TIP: do not sleep on your library when it comes to curriculum!! I just accidentally discovered that my local library (which is 4 minutes from my house so we're in there almost every day!) has FOUR copies of Draw Write Now, which I was planning to purchase! I never would have dreamed that they had those. After I saw those I started looking around and I was shocked by how many science and math and language curriculum materials they have 😊😊😊
I'm an adult with special needs and those emotional literacy books you mentioned in a previous video really caught my attention! Sometimes I find books meant for younger readers help me hold my attention better and explain things in a way better then books written for adults for me.
I used Math with Confidence last year with my kindergartener, and my daughter and I both loved it! I loved the gentle, playful lessons that were both simple and thorough.
I love watching curriculum choices my middle daughter is only 3 and I am already peeking at curriculum 🤣🤣🤣🤣! Great choices!!! I hope you guys have a great 2nd homeschool year!
I love curriculum 😆 I’m using abeka and classical conversations....also have tgtb math but not sure we will use it. Tried master books and while it wasn’t terrible, wasn’t for us. But I love answers in Genesis, they have some great books 😊
I've taught three of my kids, (soon to be 4!) with Teach your child to read, and we loved it. We usually stop at lesson 80ish, and transition to short readers. It naturally falls that way. I'm excited for your year!! It looks like you are gonna be great! 🥑🥑💕💕
Summer- I had never thought to do this. I did the 100 lessons book with my 4 year old this year and she has done so well and is now reading. But I would say we are currently right around lesson 80 and she is struggling with the transition in the book (when they change the lettering). Did you find that your kids did well with regular books after stopping the lessons? I am so proud of her being only 4 and learning to read but I sometimes feel so bad because the passages are so very long toward the end of the book!
@@WildBison74 Hey! It's so funny you asked--I actually just did a video about 100 Easy Lessons and how I teach with it. ruclips.net/video/AzdE5VyKiUk/видео.html My kids a phenomenal readers now but the transition can be a bit rough. I'm just finishing up #4 with this book and what is usually the hang up is jumping to regular font. It does happen, but going down to easier readers helps A LOT. Once they get the hang of reading with regular script, they jump really quickly into chapter books. That's so exciting your 4 year old is reading!! ❤️❤️👏👏
I’m so glad I just found you! You and I share a deep love of literature. Excited to follow along. I have three daughters, 4, 2, and 6 months. Can’t WAIT to start homeschooling in the Fall!
🥑 I love seeing what others are using! We are doing MathUSee Primer and Alpha, Logic of English Foundations A, Cursive Writing Skills for Left-Handed Students, G+C morning binder, too, and On Mission! My kindergartener will also do Playful Pioneers with my 2nd grade son.
Sounds like an awesome year! Playful Pioneers has caught my attention, and I’m considering it for the next time we do American history. We focused on that this past year and are doing something else this year.
@@JenineHurlbert Just search Amazon for the lefties cursive book. I just did LOE for my son's handwriting, but for my daughter I needed to find something that fit her, and this book looks like it's going to be perfect.
Thanks for inviting me to collab with y’all! Being able to incorporate so much literature into our learning is one of my favorite parts of homeschooling! 📚
Love your picks. We kind of sprinkle in a variety of things too. We have teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons we haven’t really used the book itself but I I look at it for ideas for instruction. We do love ordinary parents guide to teaching reading I tend to use more. We also have McGuffey readers to use for practice alternating with bob books. Explode the code is amazing you’ll love it and we’re trying HWT this year too since I feel like we needed more practice with writing. Our primary core has been TGATB level K for Math and Language arts but we pause as needed when we need practice. What your kindergartener needs to know definitely eased my mind his year in what we needed to touch on. 🥑
Thank you! I definitely enjoy having a little bit of variety. Sounds like y’all are ready for a great year! I’m glad to have What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know. I think it will round out our curriculum really well.
🥑 I am smiling throughout your entire video! You are so me when it comes to curriculum! I am obsessed! Isn't it so fun? We are starting our 13th year homeschooling, and I am still sooo in love with curriculum! 🤗
@@TheHomeschoolConvert Lol. We homeschool through a charter, and when I walk in their curriculum storage where there are thousands of new books, I just want to spend my entire day in there. So so fun!! 🥰
🥑 we are also going to start using handwriting without tears…switching over from TGAB. I hope my little one likes it as much at TGAB. Loved your suggestions ✌🏼
Such great choices for kinder! Love how you’re really doing family subjects together too. I have a son going into kindergarten this year too so I love seeing what others are doing. Thanks for sharing Jess!
🥑 My kindergartener will be doing nature study from Treehouse Schoolhouse. It is a wonderful blend of many subjects! We are also using Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. For handwriting, I chose The Good & the Beautiful Level K. For math, she will start Math Mammoth Level 1. As a family, we do Story of the World for history.
