HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM CHOICES 2022-2023| PREK + KINDERGARTEN
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2022
- Hey y'all! Today I am sharing my curriculum picks for the upcoming school year. Im really happy with my choices (so far) and can't wait to see how they work for my littles and I. Thank you for taking the time to watch this long video! Your support means so much.
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As a first time homeschooling mom I enjoyed seeing a melanin mother homeschooling and sharing curriculum! New subbie!
😊👋🏾🫶🏾yes! So glad to have you.
Agreed! Literaly what made me click. I was determined to keep scrolling otherwise tbh
Thank you for taking the time to watch 🤗
Same here!! I’m also a first time homeschooling mom of 2 boys, and a Believer, and SO happy to have found your channel!
I’m totally white white and I clicked right away 🤗🤷🏻♀️ she’s so calm and down to earth. Been HSing for years but need new Kinder ideas!!
Check out the mystery of history! Maybe for when they’re older but it intertwines biblical history so that our kids see that the Bible is relevant and actually happened.
Thank you for this recommendation! I will definitely check it out.
I was going to suggest the same thing! The first book for sure is great little chunks for the little guys. We are are starting it next year with my kiddos who will be in PreK, 1st and 8th grade. I have done it in past with my oldest who is now 20 years old!
Also if math doesn’t work out for you try the good and the beautiful math K ….. you can download and print out the first week or so to see if you like it. My kindergartener loves it though we do math u see primer as well.
I love that you want to teach your children apologetics! I feel the same way . Teaching our children the history of the Bible and Jesus Christ is so important just as much as having a relationship with Him!
Thank you for watching! And you seriously hit the nail on the head. 🤎
Omg I came across a momma that’s on my flow lol. This year God has been redirecting my life and breaking me away from “traditions”. I’m deciding to homeschool my 6 and 3 year old. I’m so excited and your video just made me even more excited. Thanks for sharing.
Love your approach to bible/ history. 100% agree
Thank you, and thank you for watching! 🤎🤗
I love your take on teaching the Bible as a history book and also reading the actual story while they color, definitely going to remember that! You mentioned the pencil is a problem, try a golf pencil or a really small pencil. I heard that helps with grip if it that doesn’t help maybe the hand muscles aren’t strong enough yet. I saw a teacher use a “push pin activity” to build the hand muscles in her students bc most kids are so use to swiping a screen. You can find the printouts for the push pin activities online 😁 I hope that help. ☺️
I definitely think it’s the hand muscles. We’ve started playing some games that require a large hand tweezer, doing some scissor work and it’s helped a ton. I’m going to look up the push pin idea. Sounds interesting, thank you 😊
Late to the party, but I love this! We're a homeschool family as well, and we loved the Brain Quest books. And you're absolutely right - allow them to stretch. My son is 9 and breezing through 5th grade work. They can definitely do it when we give them the options. 💙
We also do Bible Stories for history with our preschoolers and kindergarteners. You can find good children’s Bibles at Hobby Lobby. We are Catholic so as they get older we use a Catholic Children’s Bible. My 10 year old is beginning the study of the gospels for Faith Studies, from a regular Bible this year. I usually do Bible studies with the little ones for history until about 1st grade and then I switch to keeping the Bible and Catechism as Faith studies and we add history as a separate subject at which point I do American folk stories.
Love your picks! I’ve added a few to my list.
My homeschooling twin! Lol we have the same mindset when it comes to choosing curriculum. My youngest two sons are 4 and 6, and we're also using Explode the Code, Teach Your Child to Read, Handwriting w/o Tears, some workbooks (DK ones)...I almost chose Horizons, but we go between Mathseeds and Math U See Primer (I'll switch to Saxon in 1st grade). I use UA-cam cvc, ABC, counting videos if I'm helping older ones. They like IXL too as a supplement occasionally. We love the library. We love art. We only do like 4 things a day or more if they want. Thank you for this video! 💕
I just found you and I LOVE the way you describe everything so eloquently !
