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Thank you for sharing your sweet testimony. As an LDS (Mormon) transplant from Utah to Dallas, TX, it has been hard seeing the prejudice among fellow Christians. It was really hard to find a co-op that was open to us which really floored me. Coming from Utah I was in the majority and here....I'm not! :) I love your spirit of unity. Whether we worship Christ (in whatever form that looks like), or another supreme being, or no one at all, it doesn't matter. We are all mothers doing our best. And we are all blessed for the freedom to homeschool and teach our children in the way we see fit. Sistahs Unite! :)
I could see how that would be hard coming from Utah, where mormons are the majority. I sometimes want to move to texas because I live in Portland, where mormons certainly are not the majority, and where homeschooling in the mormon community is "odd".. but it sounds like there are challenges anywhere we live :). so I am odd all the way around, and I like it. I love being different, set apart. because the Lords choice people are just that. they are not of the world, we are set apart, different, and even hated by the world. so we can unite with those who truly KNOW Christ and have eyes to see and faith to act. Love to you my sweet sister in zion! you are doing the lords will and others will see your light and wonder where it comes from ;)
I’m also a member but I’m in Australia it absolutely dumbfounds me the prejudice that members receive from other ‘Christian’s’. I’m so grateful for this curriculum to teach my toddlers for now because it is Christ centred.
Thank you so much for sharing about the TG&TB curriculum! I am ordering the history and LA soon. Your video was very helpful and I appreciate you sharing your heart. I am not Mormon, but strongly believe we all are sisters in Christ, as you mentioned! God bless and have a wonderful school year!
Thanks for sharing! My kiddos and myself love watching your videos and IG page. You have encouraged me so much and I’m thankful for your obedience to the Spirit cause it has trickled on over here to us in Central Texas☺️ Keep on being blessed! We’re looking into this curriculum.. I had just purchased curriculum but this sounds so amazing!
This is the first video I watch of yours and I just love you!! Love your humor and your spirit! Thanks for spreading that beautiful light of yours! I'm Christian and honestly every Mormon I have every met has been amazing!
You have REALLY made me want to try this curriculum! Sounds like an answer to prayer! Thank you for your honesty, dear sister in Christ! I’m learning sooooo much from all you beautiful moms on RUclips!
This homeschool community is the most loving and tender group of woman I have ever met! We all come together with different faiths and build eachother up. I want to do an "interfaith homeschool mama" video! I would love to include how we all stay true to our beliefs but welcome others into our hearts. It is so important these days. keep moving forward in your journey sweet sister, He will guide yoU!
THANK YOU!!! Such a beautiful video and I send you a big hug for having this kind of heart for the Lord and sharing it , it’s so true we are one in Christ , doesn’t matter the denomination. That’s our purpose as a family living in japan... to teach our little ones that love for him. Definetly I’ll go for this curriculum next year...
RUclips needs to get with the program and give us a love button! What a wonderful testimony of Christ. Thank you for taking the time to review this curriculum, I’m starting three of my five on it this fall and I so appreciate hearing your thoughts and experiences with it!
you are so incredibly sweet, such kind words. my heart is swelling with gratitude how the Lord works! I am always so incredibly humbled to be an instrument to help others as they dive into this sometimes daunting yet beautiful path. it is worth it and right where the Lord wants us.
MonsonSchoolhouse Awh thank you! Yes it is. Exhausting hard work some times, but 100% of the time it is worth it. This looks like it will streamline things beautifully.
Thank You for posting this video! I will be starting pre-K with TG&TB so excited to have run into your vlog. Your message at the end is amazing we are all on the same mission to show Gods love & light to our future generations. I love how TG&TB is non denominational so I’m glad I can here your point of view and how others are enjoying it.
I love how it is non denomination too! But so filled with goodness , it is an instrument bringing us all to Christ and preparing us, uniting us, for His return
Watching this has been so encouraging for me. We're brand new to homeschooling. We'll be starting with my kindergartener. I NEVER anticipated being a homeschool parent. Like, I frowned upon it. But here we are! I learned a bit about TGATB and decided we'd give it a shot. You're enthusiasm for this curriculum after using it with your kids feels like a bit of weight has been lifted from me. There's so much fear entering into this education unknown!
Alyssa, our story sounds the same :). I totally mocked homeschool families... the Lord has a sense of humor and here I am, the homeschool family and I am the one being mocked ;) But, truth be told, this side of the fence is absolutely AMAZING! You will find yourself wanting to share homeschooling, "best kept secret" ,with everyone you know. I wish I homeschooled from the beginning!! Once you take the first courageous step the Lord will come ten fold and carry you! Best of luck to you. you will do absolutely GREAT!
Your so amazing! Thank you for sharing such an important message and helpful tips! Honestly your making such a difference in my life and my 2 girls life’s, keep doing what your doing! God bless you and your family!!!
You're a beautiful person and I love your videos. I will be doing this curriculum in the fall and can't wait to see more of you and your beautiful family immersed in it! I am a twin mama too. My twins are 8 and they are a girl and a boy. I also have a 12yo boy :) Keep following the Holy Spirit's leading...He will never steer you wrong! God bless you!!
MonsonSchoolhouse YES!! Twins are a blast!!! Hey! I have a question for you! Do you calculate time spent reading or do you calculate pages to read daily in the homeschool planet generator! I absolutely LOVE Homeschool Planet!! I watched your video on it last month and have been using it ever since!! I don’t know what I’d do without it now!! Thanks in advance for your input! 😊
Thank you for doing this video. We have been going back and forth trying to decide to ditch the old and start new with the Good and the Beautiful. I was really struggling with that decision. Then after watching this we did just that. We are only 2 days in but this is EXACTLY what we were looking for. I love how it challenges the kids and honestly so do they. It makes them feel so accomplished. ❤ this curriculum. Thanks for posting this. PS...we just ordered the history curriculum too. It's out with the old and in with the new!!! 😊
Your videos give me the motivation to keep homeschooling! I’ve mentioned before that I don’t have any friends that homeschool around me and I doubt myself a lot so just hearing your testimony helps tremendously. A few follow up questions: - do you have your daughter write a report or anything after she reads each book you require? - Do you do history and science M-Th? Do you do both at the same time or alternate between units? Ex: do a science unit, once you finish that unit do a history unit..etc.
