WHAT DID AND DIDN'T WORK IN OUR HOMESCHOOL THIS YEAR | End of Homeschool Year Review
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- Hey Homeschool Moms! 🌟
Are you curious to know what curriculum we loved and which ones weren't complete misses for us? Join me as I reflect on our homeschool journey this year. In this video, I share our likes and dislikes on various homeschool curriculums we've used, including:
📚 **All About Spelling**: Find out how this program didn't work for us.
📖 **All About Reading**: Our experience with fostering a love for reading and literacy.
🖋️ **Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW)**: How this writing program worked for us, including Phonetic Zoo and Fix It Grammar.
✏️ **Master Books: More Than Words**: A look at our experience with this Bible curriculum.
➗ **Math-U-See**: Our thoughts on this hands-on math program and why I didn't like it.
As a homeschooling mom, I know how crucial it is to find the right curriculum that fits your family's needs. This honest review will give you insights and tips to help you make informed decisions for the next school year. The things that didn't work for us could very well be what would work perfectly for you.
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1:24 HISTORY AND SCIENCE
2:42 MASTERBOOKS MORE THAN WORDS
4:25 1ST GRADE ALL ABOUT READING
6:50 1ST GRADE IEW PALS AND ALL ABOUT SPELLING
10:13 5TH GRADE IEW STRUCTURE AND STYLE 1A
12:52 FIX IT GRAMMAR
14:14 PHONETIC ZOO
15:46 MATH U SEE ALPHA AND EPSILON
24:13 MY BIGGEST MISTAKE THIS YEAR
25:31 OUTRO
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WHAT DID AND DIDN'T WORK IN OUR HOMESCHOOL THIS YEAR | End of Homeschool Year Review
It is really encouraging how you continued to work hard at homeschooling with the crazy busy year you had 😀
Thank you friend ❤️
I used MUS in a very different way. When we started homeschooling after private school this program helped us to determine gaps. We would watch the video lesson and then she would take the test. If she missed more than one or two we would do the lesson again the next day and I'd have her do a practice sheet or review sheet. Using the MUS program strategically helped. This also wasn't the only math program we used. We would go back and forth between MUS and The Good and the Beautiful. Sometimes she sped through, sometimes she needed more time and sometimes we would take breaks from math. Little brains and mama brains need time to process!
I love how you used it and so glad it worked for you 💕
I always love your videos! Your daughter sounds so sweet I hope you all have a wonderful summer
Aww thank you 💕 that means the world to me.
She is the sweetest and I just adore her 😍 I hope you have a wonderful summer as well!
We do sequence one as a family but my older kids do extra books and we do different Devotionals with my older kids than my younger kids!!! My younger kids do their personal devotional so they can learn to read it themselves so if we do family Bible time that isn’t appropriate it doesn’t matter!!! My older kids can do personal Bible time but I have a 13 year old boy who refuses to so I make him do personal devotional daily!!! We switched to a ordinary parents guide to teaching reading and I love the constantly and you add on readers and letter tile activities as you need!!! We didn’t like AAS and I felt like my older kids needed a informal way of improving their spelling and my younger kids use TGTB language arts spelling part!!! My oldest did a sentence diagraming books and loved it!!! My twins have started it but they are doing it slowly as it’s an high level!!! It starts basic but goes up-to high school!!! I loved using MUS as a kid but none of my kids use it as it doesn’t work for them!!! One curriculum I hated my 13 year old son loves!!! As a kid I did it alongside a different curriculum but math wasn’t easy for me so it helped me but my now there are other options for kids struggling with math!!! I’m old school but we find we need a curriculum that encourages hands on learning for math!!! We have my old MUS books so I sometimes use it as a supplement!!! I don’t like MUS anymore!!!
I love that you still have your old MUS books 🤣 that sounds like something I would do. Loved hearing about what you all are using and how it has worked for you.
Thank you for sharing and hosting😊❤
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This year we did Bible time together AND my daughter had her own personal Bible reading plan. I really liked the combination of doing both.
Impressive that you are filming with a baby on your lap! ❤
🤣 my husband tried putting her down for a nap and she was NOT having it. She proceeded to fall asleep with me within minutes, lol
I am sorry MUS Math didn’t work for your daughter. That’s really hard to feel a whole year was wasted. We started MUS Zeta last Aug and we used that as my son’s sole curriculum. We’d come from Saxon before. It went ok, but I did see the lack of skills being kept up with. He zoomed through that book, Mon a+b, tues c+d, wed E+f, thurs G and Fri test. We didn’t want to skip any pages either. When he finished Zeta and started Pre-Algebra I was really seeing the negative effects of the lack of review, even like consistent long division errors, so now we are back to using Saxon as our main and going one page a day of MUS Pre-Algebra and that’s going really well. I still haven’t decided whether to buy Algebra 1 and do the same thing as we are doing now. Swaying more to doing this since my son is thriving in the actual MUS work and we like the videos, but I definitely see the lack of review and general practice as a problem for us, which is why we won’t even stop using Saxon. I don’t think it would work for us at all if it was our main curriculum.