Curriculum choices are always so fun to share and discuss. Thank you for sharing. 🥑 I can tell you will have a fun year exploring what works best for your family. 😊
Looks like a lot of fun! 🙂 My daughter was ready to read young as well. My biggest encouragement (speaking from experience) for the younger grades is take it slow and follow your kid's ques. I love your literature focus, that was my FAVORITE thing in the younger grades. 🥑
That is great advice! I definitely plan to follow her lead with the pace. Reading so much together is absolutely one of my favorite parts of homeschooling!
I cannot say enough good things for “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.” My son knew his letters and sounds right before he turned five and we started using Hooked on Phonics to learn how to read. Big fail for us. We switched to 100 Easy Lessons and it was a complete 180. The experience of learning how to read was so much more enjoyable and he’s blowing through the lessons. It’s just gentle enough to not get the child frustrated, but still builds complexity appropriately.
🥑! We just finished Kindergarten with my 6 year old daughter! For math and LA, we used Gather ‘Round Ready to Read Program 1 & 2. For reading: Dick and Jane books, a lot of library books, sight word flashcards, and the The Good and the Beautiful beginner books box a, b, c & d. For writing, handwriting without tears and copywork. For family subjects, gather round unit studies! I’m sad because my daughter was SoOo excited about school at the beginning of the year and now she’s not interested. Maybe it’s burnout, the warmer weather or her big brother’s bad attitude rubbing off on her ☹️😏👎🏻 This homeschooling thing is such an emotional roller coaster! 😅
Sounds like y’all had a really well rounded year! Praying for renewed energy for everyone going into the new school year! Hopefully new curriculum will help reignite the excitement.
I’ve only just found your channel and it’s been so helpful hearing your thoughts. It seems like we see eye to eye on approaches to home education and I’ll be looking into the curricula you’ve suggested. Great content nicely presented!
🥑 great video and suggestions. I'm a homeschooling mom of a 5th, 7th, recent graduate and an almost college graduate. I'm thinking about that language through literature curriculum. Looks really thorough. The Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons worked so well for us. I was so worried about teaching my youngest how to read as my other ones had learned how to read before we homeschooled. We really enjoyed it.
We used teach your child to read when my daughter turned 4 it worked amazingly she reads fluently at 4.5! She reads on a second grade reading level it’s really an awesome book we are doing explode the code now and bought all the Bob books too. When they finish teach your child to read they can already read above the first two sets of Bob books only the third set is a challenge. Watching to see what else you got!
🥑🥑🥑 Another video I enjoyed all the way to the end. I’ll be using Right Start Math, Logic of English, Handwriting Without Tears 😄, Jot It Down (Brave Writer), What Your Kindergartener Needs To Know, Scientific Connections through Inquiry and I’ll be doing my own super simple world geography study (a country per week). I’m so much like you in that I love having curriculum for structure and guidance, but I’m really not in a hurry. I’m sure I’ll scrap at least one curriculum listed 🤣 It’s just impossible to Know what will actually work until you try it! Can’t wait to hear what you think of what you’ve chosen as you use it, Jess!!
Thank you! Sounds like you’ve got a great plan! I’ve heard really great things about Right Start Math and Logic of English. There are so many awesome programs out there!
Hi Jess! I’m so excited to be able to homeschool my son this upcoming school year. He is also starting Kindergarten. I’m a former middle school teacher and really value connecting with other teachers and now homeschool parents. Thank you for sharing the curriculum you are using and all of the other helpful information. I’m excited to order some of the books you recommended in your read aloud book video. I look forward to watching more of your videos! Keep shining your light! 🌟🍎
Can you give us an update of your kindergarten curriculum? Would love to know. I have a preschooler right now and would like to prepare ahead because I like your choices.
K is my favorite! I am about to have my 4th and final (😭) kindergartener. My oldest went to K in a small Christian school, but I have loved homeschooling kindergarten for the rest of the gang.
Super awesome video!! I'm new to homeschooling and I love your detailed thoughts on all these books. I'm getting my own list together of what I want to include and will definitely be using some of your ideas here....especially the Math with Confidence and What Your Kindergartener Needs to Know. I'm liking the idea of the language arts program your using but its also BIG...ya know what I mean? A bit intimidating, but I'm going to make my rounds and I might end up coming back to that one. Thanks so much for your light hearted videos full of smiles! 🇺🇸❤😁 Cheers from Arkansas 🥑🥑
Cheers, Cheryl! Thank you! I’ve done a video updating on how our curriculum is going, and we’ve paused our ELAR curriculum for now and plan to pick it back up in January. It was a bit too formal for my very young kindergartner, but I do really like how it’s laid out and think it will be awesome when she’s ready for it!
I completely relate to you, your story about how you started!!!:):) i also started to homeschool my daughter during the pandemic and I fell in love with it:) our daughters are about the same age also, my daughter turned five in January:)
I'm gonna check out that Spanish book! My 1st grader took Spanish at our co-op last year but chose PE instead this semester. Now we can do Spanish at home!