Love this
Love this! Thanks!
I tell my kids that Santa, Easter bunny, tooth fairy are ‘for fun’. Like “oh yea Santa! He’s something fun at Christmas time!”.
That way when they’re ready to catch on they can without it being a big deal or feel like they’ve been tricked.
Because I completely agree. If I put a bunch of effort into getting my kids to think any of that is real I’m afraid it’ll taint their faith in God.
The nlt illustrated study Bible has lots of really cool pictures of the places and objects talked about in the Bible if you’re looking for something to make the Bible more concrete or relevant to your kids as a historical document.
Thaaank you! I will definitely look into that.
GIRL!!! LOL I thought that was my dog asking for food. She does the same thing. Love this video and content by the way.
Love your idea of adding the map with Bible to let them know how real our Lord is and how real the stories are! So good. I will be using this idea when I begin homeschooling my 3 year old!
I love your curriculum/workbook picks! I have almost all of these same selections saved on my Amazon wishlist, or already purchased lol. It’s fun to see someone else be interested in using a lot of the same things! 😊
🤗 you’ll have to let me know how they work for you. I can’t wait to start them!
Love your approach for Bible! Thank you for sharing!
Loveeee this video! I’m planning to buy the same curriculum for my 4 year old. Im really excited to start officially homeschooling him so we’re starting about a year early and jumping straight into kindergarten since we’ve been doing prek stuff since he was about 2 1/2. He’s definitely more than ready!
It’s awesome that he knows how to write his letters in the air! 🎉
He is at an age where his hands & dexterity are still forming/changing. Meaning that he will likely come around to writing it on paper pretty quickly as his dexterity continues to form.
Thank you so much for this video!
Loved this all! I’m going on my second year of homeschooling my boys (almost 3&4). Your going to do awesome! I love everything you got for your boys. Defiantly going to check out five and below and the Bible you ordered for your boys. Thank you for the fresh ideas and taking the time to make a video for us mamas! ❤️❤️❤️ God bless you!
Thank you for watching! 5 below definitely had some great items especially for our boys age range. Plenty of puzzles and games. 🤗
I’m also starting homeschooling with my boys (5&3) this year! I’m glad I found your channel. I absolutely love and agree with your approach to teaching Bible as History. Blessings to you and your homeschool journey! 💗
Thank you for watching! Our boys are so close in age! I’m sure this will be a great school year for us both. 🤎
i subscribed so fast!!!! i'm a first time mom of 2 under 2 and ive stayed at home with them since birth and plan to homeschool all of my kids cuz i want more lol i love that i found my people here!!
Hi Kayla! I love this video! You rally sparked something I haven't thought of. Connecting history to the Bible is such a clever idea so that our faith isn't mystified. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching! 🤎
Girl you just made me go look for a five below store around me😃 maybe I can find those books too! Loved your video❤
That store definitely has a few hidden gems. It’s a great place to get inexpensive “treats” for kids also. My kids call it the toy store 😂 Thank you for watching. 🤎
Loved seeing your choices!
Thank you for watching!! 🤎
Thank you for sharing all of this.
Love your channel! We are first time homeschoolers so I’m glad to find someone who is doing it for the first time and follow along!
Thank you for watching. 🤗🤎
So glad I found your channel! I’m really excited to start home schooling for my 3 & 5 year old. New sub!
Awww yay! 🤗 Thank you for subbing and honestly this age is so fun to homeschool. You are going to love it.
Great tips! Love this!
Thank you! 🤗🤎
Hey, happy to have found your channel! We're using some of the same curriculum for my babies, happy homeschooling! I love finding things at 5 below! I may have to try to find those books! Bless you all.
I have found some gems at 5 below. Thank you for watching. 🤎
Hi!
My son struggled with writing too until...😃😃😃 I let him choose between, pen, colored pencil, marker or pencil.
Made 100% difference!