Emma Seymore I believe she may have answered some of the schedule related questions in one of her last videos. Not sure about the book report question. Hope that helps!
to answer your questions- book reports I give my kids a lot of options (art, essay, paper, oral presentation, power point)., they always pick something different each time, it is so fun to see them report the book through all different ways. And for history I do units. So right now we do history MTW for about 6 weeks (revolutionary war). then we will switch to science unit for about 4 weeks. then back to history. we tried to do science 2 days a week and history 2 days a week, but by vote my kids wanted to dive in deep with one thing at a time. so for now units are working for us!
K, I just came across this and I am exactly where you were at... my kids are 11, 8 and 5 and I'm going to pull them out of public schools as soon as I figure this out. I have been all over the internet researching SO many programs. This one kept coming up but the quality was a concern of mine and I'm so glad you addressed it! I didn't know what the curriculum was actually all about and this helped SO MUCH!! Thank you!!!!
Cami this is wonderful! You are fearless and filled with faith, I can feel this through your message. My kids are around the same ages as yours. We are still using TGATB, my kids are STILL absolutely engaged and thriving academically, and I am SO excited for their new High School program!! Take a leap of faith and go with TGATB, you will wish that you pulled your children from the schools sooner!
Mikael!!!!!!!! SO good to see you and your sweet soft spirit. You live in a beautiful space. It looks so serene. Thank you for sharing your honest thoughts about this curriculum. I can't wait to dive in with my first child next year. P.S. I always wanted to do ballet but never had a chance and I admire everyone who does it.
I saw the title of your video, checked out the website, and ordered the curriculum before I even watched the video. Now I'm finally going to watch this. Thank you for this! Can't wait to start this with my daughter. I would love to see a vlog style video of your day with this curriculum if that seems good to you. 😉
My daughter did All About Reading Pre-reading and loves it, but when we moved to level 1 she stopped enjoying it. So now we’re 8 lessons in and thinking about switching to the Good and the Beautiful now. We just need to get the joy back.
Im going to try this..my son is 11, just pulled him out of public school. We are born again Christians and the Lord put it on my heart to take this New journey. So, this is my first year homeschooling! Im overwhelmed and I cant seem to find a language curriculum. My son is in the 5th grade however, I tested him he is at a 3rd grade level..😞we had lots of tears in school up to this point. I wish i would have done this sooner! I was so blind to the lack of teaching In public schools! Thank you for your videos they are very informative.
Yay! A video! I've been waiting for it :) 1.) I was using My Fathers World for my 6 (now 7 year old) twin boys at the beginning of the school year. It's good, but it just wasn't feeling right for us. After watching your video on The Good and the Beautiful, I ordered it and we've been using and LOVING it!! EVERY SINGLE THING you said about it was true for us as well. Thank you so much for sharing! 2) I can't wait to hear your review on the History curriculum. I want to get that next! 3.) We are 'new-ish' converts (lol) and I just absolutely adore you and what you stand for. Your videos are fun to watch and I love how down to earth you are. 4.) Did you mention what math curriculum your 9 year olds are using? Maybe I missed it? Thanks!
Hi Stephanie. So happy to see you comment here ;) That is awesome you got it and it is working for you, love that!! So history is coming up soon, my next videos will be "do a lesson with us" level 4 and level 6. then I can go to history review and how we do that. My twin boys are using Teaching Textbooks math. we were using Saxon, and it is a fabulous curriculum, but I was getting overloaded with my kinder so I switched them. TT is more independent on the computer and it has been AWESOME! My olders use TT and Drew, my kinder, is doing Math U see Primer. Hope that helps!
Instant subscribe 10 minutes in! I love your outlook on homeschooling and the public school system/grade levels. And just on life! What happened to learning about LIFE being our source of “entertainment”? Now it’s tablets. Not in my house. I didn’t grow up like that and I’m seeing my kids lives going in that direction if I don’t do something about it now. I just pulled my oldest out of public last week. Good and the beautiful coming to us Wednesday ❤️
Love your comment! NO iPad/tablet in our home has really opened up doors to love, patience, kindness and creativity being present in our home at all times :) Good luck with your homeschool journey, you are stepping into a beautiful life with your kids!
I am so happy! I am going to be doing a video on how I schedule my year of unit studies soon, I think that might help give a different perspective for planning the year out ;)
this was an AMAZING review! thank you SO much! my family is Christian, and i really wanted to have a faith-based curriculum for my daughter. you did amazing! thanks again! ❤️❤️❤️
I want you to know you have inspired me to home school again this fall all 4 of our kids will be home again for reason that are to long to type here we put them in school three years ago and now we are going back to our family roots and I’m actually really inspired and your videos have helped me thank you and your kids are sooo cute and your home is beautiful
this just makes my entire week!!! It is the Lord and I am only His instrument, and nothing more. Glory be to our God and His loving hand to lead you to me where you can regain your strength and your fire to go forward and teach His children. Love to you ! Stay close to the Lord and I will continue to do His will, whatever that may be. Love to yoU!
Beautiful message! Thank you so much for the wonserful review. I was on the fence about choosing The Good and the Beautiful, and this made me finally decide.
I am so glad I pushed you over the fence ! ha. Angels pushed me to click that "buy now" button and I am eternally GRATEFUL! I will never use another curriculum
Thank yo so much for this review! Love how you explain everything - Just briefly looking at it, it seemed like everything I was looking for, but like you said I was worried about "quality" and I'm so reassured now! I'm trying to figure out more of the specifics for what to order, so love the extra breakdown
My kids love the program! Level K needs to be renamed level A as is more of a last semester K or first semester 1- I lean more to the first for many students. Level 1 is a solid late 1st and 2nd grade. Level 7 teaches essays and early research skills so well. I like to use CLE KII right before using TGaTB K as it gives a solid six months of practice with CVC words of which I believe is needed for many children before going into all of the other phonograms. We are using levels K/1, 2/3, 4/5, and HS as soon as it comes out. We just finished levels 1, 3, and almost have finished 7 with our oldest. The LA is simply fabulous!
thanks for your detailed comment on the curriculum! Sounds like you are well educated with it, I love what you said and am sure many people appreciate you giving your insight on the levels :)
Thank you for this video! I came across your channel a couple months ago and you have been an encouragement to me. We left the public school system and have been homeschooling since the beginning of January. I ordered TGAB based on your positive review and we are anxiously waiting for it to arrive!! We are looking forward to see how the Lord will guide us through this exciting journey! Blessings to you!
