I appreciate your videos so much! I'm not a secular person but we are secular and academic in our homeschooling. My son will be four in August and is doing kindergarten and first grade work, so knowing what you do with your gifted little ones is super helpful.
@@LoveLearningEveryday so I haven't found anywhere where you can watch the entire thing. We read all the books and listened to the soundtrack on prime music (we're still listening to it months later; they loved it). On RU-vid there is a video with a quicker version of the musical. They sing the most important songs and do a narration for the missing plot points. I'll see if I can find it and dm you. We live 10 minutes from Philadelphia. They have tons of children's theatre. They've done dogman the musical in the past and I hope they'll do it this year so we can go see it. The shows aren't scheduled yet.
We love blossom and root too! I love that she has given so many choices to go deeper (I also adore the book lists). I love your language arts choices too, look forward to following your journey through the around the world work. Looks like you have a wonderful year ahead with your choices! loved this video!
Last thing, I have been using Harbor and Sprout. (I am a serial poster, apparently.) They deliver a whole curriculum for each month. That would work for any kind of regular child, i suppose. We use it here as an overlay of everything and for our science. They set it up with the same subject, into 4 skill levels. This means my kids can take it as far as they want to. Right now I am curating Chemistry for the month of February. I have a lot of Montessori material for hands on introductions, and then the rest is from H&S. Better than Blossom and Root. In any case, We do all the normal things we do and then the kids have H&S to fill up the rest because they finish everything so quickly. They just release Aviation, and there is Botany, Zoology, Engineering etc. Great stuff.
My older two kids are doing philosophy this year as part of Torchlight level 4, and I'm totally supplementing with The Good Place! I might have to look up the Fireworks Press philosophy books if my younger two want to join in. 😊 My oldest (13yo) is also using Duolingo and I'm blown away by how well he's doing with Japanese. Such a great app!
Oooo, HUGE a musical theatre fan here! Hamilton and Newsies are excellent choices! Annie is also a classic with a ton of history (Hoovervilles, The Great Depression, Roosevelt) and touches on adoption. Seussical and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown are fun and good opportunities for author studies. Fiddler on the Roof is a great classic dealing with history. My absolute favorite, though, is Once on This Island. It’s based on the same legend The Little Mermaid is, but is set in the Caribbean. The music and messages are incredible and it’s a great one to discuss morality and polytheism. It’s a bit darker, but my six year old can handle it and enjoys it a lot.
@@LoveLearningEveryday I know you’ll love it! I saw it on Broadway a few years ago and it floored me! They had live animals and an actual river running through part of the theatre!
we are doing something similar this year for around the world. I wasn’t thrilled with any one curriculum so I made my own!! we are pairing it with the science units, mammals, habitats, and lastly birds to really bring the whole picture together. I have really low expectations for myself but am excited to see my kids absorb! i’m so thankful you mentioned river of history. i’d love to see a video in the future of you reviewing it a bit. I have multiple tabs that I leave open on my browser of resources that you have mentioned that i’m just so excited to try in the near future. thank you for your videos!!
Oh thank you! That was so kind of you to say! and honestly same. I have a lot of big plans for around the world activities. We will see how much we actually go through! haha. I will try to do a review on it fairly soon. I do have to get through a bit more first just so that I can accurately review it! But I will start making notes to be ready!
I'm excited to see how you are structuring your TLK + BYL0 around the world combo! We are doing it this year in conjunction with Blossom & Root Level 1 for my 6 year old.
We loved year 3 science from Blossom and Root. We did it last year, along with the Prehistory unit. It took us a year and half because we often chose to read all the books or add even more projects. I did it with a 5th and 6th grader, and it was easy to make it grade appropriate. I'm pretty sure half my Instagram posts were about B & R science. People probably think that's all we did last year. LOL
Great video! Thanks for sharing all of your group curriculum picks. I always get so many wonderful ideas watching your videos. 😊 We just started the Prodigies music program a couple months ago too and we absolutely love it!!! I found it on a sponsored ad luckily, but had never seen it talked about before. We gave it a try and I was blown away. My kids look forward to doing it so much! A great addition for sure. 😊
@@LoveLearningEveryday we use the bells! The kids love them and how colorful they are. I really like that I can print off the sheet music and they can easily play it all by themselves. It's so fun ☺️
We really enjoyed Year 3 from Blossom & Root. We did the Prehistoric unit first and then did the animals. We are doing Year 4 B&R this year and the River of Voices history. We are also doing a philosophy section this year, so I appreciate you sharing the books you got. I'm going to order those.
I love seeing your recs. I feel like our homeschools have a lot of similarities, although my kids are a little older (they just turned 7 and 9). But my kiddos are asynchronous, we rely primary on secular curriculum, and we choose to do more discussion and very few worksheets.
The philosophy books look amazing! We are also using TLK and BYL0 and are having so much fun. My son has LOVED almost all the books, especially the torchlight picture books. We are also taking our time, about 3-4 weeks per section. I am sure will be go quicker through the material as my son gets older and his stamina increases. Enjoy!!!
