I have been a history professor for over 25 years, some of my very best students were homeschooled! I have been so impressed that I put my lectures on my channel as a free resource to help homeschooling families.
I homeschooled our daughter through the third grade. I taught her Bible, how to read, how to write and basic math. These are the primary skills they need. When I look at what kind of mother I have been, I have at least taught her these skills. Keep up the great work Erin and Chad. You have raised some very good children who are loving. Looking forward to see the new little man in your family. ❤
Love A Beka for phonics. Mom of nine and have been homeschooling for 18 years. We gravitated towards a gentle Charlotte Mason focus on learning, heavy literature and a self-propelled education. I always tell my kiddos that I won’t be able to teach them everything, but they know our large, classical family library well and can find answers to questions/research quickly and efficiently. After 5 kiddos, my philosophy became very self-propelled as far as learning and my kiddos love it! Many blessings Paine family! You’re doing a great job!!
Love ABEKA Phonics....pairs well with the activities and songs from Sing, Spell, and Write. Love ABEKA Arithmetic through 5th grade...in sixth grade I switched my girls to Saxon Math 7/6 and they were able to enter that curriculum seamlessly, skip Pre-Algebra and go right into High School. I did use an alternative Geometry however. Was eclectic with History and used Apologia Science in middle school throughout H.S. Notgrass History is really greatly! My girls have both been to college and both have done great. Relax Mamas. Be diligent and Trust the Lord with your children. He is so faithful!!!
I loved homeschooling! My daughter took ABeka (video homeschooling) all the way through her kindergarten and to graduation. She actually went to Florida and graduated with the other homeschoolers that wanted to participate in that ceremony. She loved it. She is now a college graduate and had no trouble in college, she's very smart and did a great job. You seem to be very organized and have such a great plan! Good for all of you! God bless you too!
We love abeka for the younger years as well!! They have such a solid phonics program. In 3rd grade, we move on to saxon with Nicole the math lady and TGATB for language. As for math facts, writing them 3x per day does the trick! My husband is amazing at math, and he said it is all thanks to his 3rd grade teacher who made them write their multiplication tables over and over.
We have gone back and forth with Saxon over the last several years and I have also found that we prefer to start it in 3rd grade (using Intermediate 3 and then moving onto 5/4). However, we are using My Math Assistant instead of Nicole The Math Lady at this point. I only wish that I loved all of the Saxon Math levels because we are part of a cottage school that has chosen Saxon, but unfortunately, Saxon 1 and 2 just aren't our favorites. Instead, we have fallen completely in love with Math With Confidence for those early grades and I have been using MWC as our primary math for my first grader and treating the workbook pages from Saxon 1 that she has to complete as more of a supplement, especially since she can fly through a lesson in about 2 minutes or less.
As a fellow Homeschool mom I love this! I can highly recommend Master Books if you are looking for something to try! We love them so much. Biblically bases and solid curriculum. We especially have loved their science and history. I used to use Abeka and even taught private school with Abeka, they are great, but they were not a fit at all for my family.
We had a season of life where we needed to slow down and take a relaxed approach to our homeschool and we found Masterbooks to be the perfect fit. I was able to have the kids come to my bed (during a rough patch in my last pregnancy) and we could read through the lessons and do the work right there. We even used My Story 1 with my 2nd, K and Pre-K kids all together and it was wonderful. After that school year we did end up deciding that we wanted a more traditional classical program so we ended up moving on to Memoria Press, Saxon and Math With Confidence which have all been fantastic for us. I am hoping to add Living Art Lessons this year and have had my eye on Where Faith Grows ever since it came out. I thought it looked like it was very well done.
I am going into my tenth year of homeschooling. It only gets better and better. We are starting on Monday, and I am genuinely excited. I loved watching how you do things at your house!
I studied Abeka curriculum at a Christian school from 5th-12th grades. I later taught Abeka curriculum to 3rd & 4th graders while my son was also taught from the same curriculum kindergarten-4th grade. I think it is an amazing foundation! I agree completely that it is not necessary to do every single activity provided but can be personalized. Sounds like you are doing a wonderful job educating your kiddos.
We have 4 kids and we homeschool them all. We started with Bob Jones because friends of ours recommend it and our kids loved it from the start and we stayed with it. 2 of ours kids graduated grade 12 already . All the best for your new school year.
My favorite homeschool curriculum so far in IEW Fix It Grammar! When my 8 year old started working on it, she really loved how simple and easy it was to pick up and learn. It’s one page a day, but my daughter likes to do more. The very simplified way everything is organized and taught, puts it at the top of my list for teaching the parts of speech.
I am going into 11th grade and did Abeka from grade 7-8. Then from 9th- now I have done some Abeka, some Master Books and I have done Gather round. My sister is in 9th grade and does the notgrass history. I do agree Abeka videos are very long. I do love their Bible though so thanks for sharing!
May God continue to bless yours & Chad’s efforts. We’ve completed our homeschooling journey now. However, as I look back I remain grateful for the privilege. It truly is a blessing, and the years (as you no doubt realize) fly by…
We love the Good and the Beautiful! They have such a strong language arts curriculum. Also, people like to say it’s a “Mormon based” curriculum. They’ve done multiple videos acknowledging this claim and how they use people of many different Christian denominations to create the curriculum and check it to ensure that it’s a non denominational Christian curriculum and nothing more. So don’t let that scare you away because it’s affordable and amazing!
As a Christian, you should never even consider using a curriculum that has Mormon teachings in it. After all, they believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers, which is heresy.
All of my home school Mom friends really honed in on each individual child once they were in grade 5/6ish to figure out their strengths, so by the time they were 14 or so, if they excelled or were more interested in one thing or another, then they registered them in high school for those particular subjects. Even P.E. for those kids more athletically active. It was a perfect balance. Some kids WANT more history, or chemistry, or Biology. We're raising future doctors, nurses, engineers, and yes, teachers. Its important to be progressive as they get older and make sure theyre prepared acedemically in case they ARE gifted and ask about a particular college going into a specific profession!