I am so excited for you!! congrats on trusting in the Lord and where He is leading you and your family, you will be blessed. Keep pushing forward with faith, of course there are days of hardship, but that refines us and draws us closer to the Lord
Carrie Woods - we are still really loving the curriculum! The quality and wholesomeness of the material is amazing, and it's wonderful to open up the workbook and start a lesson with no preparation required. It continuously reviews concepts the child is learning but doesn't seem too repetitive, and the length of the lessons are very appropriate. We have been using the Language Arts, Science, and Handwriting so far, and I had the opportunity to download the next 5 grades of Language Arts for Free 😊We are really excited to continue with the curriculum. It has been a great fit for our family!
Whitney thank you so much for your reply! Super helpful. I'm really excited to give this a try. My little girl isn't quite ready to start it yet, but it's nice to have something in mind that seems possible.
I love how the placement tests take all of the guesswork out of it. Just order where they place. It was hard to get out of the public school mentality. I think this curriculum is the best.
you are so right, it took me YEARS to sift that public school mentality out of me, and there is still a lot for me to sift. Thanks for sharing about the testing!
Hi 👋🏻 I am new to the idea of homeschooling and had a few questions. What is your take on their chances of getting into good colleges after being on homeschool versus someone who went to a highly rated high school? Also, what does your day look like while homeschooling. What does it take? Thank you in advance.
This is because they are coming out with new additions very soon! I would suggest downloading the free PDF version, printing it at home while you await the new addition. the wait will be worth it!
Hello :) This is my first year ever homeschooling. I am looking into the good and the beautiful and master books. I've been reading that the good and the beautiful is wonderful, but it does require parent lesson planning vs. masterbooks it's set and has a daily schedule where it tells you which and how many lessons to do per day. I work from home, but go to work in person two times a week. What do you recommend for busy moms ?
Awesome video! We are planning to switch to TG&TB in the fall. I will have a level K child and 2 level 3s by then. I am also planning to attend the conference in July in SLC- will you be there by any chance?
I just love you. You are a beautiful person and so encouraging to this fellow homeschool momma! I’m interested in the Good and the Beautiful but we are on a tight budget and it’s a little spendy for me :(
There are free downloads on their website, you can get the PDF for FREE and print it at home! I understand the tight budget. Pray to God to open up doors for you. He will. He will help this fall into your lap if it is the right thing for your family. I have seen miracles like this in my own life. Love to yoU!
Would you recommend this as a good Pre-K program? We are completely new to homeschooling but I want to start with Pre-K for my 4 year old. She loves to learn but I don’t want to push her too far too fast.
Love it! It's looking like we'll be doing the Classical Conversations co-op this upcoming school year. I'm wondering if I can incorporate the TGAB into it? I saw that Math for the younger ones have been introduced.
I am not very familiar with classical conversations and exactly how it works, although I myself have been interested in it and I would like to know what you find out ! Maybe it could be incorporated? if so, that would be wonderful!
Favored4life just my two cents- I do CC, but have not used the good and the beautiful yet but I am SERIOUSLY considering it for next year. From everything I can see, it looks it would be a great fit with CC! Especially in the grammar stage of CC (grades k-3) you can really use any curriculum you want to teach a solid foundation in reading, writing, math, because cc does not cover those things in depth. In the grammar stage cc is building a foundation on memory work and building pegs of knowledge and information that your child will come back to later. So yes, I definitely think these would work really nicely together :)
Lauren Goodwin yes, thanks. I visited their open house and looks like any curriculum could be used but they pushed for saxon. How's homeschooling going for you?
Great! Ya, I don't use saxon LOL! Homeschooling is overall going well, but its a mixed bag for me. I have 3 boys and a 4th on the way. My oldest is in first grade. He's super bright but is really struggling with seated work for reading/writing. So unfortunately every day feels like a battle! BUT I do love CC because he can easily pick up the memory work and I know he is learning really great things that he will use later in his education. You should check out "farmhouseschoolhouse" on IG and also just search for her blog. She has been a HUGE encouragement to me as she does CC in a Charlotte Mason style sort of way and she just shares lots of amazing tips about how to incorporate CC in a relaxed way. Blessings on your homeschool journey! Take it slow, and just try to learn little tidbits every day. I've learned so much this year already just through doing CC about what works and what doesn't work for our family.
Lauren Goodwin thanks. We are excited to start this upcoming year. Sometimes I have to allow my 1st grader to sit in different places to read/write. He loves going in a tent, under a table or even outside. I think environment is big with their minds. I love Farmhousehomeschool; she's a rockstar with her kids. I'm looking forward to the new school year and learning more about these blessings God entrusted to me. Remain blessed and have a great weekend!
I’m pulling my kids out of public school next year, but I have a son who has watched them come home on the bus for the last year. He will be starting kindergarten and has told me wants to go to school. I am having a hard time deciding on what to do for him. Did your son want to homeschool kinder or was he hoping to go to school?
My littlest went to a christian preschool, he loved it! so I had the same concern and even researched private kindergartens, and we had the means to do that too! there were many good private schools that would have been fabulous for him.... But the Spirit was SO strong to keep him home. to keep the family unified. I followed and he is home. Days have been hard with him, challenging, and sometimes I hear my olders say "just send him to school.." because he does take a lot of my attention. But I followed the Lord, I was obedient and continue to be. I will face the hard times and pray and find my way. My kinder is reading so well, and he is learning TRUTHS! He is participating in our prayers, scriptures, and testimony. He feels the spirit in our home all day everyday. There is a reason he needs to be here. It is more than just to go have fun socially and make crafts at a school. The Lord has a deeper calling for me and our family. - pray and you will be guided with what to do!