I think if we had done what you did with pairing it then that would have been so helpful. This year was such a wild ride that I didn’t even think of it. I’m glad you found a system that works for your son ❤️
So glad you made it through even though you had so many life events. Loved listening to your thoughts on these homeschool resources. May you have a lovely very blessed summer! 💗☺️
Thank you 💕
My daughter did AAR after we had a flop. We started in June of 23 and we are almost done with level 2 it’s been amazing for her. Her confidence has grown so much.
That’s amazing! I’m so glad it worked out for you all
We love doing Bible together as well.
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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I use Math U See and we definitely supplement a bit because of not enough review. I just really like the visual/kinestetic approach to learning math which is why we have stuck with it. 😃
I don’t think MUS is Common Core though. I used to teach in public school and MUS is different. It’s definitely different than the traditional algorithm style we were used to growing up, but not Common Core.
Yeah, I think I just used the wrong wording when describing its sometime long and drawn out approach. I wish I could go back and fix it 🤦♀️
@@HomegrownHomeschoolcommon core , to put it in simple terms, is a standardized set of skills per grade level. People often get confused with this. It’s the methodology used today in the public schools that parents don’t like when comparing to the traditional math they learned, not the CCS. Nowadays in the schools, math is taught with deeper conceptual understanding and building of strong mental math skills vs traditionally being given a set of steps with no clear understanding of why those steps work.
You really went all in on IEW this year!
Girl, after the convention I was SOLD 🤣
I feel you on the parent guides!
Girl….🤣 so many words
Congrats to your hubby on retirement! My hubby has a year and a half left until he reaches his 20
Thank you.
Yay! That coming up so quick. I hope the transition goes smoothly for you all ❤️
I don’t have to use MUS to know we wouldn’t like it but it definitely is a super popular one that people feel passionately about. 😅 We love Apologia Math.
Can’t wait to try apologia!
@@HomegrownHomeschoolapologia is very very teacher intensive especially with all of the games and manipulative. I don’t think you would like it. I think you’re like me (you like simple to the point) lol
@@lindsaypotter3694 I do like straight to the point 🤣 we may just skip some games and manipulatives. If all else fails we’re going back to MB
@@HomegrownHomeschool look into Saxon. It goes into HS years and is scripted open and go and includes manipulatives
All About Reading sounds like a great program.
It was so wonderful.
Yes, to a family style bible program!❤
We love Aesop's Fables!
So do we! I ended up purchasing our own copy and we need to finish it
So what are you gonna use then 🤣 (for math). After seeing your video yesterday with MUS I was like solddddd im doing it now im like ehhhh.
We’re going to try out apologia! Hoping this is the one that sticks!
U do a lot of same curriculum as us. My son is a few grade levels older and I will say fix it grammar and IEW are both amazing programs. Don’t listen to ppl that say it’s draining or hard trust the process. As a momma that has a boy that would rather not write IEW has been wonderful.
We also use math u see and my son has used it since kindergarten and he’s going into 7th grade. It’s been fabulous for him. It doesn’t work for my daughter, mastery just doesn’t work with her. It’s not considered common core though because it’s not grade based and in order for it to be common core it needs to be grade based. It’s all based off mastery. I see where u may feel that though because they do teach some common core values but not in the same recommended order as a public school would teach it.
Ahhh I see what you mean about the grade levels. I should have phrased it in a different way. I meant common core in their approach to teaching how to solve a problem in multiple ways, some being long and drawn out. Thank you for the clarification.
Omg!!! I was planning to do TGTB math 1st grade this upcoming school year (which K went great). Then I went to a curriculum sale, found MUS B, bought it. And I just bought yesterday Alpha to do it with my son instead. Now after your video I’m not too sure 😩
Do you have TGTB math 1? If not, you can get their free pdf and just compare both before using. I hope you find the right fit
@@HomegrownHomeschool I do the pdf anyway, but yea that’s a great idea. Thanks
@@Homeschool.in.Paradise Please find my comment above for something to consider before you decide to not use math u see ❤