not remember the right name right now. Lol...it’s that kind of day. But she’s great and has so many great resources. My daughter loves art as well and so do I. So, it has been a hit in our homeschool.
haha! as soon as I saw the bubblewrap i knew!! I hope you love tgtb -we love it! And I am the same i like to get hands on. I can't use online versions either. Problem is in UK the shipping is astronomical. Tgtb works for us because of all the manipulatives,my son really engages.
Thank you for your video. Im just like you. I am starting our 2nd year of homeschooling. We did The Good and the beautiful last year. Kindergarten, levels 2 and 4. We loved it. I just purchased master books language just to check them out. I have to have them in hand to study them just like you. 😆
Okay I just found your channel and i already love you! Honeschooling for the first time this year. (Unofficially as age if requirement in my state is 6, my two littles are 3 and 5!
You may want to invest in a coil binder or proclick if you're printing curriculum.😁 My Trubind is best thing I've ever bought. 😍 Also, you need to find out if there is a used homeschool store near you. We have one really good one here. It's nice to be able to look through things in person without buying.😁
OMG, we have the same curriculum ideas. I’ve already purchased our next school years books from Master Books, Gather Round and The Good and the Beautiful.
It has gone good so far! I will be sharing our picks here in the coming weeks! Like with amything...we have tweaked here and there but will be using it again!
I am crazy in love with planning....so I started planning next year about mid-year of last school year and therefore I have this next school year planned and ready to go. We are on break atm and planning to start either halfway in July or Aug. 3rd. My girls are super excited about "our" choices and so am I. Thanks for sharing. I loved seeing your process. I like handling the material, too. Normally, we have a homeschool bookstore where I can handle it, examine, read etc. That has helped the wallet. But with COVID.... I have adapted, improvised and overcome!!!
@@SimplyLivingIt I try to combine a Charlotte Mason approach with a Classical approach so this might seem like a lot (especially in our group subjects) but rest assured in small doses over time it is just the right amount. Ok, so let's jump in: I have 3 children (2 girls and a boy) and my two girls are my "offical" students who will be relatively at the grade level of Kindergarten and 2nd grade. The Charlotte Mason approach generally is a slower approach in the sense that one is not suppose to start schooling till age 7 BUT my youngest daughter wants to do what her big sister is doing and also we do a Classical twist as well. My compromise is letting my five year old do school 3 days out of 5. So, my Kindergartener's Individual studies are: Math: A combination of "Math with Confidence level K" by Kate Snow and Easy Peasy all in one Getting Ready 2 ((I don't care if she finshes the book as the last units are more 1st grade work in my option)) "Learning to Read": I plan to use Sherry K. Hayes, "To The Top: climb the mountain of reading". This is a free learn to read program at Momdelights.com I chose it because it includes games to learn her letters and sounds. I don't know how far we will get. We might not get past letter recognition. For me, this is fine. If she shows a spark (a strong desire) we MIGHT (a highly improbable "might") do lessons in "100 Easy Lessons to teach your child to read". But, I really see that as a 1st grade concept for my youngest. "Handwriting Practice": my daughter loves "Handwriting without Tears" so we will continie with it (the orange book this year). For my 2nd grader's individual studies: Math: Easy Peasy all in one Math level 2 combined with word problems from Ray's arithmetic Reading: my eldest daughter reads and thus we will continue to sharpen her skills with the "McGuffey's set" and "Reading Through Literature". Handwriting Practice: My eldest daughter begged me to let her do cursive last year so we are continuing with that. It took me awhile to find a book that taught the connecting of cursive letters in a manner that I thought would be simple and easy. I went with "Simply Charlotte Mason's" Print to Cursive Proverbs book. If all goes well we will do the Prescripts Red art Cursive book after that one. For print practice she will be finishing up the grade 1 "Handwriting without Tears" book she begged me for and then doing copywork that I make up for her. Music: She will continue learning piano For our Group subjects- we seperate this into 2 areas: our morning basket time and afternoon group subjects: Morning Basket: We do our C.C. (Classical Conversations) memory work. These usually come with songs and cover: Math, Latin, Science, History, English (usually grammar), Timeline (learning a history timeline), and Geography. Poetry (we are in Cycle 3: American History so I thought it would be fun to read "101 American Poems" by Dover thrift books) For Bible we have devotions at Breakfast & Catechism and Scripture memory in Morning Basket time We will start off with an Ocean unit (inspired by you) before we dig into our C.C. cycle 3 themed stuff. This includes Ocean themed poetry. Our first Artist study will be Henry Matissse. I can't wait for him! I love his bright colors and I think it will match our Ocean study in color palette perfectly!!! 💖 I also have an American Art book we will cover from "Come look with me" (something like that...great books) and C.C. Artists for cycle 3 as well (Grandma Moses, Picasso, O'keefe, Rockwell, Wyeth, and Lichtenstein) Composer studies will begin with "Underthehome.com" grade 1's music (I can't remeber who they picked but it was a pretty piece). We will work our way through that and C.C. composers for Cycle 3. Hymn study: We will learn "Nothing But the Blood" (term 1), "Victory in Jesus" (term 2) and "Tis' So Sweet to Trust in Jesus" (term 3). We will also review/sing last years hymns as well( "Count Your Blessings", "At the Cross", "Angels We Have Heard on High" and "The Doxology"). We will also be reading one of Aesop's fables a day (I might have my eldest narrate this). That is for "literature" For History: I plan to follow the C.C's history sentences with Picture books that my eldest will narrate back to me. For Science: after the Ocean Unit we will be doing Human body and the periodic table with Basher Science books which follows C.C. cycle 3 science for the year. I also have a Human body picture book we will go over that my kids have enjoyed in the past. We also have "Read Aloud Chapter books". We are starting with "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne -Ocean Unit!!! (an adapted for kids version with illustrations...which I know is very anti-Charlotte Mason....but after my Ivanhoe experience...I don't mind one bit) We also read whatever Picture book they pick for me to read Also in Morning Basket time we do the Individual Reading/learning to read activities. That covers Morning Basket time.... For afternoon group studies: I am teaching them Drawing and Crochet (Handicrafts) We have Nature walks Some more Geography Latin and A.S.L. with songs & stories (mostly via You-tube and I have a Latin song CD from Classical Academic Press...I think) We are also hoping to do a more indepth Bird study (this is a carry over from last year. We started identifying birds). I am hoping to read Burgess Bird book and color pictures and just observe birds :) That covers pretty much all of our "focused" learning plans. My girls have chores and they like to help cook. Sometimes we practice Ballet or other forms of dance. We also have artisty days where we paint or color a lot (or do play doh...though I think that falls under S.T.E.M). I mean I am fluid within all of the above. We will scrap the bird study if we are done with that interest, etc. I have a very "un-schooling" heart. If my children lose interest then I don't push it. We don't have to read the American Poetry if it bores us to tears. I will find other poetry or no poetry...but I like poetry...so though we might take a break it will pop up again. I do insist on our core subjects (Math, Reading and handwriting/eventually writing-writing) but they mostly don't have issues with that. I keep our lessons short, fun, and game based or coloring based in our core subjects. Otherwise all else is fluid. We may or may not have our C.C. Community days (Co-Op days)....that is also fluid this year....thanks to COVID 19. But overall those are our plans for the 20/21 school year. If you made it this to the end, thank you!!!!