So true! Although, I would disagree that public school courses are at all academically superior to the home school courses available today. Or that they are remotely necessary to prepare students academically for any professional career path. Homeschoolers are not limited in their career choices in any way. Ironically, it was the public school system that was created specifically as a way to train children for the sole purpose of being factory workers. By controlling and limiting what children were taught, they could limit their opportunities, ensuring that wealthy factory owners would have access to a steady stream of cheap labor. So if anything, I would think that homeschooling offers substantially more time and opportunity to focus on developing talents and taking specialized classes.
@athomewiththedavises3457 hmmm...you must be talking about your country then because that is SO not the case where my kids learnt here in Western Canada. My daughter is now an ER Nurse and my son is a technical support analyst for the govt. Their school really prepared them for university. They were honour students and top musicians in their years there.
We love Notgrass! We also love The Good and the Beautiful. The musical multiplication is wonderful. We are trying out Abeka this year and then will decide how much of it we want to keep doing next year. Like some of these options you shared! Great video.
Love this, homeschool content always helps me! We used abeka for 1st and 2nd grade, now in our 4th year (1 3rd grader and 1 preschooler) we use Masterbooks! So much more engaging and very little busy work ❤ we use it for all subjects! Going to look into the musical multiplication, thanks for mentioning that!
Erin, I've been homeschooling for seven years now, but I've been getting more and more overwhelmed with adding more sweet littles into the mix. I watch this on Sunday, and first thing this morning implemented several ideas you shared. They were answered prayers. Thank you!
I home schooled and I loved it. My sons then went to high school at a private school. 13 years latter I did it with my daughter as well and she went to high school as well. All three of my children went to college and my daughter is finishing her masters this year. I did the same program you did. I picked and choose what I liked. My kids stopped watching the videos as well. I actually taught. I have a degree to do so.
Beka Horton designed Abeka to be filled with busy work to keep kids occupied in a classroom. She was a firm believer that they should be sitting at their desks either reading or memorizing something. It can be overwhelming. I went to private school for K4-4th; 7th that used Abeka, none of my teachers covered everything in the curriculum. I did use the phonics to teach my daughter to read and 4th-6th grade Language Arts Books. One of the drawbacks I have found as an adult, with the language arts is the lack of practical writing. While I could diagram a sentence, I have a hard time clearly explaining something without reverting back to the formal writing I was taught. I found a practical writing course written by Fred Lybrand. I am going through it with my daughter. We both enjoy the course. It is a one time purchase, you have his permission to use it for all your kids.
I homeschool my soon to be 16-year-old grandson and he loves it much more than public school or private school. Wishing all of you a great school year. Hugs from the southeast coast of Florida. 😎🦩🌞🦩😎
As a homeschooling mom we have tried curriculum and when it didn't work we stopped and started something new. Once we found what worked for our family the rhythm was amazing! I love it!
@@kanitaray164 sure, my boys are now both in their 20's. So it has been a few years and I know some things have changed. We loved My Father's World for both boys from elementary- high school. I used Abeka language arts for both in elementary. Saxon math for both through 3rd grade. My oldest continued with Saxon for all of his math. It did not work for my youngest and he used Teaching Textbooks and it was a great find. Science we also used Apologia- but I would check into the current edition as a friend said she didn't like it as well as earlier ones. We used the spelling power book for spelling lists, but I didn't teach it exactly like they said. I hope this helps, there is so much more out there for options now. Praying for wisdom for your family.
I start my little ones with Abeka too and then switch to The Good and The Beautiful for elementary and then piece together curriculum based on the child for the older elementary! This is our 10th year homeschooling I still love learning and hearing from other homeschool mamas!
I just finished my 24th year and last year of home educating our 3 kids..I’m so glad for the opportunity that I had to educate all three k-12 and we used ABEKA as well the whole 13 years but I agree about the busy work..I loved all my one on one time with each one even though many days or seasons were not a cakewalk that’s for sure but biblical education was most important to us as well. I agree, their Bible is awesome. My boys actually always loved their history teachers with ABEKA and my daughter enjoyed the English teachers..I one on one taught until 7th grade and then we did the Video program 7-12. I would recommend you give their history another chance in highschool.
@@narrowpathfarmThis has been a misconception for awhile now. They’ve made multiple statements about this and how this statement is not accurate. Do your research before spreading false information.
Erin, it’s so helpful to see the specific books, other learning resources you use to supplement, your schedule, and all the ways you manage homeschooling! Thank you for sharing all of these practical insider tips! It empowers me to think I can homeschool my own kids one day
yeah, just don’t use Bob Jones for history because multiple of their history curriculums claim that slaves for the most part we’re happy being enslaved which is a bold face lie
You seem like such a natural homeschool mama! I did My Father’s World for about 6 years with my 4 kiddos. It was great but we needed a change. We will start Gather Round Homeschool this year. So excited to tone it down. I’m excited about picking themes!
We have also used the Notgrass star spangled story a few years ago. Im using it again this next year now that my kids are older and I’m looking forward to seeing what they remember from it. I’m adding Notgrass our 50 states this upcoming year, which I’m excited about. I like the look of those musical multiplication facts, I think I might need to get that for my kiddo.
Thank you for sharing how you organize your day! I had an idea in my head that we needed to organize our day into blocks but without actually sticking to a specific time table and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what that would look like until I saw your school routine. It was the exact visual layout that I needed and had been praying for! And Thank you for sharing Abeka with us too. We have tried several different things over the last few years before landing on Memoria Press, Saxon & Math With Confidence and they have been fantastic for our family, but I've always kept Abeka in the back of my head. I never thought to look at just using their Bible class though, I'm going to have to check it out now!