🥑🥑🥑🥑 I love learning about new curriculum options! I’m always discovering new things here on YT. I impulse purchased the good and the beautiful math level K for my son during an amazing sale so we will see how that goes but I’m definitely exploring and researching alternative math curriculums in case it doesn’t work out. For language arts I have TGTB level K primer which he will be finishing up this summer and from there i’m debating between their Kindergarten language arts curriculum, master books’ language lessons for a living education, or Gather Round’s Ready to Read curriculum. We also have the level 1 and 2 dash into reading sets for readers! We’re going to be using Gentle and Classical’s kindergarten curriculum which I plan to use as supplemental activities and to draw on for morning basket reading and activities as well as Bible time and nature study! Finally for science/nature study I’ve purchased several digital mega bundles over the last few months I am able to put together unit studies very cheap and easily. So grateful for that! :)
I also had a first child who went to k4 and k5 before I brought him home. I didn't teach him to read. I swear he absorbed it through Sesame Street and Word World. But his brother begged to learn to read at 4.5 and we used 100 Easy Lessons and Bob Books. We are following that with CLE's Learning to Read now that he is 5.
Pretty much the only curriculum I was confident in was Kate Snow’s curriculum as well!! First one I ordered! Also doing five in a row, and I’m having such a hard time picking a reading curriculum!
We did Kindergarten Math With Confidence this year and enjoyed it. We would often use the 5th day to play a lot of the games in the book or play a board game called Sum Swamp. I highly recommend this Sum Swamp my kid loves it :)
RightStart Math and All About Reading are my absolute must-haves. I wish I loved everything as much as I love these -- and I'm always surprised when homeschooling RUclipsrs don't promote them as much as I would! You gotta check them out if you haven't up till now.
I love the idea of introducing logic through a story! Would love to hear what other books you come across for this purpose in the future if it goes well! (Just added the read it yourself stories to my thrift books cart!)
I will definitely keep everyone up-to-date as I find other logic storybooks! That’s probably something I can do on Instagram stories as I find resources. We’ll probably utilize the library a lot.
The Homeschool Convert yes! We did the Level K Primer this year, and we loved it! I’m not naturally organized, so open-and-go works great for me 😆 I’m excited to hear how your curriculum choices work for you guys! ☺️
Thank you! This is about a couple years old, and I don’t remember if I filmed something exactly like that, but I believe I have an old video from this school year that breaks down our weekly routine.
I watched this even though my only child is going into 3rd grade. 😆 If the math book doesn’t suggest MathStart books, they are worth checking out. I bought some this year. I plan to use a book called “Making Math Meaningful” as a supplement. I don’t have it yet, but my husband and I wanted to get a math book that teaches practical uses. My son used the Bob books and did so well with them, he only read 2 or 3 of the set and wanted to try bigger books. lol
Haha! Thanks for watching and for the recommendations! Bob books definitely are very simple. Great for building confidence, but not something we lingered on too much with my older daughter.
@@TheHomeschoolConvert Yes!! I tell people all the time that they are perfect for building confidence. After my son read just the couple words on a page, I told him, “you just read a whole page!” Then when he finished the book, I said similar and that made him feel so good!
🥑lol! Looks great and I cannot wait to see what you think of Math with Confidence and LLATL! I have a Kindergartener this upcoming year and for our core we will be utilizing " A Year of Tales Preschool" (curriculum based around the works of Beatrix Potter). This will be used with my 5yo and 3yo. Then for Reading, we will complete "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" (on Lesson 71 right now). After that we'll wrap up "100 Gentle Lessons in Sight & Sound" from A Gentle Feast. Which I LOVE! You learn to read via nursery rhymes and we are on Lesson 50 of that. Handwriting, using TGTB. We alternate handwriting days with Explode the Code days. We do one page a day from either handwriting or ETC, right after our morning time. Math, we are using Christian Light Education. Spanish, completing Song School Spanish Book 1. Enrichment: Composer (from Ambleside online rotation), Hymn/Folksong (Happy Hymnody and Ambleside online), Poet and Art Study (both from A Year of Tales, curriculum). Lastly, we will be doing periodic weeks of Around the World Through Picture Books from Beautiful Feet Books. (I think I planned it to do one country a month so that it's spread out throughout the year). We are also year round homeschoolers and her level of work is between K/1st so we'll see where we end up:)
Hi! I am wondering! I have a 5 year old completing the Masterbooks K Math, but he is breezing through it. Should I start him with K for Math With confidence or 1st grade? He will be 6 in October. Masterbooks was way too slow for us….
@@TheHomeschoolConvert Awesome! Yes, I'd like to get the huge set of reader books, but it was almost $80.00 and figure purchasing at a party would be more beneficial.
I am curious your opinion on the way that Teaching Your Child to Read in 100 lessons uses the phonetically written letters. I just can't get past the 'strangeness' of it and the fact that when my learner picks up an early reader, the letters look different. Do you think kids easily transition between the two formats?