I've been waiting for a video from you for awhile, so thanks for sharing! I am looking to switch curriculum for next year and wanted to see how you liked TG&TB after switching and so far it still sounds awesome! I think I am drawn to you first of all since we both love the Lord, same age, this is my first year homeschooling and your 2nd so we are fairly new to this, I have a 12 year old boy and a 9 year old boy so our kids are close in age and same grades and I am a twin like your boys! Can't wait to see part 2 when you dive into the curriculum! I am currently only using their science, The Human Body, and we are doing good with that, but my 6th grader has already learned that in PS, so not sure how to split them up with that! Any ideas let me know! I know that they have instruction for older kids in Middle School but that would be very hard for him because writing is a struggle. Has your daughter already learned the science you are doing with your 4th graders and is she bored or do you make her do more? Hope that makes sense. My 6th grader has a hard time comprehending so he doesn't love reading like your kiddos do! So I am working on that! Anyway, thank you for the video and blessings over your family! :D
you are so sweet! right now we use "teaching textbooks" for my older ones and "math u see" for my kinder. But in the summer The good and the beautiful is coming out with MATH! I will be using it for my Kinder :)
Hi, I'm already getting next years school curriculum figured out. The good and beautiful looks great but hoping you could answer a few questions for me. Is there grammar problems everyday, spelling problems everyday and how often is a writing lesson? Also my 4th grader hates and drags out writing so much so I need something fun and simple for writing, how does the writing lessons rate in this curriculum? Thanks so much. Ela is the only subject I am kind of at a loss to do. We are doing easy grammar this year and love it but I like how this has the rest included with it. Please let know know your thoughts, it's greatly appreciated! Shannon
Oh one more question, next year my oldest girl is in 6th and my youngest girl in 5th. Do you think it would be okay to do same level for the two or do you think that will really hold back my 6th grader whom is fantastic in schooling?
Shannon, there is spelling daily and they do "grammar and geography cards" everyday. Along with the cards they do have grammar in their lessons too. I have one 4th grader that is a natural writer and his twin brother is more like yours (doesn't know how and gets stuck easily and really needs encouragement). It is interesting to see how they do with this curriculum while in the same level but at different writing stages. My struggling writer is doing well! The writing assigments are step by step. only 1 step daily. so he can handle it. and with my natural writer he tends to just run with it and complete all steps in one shot! It is really fun to see. How would I rate the lessons, 2 thumbs up! I was actually so surprised. The thing I LOVE is that it is not writing ALL THE TIME EVERYDAY. It is more like a writing "mini unit", then they will get a break and do geography or art for a bit. it helps them breath. Then back to writing again. we have loved it.... sorry this is long..... As for keeping your kiddos in the same level, you could! but that is up to you, you know them. Do they want to do their "own thing". I would say pray about it and your answer will come ;)
I don't think so at all! I actually think it would work better becuase it isn't loooooong busy work. it is right to the point, just what they need. not too much, but just enough.
I just had my daughter take the placement test. Umm...yea, I was a little surprised. I know Jenny says over and over on the site not to worry if you don't place where expected, but still... :-( It's a bit like standardized testing anxiety.
What surprised you, did she score higher or lower than you expected? honestly, do not worry about it. If you start lower than you expected, I would see that as an amazing opportunity to touch on everything that might have been missed before! The curriculum will ease all of your worries, and once you dive in all of this anxiety will go away. It truly is amazing!
Lower. I'm not too worried, but I was surprised. I agree...the placement test itself is reason enough to try this curriculum. It was pretty tough... In a good way. :-) Looking forward to more of your videos sharing your experience with TGTB. Always encouraging!!!
I would say this is an encouragement! Start today and move forward. You will see great improvement and their love for learning with deepen and blossom!
As far as IEW, it does not follow the same syllabus they do exactly, but I have found it to be excellent in the writing! I don't feel to supplement at all, I really feel this is giving my kids strong skills in all their L/A subjects :)
Hi. Came across your channel and I’m So glad I did. I just withdrew my son last week 3rd grade and I’ve been researching sooooo much on curriculum but I’m really liking TG&TB . Do you use this for all subjects ? Also what are your thoughts on Math U See ? Thanks ❤️
We use TGTB for everything except math right now. I use Math U See for my kindergartner and we love it! It is a great program. My older ones use Teaching Textbooks because it is all on the computer and is very independent and easy for me to check their grades. Either is a good choice!
💙 I’m Catholic and have been researching this curriculum. It looks like all portions will be great for Catholics except the history curriculum. Their website states its written from a Protestant perspective and I’ve heard there are a couple of lessons that reflect poorly on the Catholic Church. That’s okay though. There are plenty of Catholic history curriculums we can use. I’m using TGTB for the rest because it’s awesome.
Hi Chantal, so glad you wrote. I love catholics, that is wonderful to find that you are of that faith ;) I have several catholic instagram friends and they have loved it, but I can understand your hesitation if that is what you have heard. I haven't found anything bad written about the catholics in the history curriculum, I will check with my catholic friends that use it. I find it very honorable that you are researching and making sure it works for your family and faith, that is what all of us should do with everything we bring into our homes. Much love to you!
I went on the jenny phillips website and it looks like all of the subjects are separate. There is a separate tab for ELA, math, science, history, handwriting. I was under the impression that this was an integrated curriculum. Could you just give me some more clarification about that before I order. Thank you.
hi Nicole! I know it can be a bit overwhelming at first, let me help ;) Language arts, handwriting and math is per student and specific grade level. History, science is schoolroom style, family style (so you only need 1 book per family here). hope this helps!
I just took one today of a lesson with my kinder. instead of just opening the books and showing you all (there are already so many good videos on youtune like that!), I decided to actually show a lesson with my kiddos using it. so right now I am editing my kinder and will have that up ASAP! it will be part of a "how we do the good and the beautiful" series ;)
Do your twin boys do TG&TB language arts on their own or do you sit and do it with them as a group? It says its self directed in level 4, but I still have been sitting down with my son and doing this with him.
they do half of it independant and then the other half I sit down with each of them alone and help. I love to sit down with them. That is partly why I love this, because it really gives me motivation to sit down alone with them everyday and hear them read and ask them what they thought of the poem and help them. that is what makes me happy :)
Hi again!! Did you catch my question I asked you in my response about twins? It’s a specific question about Homeschool Planet! Thanks for any input!! 👍😊
I'm really considering switching to this curriculum from AAR but I'm concerned it's not as thorough with the phonics rules as AAR. What are your thoughts on this since you also did AAR.
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His will shall be done! Love you too! Thank you for sharing what God has put on your heart!!!
Thank you for sharing your sweet testimony. As an LDS (Mormon) transplant from Utah to Dallas, TX, it has been hard seeing the prejudice among fellow Christians. It was really hard to find a co-op that was open to us which really floored me. Coming from Utah I was in the majority and here....I'm not! :) I love your spirit of unity. Whether we worship Christ (in whatever form that looks like), or another supreme being, or no one at all, it doesn't matter. We are all mothers doing our best. And we are all blessed for the freedom to homeschool and teach our children in the way we see fit. Sistahs Unite! :)
I could see how that would be hard coming from Utah, where mormons are the majority. I sometimes want to move to texas because I live in Portland, where mormons certainly are not the majority, and where homeschooling in the mormon community is "odd".. but it sounds like there are challenges anywhere we live :). so I am odd all the way around, and I like it. I love being different, set apart. because the Lords choice people are just that. they are not of the world, we are set apart, different, and even hated by the world. so we can unite with those who truly KNOW Christ and have eyes to see and faith to act. Love to you my sweet sister in zion! you are doing the lords will and others will see your light and wonder where it comes from ;)
I’m also a member but I’m in Australia it absolutely dumbfounds me the prejudice that members receive from other ‘Christian’s’. I’m so grateful for this curriculum to teach my toddlers for now because it is Christ centred.