There is a way to do the 9 times table using your hands... It's so easy you put your thumb on the left hand and that gives you 1x9. Then put your index finger down ( withe the thumb back up) and that gives you 2x9. Then you just continue going through each digit and it takes you up to 10x9. The left hand indicates the tens (10-90) and those remaining on the right is the units (1-9) . I hope this helps 😊
It’s easy to see your love and enthusiasm for education and your children! Blessings for you and your family from this retired high school history teacher, who also adored teaching for 33 incredible years. ❤
My boys love the multiplication songs. They are a well loved product in our house. Even my 16 yo still sings them when his youngest brother is doing his multiplication 😉
I absolutely love seeing how enthused you are about home-schooling your children! My daughter home schooled the oldest 2 until the 8th grade, numbers #3 & #4 came along within 20 months, and they both had health issues, so that is why the oldest 2 started public school. The teachers complimented her so much because the 2 big boys were far above their grade average. I love watching your videos here on RUclips, they are very inspiring so from this Grandma, keep up the fantastic job you are doing. I really loved seeing that you are including cursive writing. I had my first two children at the ages of 18 & 20. I had a surprise miracle baby at the age of 30 after having cancer twice and by the time he went into school they had stopped teaching cursive writing. I taught him that at home until the age of 17. To this day (he is now 31) and he gets compliments all the time about his writing. I hope God continues to bless you & your family in every way!
Do a video for baby boy names! I suggest Liam in honor of Papa Bill😀- are you two sticking w Erin selecting the 1st name & Chad selecting the middle name for baby boy? ❤
For Languages Arts, we use Michael Clay Thompson from Royal Fireworks Press. My kids love the Poodle series. History and Bible we do Veritas Press Self Paced online courses; we love that both courses start from creation and move through chronologically from there. Science we use "Science in the..." by Jay Wile and love the short easy lessons with expirements. We also do the lapbook with Science. Math we use Math in Focus older version. We have also used Abeka phonics and Veritas Press readers and worksheets for K-1 to help supplement and begin their reading/phonics. Kids enjoyed Fix It Grammar as well by IEW. We piece it all together and pivot when one kid struggles with an area. Thanks for sharing about Lamplighter and Notgrass, I've looked at both but hadn't heard a person review about them. God bless you and your family!
You would probably love BJU English as well. It's VERY well done. They swap each chapter - grammar then writing. Very thorough, and each chapter actually has a lesson integrated: baseball history, missionaries, cooking, etc.
Hi Erin! Thank you so much for sharing this with us! Seeing the way other families homeschool is so helpful. I had one idea for a vlog if you would consider it. Could you share if you have a behavior chart or behavior management system you follow? Any books you recommend on how to help children learn obedience and also foster joy in doing the right thing? I just thought it would be so helpful to hear what you & Chad have found worked well for your family. 🙂
Love seeing what you are using this year. I have been homeschooling for 11 years now and things have changed so much over the years. We also do family style lessons for Science and History. It saves so much time and it's such great family time to have together. I have heard such great things about Our Star-Spangled Story, we have been doing their Our 50 Stages curriculum and I LOVE them. It makes us feel like we are traveling to each state each time we do the lessons.
Side note, my boy loves art and so we do The Good and the Beautiful because it incorporates that. He loves it! Just thought I'd mention because I know your Carson loves art as well.
I discovered Notgrass History about 8 years ago & I love it! We’ve been using it ever since. I started when my oldest was in 6th grade, if I’m not mistaken, & used as group history for her & my 3rd grade son.
❤❤❤ this video This is going to be my first year homeschooling. We are using the Good and the Beautiful which I love. No considering adding Abekas Bible curriculum but I just planned on winging it! Lol Also would love to hear about what you used for school as a child/ what your mom did to teach all of you.?
I was homeschooling and apologia science was amazing!! Especially for middle and high school but their elementary books are also great and can be done with multiple grades as well!
My 4 girls love The Good and the Beautiful LA and math, and Notgrass History! :) Abeka was great for my older girls for a year (I used it myself when homeschooled for a few years - BJU as well), but we've since switched to IEW and other curriculum for language arts/grammar. Also, the Musical Multiplication helped all 4 of my girls learn their times tables - definitely worth the money! Have you heard of Gather Round Homeschool? If you like teaching certain subjects together as a family, you might be interested in researching their unit studies! They're also Christian, and we've enjoyed their units over the years. :)
I teach 3rd grade using all Abeka. Bible and Math are my favorite things to teach. The new 3rd and 4th grade Abeka science and history is worth checking out. It is totally redone and lots of fun to teach. My students love both classes.
Love seeing how other families do it! We love Phonics Pathways and Bob Books for teaching reading; Rod & Staff ABC/GHI series for K4/K5; Christian Light Education for Bible, Math and Language Arts; Classical Conversations for community, science and art projects and memory work; and lots of read alouds from a variety of subjects 😊
Prob because they were both homeschooled and want to raise their children up in the Lord. I was public schooled and wouldn't put my kids in it.(future)
@@jaymie-lee- one can attend a public school and can be raised with the lord. My husband is a good example. He was on high honor roll, got his bachelors and MBA as a computer engineer. He never has to tell anyone he’s a Christian because his actions speak. I believe both home school and public schools have strengths and weaknesses like most things in life. There are many successful individuals that have been home schooled and went to public schools. It’s what works best for one’s family. I too went to public schools and was raised with the lord 🙏🏼
@@mollyb4541 True but at the same so many public schools are teaching things to kids that aren't in line with the Christian faith. For example a child can identify as the opposite gender and if you do not address the child by their gender identity you can be suspended or possibly expelled, same applies to teachers who identify as a different gender. They are also promoting pro LGBTQ plus ideologies to children. I went to a Catholic school growing up but I always wanted to be homeschooled, there was so much time during the day at school that I just felt like a waste of time. When you homeschool you have complete control of what your child is learning and the type of people they are surrounded by. Like yes there are plenty of Christians who go to public school but there are also plenty who don't follow a religion or believe in God. Plus homeschooling keeps the family closer. When you homeschool there is more free time for the family to spend time together. And it's a more flexible schedule.
