Hi! I'm a boy mom of two. I will be sharing everything homeschool! Curriculum Routines Planning Summer school Notebooking and more!!
I would describe our style as eclectic, leaning towards classical education. Although we are Christian, I use only secular curriculum. I hope you find my videos informative and helpful for your homeschool life!
Those curriculum tracker pages are meant to track the lessons you complete in each curriculum book you have. So if your childs grammar curriculum has 180 lessons you would make a note of that and then highlight or cross out each lesson as you complete it. It just helps keep track of where you are and you can see your progress at a glance and make sure youre on track!
On one of the book list pages you put your resource books for unit studies or you could write websites user/ password or educational RU-vid channels for future studies.😊
I started using this planner in May. I absolutely love it. The curriculum trackers are my favorite for my kids individual subjects that are more workbook based like grammar, math, phonics stuff. It’s helpful to see where we are in the book. My husband is getting me a sticker printer doc to use for the monthly reflections and our book of firsts!
@@homeschoolingboymom Thanks for the link. Those stickers make me want to purchase this planner. 😂 Love how you have set up your planner, especially the vision page for your son. 😊
I planned to use large index cards over the curriculum Trackers and plan for holidays or fun special days that I would like to do something for like Pi day and Hobbit day or real holidays like Easter or birthdays...
I loved this breakdown of them both. I have an incoming kindergartener this year and this Growing with Grammar level 1 seems a tad advanced for first grade imo. I also have older children as well and I know this would have been way too much for them, especially in the writing mechanics department. It almost seems like it would be great to do First Language Lessons 1st since the oral dialogue seems so age appropriate and then to go in to GWG after for more written review. Of course I’m totally thinking aloud for my own fam haha but I loved seeing a look into both of them.
Thanks for sharing! Yea I think I have a preference for the “first language lessons” for a reason 😆 she really knows what children that age can handle and she keeps it very simple. can’t wait to use it and see how it goes!
The curriculum tracker was my favorite part, lol. In each section I put the curriculum we used (e.g RightStart Math) and would use a different highliter for each curriculum to fill in the day we did the curriculum. This essentially allowed me to see how much or how little we were using certain programs so I knew what to stick with and what either didn’t work or what we could revisit the next year.
@yesii921 I did K math with confidence now my little one is doing Math with confidence 1 and I'm going to also supplement with Math U See alpha. Math with confidence is spiral, and MUS is mastery. So it will be a nice compliment. My daughter is young (4)... really advanced, and in AAR, she will be starting level 2 next week. Sonlight for science. Beautiful feet books all around the world for language arts/ social studies.
You could use the curriculum progress pages to track what books of the Bible your son listens to and fill in the squares for each of the chapters he's finished.
I just got this exact planner and am also unsure of how i'll use the curriculum tracker pages. I'll check back here in a few days to see if anyone else comments with ideas. 😅I liked that you showed a few variations of how you use it. Thanks!
Those pages are meant to track the lessons you complete in each curriculum book you have. So if your childs grammar curriculum has 180 lessons you would make a note of that and then highlight or cross out each lesson as you complete it. It just helps keep track of where you are at a glance.
❤ I still call my oldest (13 years old) baby and she tells me I'm not The baby anymore my baby twin sisters are! 😂 I'm a homeschool mom of 6 girls 13, 11, 9, 6, and 3 yr old twins. I love plan with me videos and organization videos 😊 thank you for sharing!
Great video! 🥰 We started First Language Lessons Level 1 a few weeks ago and my daughter absolutely loves it! She specifically loves the poetry memorization - she walks around reciting “The Caterpillar” to anyone who will listen to her…even our dogs 😂
Great ideas. My kids mail letters in summer to family an friends, or we will make cards and drop off at nursing homes. They do it much easier than books lol
He started with level 2 when he did the placement test so we weren’t able to try out level 1. Before that, we were using A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading and we loved that. It’s way more simple than all about reading but it did the job 👌🏼 the only reason we stopped and switched over was because our charter school didn’t approve of that book as a curriculum. But we would’ve just stuck with that if we could!
@@homeschoolingboymom oh okay. We are starting to look at reading curriculums and I am having a very difficult time trying to decide on which one to use.
@@RikinaR. if your child is eager to learn to read or a fast learner, the parent guide book would work great and it’s way cheaper. The all about reading is good for kids who want to play games and who need more practice (they include lots of practice pages and readers and flashcards and games). It’s more pricey but worth the price if it fits your child’s needs 😁 hope that helps! I know how overwhelming it could be to choose. There’s plenty of other programs out there! 🤯 these two I’ve mentioned are the only ones we’ve used
@@homeschoolingboymom yes, all the extras with All About Reading looks like a lot. I just worry about gaps if we don’t use all about reading because so many people recommend it. And it blows my mind that there are free reading curriculums and that some are so expensive.