Really looking forward to seeing how you will use Gather Round with other curriculum! We switched last year from Abeka to masterbooks, Fix it grammar (absolutely loved this for my 7th grader in combination with writing strands from master books!!!) and teaching textbooks for math... we have loved everything we picked last year. We weren’t even looking to switch curriculum but I recently stumbled upon Gather Round and I’ve fallen in love with what I see! I’ve been praying for where God wants us to go with our homeschool next year. You are such a help and blessing to us homeschooling mamas 💕
I was just about to say, stop apologizing or explaining yourself! 😊 You’re wonderful, beautiful intelligent and humble. I see you’re heart and appreciate you! Thank you for this video! I’ve been thinking about TGTB! I’d enjoy a flip through of any of it, especially one blood and your bible study! ❤️ Love you girl! I enjoy your videos and wish we were sitting next to each other dissecting together! Let’s start that clan! I’ll be there! Ooooh musical multiplication!😍 awww you’re dog story is so sad. I’ll help you get a Bullmastiff! I can’t imagine life without one! Wish we lived closer sister 🥰 I love how much you share and how open you are and how much you lean on your boys to see which way they want to go and what will work best for them! Can’t wait to see what you decide on! It all looks great! Haha we are so much alike! 🤗 hugs 🤗
We recently switched from mainly Masterbooks to a lot more of The Good and the Beautiful. We are using TGTB math and LA now. We love it! We plan to add in a mammals science unit, typing and handwriting from TGTB as well 😁 I hope you enjoy it! Have fun going through everything!
I am the same way. Thank you for being you and needing to see it touch it. It makes me not feel so bad and dumb that I am wanting to order so much lol.
I do the same thing with curriculum. You are not alone. I totally understand the having to get your hands on it. Flip through are awesome, but it's not the same until you have it in front of you. I'll be interested to see if and how the good and the beautiful stuff works out for you. We are starting out with a combination of gather round, MB, and other misc curriculum this year. I, too, am a mom that pulls from all over. Lol. Thanks for sharing.
You’re so cute! Our ‘all over the place’ brains are one of the same! I just finished your new DR room tour and I did the exact same as you with the cubes instead of latchmates. This is my first year homeschooling and we purchased TGATB LA (primer K, level 1 & 4), History year 2 and the Energy science unit. Everything I read and watched about TGATB it is not grade based but level based so I bet you chose correct! I’d love to see a review once you start diving into it. Also would love to see a flip through of explode the code. Keep making these videos, it’s nice to see someone who’s not OCD organized. Makes me feel like I can do this!❤️
We love TGATB. My daughter is halfway through level 4. When my girls finish a level I start up the next level book. What you are doing looks normal to me. I have done the same thing until I found TGATB. It was life changing for us.
We started Gather ‘Round Homeschool Oceans Unit last week and love it! For a couple of years we’ve used TGTB -levels PreK, K, 1, 2, and 4. Will be keeping TGTB and GRH for sure!
jess burns hello! So far, I’ve been doing GRH first with all my kids, then I do one one one using TGTB -sometimes I do only half of a lesson that day. I may need to skip a day of GRH here and there until we are caught up with other work and subjects too.
Your not crazy at all because I feel the exact same way. I have bought stuff for this school year that I have already pushed to the side and we are only in our 3rd week . But, always remember, this is the beauty of homeschooling and one of the reasons you probably chose to homeschool, is that we get to tweek it and make it our own. Don't never let the curriculum run you, you run it.
I’m so excited to see your video!! I just wanted to say that we had to send back all ABeka 4th grade curriculum last year. Math didn’t work so they made me return the entire dvd kit. So I had to throw together a curriculum last minute. I chose Fix it-Nose Tree. I was so surprised to see how much my son learned by only doing one sentence a day. I kept waiting for him to draw a blank the further we went along, but that never happened. And the further in we went, the more excited he was to find out the rest of the story. It was amazing. Will use it again this year. Good luck with all of your planning 😊
They're coming out with a new TGTB level 4 soon. This is one of my favorite curriculum videos! I am the same way and only have a second grader and Kinder... I finally picked out what we're using!
