We can easily finish a unit in 10 days. She usually takes 30 minutes per day unless she’s working on a paper, then it takes longer. We do the reading challenge outside of the units and I assign 2 weeks for each of those extra novels. We are almost finished with Year 3 and we have loved each year. She’s going to do dual enrollment for English next year since there’s no Year 4.
So grateful that you are still willing to share your highschool homeschooling journey with us! I can totally relate and understand to your children's need/desire for privacy. No complaints from me on that front! 🥰 My daughters will be starting 3rd/8th grade next year. Love that I can watch and learn from you, someone who values faith and family like you do, the most important things in life! Thank you, thank you, thank you for your time and efforts in helping us homeschooling mommas!
Thank you for sharing. High school is so bitter sweet for me. I have graduated 5 of our 8 children and how I wish TGATB was a part of their homeschooling high school years. I am thankful that our last 3 will have it. We have been doing TGATB for the last 4 years as well and we absolutely love it.
My daughter works on the Honors booklet on Friday's. She'll finish that one in about 4 more weeks. We're also doing the Simple Planner from Mardel for the upcoming school week. The way the booklets are laid out I kinda chunked out the literature book, grammar and writing, and poetry geography and art into sections to work on together.
Paused your video to say... Man, Ashlee... You are so right about lack of high school content. I wish you were ahead of me, rather than a year behind. Happy to see you trying to fill the void. My daughter is currently completing the same English and honors set.
My 9th grade twins started using this curriculum this past year and they have loved it. I am so impressed with all that The Good and the Beautiful has to offer. This was such a life saver for me!
Tell me why I'm watching this video while only having a 4 year old homeschooler LOL We're about to start their Level K, after completing the Pre-K, but I am so excited and can definitely see us using TGATB throughout all the years
❤️ ❤️ I just want to say you look so pretty! Love your hair too! High school is really the best. It calls for more organization in some ways and more emotional support for your teens but can be some of the best years! Don’t fear y’all. Keep at it and trust the Lord! Enjoy the journey with them. You are preparing them for life. ❤️
I'm just starting to homeschool my kids for the first time ever. They are going into 2nd and 9th. Your channel has been a God send for me personally. You and I have similar styles and personalities, and you've given me confidence to take the leap. I just ordered TGTB courses for both my kids. I'm still looking for a few HS courses for my 9th grader that TGTB doesn't offer. Thank you for all the helpful videos.
I’m not even a high school homeschool mum but I like the content. I am someone that will watch videos for years before I actually have to do something. I have to feel like I really have all the knowledge before I commit to something.
Hi Ashlee, thank you for creating a high school good and the beautiful video. There is not much on here for high school. I know some parents think once they get to high school it's time for public school but I don't agree. I've taught my kids through high school. Thank you. 🏞
I agree that there isn't all that much content on YT for homeschool high school, although I have found several amazing long-term homeschool mamas to follow here! Our high schooler just finished the first unit of level 1 of this course, and her feedback has been very positive so far. She was using a different writing program before and she specifically said that the writing assignments (insights journal) are much more interesting in this program than in her previous program.
Thank you for posting. We are just finishing out our planning for our up and coming freshman. TGTB is #1 on our list, but we really wanted to see it without going to a convention.
I just pulled my 8th, 5th, 2nd and K out of school. I have always wanted to HS being a military wife and always moving. I feel confident right now but am terrified to HS in high school. All of my kiddo's love it so far and I plan on never returning them back to public school. Thank you for the high school video's!
Thank you so much for sharing this!! My daughter is in 7th grade and I'm already looking at HS curriculum to make sure she has the best. We have been using The Good and The Beautiful for a couple years now and I'm so excited now for the HS curriculum!
My kids are still elementary ages but I am interested in watching the high school stuff too! Maybe I’m too eager, but I just like to feel I have some knowledge before I’m close to it! Thanks for doing this!
That looks amazing! My daughter is going into 9th grade as well. Your videos are always so helpful and you are always that extra step ahead of me so it's so helpful! Thank you for sharing high school content! It's so helpful and so appreciated!
I want the book study to do myself, lol. A friend of mine did it last summer and loved it! My kids are not near high school, but it will be here before you know it. I like the setup so far that The Good and the Beautiful offers. It's not just a workbook style. Thanks for sharing with us, hope all is well.
I’m so grateful you are doing this. I have thought about starting my own channel as a mom who is homeschooling middle schoolers that is BRAND SPANKING NEW to the game. I know we exist, especially in these times, it’s just been hard finding others like me. That being said, I’m so grateful you are helping those of us with older kids out! There are gobs and gobs and gobs of homeschooling channels for littles and all the fun stuff they do for school, and just not a whole lot for those of us with older kids and how to make school fun and interesting for them.
I’d be interested in this too! We are in you second year homeschooling, 5 kids, currently 4 are school age. We begin high school in the fall for the first time too 😅 and plan to use TGTB for LA and History.
LOVE Pride & Prejudice! You’re going to love doing that together. Aldi has teacher and student planners during Back to School time for $7. They’re great if you want to have something to try.
We loved TGATB for the two years that my daughter used it in high school. I think it prepared her well for the college English classes she started taking as a junior. I did several videos about it on my channel. Even though my youngest is going into middle school, it’s the plan for her to use it when she gets in high school as well!
