THE GOOD & THE BEAUTIFUL CURRICULUM | Homeschool Picks 2018 - 2019
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- #TheGoodAndTheBeautiful #HomeschoolCurriculum After 7 years of homeschooling, I think we found a curriculum we are going to especially LOVE! I can't wait to share a few reasons why we decided to go with TG&TB this year! This isn't a review, but a quick flip through inside some of the materials. Later in the year, I'll do an update on how it's working for us :)
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The word cards are like what my Children have done. I like how they want you to separate the words from learning, mastered and just started (or something like that)
New subscriber! 😊 We are evangelical Christians too, and we are LOVING the Good and the Beautiful! We're doing Level 6, 4, and Pre-K, History 1, Typing, Creative Writing, and the Science Units. We could not be happier! So glad to find your channel!
We are just loving their curriculum this year too! I am so so glad we found it. Thanks so much for watching, Jessica!
Thank you so much! This was very helpful! Love seeing all the different levels and inside the books.
So looking forward to hearing your review of The Good & The Beautiful after you’ve had a chance to use it for a while! We’ve always used Sonlight for our family’s homeschooling adventures and it has generally been a great fit for us (we’ve just begun our 9th year), but I have to admit that I’ve been eyeing The Good & The Beautiful with a lot of interest! 😊
Hey Angela! We are about 1 month in using the curriculum and we are truly loving it! I absolutely plan to do a review! I know another UA-cam mom who switched from Sonlight to TG&TB...her channel name is Grace & Grit. You may want to check her out and hear her thoughts! Thanks so much for watching and supporting our channel
Thank you thank you thank you! I’ve been wanting to homeschool but hesitant because I don’t want to mess up their education 😅. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for!!
this is my first year home schooling, i have 5 kids 4 school age. prek 1st 3rd and 5th grades thank you for this video.
Thank you! This helped me decide to go for it.
Love this! You were so thorough and I appreciate that! We are using some of the Good and the Beautiful this year and are already enjoying it!
Thanks so much, Jennifer! We are a couple of weeks in and really enjoying it so far also! I really appreciate you leaving such an encouraging comment
This was such an encouraging and enlightening video! You’ve covered everything I wanted to know about TG+TB!
Oh, that makes me so happy to hear that it was helpful! It's one of my first videos ever so I always look back at ways I could have made it better...thank you for commenting and watching!
Found your channel from your review on the good and beautiful Facebook page! Thanks for the info! I am currently deciding on a curriculum!
Oh yay! I hope it was helpful! It was one of my first videos so I was still learning how to film myself doing stuff, ha! :) Thanks for watching!
Love it! We also do The Good and The Beautiful and I am soooo glad we made the switch!
Thanks! I'm so so glad we switched over, too!! :)
What a great overview!!!
I've watched a few of your homeschooling videos, as I've been looking more into Classical Conversations. I'm very interested in this curriculum now as well. But I have to say, once you mentioned Adventures in Odessey I thought, "Yes! She is my people!" Haha. Thanks for sharing all this helpful info.
Ha! I totally feel like other people who use Focus on the Family resources are my people too! :)
I looove this! I’m so going use this for Vèah! Thanks Shirley. 😊❤️
You're welcome & you totally should! :)
You are so cute, you look like Joey Feek ❤ I ADORE TGTB
I haven’t used anything except the history but My daughter fell in LOVE with the history after one day! Which is saying something because she hates school... period lol but she’s been begging me for more lessons which has never happened before! So if you’re thinking about the history, get it!!! It’s worth it.
Yes, the history is so good!!
We decided to do history 1 this year too! I just did an unboxing of it on my channel
We also really enjoy using The Good & The Beautiful. I love that the first five levels are free to download also!
Yes! I love that about their curriculum! :)
Living Blended Wait?! The first five levels are free?!! We use Classical Conversations and it’s pretty expensive for our family. I was looking at The Good & the Beautiful to use in conjunction with CC but I put that thought aside because it would probably an added expense.
I just discovered The Good and The Beautiful curriculum and planning to buy it. Thank you for this wonderful video.
How are you and your kiddos liking (or not) it?
I'm just beginning our homeschool journey and I'm interested in this company. Thanks for this video 🙂
Thank you for watching, Andrea!
Loved your review 😍😃
Thank you so much for watching and commenting!!
I am looking into purchasing this. Do you feel like it was as good as you initially expected? Pros/Cons after using it? I keep coming back to this curriculum. :)
Thank you for doing this!
Micki A you are so welcome! Thank you for watching ☺️❤️
Great video!
Thanks so much, Brandi! You are the first comment we've received, yay...haha! Thanks for making it a positive one! Hugs
Are the workbooks laminated? So would I be able to reuse it for my younger kiddos?
Thank you for sharing, it would be nice to see more African American culture displayed in their history books. I do believe The Good & Beautiful are working on updating that.