We love, love, love The Good and the Beautiful for Language Arts. They combine ALL the things so there's no need for spelling workbooks, grammar books, etc. because it's all in there. Their marine bio study (free) is also wonderful.
This will be my first year homeschooling and I am the exact same way. I need to be able to have it and see it in person. So because I'm so new I got a little bit of what feels like everything, because I didn't know what to pick and I can't pick without seeing it in person. My poor husband is like oh no what did she get herself into. And I keep finding new, fun, pretty curriculums that I want to try. I feel like I created a problem with starting homeschool but an exciting one 🤣
We will be using a lot of the same curriculum this year too. I use TGTB with Abeka for Handwriting, Language Arts, Math, and our Reading program. We are also using Gather Round this year for Geography and the US Government unit. I hope you enjoy TGTB. Will be waiting to see what you think once you start using it. :)
We do have a very similar set up, it sounds! I am still fine tuning but I am learning that we always are....right???? That's part of the journey! Thank you for being here, alongside ours! 🤗
We LOVE tgtb! We use their LA, handwriting, history and science. There has been nothing of theirs that we haven’t loved. I have an upcoming 8th grader (level 7) 6th grader (level 5) and 1st grader (level 1). We’ve tried a ton of other curriculum and tgtb is the only one that has stuck and we continue to use year after year! Oh and I taught my littlest to read using tgtb which was my biggest fear since my others started homeschooling after they were already able to read.
Ill be a working and homeschool single mom... Newly this year. I have a 6th grader. Love these videos. Your a pretty teacher! Ive been kind of looking for 1 brand? To choose books from. Yet i see many just chose different books from various companies... To make a complete curriculum. TFS.
Mama! Congratulations on your new homeschool journey. You CAN DO THIS! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 I tried buying all from the same company in the beginning, as I felt I needed that. But now...I am comfortable to mix and match! 💓
I'm the same as you Jamie! LOL Gotta get my hands on it! I'm always so jealous of people who have a homeschool curriculum store in their area! We used to and ours closed! 😭
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WELCOME BACK, MAMAS! ❤ How are your homeschool plans for the 2020-2021 homeschool year coming along?! Here's how our current year is going:ua-cam.com/video/MwSRJLV7D6A/v-deo.html
the good and the beautiful have a placement test you can use to place them also all the levels are free pdfs
@simplyhymn'sYes! Thank you! I forgot to mention that! 😍🤗
Did you decide not to do Gather Round?
@@amygriggs2489 she said she still was,exploring diffrent things,to add,too it in her video
@Amy Griggs Gather Round is NOT going anywhere! I explain in the video! I have always added in a few other things, nothing has changed there! Gather Round is here to stay! 😍🤗
I love your enthusiasm and transparency! It’s evident how much you enjoy homeschooling. I like seeing all of your options; it gives me ideas!
I love that you buy a variety of different curriculum to determine what’s best for your kids and your homeschool, such a great tip for this new homeschooling mama!
I’m always so excited when curriculum comes in. All mine just came in last week 😊 we just moved to a new house and it had a little shed like building that the previous owner had turned in a bar. Has AC windows and everything. I just tore out all the bar stuff and I’m mudding and painting today to turn it into our school house
I’m starting with TGATB history 2 cause 1 was sold out 😢 we are also doing Gather round Government
WOW! That is awesome! How fun for you and the kids!!!!!!!😍🤗
I still haven't gotten my hands on the Big Book of Stories from TG&TB.Sold out.. Aaaamnnd.....admittedly...I ordered from Notgrass the other day! Lol! I want to see it and then make my decision! 😍🤪😍😂
It’s back in stock! Run!! Lol
Hahahahah!
The teacher manual came in really handy for fix it grammar!! I used it last year with my oldest who is now going into 5th grade also. If your child loves reading, I think they'll really enjoy it
Thank you so much for sharing your experience! 😍🤗
New subscriber here. The first feeling I got in the first few seconds of your channel was COZY. I look forward to seeing what you got!!!!
Awwwww, welcome Amanda! Thank you for your kind words! 🤗💞
I love being look through everything before deciding. So thankful for the curriculum videos helps me a lot with what I can do.
So excited for you! The Good and the Beautiful is SO, SO amazing!!! We've used it 3 years now, and it's so thorough and solid. I've tried a lot of different programs, and TGTB has a nice amount of variety and depth, too. :)
You are totally cracking me up!!! I’m so you!!!!! I have got to get my hands on the books!!!! FYI we have used the good and the beautiful and Masterbooks. I love love love both companies for different things. Have a great school year!
Hahaha! Thanks Melissa! 🤗😍🤗 I agree...they are both so great in their own way! Thanks for being here!🤗
This is 100% the way I would plan for back to school if I had the upfront cash! Thank you for being so transparent! You are most certainly not alone in wanting to dissect curriculum hands on! Glad to have found your channel 🥰
I am definitely the same way about needing to get my hands on curriculum! I have to look at every page and really vision how it’s going to work for each individual child throughout our day. We are using The Good and The Beautiful and Gather Round! I think you will love it
Three boys over here too. So glad TGTB has a good resale value because it WAS NOT for us. Love love love everything IEW. Fix it is awesome! Short and sweet and so good.
Thank you for sharing your experience, mama! I am cruoous how it will work for us this year as well! 🤔😊💜
Just found your channel. We are jumping into homeschooling this coming year with my 8th grader. We are using The Good and The Beautiful, Moving Beyond the Page, Fix-It Grammar, IEW, Math-U-See, and much more!
Would love a flip through of fix it grammar!! Thinking about using it along side Masterbooks this year. We have always used TGTB but decided to go a different direction this year with MB LA 2 and 4. Coming from TGTB I feel like I need to beef it up a bit though :)
I love you! I love this video and it’s so nice to finally see someone in the homeschool world more like me 🙌🏼🤩♥️
Awwww! Cassidy! Thank you! I am so happy you're here! 🤗❤🤗❤
I just recently found your channel and love your energy! You have really encouraged me to get more and more excited! How do you choose your curriculum? Is there a website that you follow for recommendations?! I'm overwhelmed at all the options!