Now a year later he used mostly only pencil because, he sees the benefit of being able to erase easily if he makes a mistake.👍
Looking back for us I think it was a motivation thing and being able to pick his writing utensil helped to motivate him.
We totally teach the Bible with the same idea! Although we watch videos and do a daily devotional. So excited for your school year!
I'm going to check out ur bible books. Thanks!
Im pretty sure it’s difficult for him because his hand muscles are still developing. Ive been allowing him to do a lot of scissor work and we’ve been playing games that require large hand tweezers . He doesn’t complain as quickly so I think his endurance is improving. 🤗
What are some of your favorite devotionals? I definitely still want our Faith to feel/seem approachable so I will eventually introduce some family devotional time. 🤎
loved math with confidence we are doing first grade this year. great choice. just make sure you get some manipulatives to go along with it
I echo your sentiments on the children’s Bible stories! I’ve struggled with finding authentic curriculum that teaches them at their level.
Enjoyed your video…new sub!😀
Thank you for subscribing! 🤗🤎 It’s a challenge but I’ve been using the illustrated Bible as a guide for topics and scriptures and literally just talking about the Bible with them. They always have follow up questions and we end up wondering into other scriptures and topics but the illustrated Bible helps me reel it back in.😂
I’ve been considering home schooling for my oldest. I just bought a bunch of material to begin some home schooling structure for my youngest.
We used the brain quest workbook over the summer and I loved it!!
I love the Bible basket!
I really enjoy the brain quest books too. I think the hardest part of this journey was coming to a solid conclusion on whether or not to homeschool. I’m sure you will make the best decision for you and your family. Thanks for watching 🤎
Thank you! I couldn't get my work done this morning because I had to stop and purchase just about everything you recommended! I have a 4yr-old that I'll be homeschooling.
I’m glad this was helpful for you! Thank you for watching. 🤗
I love seeing your homeschool choices! Great resources. Maybe busy boxes instead of morning boxes?? I was a part time working homeschool mom too! Mine are both in college now!😭 You can do it! 🥰 And I loved your idea to use the map and use the Bible as a historical book so they can see its true! Yay!!!
Thank you for this encouraging comment! 🤎 Did you homeschool your kids for all grades?
If you break crayons in half it helps with the child's grip strength for hand writing and coloring.
Thank you! Someone else also suggested golf pencils so we’ve been using those and they have helped.
Love your content!!!
Thanks for watching! 🤗
This video is so helpful! Love your philosophy, and your idea to teach the Bible as history.
Super exciting! The Illustrated Bible and worksheets are so cute! I know they're going to have fun. 🤍
Great video! Thank you for sharing! I also got How to Teach Children to Read in 100 Easy Lessons for my daughter who's almost 3 and she specifically asks me to do lessons with her from that book. haha
Love your choices! It might help your oldest to play with things like tweezers to strengthen his hands. Or writing with a golf pencil. My son struggled too and someone gave me that advice for writing. It helped a lot.
And I REALLY agree with your viewpoint of making the Bible a fantasy. I love reading directly from the Bible. Definitely going to implement that.
We actually started playing games that require large hand tweezers and that helped along with scissor work! What is a golf pencil? 🤔 I may try it out. I purchased little finger grippers to help him hold the pencil correctly but I think we will focus on increasing hand strength and endurance for now before focusing on finger placement.
@@KaylaElizabeth The little pencils they give you when you play putt putt. You can buy them online or cut a regular pencil in half. The weight distribution is different.
Playdoh is great for hand strength too
Love the golf pencil idea! I am going to try that. The pencil does seem to be a little heavy for my 4 year old but he does well. My 5 year old has down syndrome and I think this will really help him. Thank you!
I loved this tip. 🤎It worked for us! I started doing activities with clothespins (I would put letters or numbers on them) This helped with hand strength but writing with the golf pencils and crayons has been great. No more complaints and frustrated tantrums from writing.
@@KaylaElizabeth I am so glad you found it helpful. I was so supposed at the difference it made when we focused on hand strength for awhile.