We honestly haven't opened the history yet this year so I'm not sure about how much African American history is included. I know that the readers we have have very diverse illustrations :) I'm Puerto Rican and I very rarely see any Hispanic American or even Asian American people included in history books, but it doesn't bother me at all! I can always supplement with other materials if I ever feel it is lacking :)
Home & Arrows you are Puerto Rican?????!!!!! How awesome!!! Me too!!! Honestly I would have never guessed!! Do you speak Spanish? Do you teach Spanish to your children??? I’ve seen some of your videos and they have been such a blessing!!!! I’m subscribing right now!!!!!
Yes!! I was born in Bayamon :) I do speak Spanish! My parents moved to the states when I was only 2 so I wasn't raised there, but my parents spoke mostly Spanish at home :) I am actually terrible about speaking Spanish to my kiddos, but my mom makes up for it for me, ha! Thanks for watching and subbing! xo
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Home & Arrows that’s awesome!!! Thank God for Latina moms! We actually grew up in PR, I’m from Guaynabo, but bc of my mom stressing the importance of our culture my kids and nephews growing up here are completely bilingual! Even my kids who we adopted. Thanks for sharing! I enjoy your videos! 😊
Honestly the way this world is.. I’m going to home school my kids. I’ll definitely be looking into this more when that time comes 👶🏾
So are you still using The Good and the Beautiful? As a family with 5 kids as well, I am interested but want to know your opinion now.
Thank you for sharing! I love the Good and the Beautiful also but I've only used level K Language Arts and a couple hand writings. I'm curious though, how does this compliment CC? We do CC also and I felt like I didn't need a History curriculum in addition to CC or Story of The World. This is my first year homeschooling by the way, so I'm super inexperienced.
So part of my question is, do I need more curriculum to compliment CC?
@@katherynshaw6860 You may receive different opinions on this :) I personally would not attend CC one day a week and not do anything else throughout the week. We use TGTB handwriting, Language Arts & typing. We use Horizons for math. We spend about 15 minutes every morning going over memory work and then we move into these other subjects. As CC kids move into Essentials, parents may choose to do away with other LA curriculums. And as my daughter moves into Challenge A next year, she will only use CC curriculum. The beauty of homeschooling is we are the parents and we can decide what we want our kiddos doing. There is no "wrong way" :)
I saw in another video that you do Classical Conversations. How is it working out doing TGTB with CC? I was looking into doing both with my 6th grader next year.
Yes! It is going great. However, when my oldest moves into Challenge A next year, she will not be doing any work from TGTB :)
@@ThisBlendedHouse Hello! I'm so glad I found your channel! I will be starting CC this coming school year with kids in 6th, 5th, 3rd and a toddler. We've used My Father's World until now. I am really thinking to switch my kids to TGTB for LA. Did you keep with their LA all through essentials?
My friend and fellow CC mama was showing me this L.A. curriculum today. How did it go using it alongside Essentials this year?
It's been great! There is so much more to their LA curriculum than grammar! :)
Thank you for this video! It’s so helpful to hear your thoughts about being a Christian using this curriculum. This will be our first year homeschooling and I’m new to everything! Im now excited to purchase and use this for my two 5 year olds. Is there anything else you are using for your Kindergartener? Math?
By the way you are so beautiful! A prettier version of Katie Holmes!
Love this..what do you and your children do as far as math goes?
Hi Sarah! We use Horizons for math 1st-3rd grade and we move them into Teaching Textbooks in the 4th grade :)
Forgot to ask, how do you teach both CC and The Good & the Beautiful? I use CC but I’m totally interested in The Good & the Beautiful. And any tips for struggling readers?
I have a video on teaching with both! For struggling readers (I have one!) patience is key! Do a little bit every day. And depending how young they are, take some time off and try again in a few months. Some kiddos just aren't ready. And depending how old they are, they may need to be tested for things like dyslexia.
Home & Arrows Thanks so much! I’ll check that video out. And I know you’re right, patience and not comparing, is key. 😊👍🏻
Very helpful video. I’m planning on homeschooling for the first time my soon to be sixth grader and was thinking about doing this curriculum. Are you going to use this curriculum again?
That's exciting, Samantha! Yes, we plan on using TGTB again for this coming school year :)
Home & Arrows great to hear because my shopping basket is full and I was just waiting to click purchase. Do you have any additional recommendations for what I should or shouldn’t purchase? Better yet, Are you going to do a review about your first year using TGATB?
Samantha Allison it is so hard to give recommendations since all kids are so different! You really will know what would work best for them! But we have loved TGTB...I SORT OF did a review in the video where I talked about using CC & TGTB together this last year ❤️
Home & Arrows I have never heard of CC, so I watched a couple of your videos about CC and I contacted my local CC. Thank you so much. I’m so excited.
So you still like this curriculum?