Aw, thank you for being here, mama! Choosing curriculum...oh man! I research, research, and research even more! 😂😅😃💜💜💜💜 It is like an addiction...really! Lol! It can be very overwhelming but I enjoy it! 😃
I hear ya! I always over buy 😆 But a youtube flip thru isn't enough for me either...I HAVE to touch, look, pick apart and just see everything for myself. I like variety and options😁 Homeschool curriculum has come a long way since I started homeschooling...and I just LOVE all the choices😁📚 I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel a while back...you are real, relatable and just awesome 😁👍
I am the exact same way! I also NEVER use any curriculum EXACTLY the way it is. I go with the flow of our homeschool. We too have dove into the world of The Good & The Beautiful. We love it!
I can totally relate to your planning process! I decided to switch some things up this year as well for my youngest. So I've been purchasing curriculum all over the place so I can sit down and analyze it and feel it and touch it and agonize over it and overwhelm myself... but in the end it will make me very confident about what I end up using. The main difference is that I'm purchasing used so I've been heading to every curriculum sale I could find and scouring Facebook Marketplace and eBay for the things that I want to look at. So I haven't spent a whole lot of money on this stuff, but I did find some really cool gems that I probably would never have thought to try or look at if I hadn't done this. Interestingly enough, I also picked up The Good and the Beautiful level 4. And I'm really curious as to how you feel about it. I loved many aspects of it but I did not like the reading at all. It was so boring to me I couldn't even make it through one story. The reader in level 4 is built-in to the lesson guide so it's not a separate book like in your level six. But it's in there and I'm really curious as to what you think of it. I also felt like it crammed information in without a lot of practice or application. So it's very thorough but I just wonder if it moves too fast and pushes too much information at once. Again I would love to hear your thoughts on it.
I’m a see it first kind of mom too.
I’m going to bug you soon about what you think about TGTB history to see how you think it compares to America’s Story 1.
Also, I got level 4 LA for my 5th grader too. I was super hesitant about TGTB LA at first, but something about it keeps calling to me. I’m excited to try it this year.
Love your curriculum choices! You remind me of myself. You are a very eclectic homeschool mom.
This makes me happy to know I’m not the only one haha! I love curriculum. TGATB is an amazing company! Their history goes through all stages of history each year so it is totally fine to start with year 1. So excited for you! I think your son will do well with TT3. We did TGATB math 1 and it is more teacher led.
Thank you for not apologizing! That is what I need. I need a real time, real feeling review! I love your channel and all of your REAL reviews! :) Keep being you.
Awwww, Lacey! THANK YOU!!!! Truly! Thank you! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
I love watching these!! It will be my first year homeschooling this fall. I am still waiting to buy the majority of my curriculum because some things are out of stock but am so so so excited to purchase everything. 🥳🥳 we are going with master books mainly but also TGATB handwriting and Sonlight reading. It’s so fun how we can customize things and mix and match to fit our kids’ needs!
Oh sweet mama! HAPPY HOMESCHOOLING! 🤗😍😃🥳 You totally got this, mama!
Mixing and matching is our jam...all the way! 😍🤗
I LOVE seeing other mommas homeschool choices! It gives me so much motivation! X
Hahahaah! Oh girl, me toooooo!!!!!🤗💞🤪
Loving that art from the Good and the Beautiful! My twins are very artsy and wanting to learn more.
Ok I LOVE this, and your channel! I homeschooled my TK age daughter last year but now I will be homeschooling my 5th grade and 3rd grade boys as well!! (Plus my crazy 3 yr old boy). Researching curriculum has been SO fun. Sometimes I wonder if I'm more in love with the curriculum than I am with the actual schooling part. LoL we shall see!
Here is what I've picked so far: Horizons math, LLFLE language arts, Writing Strands, TGTB handwriting, America's Story plus tons of read aloud for history......and I have NO idea what to do for science!! We are doing a sample of GR earth science this week and so far its been fun!
This will be our first year doing homeschool. My kids are 10,8,6,4. Love that all you wonderful mommas do these videos to help us! It all feels very overwhelming.
You are so right! You have to look through and research what will be your own perfect fit and usually it isn't within just one curriculum company. Thank you for the walk through of each of these. I have also been wondering about some of these. :)
I want to add-- I love love love that you are changing curriculum even though your kiddos are not little. Our oldest is in 5th grade and I have 3 other kiddos---- going on our 7th year of homeschooling and I've always changed curriculum because I LOVE change!!!
Remember to teach them:
The word Government actually means mind control. It is etymologically originated from the ancient Latin language. It Splits into two words:1) (guvernare) meaning “to control” and 2) (mens or mentis) meaning “mind”. SO GOVERNMENT MEANS “TO CONTROL THE MIND.
Hahaha reading your comment all I could think of is the Dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding saying this.
Yay I have been waiting for this video!!
Girl!! This is me to a t!! I love it! I have to get my hands on curriculum as well for me to be able to really know what will work! I have used some of the good and beautiful stuff, and I have heard(and found to be true) that some of the things are advanced, so when my son was in 5th grade I put him in level 4. Some kids don’t need to go down. Every child is different. Awesome video!!