Never heard of tiny truths! Definitely have to check these out.
Really good for younger kiddos. They also have printables on their website that work well with the books.
Thank you so much.
Lol my 4 yr old is the same. The struggle is real, I’ve had to push my creativity.
I have a Kindergartener in the fall and we choose TGATB Language arts and Math with Confidence as well 😊 I think they will make for a well rounded kindergarten year 💞
I’m so excited to get started on both! 🤗 Thank you for watching. 🤎
Just a suggestion for the testing if there is a possibility they will go to public I recommend acknowledging the fact that it is a test, I myself had severe testing anxiety in school after transitioning. Just a thought! You’re doing great!
I’ve been doing virtual virtual school with my 10 year old. This is my first year doing virtual school with my 5 year old. I also have a 1 year old and I’m pregnant. It’s tough but it’s worth it.
Wow, you have your hands full! Im sure you will have a great school year though and thank you so much for watching. 🤎
@@KaylaElizabeth Thanks for taking the time to post! It’s good to see it other parents taking a different approach to educating their children.
Which virtual school are you using?
I am a newby to the implementation of this but this has always been the goal. My sons are 2 and 4 and i'm 53 and my wife is 49 Lol. I will be their teacher and need all your suggestions and prayers. This is not easy but between wanting a healthy spiritual environment and avoiding expensive daycare fees it's necessary. HELP!!
I love your preschool choices! I was thinking of what I could get for my son the wasn't official homeschool curriculum.
Pinterest is sooo good for preschool activities. There are a-lot of creative mommas and teachers on there who come up with fun ways to teach little ones. I have a whole board dedicated to preschool activities I want to do this year 😂
@@KaylaElizabeth I need to check out Pinterest more!
Would be very interested to see what kind of curriculum you use to teach the Bible as a history lesson. I really like this approach.
I have used the teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons and it was a struggle to keep my daughters attention. Although she did do very well with it, she just wasn't a fan. She said it was boring. I supplemented with BOB books in between and that worked so much better! I would say if you can teach letter sounds before starting it that wpuld help make it a better transition probably ! That is just my opinion & experience though! ❤️
Math with Confidence is great!! We are using first grade Math with Confidence this year!
Excited to continue watching your homeschool journey! ❤️
I have heard so many moms say that teach your child to read wasnt the most fun but they saw great results if they mustard through. I think I will use some sort of incentive🍬 to get us through it if they struggle to much. I don’t plan on using it right out of the gate though. I definitely want to teach him the basics on my own first. (Alphabet, sounds etc) I’m really excited about Math with confidence so I’m so glad to hear that’s working for you 🤗 Thank you for supporting and watching 🤎
Faith, motherhood & lifestyle? Sign me up. Wow, your right, I like your perspective on teaching the Bible as a history lesson. It’s genius.
Thank you so much for subscribing. 🤎
I used 100 Lessons on my 3rd child and was great. Now using on my 4th. It’s SO easy.
Wondering how u liked Brain Quest for you child??? Looks so fun and her challenging but never decided yes or no.
Awesome video!! Can you please give me the link for that clear plastic tote!
I would let you be Carrie’s teacher. 😍
I am anxious about her starting school. They sent me an email about registering her for a laptop…so you teaching science is right on track. I was told they do more then “simple math” in Kindergarten now. But I will confirm when we go meet her teacher. I have so many questions. I plan to purchase flash cards for Carrie and continue to practice writing her letters. She has a dry erase board that we use now. She is so eager to learn and I pray she keeps that energy. I can’t wait to see more about your homeschooled journey. ❤️
I haven’t really let the boys experiment with laptops or computers just yet (outside of the library). Once we get the writing down though we will venture a little more into that. I’m so excited for Carrie. I know she is going to grow so much this year with all of her new changes. 🤎
We say “Circle Timel” for morning basket. We also don’t do morning basket in the morning.