Thank you so much for sharing about the TG&TB curriculum! I am ordering the history and LA soon. Your video was very helpful and I appreciate you sharing your heart. I am not Mormon, but strongly believe we all are sisters in Christ, as you mentioned! God bless and have a wonderful school year!
Thanks for sharing! My kiddos and myself love watching your videos and IG page. You have encouraged me so much and I’m thankful for your obedience to the Spirit cause it has trickled on over here to us in Central Texas☺️ Keep on being blessed! We’re looking into this curriculum.. I had just purchased curriculum but this sounds so amazing!
This is the first video I watch of yours and I just love you!! Love your humor and your spirit! Thanks for spreading that beautiful light of yours! I'm Christian and honestly every Mormon I have every met has been amazing!
thank you for your positive comment! I feel your warm and christ like heart. So happy to have you here!
MonsonSchoolhouse thank you! Happy to be here! Next school year will be our first year homeschooling and I’m so excited to join the family!
I have been looking into this curriculum more! Thanks for sharing all the videos on it. And I love your heart! Thanks for sharing!
I love your honesty. Thank you for opening up and speaking from your heart.
:) your comment was really needed right now. much love to you.
You have REALLY made me want to try this curriculum! Sounds like an answer to prayer! Thank you for your honesty, dear sister in Christ! I’m learning sooooo much from all you beautiful moms on RUclips!
This homeschool community is the most loving and tender group of woman I have ever met! We all come together with different faiths and build eachother up. I want to do an "interfaith homeschool mama" video! I would love to include how we all stay true to our beliefs but welcome others into our hearts. It is so important these days. keep moving forward in your journey sweet sister, He will guide yoU!
Thank you! You are so right!
I look forward to every single video that you put out, keep them coming! You are so genuine, so knowledgeable, and inspiring!
what a sweet comment! thank you for that. I needed to hear that.
THANK YOU!!! Such a beautiful video and I send you a big hug for having this kind of heart for the Lord and sharing it , it’s so true we are one in Christ , doesn’t matter the denomination.
That’s our purpose as a family living in japan... to teach our little ones that love for him.
Definetly I’ll go for this curriculum next year...
thank you for commenting all the way from Japan! I love how youtube has connected me to wonderful amazing families all over the world!
RUclips needs to get with the program and give us a love button! What a wonderful testimony of Christ. Thank you for taking the time to review this curriculum, I’m starting three of my five on it this fall and I so appreciate hearing your thoughts and experiences with it!
you are so incredibly sweet, such kind words. my heart is swelling with gratitude how the Lord works! I am always so incredibly humbled to be an instrument to help others as they dive into this sometimes daunting yet beautiful path. it is worth it and right where the Lord wants us.
MonsonSchoolhouse Awh thank you! Yes it is. Exhausting hard work some times, but 100% of the time it is worth it. This looks like it will streamline things beautifully.
Thank You for posting this video! I will be starting pre-K with TG&TB so excited to have run into your vlog. Your message at the end is amazing we are all on the same mission to show Gods love & light to our future generations. I love how TG&TB is non denominational so I’m glad I can here your point of view and how others are enjoying it.
I love how it is non denomination too! But so filled with goodness , it is an instrument bringing us all to Christ and preparing us, uniting us, for His return
I just realized you did this today, thank you!!! Excited for the next part, very excited.
Whoo hoo! Can’t wait for part two! Thanks for sharing your feelings on here. 💝
Watching this has been so encouraging for me. We're brand new to homeschooling. We'll be starting with my kindergartener. I NEVER anticipated being a homeschool parent. Like, I frowned upon it. But here we are! I learned a bit about TGATB and decided we'd give it a shot. You're enthusiasm for this curriculum after using it with your kids feels like a bit of weight has been lifted from me. There's so much fear entering into this education unknown!
Alyssa, our story sounds the same :). I totally mocked homeschool families... the Lord has a sense of humor and here I am, the homeschool family and I am the one being mocked ;) But, truth be told, this side of the fence is absolutely AMAZING! You will find yourself wanting to share homeschooling, "best kept secret" ,with everyone you know. I wish I homeschooled from the beginning!! Once you take the first courageous step the Lord will come ten fold and carry you! Best of luck to you. you will do absolutely GREAT!
The Good and the Beautiful is one of the things that keeps me homeschooling. It truly is a godsend.
Your so amazing! Thank you for sharing such an important message and helpful tips! Honestly your making such a difference in my life and my 2 girls life’s, keep doing what your doing! God bless you and your family!!!
We're still getting back into the swing of things after Christmas! The Good and The Beautiful has most definitely helped us in SO many ways!!!
You're a beautiful person and I love your videos. I will be doing this curriculum in the fall and can't wait to see more of you and your beautiful family immersed in it! I am a twin mama too. My twins are 8 and they are a girl and a boy. I also have a 12yo boy :) Keep following the Holy Spirit's leading...He will never steer you wrong! God bless you!!
yay for twins! isn't it fun! sending love your way
MonsonSchoolhouse YES!! Twins are a blast!!! Hey!
I have a question for you! Do you calculate time spent reading or do you calculate pages to read daily in the homeschool planet generator! I absolutely LOVE Homeschool Planet!! I watched your video on it last month and have been using it ever since!! I don’t know what I’d do without it now!! Thanks in advance for your input! 😊
Oh, and I’m talking about what the kids read every day...not your read alouds.
Thank you for doing this video. We have been going back and forth trying to decide to ditch the old and start new with the Good and the Beautiful. I was really struggling with that decision. Then after watching this we did just that. We are only 2 days in but this is EXACTLY what we were looking for. I love how it challenges the kids and honestly so do they. It makes them feel so accomplished. ❤ this curriculum. Thanks for posting this. PS...we just ordered the history curriculum too. It's out with the old and in with the new!!! 😊
Your videos give me the motivation to keep homeschooling! I’ve mentioned before that I don’t have any friends that homeschool around me and I doubt myself a lot so just hearing your testimony helps tremendously.