@@mollyb4541, it can be done but it’s getting more difficult. You have to “unteach” a lot of the indoctrination. I really liked spending the time with my kids. The time with them went so fast. They are all successful.
Thank God that we as parents have the option of home schooling our children. With all the nonsense going on in different states teaching children about homosexuality, transgender, trying to brain wash kids, with thing that doesn't belong in the schools.
Love this video! Could you do a detailed video on your schedule or day in the life? I also love teaching textbooks for math, story of the world for history.
Thank you for this video. It is very encouraging. My husband and his 8 siblings were all homeschooled with Abeka. We are now homeschooling our kids and have been using TGTB for core subject's so far because of affordability but plan on switching to Abeka this year. I know it is quality school but also a little overwhelmed with the amount of different books for each subject with a 2 month old in my home. 😆 Praying for the energy and peace to be able to not only afford but get through it smoothly this next year! I have a very strong willed 5 yo boy going into 1st grade this year. 😂 BTW, thanks for you're amazing shop! I use the ABC cards for our memory verses right now and got my husband the man cards for Father's day which he has enjoyed sharing with our kids so much he got them for everyone in his guys group he meets with twice a month! God bless you and your family!
When I was in public school in the 1970s, we started out with manuscript and began cursive in third grade. In general, I think it's better to wait. Kids in the earlier grades can get confused if the letters/words they are learning to write don't look like the printed material in the books they are reading. There's also the hand-eye coordination issue.
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My favorite so far has been all about reading and math u see. Not Christ bass but it has made a world of difference for my kids with special needs in learning.
We use my fathers world and the good and the beautiful ❤️ year 4 homeschooler here! First year with 2 kids in “school” though. LOVE my fathers world phonics
Can you do a video on homeschool curriculum every year? I have appreciated this video so much since this is my first year homeschooling. My 2nd grader is loving homeschool but I now have a couple of items that I will be purchasing to enhance her schooling. Thank you, on so many levels!
We did Evan Moor's science units as a group up till grade 4. At grade 4, the experiments didn't always work, and we switched to Abeka. Not my favorite, but solid. We used Story of the World as our group history through grade 8. But we're trying Notgrass now with my high schooler. For the older grades, we love Rod & Staff Language Arts and Reading.
My oldest daughter has homeschooling her son who is now 14 and going into 8th, she has a 2 year old daughter she will home school as well, she uses a free online curriculum from Ohio and adds her own Bible teaching.
i also used abeka but mostly with my daughter who i homeschooled longer as she was the youngest. the phonics was awesome for her as she is dyslexic and abeka has a very good curriculum. i'm so happy to see someone teaching cursive! good on you!! it's a lost art i guess. when my older ones attended school, (the school used abeka) they were taught cursive right along with the manuscript and by 2nd grade, used only cursive in school work. nowadays when i hear people their age (late 20's early 30's) talking about not knowing how to read cursive i cringe. imagine going to a museum and not being able to read what you're looking at and it's in your own language! i found when teaching cursive, names are one of the best ways to start (kids like to see their own names and siblings, etc)
@@wendy4ronpaul While there's nothing wrong with learning cursive, historical documents are available in print form online and in libraries. One doesn't need to know cursive in order to read them.
@@ga6589 all true… but there is nothing like the original… we make life to easy using the internet… Going to museums to read the originals it’s more intimate… it brings tears to my eyes and make my heart beat faster… they are art…
I have been a history professor for over 25 years, some of my very best students were homeschooled! I have been so impressed that I put my lectures on my channel as a free resource to help homeschooling families.
That's terrific!! Thank you for investing in the children that are homeschooled!! ❤️
@@jodifinnegan4453 you're welcome!
Thank you for investing in our children!
What channel is it?
Please, please share your channel with us! :)
I homeschooled our daughter through the third grade. I taught her Bible, how to read, how to write and basic math. These are the primary skills they need. When I look at what kind of mother I have been, I have at least taught her these skills. Keep up the great work Erin and Chad. You have raised some very good children who are loving. Looking forward to see the new little man in your family. ❤
Can I ask what your daughter did after finishing third grade?
Wallbuilders has some One Room School House vidoes that are great for American History, too.
You are doing a great job in doing homeschool for your kids. That is helping parents who want to do homeschool for their kids a lot.
Love A Beka for phonics. Mom of nine and have been homeschooling for 18 years. We gravitated towards a gentle Charlotte Mason focus on learning, heavy literature and a self-propelled education. I always tell my kiddos that I won’t be able to teach them everything, but they know our large, classical family library well and can find answers to questions/research quickly and efficiently. After 5 kiddos, my philosophy became very self-propelled as far as learning and my kiddos love it! Many blessings Paine family! You’re doing a great job!!
Thanks for sharing! We LOVE the good and the beautiful and our kids are always excited for it too! The musical multiplication is the best! 🫶🏼🥰
Love ABEKA Phonics....pairs well with the activities and songs from Sing, Spell, and Write. Love ABEKA Arithmetic through 5th grade...in sixth grade I switched my girls to Saxon Math 7/6 and they were able to enter that curriculum seamlessly, skip Pre-Algebra and go right into High School. I did use an alternative Geometry however. Was eclectic with History and used Apologia Science in middle school throughout H.S. Notgrass History is really greatly! My girls have both been to college and both have done great. Relax Mamas. Be diligent and Trust the Lord with your children. He is so faithful!!!
I loved homeschooling! My daughter took ABeka (video homeschooling) all the way through her kindergarten and to graduation. She actually went to Florida and graduated with the other homeschoolers that wanted to participate in that ceremony. She loved it. She is now a college graduate and had no trouble in college, she's very smart and did a great job. You seem to be very organized and have such a great plan! Good for all of you! God bless you too!
Our son graduated from ABeka in 2019. We went to Pensacola for the graduation ceremonies. It was so much fun. Highly recommend!