I had this difficultly too. We have ordinary parents guide to teaching reading we use more bc of the find in 100 easy lessons. I still like to look at the instructions on certain things. Some kids it works great especially if they have dyslexia or you suspect them having it.
I think different programs work for different kids, honestly. This will be my first time using it, so I’ll be sure to update here! From what I understand, the phonetic symbols, etc. are “weaned off” as you progress through the program and get to the end.
We did that as part of group subjects. Things changed from my original plans the second half of the year because of how crazy our lives became, but we’ve enjoyed Heroes & Hope for social studies and North American Animals for science recently. Both are but Simple Studies, and they’ve been just what we needed during a hectic season.
I would love to buy the “My First Library” from Usborne, but wanted to give you credit for the purchase. I wasn’t sure I should use the link you listed or do it a different way? Thank you!
@@TheHomeschoolConvert perfect! I can’t wait to try them out! This our first year homeschooling and I just stumbled across your page. I am loving all of your videos!
TIP: do not sleep on your library when it comes to curriculum!! I just accidentally discovered that my local library (which is 4 minutes from my house so we're in there almost every day!) has FOUR copies of Draw Write Now, which I was planning to purchase! I never would have dreamed that they had those. After I saw those I started looking around and I was shocked by how many science and math and language curriculum materials they have 😊😊😊
That’s awesome! My library has the Life of Fred books. I think those would be fun to use!
I'm an adult with special needs and those emotional literacy books you mentioned in a previous video really caught my attention! Sometimes I find books meant for younger readers help me hold my attention better and explain things in a way better then books written for adults for me.
I used Math with Confidence last year with my kindergartener, and my daughter and I both loved it! I loved the gentle, playful lessons that were both simple and thorough.
We’re enjoying it so far!
I love watching curriculum choices my middle daughter is only 3 and I am already peeking at curriculum 🤣🤣🤣🤣! Great choices!!! I hope you guys have a great 2nd homeschool year!
Haha!! Thank you so much! I love curriculum videos too!
make a list of all your favorites so when its time you will know which ones to look into first
We just wrapped up our kindergarten year.
We also used 100 lessons along with Bob Book for reading!
Awesome picks!
I love curriculum 😆 I’m using abeka and classical conversations....also have tgtb math but not sure we will use it. Tried master books and while it wasn’t terrible, wasn’t for us. But I love answers in Genesis, they have some great books 😊
We did math with confidence and I loved it! My son enjoyed it so much that he would ask to continue to games that the book taught us.
That’s awesome! So great to know you had a good experience with it!
I've taught three of my kids, (soon to be 4!) with Teach your child to read, and we loved it. We usually stop at lesson 80ish, and transition to short readers. It naturally falls that way. I'm excited for your year!! It looks like you are gonna be great! 🥑🥑💕💕
Thank you!! I really am so excited to teach Rowan to read and see her blossom this year! Good to know you’ve had success with that program!
Summer- I had never thought to do this. I did the 100 lessons book with my 4 year old this year and she has done so well and is now reading. But I would say we are currently right around lesson 80 and she is struggling with the transition in the book (when they change the lettering). Did you find that your kids did well with regular books after stopping the lessons? I am so proud of her being only 4 and learning to read but I sometimes feel so bad because the passages are so very long toward the end of the book!
@@WildBison74 Hey! It's so funny you asked--I actually just did a video about 100 Easy Lessons and how I teach with it. ruclips.net/video/AzdE5VyKiUk/видео.html
My kids a phenomenal readers now but the transition can be a bit rough. I'm just finishing up #4 with this book and what is usually the hang up is jumping to regular font. It does happen, but going down to easier readers helps A LOT. Once they get the hang of reading with regular script, they jump really quickly into chapter books. That's so exciting your 4 year old is reading!! ❤️❤️👏👏
I’m so glad I just found you! You and I share a deep love of literature. Excited to follow along. I have three daughters, 4, 2, and 6 months. Can’t WAIT to start homeschooling in the Fall!
Nice to “meet” you, Rachel! Hope you have a fabulous first year of homeschooling!
🥑 I love seeing what others are using! We are doing MathUSee Primer and Alpha, Logic of English Foundations A, Cursive Writing Skills for Left-Handed Students, G+C morning binder, too, and On Mission! My kindergartener will also do Playful Pioneers with my 2nd grade son.
I'm totally a researcher, too.
Sounds like an awesome year! Playful Pioneers has caught my attention, and I’m considering it for the next time we do American history. We focused on that this past year and are doing something else this year.
We’ll be using LOE too! I didn’t even know there was a writing curriculum specifically for lefties!!! Do they have one for print or only for cursive?
@@JenineHurlbert Just search Amazon for the lefties cursive book. I just did LOE for my son's handwriting, but for my daughter I needed to find something that fit her, and this book looks like it's going to be perfect.
Thank you so much for collaborating with us today! Loved seeing your curriculum choices-I am all about learning language arts through literature!!