A few follow up questions:
- do you have your daughter write a report or anything after she reads each book you require?
- Do you do history and science M-Th? Do you do both at the same time or alternate between units? Ex: do a science unit, once you finish that unit do a history unit..etc.
Emma Seymore I believe she may have answered some of the schedule related questions in one of her last videos. Not sure about the book report question. Hope that helps!
to answer your questions- book reports I give my kids a lot of options (art, essay, paper, oral presentation, power point)., they always pick something different each time, it is so fun to see them report the book through all different ways.
And for history I do units. So right now we do history MTW for about 6 weeks (revolutionary war). then we will switch to science unit for about 4 weeks. then back to history. we tried to do science 2 days a week and history 2 days a week, but by vote my kids wanted to dive in deep with one thing at a time. so for now units are working for us!
K, I just came across this and I am exactly where you were at... my kids are 11, 8 and 5 and I'm going to pull them out of public schools as soon as I figure this out. I have been all over the internet researching SO many programs. This one kept coming up but the quality was a concern of mine and I'm so glad you addressed it! I didn't know what the curriculum was actually all about and this helped SO MUCH!! Thank you!!!!
Cami this is wonderful! You are fearless and filled with faith, I can feel this through your message. My kids are around the same ages as yours. We are still using TGATB, my kids are STILL absolutely engaged and thriving academically, and I am SO excited for their new High School program!! Take a leap of faith and go with TGATB, you will wish that you pulled your children from the schools sooner!
Mikael!!!!!!!! SO good to see you and your sweet soft spirit. You live in a beautiful space. It looks so serene. Thank you for sharing your honest thoughts about this curriculum. I can't wait to dive in with my first child next year. P.S. I always wanted to do ballet but never had a chance and I admire everyone who does it.
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Great review, thank you. I'm looking forward to part 2. FWIW, we typically seek out secular or faith neutral curriculum, but I absolutely love TGAB!
Tucking this away in “Watch Later.” Super excited!
I'm definitely going to be trying this curriculum next year!
Beautiful Journey It is the best, indeed.
You must try it.🙄
I saw the title of your video, checked out the website, and ordered the curriculum before I even watched the video. Now I'm finally going to watch this. Thank you for this! Can't wait to start this with my daughter. I would love to see a vlog style video of your day with this curriculum if that seems good to you. 😉
the vlogs of teaching the lessons coming up!!!
Thank you sweet mama for this review and answers! You have sold me on this curriculum! I love your heart! You are one of the sweetest mama's I know!
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My daughter did All About Reading Pre-reading and loves it, but when we moved to level 1 she stopped enjoying it. So now we’re 8 lessons in and thinking about switching to the Good and the Beautiful now. We just need to get the joy back.
that was happening to my son too, and the switch has been WONDERFUL! Drew loves the Poetry and how every lesson is different, the art is fun too.
Thank you for sharing your heart about this curriculum! I use language arts for my 9yo daughter and love it too!
You’re such an encouragement to me! I have a current first grader and a two (almost three) year old and I love seeing what’s working for you. ❤️
Thank you for this review!! We did our first year with bookshark but i wanted something faith based, amd THe Good and the Beautiful is amazing!
I have heard great things about this program. I am thinking of doing the history next year.
beautiful message at the ending and so true. thank you for sharing that. Also I love the look of tG&tB. :D x
❤️ I'm getting ready to order The Good and The Beautiful. I'm soo excited to start this curriculum! 😊 thank you for these wonderful videos!
Im going to try this..my son is 11, just pulled him out of public school. We are born again Christians and the Lord put it on my heart to take this New journey.
So, this is my first year homeschooling! Im overwhelmed and I cant seem to find a language curriculum. My son is in the 5th grade however, I tested him he is at a 3rd grade level..😞we had lots of tears in school up to this point. I wish i would have done this sooner! I was so blind to the lack of teaching In public schools! Thank you for your videos they are very informative.
I think you are awesome lady! Keep doing what you're doing!!
so sweet! thanks ;)
Researching the curriculum before I place an order. Thank you so much for sharing. Great Review. I'm so excited to get started. Faith.
You're awesome
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Love your heart! :) We are using TG&TB for language arts this year. Enjoying it!
Yay! A video! I've been waiting for it :)
1.) I was using My Fathers World for my 6 (now 7 year old) twin boys at the beginning of the school year. It's good, but it just wasn't feeling right for us. After watching your video on The Good and the Beautiful, I ordered it and we've been using and LOVING it!! EVERY SINGLE THING you said about it was true for us as well. Thank you so much for sharing!
2) I can't wait to hear your review on the History curriculum. I want to get that next!
3.) We are 'new-ish' converts (lol) and I just absolutely adore you and what you stand for. Your videos are fun to watch and I love how down to earth you are.
4.) Did you mention what math curriculum your 9 year olds are using? Maybe I missed it?
Thanks!
Hi Stephanie. So happy to see you comment here ;) That is awesome you got it and it is working for you, love that!! So history is coming up soon, my next videos will be "do a lesson with us" level 4 and level 6. then I can go to history review and how we do that. My twin boys are using Teaching Textbooks math. we were using Saxon, and it is a fabulous curriculum, but I was getting overloaded with my kinder so I switched them. TT is more independent on the computer and it has been AWESOME! My olders use TT and Drew, my kinder, is doing Math U see Primer. Hope that helps!
Instant subscribe 10 minutes in! I love your outlook on homeschooling and the public school system/grade levels. And just on life! What happened to learning about LIFE being our source of “entertainment”? Now it’s tablets. Not in my house. I didn’t grow up like that and I’m seeing my kids lives going in that direction if I don’t do something about it now. I just pulled my oldest out of public last week. Good and the beautiful coming to us Wednesday ❤️
Love your comment! NO iPad/tablet in our home has really opened up doors to love, patience, kindness and creativity being present in our home at all times :) Good luck with your homeschool journey, you are stepping into a beautiful life with your kids!
Thank you so much for answering my question!