Haha UA-cam randomly suggested your channel to me. I haven't home schooled in several years. My kids are 18 and 21 and I homeschooled partway through middle school. I still miss it!! I enjoyed your unboxing and good for you! Don't apologize!! Curriculum is so much fun!!! My daughter is planning to home school one day and I can't wait to help her!! I told her any time you need a break I'm here for you! Lol
I love that you got so many different things to consider! I am looking fwd to seeing each and every one🤗
Love, love, love this video! I can't wait to see your grade break down videos. I have 3 kids, oldest 2 are girls, same grades as your boys. My youngest is a boy, age 8. Delayed reader and school has been SO HARD. I haven't figured out our language arts favorites, or math really. Everything you say resonates with me. Thank you for sharing!!
Momma stop apologizing for loving your gift to pick what your child learners so that’s great. I am excited for u because u are so passionate about like the curriculum which is a gift. I am researching about homeschooling which I have wanted to do it for the last 10years but work and life always got in the way. Now that I am retired and health is really bad but now all I have it time. I love these videos keep them comings!!!!
Sweet mama...THANK YOU for encouraging me and reminding to STOP APOLOGIZING. I needed to hear that! THANK YOU. 💕❤💕 Happy homeschooling to you, sweet mama!
Fellow curriculum junkie here! Loved watching your unboxing!
THANK YOU!!!!! I already have more stuff coming soon. Lol! I guess, here's to another unboxing???!!!! Mind changed within a weeks time! Lol! 🤭🤔🤪🤷♀️💞
Me toooo. Loved it
Jamie, I am with you on needing to get your hands on materials before deciding what to use.
Yay!!!!!! There are SO many of us here, I am realizing! That is beautiful and I love that! 🤗💞💞💞
I can't wait to hear what you think about TGTB. We love it & they are actually updating the 4th level this fall.
I absolutely love TGATB! This will be my third year using the LA from them. We’ve used K, 1st, 2nd. This year we’ll be using level 3 and level 1 for my two kiddos.
Love, Love, Love TGATB. My 7th grader is using level 6. I think you made a good choice by going to level 4 especially since he has never used it. We are using the science for the first time this year and I am super excited.
Thanks for your words, sweet mama! 💞
I don’t even homeschool but I love seeing these curriculum videos! I’m a workbook junkie! I like to find workbooks for my daughter for extra learning! Especially with how her schooling was at the end of the year with e-learning. Getting some ideas for this school year since I’m not sure how it’s going to go! In IL kids are supposed to be going back into the classroom in August but how will that work safely? Will the second wave come of COVID and more e-learning will happen! My daughter is in the gifted program and will need more than basic learning!
No need to apologize!! I totally understand the need to see and go through the curriculum thoroughly. This will be our second year homeschooling, so I totally understand! I’m going with the same curriculum that we used last year because I don’t want to confuse/overwhelm myself or my kids 😬😆
That is such a wise choice, mama! Way to go!!!!!💞🤗💞🤗💞🤗💞
I will have to check out explode the code out. Heard so many good things about from watching a few channels.
I started using TGTB last year with one kiddo just to test it out, we loved it! This year we're using TGTB for everything but math. We tried math level 2 last year from TGTB & it didn't work for us but most people love it! My kids are so excited to start school this year!
Keep the inspiration coming, girl! I need this to encourage myself to home school my own kids! ;)
Hahaha! Mama! You got this!!!!😍🤗🤗🤗
I love how real you are through all of this! Thanks for sharing!😊
Aw, thank you!!!!!🤗💞
I love this channel!! You are real and open and you don't edit all od that out. I am all over the place just like you so this was so relatable for me. I have been wanting to check out TGATB as well. I believe in the Charlotte Mason philosophy of education and it seems like it is that style.
Awww! Thank you! 🤗
I am the same way. I love getting my hands on cirriculum and actually physically looking through it. This looks sooo fun. Thanks for showing us everything!
Yes! Thank you for being here, friend!
We LOVE Fix it Grammar. I did it together with my 3rd & 4th grader last year and we really enjoyed it and they learned so much.
That is so good to know! Thanks for sharing! 🤗
Please stop apologizing!!! I love it! I am the EXACT same way! I end up piecemealing it all together because there isn’t a perfect curriculum and so many work well together!
I love these Bible study books! We do online public school and the curriculum is amazing, but I'm always looking for Bible studies to supplement in this area.
I just was blessed by God to find you and PRAISE God!! You are such a wonderful mama and encourage me daily. I’m the exact way with homeschool curriculum- giddy, overwhelmed and thrilled. Ha!! Thank you 😍🙌🏼
OMG its so nice to see I'm not the only one who has to see it, touch it & just look through it to know what you want to use. It drives my husband nuts LOL!!! Thanks for sharing! There is one thing I have learned. If something is working don't switch!! You remind me so much of my self. I'm so scatterbrained its not funny. It drives me nuts!!! Good luck!!
Amy! Hahahha! Thanks for the good luck wishes! Lol! We shall see how it all plays out! 😂😍🤗🤑🤑
Hey soul sister! You process and plan just like I do! What a great, refreshing video that I soooooo relate to! We adore Gather Round as well, but I also supplement with The Good and The Beautiful for LA, I use their math for my 2nd grader, and I'm trying to figure out what we will do for chronological history once we finish the GR continent studies. I can't wait to see what you will do this year!
Me too!! I am also a hands on mom and I LOVE the process.