We love abeka for the younger years as well!! They have such a solid phonics program. In 3rd grade, we move on to saxon with Nicole the math lady and TGATB for language. As for math facts, writing them 3x per day does the trick! My husband is amazing at math, and he said it is all thanks to his 3rd grade teacher who made them write their multiplication tables over and over.
We have gone back and forth with Saxon over the last several years and I have also found that we prefer to start it in 3rd grade (using Intermediate 3 and then moving onto 5/4). However, we are using My Math Assistant instead of Nicole The Math Lady at this point.
I only wish that I loved all of the Saxon Math levels because we are part of a cottage school that has chosen Saxon, but unfortunately, Saxon 1 and 2 just aren't our favorites. Instead, we have fallen completely in love with Math With Confidence for those early grades and I have been using MWC as our primary math for my first grader and treating the workbook pages from Saxon 1 that she has to complete as more of a supplement, especially since she can fly through a lesson in about 2 minutes or less.
As a fellow Homeschool mom I love this! I can highly recommend Master Books if you are looking for something to try! We love them so much. Biblically bases and solid curriculum. We especially have loved their science and history. I used to use Abeka and even taught private school with Abeka, they are great, but they were not a fit at all for my family.
We had a season of life where we needed to slow down and take a relaxed approach to our homeschool and we found Masterbooks to be the perfect fit. I was able to have the kids come to my bed (during a rough patch in my last pregnancy) and we could read through the lessons and do the work right there. We even used My Story 1 with my 2nd, K and Pre-K kids all together and it was wonderful. After that school year we did end up deciding that we wanted a more traditional classical program so we ended up moving on to Memoria Press, Saxon and Math With Confidence which have all been fantastic for us. I am hoping to add Living Art Lessons this year and have had my eye on Where Faith Grows ever since it came out. I thought it looked like it was very well done.
I am going into my tenth year of homeschooling. It only gets better and better. We are starting on Monday, and I am genuinely excited. I loved watching how you do things at your house!
We will be starting on Monday as well!! This is my first year. My little one is in kindergarten!!
Alpha Omega science books rock
The kids do stuff not just books
N videos.
I studied Abeka curriculum at a Christian school from 5th-12th grades. I later taught Abeka curriculum to 3rd & 4th graders while my son was also taught from the same curriculum kindergarten-4th grade. I think it is an amazing foundation! I agree completely that it is not necessary to do every single activity provided but can be personalized. Sounds like you are doing a wonderful job educating your kiddos.
We have 4 kids and we homeschool them all. We started with Bob Jones because friends of ours recommend it and our kids loved it from the start and we stayed with it. 2 of ours kids graduated grade 12 already .
All the best for your new school year.
My favorite homeschool curriculum so far in IEW Fix It Grammar! When my 8 year old started working on it, she really loved how simple and easy it was to pick up and learn. It’s one page a day, but my daughter likes to do more. The very simplified way everything is organized and taught, puts it at the top of my list for teaching the parts of speech.
I am going into 11th grade and did Abeka from grade 7-8. Then from 9th- now I have done some Abeka, some Master Books and I have done Gather round. My sister is in 9th grade and does the notgrass history. I do agree Abeka videos are very long. I do love their Bible though so thanks for sharing!
First year homeschooling we will be using My Father's World.
Yay! I see “Our Star-Spangled Story” That is great history!
I love seeing you in such bright and cheerful colors! It really works with your bubbly personality. 🥰
I just LOVE your channel, Erin and your family! You have such goodness and faith, it brightens my day!
May God continue to bless yours & Chad’s efforts. We’ve completed our homeschooling journey now. However, as I look back I remain grateful for the privilege. It truly is a blessing, and the years (as you no doubt realize) fly by…
That was very helpful, thanks for sharing! What a beautiful family! God bless! ❤
Your children are so blessed to have you teach them.
We love the Good and the Beautiful! They have such a strong language arts curriculum. Also, people like to say it’s a “Mormon based” curriculum. They’ve done multiple videos acknowledging this claim and how they use people of many different Christian denominations to create the curriculum and check it to ensure that it’s a non denominational Christian curriculum and nothing more. So don’t let that scare you away because it’s affordable and amazing!
I wouldn't teach anything to my children of the mormon cult!
As a Christian, you should never even consider using a curriculum that has Mormon teachings in it. After all, they believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers, which is heresy.
All of my home school Mom friends really honed in on each individual child once they were in grade 5/6ish to figure out their strengths, so by the time they were 14 or so, if they excelled or were more interested in one thing or another, then they registered them in high school for those particular subjects. Even P.E. for those kids more athletically active. It was a perfect balance. Some kids WANT more history, or chemistry, or Biology. We're raising future doctors, nurses, engineers, and yes, teachers. Its important to be progressive as they get older and make sure theyre prepared acedemically in case they ARE gifted and ask about a particular college going into a specific profession!
So true! Although, I would disagree that public school courses are at all academically superior to the home school courses available today. Or that they are remotely necessary to prepare students academically for any professional career path.
Homeschoolers are not limited in their career choices in any way. Ironically, it was the public school system that was created specifically as a way to train children for the sole purpose of being factory workers. By controlling and limiting what children were taught, they could limit their opportunities, ensuring that wealthy factory owners would have access to a steady stream of cheap labor. So if anything, I would think that homeschooling offers substantially more time and opportunity to focus on developing talents and taking specialized classes.
@athomewiththedavises3457 hmmm...you must be talking about your country then because that is SO not the case where my kids learnt here in Western Canada. My daughter is now an ER Nurse and my son is a technical support analyst for the govt. Their school really prepared them for university. They were honour students and top musicians in their years there.
Your family is such a blessing to us and a godly example also!😊
Love this. As a homeschooling momma it's encouraging to see how other families do it. Thank you so much for sharing 😊
We love Notgrass! We also love The Good and the Beautiful. The musical multiplication is wonderful. We are trying out Abeka this year and then will decide how much of it we want to keep doing next year. Like some of these options you shared! Great video.