I'm getting ready to order TG&TB History Level 1. Your video got me so pumped about it, I can hardly wait! 😂 Thanks for sharing!! 💕
I am so happy! I am going to be doing a video on how I schedule my year of unit studies soon, I think that might help give a different perspective for planning the year out ;)
MonsonSchoolhouse Awesome! I look forward to watching it!
this was an AMAZING review! thank you SO much! my family is Christian, and i really wanted to have a faith-based curriculum for my daughter. you did amazing! thanks again! ❤️❤️❤️
I want you to know you have inspired me to home school again this fall all 4 of our kids will be home again for reason that are to long to type here we put them in school three years ago and now we are going back to our family roots and I’m actually really inspired and your videos have helped me thank you and your kids are sooo cute and your home is beautiful
this just makes my entire week!!! It is the Lord and I am only His instrument, and nothing more. Glory be to our God and His loving hand to lead you to me where you can regain your strength and your fire to go forward and teach His children. Love to you ! Stay close to the Lord and I will continue to do His will, whatever that may be. Love to yoU!
Thank you so much. You have such a wonderful spirit and are so honest and sincere. I have been inspired by what you have shared. Thank you.
Beautiful message! Thank you so much for the wonserful review. I was on the fence about choosing The Good and the Beautiful, and this made me finally decide.
I am so glad I pushed you over the fence ! ha. Angels pushed me to click that "buy now" button and I am eternally GRATEFUL! I will never use another curriculum
Thank you so much for this review! I am so excited to use this curriculum. I couldn’t believe how affordable it is 💰😃
Thank yo so much for this review! Love how you explain everything - Just briefly looking at it, it seemed like everything I was looking for, but like you said I was worried about "quality" and I'm so reassured now! I'm trying to figure out more of the specifics for what to order, so love the extra breakdown
I love your top! The grey marble is so nice!
This sounds awesome ! New subscriber. Definitely going to check into the curriculum!
Thank you so much for doing this video! I had no idea this was available! Can't wait to check it out!
youre welcome!
I loved this review and hearing your heart. We are sisters in Christ!
Love your heart! And also love all the info!!
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So interesting. I didn't know they connected everything. That is my favorite way to teach. I connect my kids subjects via timeline.
Yes. I forget grades.
New to your channel. Loved the part where you are sharing your heart and he “just wants a fruit snack”. ❤️❤️❤️
My kids love the program! Level K needs to be renamed level A as is more of a last semester K or first semester 1- I lean more to the first for many students. Level 1 is a solid late 1st and 2nd grade. Level 7 teaches essays and early research skills so well. I like to use CLE KII right before using TGaTB K as it gives a solid six months of practice with CVC words of which I believe is needed for many children before going into all of the other phonograms. We are using levels K/1, 2/3, 4/5, and HS as soon as it comes out. We just finished levels 1, 3, and almost have finished 7 with our oldest. The LA is simply fabulous!
thanks for your detailed comment on the curriculum! Sounds like you are well educated with it, I love what you said and am sure many people appreciate you giving your insight on the levels :)
Thank you for this video! I came across your channel a couple months ago and you have been an encouragement to me. We left the public school system and have been homeschooling since the beginning of January. I ordered TGAB based on your positive review and we are anxiously waiting for it to arrive!! We are looking forward to see how the Lord will guide us through this exciting journey! Blessings to you!
I am so excited for you!! congrats on trusting in the Lord and where He is leading you and your family, you will be blessed. Keep pushing forward with faith, of course there are days of hardship, but that refines us and draws us closer to the Lord
What's your experience with the good and beautiful now? Looks like it's been about a month since you posted on this last, so I'm curious.
Carrie Woods - we are still really loving the curriculum! The quality and wholesomeness of the material is amazing, and it's wonderful to open up the workbook and start a lesson with no preparation required. It continuously reviews concepts the child is learning but doesn't seem too repetitive, and the length of the lessons are very appropriate. We have been using the Language Arts, Science, and Handwriting so far, and I had the opportunity to download the next 5 grades of Language Arts for Free 😊We are really excited to continue with the curriculum. It has been a great fit for our family!
Whitney thank you so much for your reply! Super helpful. I'm really excited to give this a try. My little girl isn't quite ready to start it yet, but it's nice to have something in mind that seems possible.
Carrie Woods - Your welcome Carrie, I'm excited for you and your family as you enter into this journey! ❤️
Can your kids work at their own pace? Do you ever feel rushed to get the day’s schoolwork done? Is there a list of work you have to get done each day?
Beautiful ♡ Thank you! Blessings to you sister ♡
I love how the placement tests take all of the guesswork out of it. Just order where they place. It was hard to get out of the public school mentality. I think this curriculum is the best.
you are so right, it took me YEARS to sift that public school mentality out of me, and there is still a lot for me to sift. Thanks for sharing about the testing!
So helpful. Thank you.
Hi 👋🏻 I am new to the idea of homeschooling and had a few questions. What is your take on their chances of getting into good colleges after being on homeschool versus someone who went to a highly rated high school? Also, what does your day look like while homeschooling. What does it take? Thank you in advance.
I homeschool one child at Kindergarten level. How do you create your homeschool portfolio since the Language course book kinda does it for you?
I was so excited about this but when I went to their website a lot of the curriculum is out of stock. Levels 2 and 3 in the ELA are not even available
This is because they are coming out with new additions very soon! I would suggest downloading the free PDF version, printing it at home while you await the new addition. the wait will be worth it!
Thank you for sharing! Yes, sisters in Christ. :) I'm a Christ- follower and agree with your heart for unity.
so happy to connect here! love to you!
Hello :) This is my first year ever homeschooling. I am looking into the good and the beautiful and master books. I've been reading that the good and the beautiful is wonderful, but it does require parent lesson planning vs. masterbooks it's set and has a daily schedule where it tells you which and how many lessons to do per day. I work from home, but go to work in person two times a week. What do you recommend for busy moms ?
Awesome video! We are planning to switch to TG&TB in the fall. I will have a level K child and 2 level 3s by then. I am also planning to attend the conference in July in SLC- will you be there by any chance?
I want to go SO BADLY!!!! I will try.. but July is hard cause we have so many boys camps and girls camps for my kids. praying I can go though
I just love you. You are a beautiful person and so encouraging to this fellow homeschool momma! I’m interested in the Good and the Beautiful but we are on a tight budget and it’s a little spendy for me :(
There are free downloads on their website, you can get the PDF for FREE and print it at home! I understand the tight budget. Pray to God to open up doors for you. He will. He will help this fall into your lap if it is the right thing for your family. I have seen miracles like this in my own life. Love to yoU!