I am the same way. A sample is just not enough!!!! That is probably why I have so much unused curriculum. Lol but hey sometimes I give what I don’t use away to friends who may want it. So, it’s not a complete waste. Lol
Yay!!!!!! I knew I couldn't be the only one! Lol! Giving away to one in need is an awesome idea, sweet mama! I have got a few drawers of unused items as well but I can't part with them just yet! You never know what you might want to use later! 😂💞
Also, if your son loves art you should check out www.yellowspotsun.com/ Her art courses are amazing and once you buy a course it’s yours forever and she also has a lot of free courses. Not sure how old your son is but I feel like it can be used for any age. Lol I see this because I love to sit down and do it along side my kids, too. Lol
Ohhh really?! Thank you for sharing that resource with me! I am going to check in to that! He LOVES, LOVES art! Thanks, Jackie! 🤗💞
Yes, lol...I have saved some stuff that I think my youngest will like but you never know with her. Lol...you are so welcome. I found out about the site from another UA-cam channel. I can not remember the right name right now. Lol...it’s that kind of day. But she’s great and has so many great resources. My daughter loves art as well and so do I. So, it has been a hit in our homeschool.
hahaha I knew exactly what that language arts was- by the bubble wrap! TGTB! hahahaha!! lolol
Yaaaaa gurrrrl! I knew you would! 🤗😂
We already started using TGTB, and they are amazing!
I'm so excited to see you picked Fix It Grammar! This our first year homeschooling, and it was the first curriculum I picked out.
We are going to give it a shot and see how it goes! Happy 1st year, mama!!!😍
haha! as soon as I saw the bubblewrap i knew!! I hope you love tgtb -we love it! And I am the same i like to get hands on. I can't use online versions either. Problem is in UK the shipping is astronomical. Tgtb works for us because of all the manipulatives,my son really engages.
The Government unit study is SO gorgeous and I can't wait to use it! 🙌 Looking forward to all your upcoming curriculum videos!
You are not a lot to handle!! 🤣🤣 Your videos are not overwhelming at all! Quite the opposite! ❤❤
Isn't it?! I LOVE it! It is just one of the units from Gather Round that we plan to use in the coming homeschool year!
Christie! You are the sweetest! Thank you for helping me to feel not quite so crazy! 🙃🤭🤪
Thank you for your video. Im just like you. I am starting our 2nd year of homeschooling. We did The Good and the beautiful last year. Kindergarten, levels 2 and 4. We loved it. I just purchased master books language just to check them out. I have to have them in hand to study them just like you. 😆
Yes! I have to get my hands on things too!! Thank you for sharing!!
Okay I just found your channel and i already love you! Honeschooling for the first time this year. (Unofficially as age if requirement in my state is 6, my two littles are 3 and 5!
Yay!!!!! So happy you're here! ❤🤗🤗🤗
We’re trying TGATB for the first time this year, as well😁 History Year 1 & Language Arts Level 7.
You may want to invest in a coil binder or proclick if you're printing curriculum.😁 My Trubind is best thing I've ever bought. 😍 Also, you need to find out if there is a used homeschool store near you. We have one really good one here. It's nice to be able to look through things in person without buying.😁
You are so cute. I love this time of year!!! New curriculum!! 😆
YA GURRRRRL! MEEEE TOO! 😍🤗🤗🤗
You are not the only one!! When others ask what curriculum we use for homeschooling... I just say a little bit of everything 😉😂
OMG, we have the same curriculum ideas. I’ve already purchased our next school years books from Master Books, Gather Round and The Good and the Beautiful.
I am very new to the homeschool world but I can see myself being the same way. Actually touching and looking through the books makes a big difference.
I'm the same way!! I just can judge from a few samples or even flip through, I gotta have it in my hands!
Looking ahead for next year for 7th grader. How did The Good and the Beautiful work out for your family? We currently use Abeka.
It has gone good so far! I will be sharing our picks here in the coming weeks! Like with amything...we have tweaked here and there but will be using it again!
I am crazy in love with planning....so I started planning next year about mid-year of last school year and therefore I have this next school year planned and ready to go. We are on break atm and planning to start either halfway in July or Aug. 3rd. My girls are super excited about "our" choices and so am I.
Thanks for sharing. I loved seeing your process. I like handling the material, too. Normally, we have a homeschool bookstore where I can handle it, examine, read etc. That has helped the wallet. But with COVID....
I have adapted, improvised and overcome!!!
Hahahaha! YES MAMA!!!!!! I would LOVE to have a homeschool bookstore nearby!!!!! Can I ask what you will be using this year?! 😍🤗💞
@@SimplyLivingIt I try to combine a Charlotte Mason approach with a Classical approach so this might seem like a lot (especially in our group subjects) but rest assured in small doses over time it is just the right amount. Ok, so let's jump in:
I have 3 children (2 girls and a boy) and my two girls are my "offical" students who will be relatively at the grade level of Kindergarten and 2nd grade.
The Charlotte Mason approach generally is a slower approach in the sense that one is not suppose to start schooling till age 7 BUT my youngest daughter wants to do what her big sister is doing and also we do a Classical twist as well. My compromise is letting my five year old do school 3 days out of 5.
So, my Kindergartener's Individual studies are:
Math: A combination of "Math with Confidence level K" by Kate Snow and Easy Peasy all in one Getting Ready 2 ((I don't care if she finshes the book as the last units are more 1st grade work in my option))
"Learning to Read": I plan to use Sherry K. Hayes, "To The Top: climb the mountain of reading". This is a free learn to read program at Momdelights.com
I chose it because it includes games to learn her letters and sounds. I don't know how far we will get. We might not get past letter recognition. For me, this is fine. If she shows a spark (a strong desire) we MIGHT (a highly improbable "might") do lessons in "100 Easy Lessons to teach your child to read". But, I really see that as a 1st grade concept for my youngest.
"Handwriting Practice": my daughter loves "Handwriting without Tears" so we will continie with it (the orange book this year).
For my 2nd grader's individual studies:
Math: Easy Peasy all in one Math level 2 combined with word problems from Ray's arithmetic
Reading: my eldest daughter reads and thus we will continue to sharpen her skills with the "McGuffey's set" and "Reading Through Literature".