First time homeschooling this year, thank you for the encouragement 🤍
I love all the DITL and homeschool content you’re creating! We love the lamplight books, too!
Love this, homeschool content always helps me!
We used abeka for 1st and 2nd grade, now in our 4th year (1 3rd grader and 1 preschooler) we use Masterbooks! So much more engaging and very little busy work ❤ we use it for all subjects!
Going to look into the musical multiplication, thanks for mentioning that!
Erin, I've been homeschooling for seven years now, but I've been getting more and more overwhelmed with adding more sweet littles into the mix. I watch this on Sunday, and first thing this morning implemented several ideas you shared. They were answered prayers. Thank you!
Love all of this. One thing that helped my little with multiplication was Times tales. It made the multiplication facts into short stories to memorize
It is a must to learn Cursive.. all of the OLD Historical Documents were written in CURSIVE ‼️😉
I home schooled and I loved it. My sons then went to high school at a private school. 13 years latter I did it with my daughter as well and she went to high school as well. All three of my children went to college and my daughter is finishing her masters this year.
I did the same program you did. I picked and choose what I liked. My kids stopped watching the videos as well. I actually taught. I have a degree to do so.
Beka Horton designed Abeka to be filled with busy work to keep kids occupied in a classroom. She was a firm believer that they should be sitting at their desks either reading or memorizing something. It can be overwhelming. I went to private school for K4-4th; 7th that used Abeka, none of my teachers covered everything in the curriculum.
I did use the phonics to teach my daughter to read and 4th-6th grade Language Arts Books.
One of the drawbacks I have found as an adult, with the language arts is the lack of practical writing. While I could diagram a sentence, I have a hard time clearly explaining something without reverting back to the formal writing I was taught. I found a practical writing course written by Fred Lybrand. I am going through it with my daughter. We both enjoy the course. It is a one time purchase, you have his permission to use it for all your kids.
I went to a private school that used abeka and the busy work created in me I hatred for learning for many years.
I homeschool my soon to be 16-year-old grandson and he loves it much more than public school or private school. Wishing all of you a great school year. Hugs from the southeast coast of Florida.
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Shirley English is a great writing curriculum. I’ve used it as a homeschool teacher, with students in China and my current 4th graders.
As a homeschooling mom we have tried curriculum and when it didn't work we stopped and started something new. Once we found what worked for our family the rhythm was amazing! I love it!
I'm homeschooling as well and looking for something that will work for my kids. May I ask what program your using?
@@kanitaray164 sure, my boys are now both in their 20's. So it has been a few years and I know some things have changed. We loved My Father's World for both boys from elementary- high school. I used Abeka language arts for both in elementary. Saxon math for both through 3rd grade. My oldest continued with Saxon for all of his math. It did not work for my youngest and he used Teaching Textbooks and it was a great find. Science we also used Apologia- but I would check into the current edition as a friend said she didn't like it as well as earlier ones. We used the spelling power book for spelling lists, but I didn't teach it exactly like they said. I hope this helps, there is so much more out there for options now. Praying for wisdom for your family.
Thank you for sharing your ideas with us!
As long as you keep learning fun,your kids will advance in their studys
I start my little ones with Abeka too and then switch to The Good and The Beautiful for elementary and then piece together curriculum based on the child for the older elementary! This is our 10th year homeschooling I still love learning and hearing from other homeschool mamas!
I love watching your videos and you sharing your family life. A great example of a true Christian family.
My daughter is 32 now, but we loved Teaching Textbooks for middle and high school math.
I just finished my 24th year and last year of home educating our 3 kids..I’m so glad for the opportunity that I had to educate all three k-12 and we used ABEKA as well the whole 13 years but I agree about the busy work..I loved all my one on one time with each one even though many days or seasons were not a cakewalk that’s for sure but biblical education was most important to us as well. I agree, their Bible is awesome. My boys actually always loved their history teachers with ABEKA and my daughter enjoyed the English teachers..I one on one taught until 7th grade and then we did the Video program 7-12. I would recommend you give their history another chance in highschool.
We love Notgrass and the good and beautiful!
I’ve been using both for 7 years! The Good and Beautiful is great for all levels of language arts!
Just be careful of the good and the beautiful, they push their Mormon values, that aren’t Christian!
@@narrowpathfarmThis has been a misconception for awhile now. They’ve made multiple statements about this and how this statement is not accurate. Do your research before spreading false information.
Bless you as you teach your children and thank you for sharing your homeschooling materials. You are an inspiration to others. Phyllis
We love homeschooling here! ❤️ thanks for sharing!
Erin, it’s so helpful to see the specific books, other learning resources you use to supplement, your schedule, and all the ways you manage homeschooling! Thank you for sharing all of these practical insider tips! It empowers me to think I can homeschool my own kids one day
yeah, just don’t use Bob Jones for history because multiple of their history curriculums claim that slaves for the most part we’re happy being enslaved which is a bold face lie
I give you alot of credit home schooling your children. Proud of you.
We are using Our Star Spangled Story as well!! My kids have been loving it!
I ordered the multiplication set, musical multiplication. I can’t wait.
You seem like such a natural homeschool mama! I did My Father’s World for about 6 years with my 4 kiddos. It was great but we needed a change. We will start Gather Round Homeschool this year. So excited to tone it down. I’m excited about picking themes!
We have also used the Notgrass star spangled story a few years ago. Im using it again this next year now that my kids are older and I’m looking forward to seeing what they remember from it. I’m adding Notgrass our 50 states this upcoming year, which I’m excited about. I like the look of those musical multiplication facts, I think I might need to get that for my kiddo.
Thank you for sharing how you organize your day! I had an idea in my head that we needed to organize our day into blocks but without actually sticking to a specific time table and I couldn't for the life of me figure out what that would look like until I saw your school routine. It was the exact visual layout that I needed and had been praying for!