I think that was the first “typical” homeschool thing I fell victim to and quickly got rid of. 😂 I think it’s a great concept as long as you do it in a way that works best for your family. Thanks for watching. 🤎
try having him practice writing with paint and qtips. as well as whiteboard markers. I appreciate you sharing the workbooks you are using. I have been homeschooling my son since age 3 he is now turning 6 so its time to get to the "meaty" part lol i am here doing research to make sure i am prepared. just become a subscriber, so glad i found your video. thank you
We started doing activities with clothes pins to strengthen his little hand muscles. Now we are writing with crayons and golf pencils with little to no complaints🤗. Thank you so much for watching and subscribing. Your support means the world. 🤎
So awesome! My son’s name is also JoJo, and he is also 3, going on 4 😂❤
Walmart has really good books for Pre K & Kindergarten. I got both bc my granddaughter wasn’t able to go to pre k bc my county wasn’t able to have enough kids due to we are a very small county
Tip for getting him to write with a pencil. Have him hold a small rubber ball in the palm if his writing hand as he is writing his letters. He may view the challenge as a game. Bonus...that also trains them to hold the pencil the correct way.
I just found this video. I'm starting with two boys as well, 3 and 5 years-old. I felt like I was watching myself, but a bit more organized! 😂 My 5yo does exactly what you described LJ does with trying to spell in the air. I already chose the same math you got -- how did you like it?
I struggled with the math in the beginning. I felt like it was a slow start because he already knew a lot of it. Once we got past the things he knew it grew on me! We started, new to him, concepts and it was a bit more challenging in a good way. I ended up going with the same math for our second year! He’ll be doing First grade math with confidence
Do you have the link for the workbooks
Please can you list the books you are using for kindergarten
My son struggles with the pencil too
Crayons have worked so well for us. It’s easier for them to hold and has built up their hand strength. (Along with other activities I’ve made sure to include in our day to day). We are now using Golf pencils as well. they still prefer crayons but we’ve seen great improvement.
Just found your page my boys are 3 and 4
So I need to get them started My 4 year old loves to learn and my 3 year old likes to play play so I loved your approach.
Have any suggestions of where to work part time that’s legit all at home jobs have been scams for me.
Thank you for watching! 🤎 Unfortunately I don’t really have any recommendations for wfh jobs. My job was in office for the first few years until covid sent everyone home. We never had to go back in office so everything just kind of fell in place for me. Wish I had a more helpful answer 😫
Yyyaasss... First off yaayy another melanin momma using the Bible for History as well .... And second this literally happen to me last night my son is in pre k goin to Kindergarten and he was laughing at the Pre K workbook he was doin he told me to get him something Harder 😂because his work was to easy 😂
Wonderful video! Check out Veritas Press for Bible. I love your approach to understanding biblical history:)
Hi Kayla. Can u share where the map behind you is from?
Hello! It’s from hobby lobby. 😊
Did you use anything for history or science?
I did not use a designated curriculum for either. We approached our Bible lessons as history. Our science was more so interest led. I found books at 5 below. What on Earth: Water, What on Earth: Wind and What on Earth: Trees. They can be found on Amazon as well. Those books had great hands on experiments that my boys loooved to do. For example we made an anemometer that’s still standing strong 😂, “clouds in a jar” was pretty cool. We went on a lot of nature walks and whenever they asked me random questions (like what’s my heart made of? Why do spiders need 8 legs and ants only need 6🤦🏾♀️) I ran with it 😂 Those questions always led to “science units” for us.
Do I need instructor guide with the student work book for kindergarten math with confidence? Thank you
Yes! The instructor guide has the actual lessons, activities and instructions. The workbook is usually just 1-2 pages of reinforcement. I believe the instructor guide is necessary for that curriculum.
@@KaylaElizabeth thank you for replying and helping this math concerned mom.
Do u do online curriculum?
I do not. I know a few of the apps we use offer online curriculum but we just use their games.
Do you have any contact information?