Hello ladies! Welcome to Homegrown Homeschool. I'm a homeschooling mom of 5 kids ranging from ages 6 months-20 years and on this channel I talk about all the struggles and successes of Homeschool + Motherhood. I'd love for you to subscribe and join me on this journey! My hope is that we can all flourish together and share the hard, the beautiful, and this overall wild ride.
America's story is really boring. I love MB ❤️ but this was such a boring history lesson. We could barely make it through. Truly I think it should be geared toward 6th grade and up not 3rd grade.
@@kellyrooney782 I think that’s the struggle with many history curriculums. The subject can be very dry at times for sure. That’s good to know so me and others can choose accordingly. Thank you for your comment ❤️
Hi, i'm a mother of 6, and some bad experiences in Secondary school. Too strict, detentions for almost everything and nothing, and the childrens doesn't like. Bulying and drugs. How to make the state schools safe, where the childrens are happy to go and make the best of their talents. I've been temporary home school my daughter, after some bully in her school, and she was refusing to go. She was stressed.
I think it really depends on what type of printer you have. Sometimes it can be and other times it’s more expensive. If we have the epson ecotank so when we print it ends up being cheaper.
This looks and sounds so good! Honestly, there’s so many history curriculums I want to do (on top of tons of books I want to read), it’s a bit of a problem 😅
You should get one! I love ours so so much. We were spending a ton on ink before we got it. We have the 2850 from Costco. I saw ours was having a sale the last time we went. If you have a membership you should check it out there. I think it was $200. Just be carried up when choosing the models because not all of them do the same thing. Ours will do double sided printing, scanning and copying.
@@HomegrownHomeschool Thank you! That is the one I'm looking to purchase. Yes, I noticed not all had the same features (like double sided printing) so that's good to hear that's been a good model for you. I'll keep my eye out for another sale. Thank you again!
I don’t really see a way to keep the book intact because it’s all fluency sheets and mostly cut out pieces for the games. I think the only way it would truly stay intact is if you make photo copies of the cut out pieces. You’d be photocopying almost the whole book though so it just depends on how much you want spend on ink and time for that.
❤ I have 2 boys in 1st this year also! We love All About Reading. For my neurodivergent son, everyone acted like it would be hard for him to read or impossible, but this has worked 🎉 It’s the cost of one week of tutoring sessions; so it’s a pocket book win also🎉 Love your videos! Maybe, we can collaborate sometime on a video set 😊
Perfect my 7 year old will be going into grade 2 this year so if many of your reviews are for grade 2 curriculum like this one that can be very helpful for me :)
We are trying out an informal way of learning spelling with added Flashcards but I’m still looking at other options incase we need to try something else!!! The word study sounds awesome!!!
Thank you for this video! I'm excited to see a bunch of reviews coming out from you. I am currently looking for a very inexpensive spelling curriculum. I used the gun and the Beautiful language arts and I am very unhappy with the way they incorporate Spelling into their curriculum.
I hope the reviews help! What trades are you doing spelling for? We have loved phonetic zoo for my son but I want to say that’s 3rd or 4th grade and up
I ended up returning this curriculum. My mind couldn't work around how to work it into a 4 day week lol. We decided to give Soaring with Spelling a try this year by JacKris Publishing.
Another question- did you start with MUS primer or did you take placement test and it placed her with alpha? and how is it going if you started it already?
I didn’t do the primer. She placed into Alpha since she had already done TGTB math. Sadly, we didn’t like MUS for a few reasons, especially for her (my son used their Epsilon book). I discussed it in a recent video on all the reasons why. I’ll link it here incase you find it helpful to hear the good and bad. Just don’t hate me for my dislike 🤣 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tXx8GqcXhgg.htmlsi=QySdTZNPi8I28aZa
This looks great. My daughter already knows her numbers but I'll just be using this as more of an introduction to just doing workbooks (which we don't really use). Will probably pick up the grade 1 for the second half of Kindergarten and then we will move into Beauty and Truth math.
Oh my gosh I clicked on your K video and it somehow put me on this one... watching you flip through this curriculum with fractions started getting me really nervous lol (I just ordered the K book for my 5 yr old) and I started thinking oh my gosh if we're going to have to do fractions in kindergarten we shouldn't even start math for another 2 years 😂😂 I'm glad I looked back up at the title and realize this was 3rd grade. Now I'm off to find your kindergarten video again.
Those all look fantastic! Thanks for doing this video! We just finished " Rush Revere and the First Patriots" ( my boys are currently obsessed with the Revolution. 😆 We're getting ready to start " Of Courage Undaunted" ( about Lewis and Clark) because next month, I do a 340 mile kayak race on the Missouri River, so the boys like to visit all the Lewis and Clark stuff as they follow me from Kansas City to St. Charles ( plus there's a SUPER cool museum for them to visit at the finish line! 😁
Love a good thrift books haul!! I just shared my own plans for summer read-alouds on my (brand new!) channel ☺️ also, Trumpet of the Swan is so good - we read it last year and it’s one of our favorites!
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 ❤️
I think it’s so important to see the big picture of Math U See. If you are looking at just one level (like Alpha) it could definitely look lacking but you have to look at the curriculum as a whole to see that it is a stellar math curriculum that will leave your child with a solid understanding of math! Isn’t that our goal? We want our kids to learn math and be able to use it/apply it to real life situations. If they can’t, what’s the point of learning math? If you choose MUS it is very important to learn the Mr Demme way of math and to understand how the program is meant to be used (it is very rare for a student to need all 200+ pages to master the material before moving on, but the pages are there if you need them). I use math u see with four children and just started about 6 months ago. I’ve been homeschooling 11 yrs and have used multiple math curriculums through the years (Horizons, Masterbooks, CLE math) My older children had severe holes in their math understanding. Truly understanding place value is paramount for every math skill/concept to come and if our students don’t have a deep understanding there will be holes in their math skills. If there are holes in their math understanding they will hit a point where math is hard and frustrating and they won’t be able to make progress. This is when we as homeschool parents decide that the math curriculum we are using is “not working” when what the real issue is is that our student has holes in their math knowledge and they aren’t able to keep building their math understanding because the foundation below is crumbling due to a lack of true understanding of the math. Math is very sequential and if you don’t have the foundational skills for division (adding, subtracting, multiplication) then it’s going to be hard! But if those skills are solid your kid is golden when they hit long division because it is the next natural step in learning and understanding math!! I think the important take away here is NOT that math u see is the best math (although I could probably argue that 😂) but that we need to make sure, whatever curriculum we are using, is building a solid foundation in their understanding of math so that when math gets harder (fractions, decimals, algebra etc) they are prepared and ready for that natural next step in their math knowledge because all the necessary skills are there and strong! For me, in all my 11 yrs of homeschooling, I haven’t been able to find a math curriculum that gives my kids this deep understanding of math concepts except in math u see!! It’s those blocks that make all the difference in the world! You can literally SEE the math concepts and understand and that right there has made all the difference with my kids. My goal for math instruction with my kids is for them to understand and apply math and the method I’m using to get it done is math u see!