And Thank you for sharing Abeka with us too. We have tried several different things over the last few years before landing on Memoria Press, Saxon & Math With Confidence and they have been fantastic for our family, but I've always kept Abeka in the back of my head. I never thought to look at just using their Bible class though, I'm going to have to check it out now!
There is a way to do the 9 times table using your hands... It's so easy you put your thumb on the left hand and that gives you 1x9. Then put your index finger down ( withe the thumb back up) and that gives you 2x9. Then you just continue going through each digit and it takes you up to 10x9. The left hand indicates the tens (10-90) and those remaining on the right is the units (1-9) . I hope this helps 😊
It’s easy to see your love and enthusiasm for education and your children! Blessings for you and your family from this retired high school history teacher, who also adored teaching for 33 incredible years. ❤
My boys love the multiplication songs. They are a well loved product in our house. Even my 16 yo still sings them when his youngest brother is doing his multiplication 😉
I absolutely love seeing how enthused you are about home-schooling your children! My daughter home schooled the oldest 2 until the 8th grade, numbers #3 & #4 came along within 20 months, and they both had health issues, so that is why the oldest 2 started public school. The teachers complimented her so much because the 2 big boys were far above their grade average. I love watching your videos here on RUclips, they are very inspiring so from this Grandma, keep up the fantastic job you are doing. I really loved seeing that you are including cursive writing. I had my first two children at the ages of 18 & 20. I had a surprise miracle baby at the age of 30 after having cancer twice and by the time he went into school they had stopped teaching cursive writing. I taught him that at home until the age of 17. To this day (he is now 31) and he gets compliments all the time about his writing. I hope God continues to bless you & your family in every way!
Y’all are such wonderful parents! I wish I could have homeschooled.. ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻
I love music learning. I did that with all sounds and states and multiplication as well. Plus so much more music learning.
Do a video for baby boy names! I suggest Liam in honor of Papa Bill😀- are you two sticking w Erin selecting the 1st name & Chad selecting the middle name for baby boy? ❤
I love seeing what other moms do in their homeschool! Thank you for sharing. We switched my 3rd grader to BJU this year. The videos are great.
For Languages Arts, we use Michael Clay Thompson from Royal Fireworks Press. My kids love the Poodle series. History and Bible we do Veritas Press Self Paced online courses; we love that both courses start from creation and move through chronologically from there. Science we use "Science in the..." by Jay Wile and love the short easy lessons with expirements. We also do the lapbook with Science. Math we use Math in Focus older version. We have also used Abeka phonics and Veritas Press readers and worksheets for K-1 to help supplement and begin their reading/phonics. Kids enjoyed Fix It Grammar as well by IEW. We piece it all together and pivot when one kid struggles with an area. Thanks for sharing about Lamplighter and Notgrass, I've looked at both but hadn't heard a person review about them. God bless you and your family!
You would probably love BJU English as well. It's VERY well done. They swap each chapter - grammar then writing. Very thorough, and each chapter actually has a lesson integrated: baseball history, missionaries, cooking, etc.
Hi Erin! Thank you so much for sharing this with us! Seeing the way other families homeschool is so helpful.
I had one idea for a vlog if you would consider it. Could you share if you have a behavior chart or behavior management system you follow? Any books you recommend on how to help children learn obedience and also foster joy in doing the right thing? I just thought it would be so helpful to hear what you & Chad have found worked well for your family. 🙂
Love seeing what you are using this year. I have been homeschooling for 11 years now and things have changed so much over the years. We also do family style lessons for Science and History. It saves so much time and it's such great family time to have together. I have heard such great things about Our Star-Spangled Story, we have been doing their Our 50 Stages curriculum and I LOVE them. It makes us feel like we are traveling to each state each time we do the lessons.
Side note, my boy loves art and so we do The Good and the Beautiful because it incorporates that. He loves it! Just thought I'd mention because I know your Carson loves art as well.
Yep! That's partly why my 4 girls enjoy it as well. :)
I discovered Notgrass History about 8 years ago & I love it! We’ve been using it ever since. I started when my oldest was in 6th grade, if I’m not mistaken, & used as group history for her & my 3rd grade son.
We discovered Notgrass about 4 years ago. I cannot say enough good things about it! It goes through highschool! Love it so much!
❤❤❤ this video
This is going to be my first year homeschooling. We are using the Good and the Beautiful which I love. No considering adding Abekas Bible curriculum but I just planned on winging it! Lol
Also would love to hear about what you used for school as a child/ what your mom did to teach all of you.?
Blessings to you. You’re already way ahead of the public school. No one can love and care for your children as you do.
I was homeschooling and apologia science was amazing!! Especially for middle and high school but their elementary books are also great and can be done with multiple grades as well!
That's what my 2 oldest use for science and it's excellent!
My 4 girls love The Good and the Beautiful LA and math, and Notgrass History! :) Abeka was great for my older girls for a year (I used it myself when homeschooled for a few years - BJU as well), but we've since switched to IEW and other curriculum for language arts/grammar.
Also, the Musical Multiplication helped all 4 of my girls learn their times tables - definitely worth the money!
Have you heard of Gather Round Homeschool? If you like teaching certain subjects together as a family, you might be interested in researching their unit studies! They're also Christian, and we've enjoyed their units over the years. :)
Pretty outfit! Love you are home schooling! Praying for you and your family ❤
I teach 3rd grade using all Abeka. Bible and Math are my favorite things to teach. The new 3rd and 4th grade Abeka science and history is worth checking out. It is totally redone and lots of fun to teach. My students love both classes.
Love seeing how other families do it! We love Phonics Pathways and Bob Books for teaching reading; Rod & Staff ABC/GHI series for K4/K5; Christian Light Education for Bible, Math and Language Arts; Classical Conversations for community, science and art projects and memory work; and lots of read alouds from a variety of subjects 😊
You are very organized, (like Alyssa) and I love your charts.