Thanks for sharing. My daughter will be a high school freshman next year and she really has been asking about staying home from high school. So I didnt know where to even start researching homeschooling curriculum for high school.
My son finished TGATB Language Arts High School 1 this year. It was our first experience with TGATB. Allowed him to choose which areas to do daily. Only struggle was the Writing portion. It wasn’t structured enough for him so we replaced the writing portion with EIW Writing 9.
Thank you thank you thank you for doing and keeping up with high school homeschooling context. My daughter is going into 6th grade in the fall. I didn't know if we'd be homeschooling the whole way through but God answered my prayers by us finding out we'll be moving in June to a new state (military) and there's nooooo way we'll put our kids in that school district. So I'm soaking up everything I can just to get prepared for when that time comes. I'm also very excited to start TGATB because this is our first year starting it. I'm very excited to start!
Thank you for this video. Our youngest is going to be in 9th grade next year and I'm pretty sure this is what I would like to use. Previously, we used BJU press, Notgrass and Apologia. So I'm a newbie with TGATB. :)
My son will be 10h grade and has done Learning Lang Arts Though Literature for his freshmen year. He has done well, but my interest is piqued with your sharing of HS1. Lang Arts is not his strongest subject. He does put forth the effort and I’m wondering if he might struggle with HS1. Love your channel and all you share.😊
I have a 1.5 year-old and almost 4-year-old girls, so I'm only beginning to research homeschooling options and ideas. I found your channel about a week ago and I have been binge-watching ever since... I'm working my way back and am currently back to last April, LOL! Even though our kids are not even close in ages, I'm finding your videos so helpful. I have always planned on homeschooling them and was already starting to stress about the how-to's and what things would look like. THANK YOU for your sharing everything that you do and also making homeschooling seem possible. I love that you make teaching your children your number 1 priority, but also don't lose sight of yourself as a person. I have hope that I can (and should) work to maintain that balance! PS- I also find it comforting that there are like-minded Christian women out there who aren't afraid to speak up during these times we are living in. I'm hoping more and more will start speaking out and standing up for our freedoms that are so clearly at risk!
You mention how it really helps the child progress to writing complete persuasive essays. Can it be used to achieve that purpose in maybe two years, if the child (now about to start high school) has a weak spot in that area?
I would love to see more high school stuff for sure!! Will you have her do 1 page of Analogies and 1 page of Wordly Wise each day too? Or how do you go about adding that in as well?
This was perfect timing, as my High school 1 set is on the way! I’m so grateful you are sharing, as you’re right-there’s not much out there on high school. Do you happen to know if there will be a high school level 4, or was it left out purposely?
My daughter is entering 8th grade and it’s my first year lol. What a year to start. My other daughter is going to 5th grade. I admit I am a little scared lolol
I'm curious to know how you'll work her daily schedule? My student needs more guidance for when to do dictation, cards, poetry, insights journal, art project, book study..etc. thanks!
My son is 11 and here I am watching! You were one of the first RU-vidrs I started watching last Spring! He just recently started LA and we am loving it. Can you share if and when you taught your children or plan to teach the Maturation and Sexual Reproduction science unit study? Did you omit or add any additional resources? What ages do you think children should be when presenting it to them? I’m planning on purchasing it, just wanted to get your opinions on it. Thank you, have a blessed day🙏🏻
I too been using T.G.T.B. with all my kids. I don't have a high schooler just yet, but I honestly had been feeling a bit intimated about homeschooling them thru high school. I most certainly plan too Lord willing. So, I'm so glad to see you sharing high school curriculum/content. Happy and blessed Thursday!!
Thanks for sharing! We are starting High School in the fall with 3 other younger grades and a toddler. I'm trying to figure out our schedule for next year. We do TGTB for almost everything as well, including History. We are beginning new (non-TGTB) science this fall for my oldest that is 5 day, but still plan on TGTB history that is generally 2x a week. I'd love your input on how you plan to do history/science with your kids. Will you still just do History 2x a week, or do you plan to break the lessons up smaller and do a part each day to complete 2 full lessons a week? Since I will be continuing Science with TGTB for my younger children, I was originally planning on continuing to alternate days of Science/History as a family. Now I'm wondering if that will overwhelm my oldest on the days we also do History having to do both subjects. I'd love to see how you plan to schedule (flow) the daily subjects.
Thanks for sharing!! I’m so drawn to this. You mentioned sentence diagramming... Is that included heavily at the high school level or is it just review at this point?
TGTB high school LA is the reason we ever started TGTB. Is the computer portion heavy? Like will each kid need access to a laptop/tablet (when multiple kids are in HS)?
Hi! We will be starting HS and using TGATB for the first time. You mentioned not using a planner just yet but having your daughter pace herself the 14 days to finish the booklets. Is that something you will be keeping track of since she won’t have a planner? Or do you have another method in mind for her to be tracking it? I have been debating about how to do that on our end and open to suggestions. Thank You! 🙂
My oldest is in kindergarten but I this is so beautiful I want to buy it anyway. I bet I could learn a lot from it. P.S. Was someone on your exercise bike? You kept glancing over there. Haha.