Thanks for inviting me to collab with y’all! Being able to incorporate so much literature into our learning is one of my favorite parts of homeschooling! 📚
Love your picks. We kind of sprinkle in a variety of things too. We have teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons we haven’t really used the book itself but I I look at it for ideas for instruction. We do love ordinary parents guide to teaching reading I tend to use more. We also have McGuffey readers to use for practice alternating with bob books. Explode the code is amazing you’ll love it and we’re trying HWT this year too since I feel like we needed more practice with writing. Our primary core has been TGATB level K for Math and Language arts but we pause as needed when we need practice. What your kindergartener needs to know definitely eased my mind his year in what we needed to touch on. 🥑
Thank you! I definitely enjoy having a little bit of variety. Sounds like y’all are ready for a great year! I’m glad to have What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know. I think it will round out our curriculum really well.
Amen ,that's what i say "if you learn to read you can learn anything " .
🥑 I am smiling throughout your entire video! You are so me when it comes to curriculum! I am obsessed! Isn't it so fun? We are starting our 13th year homeschooling, and I am still sooo in love with curriculum! 🤗
What is it about curriculum that is so captivating?! Haha!
@@TheHomeschoolConvert Lol. We homeschool through a charter, and when I walk in their curriculum storage where there are thousands of new books, I just want to spend my entire day in there. So so fun!! 🥰
🥑 we are also going to start using handwriting without tears…switching over from TGAB. I hope my little one likes it as much at TGAB. Loved your suggestions ✌🏼
Such great choices for kinder! Love how you’re really doing family subjects together too. I have a son going into kindergarten this year too so I love seeing what others are doing. Thanks for sharing Jess!
Thank you! Hope y’all have a great kindergarten year!
🥑 My kindergartener will be doing nature study from Treehouse Schoolhouse. It is a wonderful blend of many subjects! We are also using Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. For handwriting, I chose The Good & the Beautiful Level K. For math, she will start Math Mammoth Level 1. As a family, we do Story of the World for history.
Sounds great! I have some resources from Treehouse Schoolhouse that I received in a bundle, and they’re great!
We loved math with confidence and will be moving on to the new first grade book next year
Curriculum choices are always so fun to share and discuss. Thank you for sharing. 🥑 I can tell you will have a fun year exploring what works best for your family. 😊
Thanks! We’re looking forward to it!
Love how intentional you are in your choices
There’s a board game called Happy Hats that goes along with Bob Books and reinforces phonics.
Looks like a lot of fun! 🙂 My daughter was ready to read young as well. My biggest encouragement (speaking from experience) for the younger grades is take it slow and follow your kid's ques. I love your literature focus, that was my FAVORITE thing in the younger grades.
🥑
That is great advice! I definitely plan to follow her lead with the pace. Reading so much together is absolutely one of my favorite parts of homeschooling!
I cannot say enough good things for “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.” My son knew his letters and sounds right before he turned five and we started using Hooked on Phonics to learn how to read. Big fail for us. We switched to 100 Easy Lessons and it was a complete 180. The experience of learning how to read was so much more enjoyable and he’s blowing through the lessons. It’s just gentle enough to not get the child frustrated, but still builds complexity appropriately.
It’s so great to hear that you had such a good experience with it! Definitely encouraging!
We have been doing Kindergarten Math with Confidence. I have been very happy with it. Super easy to teach, and my child enjoys it!
It’s so good to hear positive reviews! I’m really looking forward to using it.
We are wild readers over here so I'm glad we found you!! We are doing good and the beautifulath this year 😁
🥑! We just finished Kindergarten with my 6 year old daughter! For math and LA, we used Gather ‘Round Ready to Read Program 1 & 2. For reading: Dick and Jane books, a lot of library books, sight word flashcards, and the The Good and the Beautiful beginner books box a, b, c & d. For writing, handwriting without tears and copywork. For family subjects, gather round unit studies! I’m sad because my daughter was SoOo excited about school at the beginning of the year and now she’s not interested. Maybe it’s burnout, the warmer weather or her big brother’s bad attitude rubbing off on her ☹️😏👎🏻 This homeschooling thing is such an emotional roller coaster! 😅
Sounds like y’all had a really well rounded year! Praying for renewed energy for everyone going into the new school year! Hopefully new curriculum will help reignite the excitement.
@@TheHomeschoolConvert I hope so! Thanks ❤️
I’ve only just found your channel and it’s been so helpful hearing your thoughts. It seems like we see eye to eye on approaches to home education and I’ll be looking into the curricula you’ve suggested. Great content nicely presented!
Thank you so much, Agatha! I’m so glad my content has been helpful. It’s so nice when we come across people with likeminded education ideologies.
🥑 great video and suggestions. I'm a homeschooling mom of a 5th, 7th, recent graduate and an almost college graduate. I'm thinking about that language through literature curriculum. Looks really thorough. The Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons worked so well for us. I was so worried about teaching my youngest how to read as my other ones had learned how to read before we homeschooled. We really enjoyed it.