I was thinking of doing a video about it because it’s a few things! I would say mostly it was him who had the interest and then I really loved the Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading book. He started going through that book when he turned 4. Thank you for your comment. I’ll try to get that video up soon ☺️
I am now super interested in WTM's First Language Lessons, which I'll likely pair w Elemental Phonics Level 3. The LA curriculum I had picked out for my future 1st grader seemed wayyyy too much and I was looking for something simpler.
I know what you mean! There’s so much to language arts and I didn’t want something that will take up too much time considering the other elements of LA he’ll be learning! I have high hopes for this resource. So glad you found this video helpful 🙏🏼🤗
Thank you! I’ve seen your videos before! They’re lovely. Thanks for leaving that sweet comment 😁 are you going to share your summer plans in a coming video?
It’s called Elemental Science and we used the “Intro to Science” for Kindergarten! I have a review of this curriculum if you want to check that out on my channel. They just released a new edition where they don’t have you purchase the book where you find the experiments, they include the experiments in the teachers guide now, which will be a lot better! Here’s the link: elementalscience.com/products/intro-to-science-printed-combo-3rd
My kindergartener is reading at a 4th grade level. I think I’m doing pretty okay teaching him! 😄 I’ve done lots of research and planning before making the decision to homeschool. You’re welcome to do the same and if you choose to put your kids in public school, that’s ok. I’m not forcing my decision on any other parents. I’m hoping others can do the same for me.
How exciting that you’re starting homeschooling! 🎉 are you starting this coming school year? My son is 6! And he always had a love of reading since he was born lol so I just ran with it! 😅 thank you so much for your kind words!
@@homeschoolingboymom that's amazing! Well I started this year with prek it was very basic and we did a once a week co op but I'm not sure why but I feel like we're really starting with kinder.. :)
@@julialee143 I get what you mean! I felt that way too. I love that fresh start feeling of a new school year. Looking forward to closing this year up soon and enjoying summer break!
I love how you integrate home education with the realistic nature of everyday life. I'm a homeschool alumni and I know my mom quickly learned that being flexible is best. You don't have to do every subject everyday. Play outside when it's nice, there are so many moments to learn in and there's plenty of time to sit down to the books. It seems like you have a great curriculum and schedule for when you do 😊Such wonderful children you have and they are blessed to have you for a Mom ❤
That was such a lovely comment! Thank you so much for your input as a homeschool student yourself! I still feel fairly new to homeschooling because this was my son’s second year. So I’m no pro. But I try to share what’s worked for us so far and I’m glad to hear your experience and to see that a lot of us are doing things similarly 🤗
This is super helpful!! It totally makes sense to alternate math and reading at this age because I find that it’s time consuming to go between the subjects and their attention spans just don’t allow for that. Thank you for all the ideas!!
@@homeschoolingboymom That's great! I hope you continue to make videos on them! I've considered making some flip throughs/reviews/do a lesson with us videos but I wouldn't even know where to begin😂
My 2nd child is a boy and I have only nephews 5 and under, no nieces, and outdoor/playtime for boys is absolutely the best choice for them over "morning baskets". The boys gotta get their wiggles out! Even my daughter has a difficult time doing sit-down bible time in the mornings, which is why I've removed her from early morning bible class at church. We instead listen to bible songs and dance before Sunday service. I'm pretty convinced that morning baskets are for older kids, as it's just not working for my family or my siblings' families.
Thanks for sharing that! 😅 and I like that you added it may work for older kids. Makes me want to try it again but when he’s a bit older and has a longer attention span. Because I do like the idea of it! But I’m glad I’m glad I listened to my gut and didn’t force it. And for other kids his age who enjoy morning basket.. that’s amazing! 😁
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Some great resources. IMO this is a lot for first grade😮 I hope y’all have an amazing year, and enjoy yourselves along the journey. ❤ you’ll find the things that work for you, and just pass along the rest that doesn’t 😍
This is more than we did for kindergarten and I’m a little nervous about it! But I’m going to try to be flexible and if it’s too much, I’ll see what I can take out and not force it. We’ll see how it goes 😅 Thank you for your kind words!
Aw thanks so much! I’ll be happy to subscribe to your channel as well and I would love to see your first grade videos!! Can’t get enough of homeschool videos myself lol
@@homeschoolingboymom you’re lucky to have a workbook lover😆 I got the lapbooking pages for biology and plan to use a fun notebook for them in hopes my daughter will get into it🤞🏻