We absolutely do! :)
How do you order curriculum? Is it ordered online and shipped?
Yes, you can go to their website thegoodandthebeautiful.com place your order and they will ship it to you. They also have many options for you to download their curriculum!
Thank you so much I almost purchased this beautiful curriculum, but I'm sad I can't use it because it is the religion thing
Did you feel like the history was diverse enough for you? I ask coming from a multicultural family. It looks so beautiful, but I’m nervous to invest if it doesn’t celebrate and explore many other cultures!
Hi Lydia! I also have a multi-cultural family :) I was born in Bayamon, PR to Latino parents and all of our family is from there. My husband is Caucasian. Everyone is different in the extent of diversity they desire to see in a curriculum. I know that TGTB has taken very deliberate and intentional steps to make their curriculum diverse. The Year 1 Big Book of History Stories includes the story of Anja, a German girl and the Berlin Wall, the slave trade, da Vinci who was Italian, the story of Thebes, an Egyptian city, Joan of Arc from France, and the story of Joseph who was Middle Eastern. These stories are sprinkled among many other traditional American history stories like Paul Revere, Florence Nightingale and the Wright Brothers. I am personally content with the diversity, but others may not be. That would ultimately be something that only you could answer :)
Home & Arrows thank you for such a thorough reply. I really do appreciate it! knowing that you are a multicultural family and that you are enjoying it, is very encouraging to me. I am middle eastern and my husband is Caucasian as well :) I think I’m going to go for it, and from what I am researching online, it seems like TGATB is set up in a way that I can always add extra readers or books about other cultures as well! Again, thank you for your reply about their library books as well :)
What about Math
+Anita M. Sohn Horizons & Teaching Textbooks
I heard the Good and the Beautiful is a Mormon based company. What are your thoughts?
The founder is LDS but the company/curriculum is run/designed by moms from many Christian denominations. LDS people are Christian and believe in the bible just like other Christians, the only difference is that they believe after Christ's resurrection that He appeared to "other sheep" in the Americas - so they have another book of scripture in their faith based around that belief. But TG&TB as a curriculum focuses on biblical principles and belief only. It is completely non-denominational. There is nothing specific from one church over the others. No added books of scripture. The curriculum board is diverse and makes it suitable for all Christian Faith's. You dont need to worry!
Side note: LDS people are really good believing Christian people. They are often misunderstood in the Christian community and judged. They are actually very similar to many Christian faiths overall. They aren't snakes, they LOVE Jesus Christ, they LOVE the bible:)
I hope some of this helps!
Mormons/LDS are not Christians. They do not believe Jesus is God. They do not believe the Bible is accurately translated. They believe Satan is Jesus’s brother (not biblical). Yes, Mormons are good people. My husband is an ex-Mormon. I come from 3 generations of Mormons. It breaks my heart because their doctrine is pure fiction. Look into the Book of Abraham-false. Look into their belief that Native American DNA is Jewish DNA-false. They believe they will become god’s of their own planets. This is what they believe. This is not biblical. Mormons are told not to investigate but if it is true there should be no fear in investigating it. Only lies have to be protected and hidden...
@@Nicole-xx8js Wow. Your heart has really been shut to this subject. Based on what you have said it is clear you dont fully understand the doctrine of the church. I study it everyday. I read the bible. I know about my faith, I actually study it in every aspect because of my passion for Jesus Christ... it shows that I know our church history and all its complexities more than you just based on what you have said. I dont mean that to belittle you, but I take faith very seriously and immerse myself in Jesus Christ and His teaching daily. His life. His example. And you still deny that I am Christian. The bible itself says "the son of God" over and over again and yet you judge another faith for translating that differently than you. We take that literally. We believe that Jesus is the God and creator of this world. The only difference is we believe in a Godhead instead of a trinity. And both are honestly VERY similar. Both have Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. There is anti doctrine in EVERY faith. But you choose to tear apart one that loves and worships Christ. All the things you have mentioned I have heard a thousand times and yet it does not convince me....because I KNOW that the info out there is twisted and not even historically accurate because I have actually read and studied our history. Not to mention my ancestors were there in the beginning and kept their own journals and accounts. It's also not kind, and its predatory to people who do believe in something to suggest anti literature. So what that we believe that. We believe everyone has the right to worship how they may. We dont tear apart other faiths and feed them anti stuff. You have your own agency and I have mine. The bottom line is we both believe in Christ. We bother believe He is the Savior of all. We both pray. We both have faith. We are both children of God. Jenny Phillips has done an incredible job making a curriculum that works for all denominations that believe in Christ. I just hope you can see that through your clear animosity. Also we are not "Mormons" we are latter-day saints, members of the Church of Jesus Christ. And we are 100% christian regardless of if you include us or not. Its incredible to me how aggressive people are toward my faith but accept all others without problem. We are not Lepers. And even if we were, God loved the lepers the same.