I love hearing about the successes of more seasoned homeschoolers! Thanks for the encouragement!
@@TheHomeschoolConvert Thank you! Did you buy the Language curriculum new or used? I found some used online and thinking of going that route.
We used teach your child to read when my daughter turned 4 it worked amazingly she reads fluently at 4.5! She reads on a second grade reading level it’s really an awesome book we are doing explode the code now and bought all the Bob books too. When they finish teach your child to read they can already read above the first two sets of Bob books only the third set is a challenge. Watching to see what else you got!
🥑🥑🥑 Another video I enjoyed all the way to the end. I’ll be using Right Start Math, Logic of English, Handwriting Without Tears 😄, Jot It Down (Brave Writer), What Your Kindergartener Needs To Know, Scientific Connections through Inquiry and I’ll be doing my own super simple world geography study (a country per week). I’m so much like you in that I love having curriculum for structure and guidance, but I’m really not in a hurry. I’m sure I’ll scrap at least one curriculum listed 🤣 It’s just impossible to Know what will actually work until you try it! Can’t wait to hear what you think of what you’ve chosen as you use it, Jess!!
Thank you! Sounds like you’ve got a great plan! I’ve heard really great things about Right Start Math and Logic of English. There are so many awesome programs out there!
Hi Jess! I’m so excited to be able to homeschool my son this upcoming school year. He is also starting Kindergarten. I’m a former middle school teacher and really value connecting with other teachers and now homeschool parents. Thank you for sharing the curriculum you are using and all of the other helpful information. I’m excited to order some of the books you recommended in your read aloud book video. I look forward to watching more of your videos! Keep shining your light! 🌟🍎
Thank you for the sweet encouragement! ❤️ Hope y’all have a terrific kindergarten year!
Can you give us an update of your kindergarten curriculum? Would love to know. I have a preschooler right now and would like to prepare ahead because I like your choices.
K is my favorite! I am about to have my 4th and final (😭) kindergartener. My oldest went to K in a small Christian school, but I have loved homeschooling kindergarten for the rest of the gang.
We started this week, and I am so excited about it!
We'll also be doing Kindergarten Math with Confidence. So glad to see someone else using it!
Awesome! I’m really looking forward to using it!
🥑 I love curriculum videos! Thank you for sharing. I have enjoyed following your journey so far❤
I love them too! Thanks for watching!
I’m so excited to hear how your LA choice goes! It has caught my attention several times!
I will definitely keep y’all updated!
🥑 I love avocados too lol. It was great to see your choices. Thanks for sharing.
🥑😍 I love your choices! And learning through literature is my fave 🥰
Thank you, Nikki!! I’m excited about this school year. So glad we got to collab!
Super helpful. Thanks for sharing! Quinn also loves Avocados :) 🥑
Appreciate this content so much, I find myself running out of ideas on ways to challenge my daughter in ways that are fun but also useful.
I’m so glad it is helpful! ♥️
🥑 Great video!!! I can’t wait to look into learning language arts through literature!
Super awesome video!! I'm new to homeschooling and I love your detailed thoughts on all these books. I'm getting my own list together of what I want to include and will definitely be using some of your ideas here....especially the Math with Confidence and What Your Kindergartener Needs to Know. I'm liking the idea of the language arts program your using but its also BIG...ya know what I mean? A bit intimidating, but I'm going to make my rounds and I might end up coming back to that one. Thanks so much for your light hearted videos full of smiles! 🇺🇸❤😁 Cheers from Arkansas 🥑🥑
Cheers, Cheryl! Thank you! I’ve done a video updating on how our curriculum is going, and we’ve paused our ELAR curriculum for now and plan to pick it back up in January. It was a bit too formal for my very young kindergartner, but I do really like how it’s laid out and think it will be awesome when she’s ready for it!
🥑 I love that sight word book!! What a great worksheet resource!
I definitely think it will come in handy!
Really awesome choices! Our girls are in the same grade levels so I've been waiting to see what you picked out!
Thank you! I think it’s going to be a great school year!
I completely relate to you, your story about how you started!!!:):) i also started to homeschool my daughter during the pandemic and I fell in love with it:) our daughters are about the same age also, my daughter turned five in January:)
Oh, that’s awesome! Homeschooling has been such an unexpected gift!
I'm gonna check out that Spanish book! My 1st grader took Spanish at our co-op last year but chose PE instead this semester. Now we can do Spanish at home!
Love avocados! 🥑 Can’t wait to hear what you think of LLATL. You don’t see it much.
I’ll be sure to keep everyone up-to-date! I’m looking forward to using it with my daughter.
I used LLATL for a bit with my youngest daughter. I loved it!
🥑🥑🥑🥑
I love learning about new curriculum options! I’m always discovering new things here on YT. I impulse purchased the good and the beautiful math level K for my son during an amazing sale so we will see how that goes but I’m definitely exploring and researching alternative math curriculums in case it doesn’t work out.