A great series im currently reading myself is the book trilogy Silverwing by Kenneth Opall, its about a young Silverwing bat named Shade who gets separated from his colony. Its fantasy series but its more along the lines of the Warrior Cat series if you ever read that. I loved the first book, they made an animated series based off of it if you can find by the same title. It does get dark at point as it involves animal behavior like hunting and cannibal bats, which I didn't know was an actual thing until reading it, but I remember reading it in middle school and falling in love it and I got me learning about different bat species. Even as an adult reading it I'm looking top bat species that the author uses to base his fictional species off of. I'm just digging into the second book and I think it would be a great addition to your science read aloud if you ever get a chance to read it. Definitely more when your kiddos are older though.
Amazing video! After this, I don't need to watch another curriculum video for the coming school year. I am also thinking about combining the BFSU open-and-go book with Blossom and Root science, so I can't wait to hear how it goes for you. I abandoned Torchlight K last fall, but maybe I will revisit that level with my now first grader. Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. You are a resource for sure!
I have an older dk anatomy book that follows Dr Frankenstein through his laboratory and teaches anatomy. If you can find it used I think you'd like for your Frankenstein unit study. It's called Dr Frankenstein's human body book. Just a suggestion.
How can one go about getting the Question Mark series? I found the teachers guide, but can't find the other books? I think this is something my children and family would love.
Have you looked into Scientific Connections through Inquiry? (It is also based on BFSU) If so, I would be curious to hear what you preferred about this science curriculum!
So the lowest level of Scientific Connections through Inquiry, wasn't out yet when I bought and started ours. I am very happy with ours but I will probably switch to SCI when we finish just because there aren't other levels of Early Elementary Science Education.
Thanks so much for showing the Philosophy books! They are definitely on our list for our homeschool but id never seen them shown off before. I was wondering what you would suggest as a lead in to Beast Academy. I have a very mathematically minded 3.5 year old and really think he would love Beast Academy when hes old enough, but im not sure what to use before that to make surehehas the fundamentals to start BA. I was looking at using Wild Math and then a more traditional curriculum together but i have no idea which one
Oh my goodness!!! Love these videos, and the content is so so so helpful!! Okay so I was like on the edge of my seat when you got so excited about an unknown curriculum!! LOL!!! I was like a kid watching a movie, what is it, what is it, it’s OH MY GOSH PHILOSOPHY!?! No way!!! I was grabbing scrap paper and pencils were flying! 😆 Oh I love these videos!! So do you have a written schedule or something you could show so we can see how you plan your day and make all these lessons work? Like do you use a rough outline or how does it work? Thank you!! Josey
yay! I am glad you liked it! and I should be having a schedule video really soon! but in general I do most things only once a week so I do go through things fairly slowly. And I just have a flow of a day so no exact times. I should have a video soon though!
@@LoveLearningEveryday Aww thanks! I always like to see what other moms are doing, because this is hard! Haha! Hey, did you know Royal Firehouse Publishers have online courses designed for ages 4+? They are terribly expensive, but I think I will save up and enroll my daughter in MCT Language Arts level 1 in January (that’s how long it will take me to save up, lol!) and she how she likes it. Thank you for making these fantastic videos, I’ll look forward to the surprises you come up with in the next video! 😄 Josey
Hi! I love your content and reviews. I’m new to the homeschool world. My daughter is 5 but she had really excelled in certain area where she’ll lack in others (she hates reading 📖😭😭 but I have a plan for this). I truly want to use her interest into her learning. She’s very into science but the anatomy/doctor aspect of things. Every curriculum I’ve found to help w science is either based in animal habitats etc or solar system. I’m even open to the gardening aspect of science like photosynthesis etc. You wouldn’t believe what she already know and what she keeps asking about. Luckily my mom is a seasoned LVN but some of her questions are even a little advanced for my mom’s expertise lmao 😅😅😅 I also think this could add in math AND reading. Could you or anyone here give me a good source / curriculum I can use?
😂 I laughed when you mentioned Beautiful Feet, because I was shocked you chose it (due to the eurocentric nature of the resource) and then you immediately mentioned the same. Love your picks! We also are doing BYL and TL as well as Prodigies 😍 Have you considered Boomwhackers for your second instrument? My kiddos love them!
haha, yeah I got it awhile ago before I was more intense about choosing secular resources. and I hadn't really considered it before, are they hard to store and are they able to play them quickly enough? They seem fun!
@@LoveLearningEveryday They are definitely a bit trickier to use on beat if you pick them up and whack them on something, but you can also lay them out in order and use a mallet or stick and hit them like a xylophone! We like them! Adds an even bigger kinesthetic element, which for my kids is a plus haha We have them standing up in a small basket. I think they might sell a bag for them, too!
May I ask you please what do you usually say in the affidavit if your teaching a first grader third grader subjects ? I’m asking CAuse I have a gifted student ( my oldest ) and in his second grade he finished third - fourth grade subjects and I donno when I provided the affidavit I just wrote 3rd grader but I’m teaching now 4th 5th grade subjects this year .. thanks in advance 🙏❤️
So in my state all we have to put is age as opposed to grade, so I don't have to make that choice. However I think I would just say what grade they are supposed to go into just to leave more options and I think that is what most states are looking for. Also depending on state and homeschool laws I would count high school level work toward their transcript once they get to that ability even if they are not high school age. Sorry I am not very helpful! I hope you figure out what is right for your family.