Handwriting Practice: My eldest daughter begged me to let her do cursive last year so we are continuing with that. It took me awhile to find a book that taught the connecting of cursive letters in a manner that I thought would be simple and easy. I went with "Simply Charlotte Mason's" Print to Cursive Proverbs book. If all goes well we will do the Prescripts Red art Cursive book after that one. For print practice she will be finishing up the grade 1 "Handwriting without Tears" book she begged me for and then doing copywork that I make up for her.
Music: She will continue learning piano
For our Group subjects- we seperate this into 2 areas: our morning basket time and afternoon group subjects:
Morning Basket: We do our C.C. (Classical Conversations) memory work. These usually come with songs and cover: Math, Latin, Science, History, English (usually grammar), Timeline (learning a history timeline), and Geography.
Poetry (we are in Cycle 3: American History so I thought it would be fun to read "101 American Poems" by Dover thrift books)
For Bible we have devotions at Breakfast & Catechism and Scripture memory in Morning Basket time
We will start off with an Ocean unit (inspired by you) before we dig into our C.C. cycle 3 themed stuff. This includes Ocean themed poetry.
Our first Artist study will be Henry Matissse. I can't wait for him! I love his bright colors and I think it will match our Ocean study in color palette perfectly!!! 💖
I also have an American Art book we will cover from "Come look with me" (something like that...great books) and C.C. Artists for cycle 3 as well (Grandma Moses, Picasso, O'keefe, Rockwell, Wyeth, and Lichtenstein)
Composer studies will begin with "Underthehome.com" grade 1's music (I can't remeber who they picked but it was a pretty piece). We will work our way through that and C.C. composers for Cycle 3.
Hymn study: We will learn "Nothing But the Blood" (term 1), "Victory in Jesus" (term 2) and "Tis' So Sweet to Trust in Jesus" (term 3). We will also review/sing last years hymns as well( "Count Your Blessings", "At the Cross", "Angels We Have Heard on High" and "The Doxology").
We will also be reading one of Aesop's fables a day (I might have my eldest narrate this). That is for "literature"
For History: I plan to follow the C.C's history sentences with Picture books that my eldest will narrate back to me.
For Science: after the Ocean Unit we will be doing Human body and the periodic table with Basher Science books which follows C.C. cycle 3 science for the year. I also have a Human body picture book we will go over that my kids have enjoyed in the past.
We also have "Read Aloud Chapter books". We are starting with "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne -Ocean Unit!!! (an adapted for kids version with illustrations...which I know is very anti-Charlotte Mason....but after my Ivanhoe experience...I don't mind one bit)
We also read whatever Picture book they pick for me to read
Also in Morning Basket time we do the Individual Reading/learning to read activities.
That covers Morning Basket time....
For afternoon group studies:
I am teaching them Drawing and Crochet (Handicrafts)
We have Nature walks
Some more Geography
Latin and A.S.L. with songs & stories (mostly via You-tube and I have a Latin song CD from Classical Academic Press...I think)
We are also hoping to do a more indepth Bird study (this is a carry over from last year. We started identifying birds). I am hoping to read Burgess Bird book and color pictures and just observe birds :)
That covers pretty much all of our "focused" learning plans. My girls have chores and they like to help cook. Sometimes we practice Ballet or other forms of dance. We also have artisty days where we paint or color a lot (or do play doh...though I think that falls under S.T.E.M). I mean I am fluid within all of the above. We will scrap the bird study if we are done with that interest, etc. I have a very "un-schooling" heart. If my children lose interest then I don't push it. We don't have to read the American Poetry if it bores us to tears. I will find other poetry or no poetry...but I like poetry...so though we might take a break it will pop up again. I do insist on our core subjects (Math, Reading and handwriting/eventually writing-writing) but they mostly don't have issues with that. I keep our lessons short, fun, and game based or coloring based in our core subjects. Otherwise all else is fluid. We may or may not have our C.C. Community days (Co-Op days)....that is also fluid this year....thanks to COVID 19. But overall those are our plans for the 20/21 school year.
If you made it this to the end, thank you!!!!
Love Fix it grammar! I used the teacher guide All the time.
Yay!!!! Thanks for sharing!
I have fox it but have not used it. I may have to revisit it.
I literally go into mardel and sit on the floor and dissect all the stuff. I’ll spend an hour or more there just looking through it all.
That is awesome!
Really looking forward to seeing how you will use Gather Round with other curriculum! We switched last year from Abeka to masterbooks, Fix it grammar (absolutely loved this for my 7th grader in combination with writing strands from master books!!!) and teaching textbooks for math... we have loved everything we picked last year. We weren’t even looking to switch curriculum but I recently stumbled upon Gather Round and I’ve fallen in love with what I see! I’ve been praying for where God wants us to go with our homeschool next year. You are such a help and blessing to us homeschooling mamas 💕
I was just about to say, stop apologizing or explaining yourself! 😊 You’re wonderful, beautiful intelligent and humble. I see you’re heart and appreciate you! Thank you for this video! I’ve been thinking about TGTB! I’d enjoy a flip through of any of it, especially one blood and your bible study! ❤️ Love you girl! I enjoy your videos and wish we were sitting next to each other dissecting together! Let’s start that clan! I’ll be there! Ooooh musical multiplication!😍 awww you’re dog story is so sad. I’ll help you get a Bullmastiff! I can’t imagine life without one! Wish we lived closer sister 🥰 I love how much you share and how open you are and how much you lean on your boys to see which way they want to go and what will work best for them! Can’t wait to see what you decide on! It all looks great! Haha we are so much alike! 🤗 hugs 🤗
We recently switched from mainly Masterbooks to a lot more of The Good and the Beautiful. We are using TGTB math and LA now. We love it! We plan to add in a mammals science unit, typing and handwriting from TGTB as well 😁 I hope you enjoy it! Have fun going through everything!
Hi Jamie, I love watching your videos! You have taught me so much! ❤️
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I am the same way. Thank you for being you and needing to see it touch it. It makes me not feel so bad and dumb that I am wanting to order so much lol.