For language arts I have TGTB level K primer which he will be finishing up this summer and from there i’m debating between their Kindergarten language arts curriculum, master books’ language lessons for a living education, or Gather Round’s Ready to Read curriculum. We also have the level 1 and 2 dash into reading sets for readers!
We’re going to be using Gentle and Classical’s kindergarten curriculum which I plan to use as supplemental activities and to draw on for morning basket reading and activities as well as Bible time and nature study!
Finally for science/nature study I’ve purchased several digital mega bundles over the last few months I am able to put together unit studies very cheap and easily. So grateful for that! :)
Hope you have a fantastic year! I’ve also taken advantage of some awesome digital bundles!
I also had a first child who went to k4 and k5 before I brought him home. I didn't teach him to read. I swear he absorbed it through Sesame Street and Word World. But his brother begged to learn to read at 4.5 and we used 100 Easy Lessons and Bob Books. We are following that with CLE's Learning to Read now that he is 5.
That’s awesome! I’m interested to see how Rowan does with learning to read.
I’m loving Kate snow’s resources!!
She’s great!
🥑 this is the best video ever!!!! Thank you SO MUCH!
Pretty much the only curriculum I was confident in was Kate Snow’s curriculum as well!! First one I ordered! Also doing five in a row, and I’m having such a hard time picking a reading curriculum!
Thinking about that Math with Confidence, thanks for showing us your choices.
Thanks for watching! I’m looking forward to doing Math With Confidence with my kindergartener.
We did Kindergarten Math With Confidence this year and enjoyed it. We would often use the 5th day to play a lot of the games in the book or play a board game called Sum Swamp. I highly recommend this Sum Swamp my kid loves it :)
Thanks for the recommendation!
RightStart Math and All About Reading are my absolute must-haves. I wish I loved everything as much as I love these -- and I'm always surprised when homeschooling RUclipsrs don't promote them as much as I would! You gotta check them out if you haven't up till now.
I love the idea of introducing logic through a story! Would love to hear what other books you come across for this purpose in the future if it goes well! (Just added the read it yourself stories to my thrift books cart!)
Oh and 🥑 😂
I will definitely keep everyone up-to-date as I find other logic storybooks! That’s probably something I can do on Instagram stories as I find resources. We’ll probably utilize the library a lot.
My daughter is a kinder and turns 5 this month. I love this
Hope she has a great year!
I gotta say, I have a few dry erase books for writing and I love them!! My daughter flys through them and loves them, I got them from Costco!
My daughters really enjoyed them in their younger years!
🥑 🥑 We’re just doing The Good and the Beautiful language arts, handwriting, and simply math (when it comes out) 😁
I know TGATB has really well rounded curriculum. I’m sure it will be a great year for y’all!
The Homeschool Convert yes! We did the Level K Primer this year, and we loved it! I’m not naturally organized, so open-and-go works great for me 😆 I’m excited to hear how your curriculum choices work for you guys! ☺️
Core knowledge has a free curriculum that’s is very nice.
So fun to see. Thanks for sharing! 🥑
Thanks for watching! ❤️
I loved the 100 easy reading lessons. My son was reading Dr. Sues books and Berenstein bears books have way through it.
🥑 This was super informative! Thank you!
Wow this is amazing. Do you happen to show or have a video with lesson plans of what you do with your kindergartener for a week?
Thank you! This is about a couple years old, and I don’t remember if I filmed something exactly like that, but I believe I have an old video from this school year that breaks down our weekly routine.
@@TheHomeschoolConvert is there anything you use now that you didn’t use back then? Or would recommend for kindergarten?
I loved math with confidence when I looked at it only problem we were coming to the end of our kindergarten year
Jess! I am loving your channel! We have similar HSing styles! :)
Awesome, thank you! Similar styles, and the same name, haha!
🥑Thank you, I have been looking for kindergarten curriculum ideas.
Enjoyed you showed me a lot of new things I have not heard of and I would love to try thank you. 🥑
Oh, yay! Glad this was helpful!
We have a lot in common because I am OBSESSED with avocados 😆
Yesssss!!! 🥑🥑🥑🥑
I watched this even though my only child is going into 3rd grade. 😆 If the math book doesn’t suggest MathStart books, they are worth checking out. I bought some this year. I plan to use a book called “Making Math Meaningful” as a supplement. I don’t have it yet, but my husband and I wanted to get a math book that teaches practical uses. My son used the Bob books and did so well with them, he only read 2 or 3 of the set and wanted to try bigger books. lol
Haha! Thanks for watching and for the recommendations! Bob books definitely are very simple. Great for building confidence, but not something we lingered on too much with my older daughter.
@@TheHomeschoolConvert Yes!! I tell people all the time that they are perfect for building confidence. After my son read just the couple words on a page, I told him, “you just read a whole page!” Then when he finished the book, I said similar and that made him feel so good!