Can you do a video on why you chose to homeschool be interesting to hear your perspective
Prob because they were both homeschooled and want to raise their children up in the Lord. I was public schooled and wouldn't put my kids in it.(future)
@@jaymie-lee- one can attend a public school and can be raised with the lord. My husband is a good example. He was on high honor roll, got his bachelors and MBA as a computer engineer. He never has to tell anyone he’s a Christian because his actions speak. I believe both home school and public schools have strengths and weaknesses like most things in life. There are many successful individuals that have been home schooled and went to public schools. It’s what works best for one’s family. I too went to public schools and was raised with the lord 🙏🏼
@@mollyb4541 True but at the same so many public schools are teaching things to kids that aren't in line with the Christian faith. For example a child can identify as the opposite gender and if you do not address the child by their gender identity you can be suspended or possibly expelled, same applies to teachers who identify as a different gender. They are also promoting pro LGBTQ plus ideologies to children. I went to a Catholic school growing up but I always wanted to be homeschooled, there was so much time during the day at school that I just felt like a waste of time. When you homeschool you have complete control of what your child is learning and the type of people they are surrounded by. Like yes there are plenty of Christians who go to public school but there are also plenty who don't follow a religion or believe in God. Plus homeschooling keeps the family closer. When you homeschool there is more free time for the family to spend time together. And it's a more flexible schedule.
@@mollyb4541, it can be done but it’s getting more difficult. You have to “unteach” a lot of the indoctrination. I really liked spending the time with my kids. The time with them went so fast. They are all successful.
Thank God that we as parents have the option of home schooling our children. With all the nonsense going on in different states teaching children about homosexuality, transgender, trying to brain wash kids, with thing that doesn't belong in the schools.
Love this video! Could you do a detailed video on your schedule or day in the life? I also love teaching textbooks for math, story of the world for history.
Her last video, 7 days ago, was a day in her life video…..
I used Abeka for elementary but in middle school we did classical conversations…..AMAZING
This is so wonderful, thank you for sharing!
I’m much older than you and we just memorized the times table in school.
I'm a big fan of the tuttle twin books & my son loves them.
Thank you for this video. It is very encouraging. My husband and his 8 siblings were all homeschooled with Abeka. We are now homeschooling our kids and have been using TGTB for core subject's so far because of affordability but plan on switching to Abeka this year. I know it is quality school but also a little overwhelmed with the amount of different books for each subject with a 2 month old in my home. 😆 Praying for the energy and peace to be able to not only afford but get through it smoothly this next year! I have a very strong willed 5 yo boy going into 1st grade this year. 😂
BTW, thanks for you're amazing shop! I use the ABC cards for our memory verses right now and got my husband the man cards for Father's day which he has enjoyed sharing with our kids so much he got them for everyone in his guys group he meets with twice a month! God bless you and your family!
We loved Abeka and BJU but we fell in love with Sonlight and IEW
When I was in public school in the 1970s, we started out with manuscript and began cursive in third grade. In general, I think it's better to wait. Kids in the earlier grades can get confused if the letters/words they are learning to write don't look like the printed material in the books they are reading. There's also the hand-eye coordination issue.
In Canada it's generally grade 3 as well.
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I used Bob Jones History and Science years ago when I homeschool my daughter.
My favorite so far has been all about reading and math u see. Not Christ bass but it has made a world of difference for my kids with special needs in learning.
Highly recommend the good and the beautiful as an option as your kids age out of Abeka.
We use my fathers world and the good and the beautiful ❤️ year 4 homeschooler here! First year with 2 kids in “school” though. LOVE my fathers world phonics
Can you do a video on homeschool curriculum every year?
I have appreciated this video so much since this is my first year homeschooling. My 2nd grader is loving homeschool but I now have a couple of items that I will be purchasing to enhance her schooling. Thank you, on so many levels!
I have a kinder, 2nd, and 4th grader this year too 😊 I feel like we’ve finally found our rhythm as well, it’s so fun!
We did Evan Moor's science units as a group up till grade 4. At grade 4, the experiments didn't always work, and we switched to Abeka. Not my favorite, but solid. We used Story of the World as our group history through grade 8. But we're trying Notgrass now with my high schooler. For the older grades, we love Rod & Staff Language Arts and Reading.
My oldest daughter has homeschooling her son who is now 14 and going into 8th, she has a 2 year old daughter she will home school as well, she uses a free online curriculum from Ohio and adds her own Bible teaching.
i also used abeka but mostly with my daughter who i homeschooled longer as she was the youngest. the phonics was awesome for her as she is dyslexic and abeka has a very good curriculum.
i'm so happy to see someone teaching cursive! good on you!! it's a lost art i guess. when my older ones attended school, (the school used abeka) they were taught cursive right along with the manuscript and by 2nd grade, used only cursive in school work. nowadays when i hear people their age (late 20's early 30's) talking about not knowing how to read cursive i cringe. imagine going to a museum and not being able to read what you're looking at and it's in your own language! i found when teaching cursive, names are one of the best ways to start (kids like to see their own names and siblings, etc)
Child need to learn cursive.. all of the Old Historical Documents were written in Cursive ‼️😉
Dyslexia kids struggle with
Phonics it's a decoding problem
@@wendy4ronpaul While there's nothing wrong with learning cursive, historical documents are available in print form online and in libraries. One doesn't need to know cursive in order to read them.
Yes, it is no longer taught in public school here , but we are teaching it at home.
@@ga6589 all true… but there is nothing like the original… we make life to easy using the internet…
Going to museums to read the originals it’s more intimate… it brings tears to my eyes and make my heart beat faster… they are art…
You are doing a great job with all the kids
Can't wait till next video
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You’re blessed that there’s more resources to choose from! Keep up the good work! 🙏❤️
We did a combination of Abeka, Bob Jones and then Saxxon for math. My sister I believe is using Christian Light because it's affordable and simple.
Love this! ❤ I always love to hear recommendations and see what’s working for other families. Thanks for sharing
God bless you doing all that I give you alot of credit great work mom amazing.
Alpha Omega rocks it's active not just books n videos .