Hahaha! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT in me being me! 💞🤪💞🤗❤❤❤ We got this, mama!!!!! Even if it takes a few tries....right?!
I do the same thing with curriculum. You are not alone. I totally understand the having to get your hands on it. Flip through are awesome, but it's not the same until you have it in front of you. I'll be interested to see if and how the good and the beautiful stuff works out for you. We are starting out with a combination of gather round, MB, and other misc curriculum this year. I, too, am a mom that pulls from all over. Lol. Thanks for sharing.
You’re so cute! Our ‘all over the place’ brains are one of the same! I just finished your new DR room tour and I did the exact same as you with the cubes instead of latchmates. This is my first year homeschooling and we purchased TGATB LA (primer K, level 1 & 4), History year 2 and the Energy science unit. Everything I read and watched about TGATB it is not grade based but level based so I bet you chose correct! I’d love to see a review once you start diving into it. Also would love to see a flip through of explode the code. Keep making these videos, it’s nice to see someone who’s not OCD organized. Makes me feel like I can do this!❤️
We love TGATB. My daughter is halfway through level 4. When my girls finish a level I start up the next level book. What you are doing looks normal to me. I have done the same thing until I found TGATB. It was life changing for us.
We started Gather ‘Round Homeschool Oceans Unit last week and love it! For a couple of years we’ve used TGTB -levels PreK, K, 1, 2, and 4. Will be keeping TGTB and GRH for sure!
I've been wondering how to incorporate both together, I'm a first time homeschooler...
jess burns hello! So far, I’ve been doing GRH first with all my kids, then I do one one one using TGTB -sometimes I do only half of a lesson that day. I may need to skip a day of GRH here and there until we are caught up with other work and subjects too.
@@andrealovestorun awesome thanks for the example!
Yes!!! I always want to physically go through curriculum first! You are definitely not the only one!🤗
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Good and the beautiful please! I'm wanting to use the good and beautiful for my daughter
Your not crazy at all because I feel the exact same way. I have bought stuff for this school year that I have already pushed to the side and we are only in our 3rd week . But, always remember, this is the beauty of homeschooling and one of the reasons you probably chose to homeschool, is that we get to tweek it and make it our own. Don't never let the curriculum run you, you run it.
YES! Thank you Candice, for that beautiful reminder! 🤗🙏💞
@@SimplyLivingIt your welcome.
I’m so excited to see your video!! I just wanted to say that we had to send back all ABeka 4th grade curriculum last year. Math didn’t work so they made me return the entire dvd kit. So I had to throw together a curriculum last minute. I chose Fix it-Nose Tree. I was so surprised to see how much my son learned by only doing one sentence a day. I kept waiting for him to draw a blank the further we went along, but that never happened. And the further in we went, the more excited he was to find out the rest of the story. It was amazing. Will use it again this year. Good luck with all of your planning 😊
Oh mama! Thank you for sharing your experience with The Nose Tree! That gets me so excited! 😍🤗
They're coming out with a new TGTB level 4 soon. This is one of my favorite curriculum videos! I am the same way and only have a second grader and Kinder... I finally picked out what we're using!
Omg allllll the awesomeness lol! We love TGTB Language Arts I'm pretty sure I will never use another LA curriculum.
We love, love, love The Good and the Beautiful for Language Arts. They combine ALL the things so there's no need for spelling workbooks, grammar books, etc. because it's all in there. Their marine bio study (free) is also wonderful.
This will be my first year homeschooling and I am the exact same way. I need to be able to have it and see it in person. So because I'm so new I got a little bit of what feels like everything, because I didn't know what to pick and I can't pick without seeing it in person. My poor husband is like oh no what did she get herself into. And I keep finding new, fun, pretty curriculums that I want to try. I feel like I created a problem with starting homeschool but an exciting one 🤣
We will be using a lot of the same curriculum this year too. I use TGTB with Abeka for Handwriting, Language Arts, Math, and our Reading program. We are also using Gather Round this year for Geography and the US Government unit. I hope you enjoy TGTB. Will be waiting to see what you think once you start using it. :)
We do have a very similar set up, it sounds! I am still fine tuning but I am learning that we always are....right???? That's part of the journey! Thank you for being here, alongside ours! 🤗
New to your channel & new to homeschooling I’ll be starting Fall 2020 ❤️🙏🏽 my son will be starting 7th grade and my daughter is pre-K 3 ❤️
Ohhhh mama! Welcome and CONGRATULATIONS! Welcome to homeschooling!!!!!!😍🤗🤗🤗
Thank you 😊
Never apologize for being enthusiastic
Aw! Thank you for reminding me of that!🤗❤❤❤
We LOVE tgtb! We use their LA, handwriting, history and science. There has been nothing of theirs that we haven’t loved. I have an upcoming 8th grader (level 7) 6th grader (level 5) and 1st grader (level 1). We’ve tried a ton of other curriculum and tgtb is the only one that has stuck and we continue to use year after year! Oh and I taught my littlest to read using tgtb which was my biggest fear since my others started homeschooling after they were already able to read.
Shelby, thank you for sharing your experience! 🤗
Ill be a working and homeschool single mom... Newly this year. I have a 6th grader. Love these videos. Your a pretty teacher! Ive been kind of looking for 1 brand? To choose books from. Yet i see many just chose different books from various companies... To make a complete curriculum. TFS.
Mama! Congratulations on your new homeschool journey. You CAN DO THIS! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
I tried buying all from the same company in the beginning, as I felt I needed that. But now...I am comfortable to mix and match! 💓
I'm the same as you Jamie! LOL Gotta get my hands on it! I'm always so jealous of people who have a homeschool curriculum store in their area! We used to and ours closed! 😭