🥑 love curriculum videos too! 😁
🥑 🥑🥑
Great video! You have a sweet personality! Good luck
Thank you so much! 🥰
Our focus for kindergarten was reading and math it just made sense.
Yes, perfect sense!
🥑lol!
Looks great and I cannot wait to see what you think of Math with Confidence and LLATL!
I have a Kindergartener this upcoming year and for our core we will be utilizing " A Year of Tales Preschool" (curriculum based around the works of Beatrix Potter). This will be used with my 5yo and 3yo.
Then for Reading, we will complete "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" (on Lesson 71 right now). After that we'll wrap up "100 Gentle Lessons in Sight & Sound" from A Gentle Feast. Which I LOVE! You learn to read via nursery rhymes and we are on Lesson 50 of that.
Handwriting, using TGTB. We alternate handwriting days with Explode the Code days. We do one page a day from either handwriting or ETC, right after our morning time.
Math, we are using Christian Light Education.
Spanish, completing Song School Spanish Book 1.
Enrichment: Composer (from Ambleside online rotation), Hymn/Folksong (Happy Hymnody and Ambleside online), Poet and Art Study (both from A Year of Tales, curriculum).
Lastly, we will be doing periodic weeks of Around the World Through Picture Books from Beautiful Feet Books. (I think I planned it to do one country a month so that it's spread out throughout the year).
We are also year round homeschoolers and her level of work is between K/1st so we'll see where we end up:)
Sounds like you’ll have an amazing year!
🥑 This was so helpful for recommendations!
🥑 Looks like a fun year! We just finished up kindergarten, it’s such a fun grade!
I’m very much looking forward to it!
🥑
Thank you for all this wonderful information!
Hi! I am wondering! I have a 5 year old completing the Masterbooks K Math, but he is breezing through it.
Should I start him with K for Math With confidence or 1st grade? He will be 6 in October. Masterbooks was way too slow for us….
I would probably shoot for a first grade curriculum. We’ve used Math Mammoth for first grade math and have enjoyed it.
🥑 thank you! -very helpful!!
Great choices!
We’re excited to start soon!
Thank you for sharing! 🥑
I am using the The Good and the beautiful level k primer for five my year old this schoolyear
I know many people love TGATB!
I also have a daughter named Rowan born in August 🥰 she’ll be 2 this year
Those links are not working for the math/language arts curriculum could you post a more updated link please?
I would be interested in attending an USBORNE virtual party. Do you host those?
I’ve only ever done one, but I’d be happy to host one if there was interest!
@@TheHomeschoolConvert Awesome! Yes, I'd like to get the huge set of reader books, but it was almost $80.00 and figure purchasing at a party would be more beneficial.
@@KatiesWorldSCRAPBOOK send me an email! 😁 thehomeschoolconvert@gmail.com
I am curious your opinion on the way that Teaching Your Child to Read in 100 lessons uses the phonetically written letters. I just can't get past the 'strangeness' of it and the fact that when my learner picks up an early reader, the letters look different. Do you think kids easily transition between the two formats?
I had this difficultly too. We have ordinary parents guide to teaching reading we use more bc of the find in 100 easy lessons. I still like to look at the instructions on certain things. Some kids it works great especially if they have dyslexia or you suspect them having it.
I think different programs work for different kids, honestly. This will be my first time using it, so I’ll be sure to update here! From what I understand, the phonetic symbols, etc. are “weaned off” as you progress through the program and get to the end.
🥑
Just wondering, 8 months later, what worked well, what didn't and we're you able to incorporate everything you went over in this video? Thanks.
I’ll be making a video on this soon! There are some core things we stuck with and other things we let go.
I have beard good things about Learning Language Arts through Literature.
I’m really excited about using it!
What about my father's world? Would love to hear your opinion on that
Thank you 🥑
🥑 Loved this!
Thank you!
You are so fun!
Well thanks!!
So helpful thank you! What do you use for science and social studies for curriculum?
We did that as part of group subjects. Things changed from my original plans the second half of the year because of how crazy our lives became, but we’ve enjoyed Heroes & Hope for social studies and North American Animals for science recently. Both are but Simple Studies, and they’ve been just what we needed during a hectic season.
I would love to buy the “My First Library” from Usborne, but wanted to give you credit for the purchase. I wasn’t sure I should use the link you listed or do it a different way? Thank you!
You are too kind! The link in my description box is fine. ❤️
@@TheHomeschoolConvert perfect! I can’t wait to try them out! This our first year homeschooling and I just stumbled across your page. I am loving all of your videos!
🥑 we are using MFW and explode the code for kinder next year! So excited 😆
Can you list the books you are using in the comments? I don't have my glasses on me.
Everything should be linked in the description box. :)
Hi I’m wondering what you thought of math with confidence
I absolutely loved it!
🥑 😊
🥑🥑🥑🥑thank you for your videos. They help a lot 🥑🥑🥑🥑
I’m so glad!! Thanks for watching! ❤️