Good & Beautiful!! ^_^
it is so sweet for you to comment and I feel such a unity in our journey back to our Savior :)
Would you recommend this as a good Pre-K program? We are completely new to homeschooling but I want to start with Pre-K for my 4 year old. She loves to learn but I don’t want to push her too far too fast.
yes, there is a pre K program too! I hear it is really great
Love it! It's looking like we'll be doing the Classical Conversations co-op this upcoming school year. I'm wondering if I can incorporate the TGAB into it? I saw that Math for the younger ones have been introduced.
I am not very familiar with classical conversations and exactly how it works, although I myself have been interested in it and I would like to know what you find out ! Maybe it could be incorporated? if so, that would be wonderful!
Favored4life just my two cents- I do CC, but have not used the good and the beautiful yet but I am SERIOUSLY considering it for next year. From everything I can see, it looks it would be a great fit with CC! Especially in the grammar stage of CC (grades k-3) you can really use any curriculum you want to teach a solid foundation in reading, writing, math, because cc does not cover those things in depth. In the grammar stage cc is building a foundation on memory work and building pegs of knowledge and information that your child will come back to later. So yes, I definitely think these would work really nicely together :)
Lauren Goodwin yes, thanks. I visited their open house and looks like any curriculum could be used but they pushed for saxon. How's homeschooling going for you?
Great! Ya, I don't use saxon LOL! Homeschooling is overall going well, but its a mixed bag for me. I have 3 boys and a 4th on the way. My oldest is in first grade. He's super bright but is really struggling with seated work for reading/writing. So unfortunately every day feels like a battle! BUT I do love CC because he can easily pick up the memory work and I know he is learning really great things that he will use later in his education. You should check out "farmhouseschoolhouse" on IG and also just search for her blog. She has been a HUGE encouragement to me as she does CC in a Charlotte Mason style sort of way and she just shares lots of amazing tips about how to incorporate CC in a relaxed way. Blessings on your homeschool journey! Take it slow, and just try to learn little tidbits every day. I've learned so much this year already just through doing CC about what works and what doesn't work for our family.
Lauren Goodwin thanks. We are excited to start this upcoming year. Sometimes I have to allow my 1st grader to sit in different places to read/write. He loves going in a tent, under a table or even outside. I think environment is big with their minds. I love Farmhousehomeschool; she's a rockstar with her kids. I'm looking forward to the new school year and learning more about these blessings God entrusted to me. Remain blessed and have a great weekend!
Good morning Love the video Can you tell me How would I test my daughter in the language arts as I only see a passage to read she is a 7th grader
I’m pulling my kids out of public school next year, but I have a son who has watched them come home on the bus for the last year. He will be starting kindergarten and has told me wants to go to school. I am having a hard time deciding on what to do for him. Did your son want to homeschool kinder or was he hoping to go to school?
My littlest went to a christian preschool, he loved it! so I had the same concern and even researched private kindergartens, and we had the means to do that too! there were many good private schools that would have been fabulous for him.... But the Spirit was SO strong to keep him home. to keep the family unified. I followed and he is home. Days have been hard with him, challenging, and sometimes I hear my olders say "just send him to school.." because he does take a lot of my attention. But I followed the Lord, I was obedient and continue to be. I will face the hard times and pray and find my way. My kinder is reading so well, and he is learning TRUTHS! He is participating in our prayers, scriptures, and testimony. He feels the spirit in our home all day everyday. There is a reason he needs to be here. It is more than just to go have fun socially and make crafts at a school. The Lord has a deeper calling for me and our family. - pray and you will be guided with what to do!
So I'm really torn between this curriculum and Logic of English. Do you have insight how it lines up/competes? I know LOE is super strong!!
I've been waiting for a video from you for awhile, so thanks for sharing! I am looking to switch curriculum for next year and wanted to see how you liked TG&TB after switching and so far it still sounds awesome! I think I am drawn to you first of all since we both love the Lord, same age, this is my first year homeschooling and your 2nd so we are fairly new to this, I have a 12 year old boy and a 9 year old boy so our kids are close in age and same grades and I am a twin like your boys! Can't wait to see part 2 when you dive into the curriculum! I am currently only using their science, The Human Body, and we are doing good with that, but my 6th grader has already learned that in PS, so not sure how to split them up with that! Any ideas let me know! I know that they have instruction for older kids in Middle School but that would be very hard for him because writing is a struggle. Has your daughter already learned the science you are doing with your 4th graders and is she bored or do you make her do more? Hope that makes sense. My 6th grader has a hard time comprehending so he doesn't love reading like your kiddos do! So I am working on that! Anyway, thank you for the video and blessings over your family! :D
fantastic review -thank you!
I can't wait to hear Part 2. :)
for part 2 I am doing "do a lesson with us", so you can see how it works and see the books open! I already posted my level K, next up is level 4 :)
I read that this curriculum is mormon based, do you see a difference in that regards?
Hi best video ever!! Can anyone tell me what math she uses?
you are so sweet! right now we use "teaching textbooks" for my older ones and "math u see" for my kinder. But in the summer The good and the beautiful is coming out with MATH! I will be using it for my Kinder :)
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Thank u so much. I just saw the video on the comparison u did with math.
Hi, I'm already getting next years school curriculum figured out. The good and beautiful looks great but hoping you could answer a few questions for me. Is there grammar problems everyday, spelling problems everyday and how often is a writing lesson? Also my 4th grader hates and drags out writing so much so I need something fun and simple for writing, how does the writing lessons rate in this curriculum? Thanks so much. Ela is the only subject I am kind of at a loss to do. We are doing easy grammar this year and love it but I like how this has the rest included with it. Please let know know your thoughts, it's greatly appreciated! Shannon
Oh one more question, next year my oldest girl is in 6th and my youngest girl in 5th. Do you think it would be okay to do same level for the two or do you think that will really hold back my 6th grader whom is fantastic in schooling?
Shannon, there is spelling daily and they do "grammar and geography cards" everyday. Along with the cards they do have grammar in their lessons too. I have one 4th grader that is a natural writer and his twin brother is more like yours (doesn't know how and gets stuck easily and really needs encouragement). It is interesting to see how they do with this curriculum while in the same level but at different writing stages. My struggling writer is doing well! The writing assigments are step by step. only 1 step daily. so he can handle it. and with my natural writer he tends to just run with it and complete all steps in one shot! It is really fun to see. How would I rate the lessons, 2 thumbs up! I was actually so surprised. The thing I LOVE is that it is not writing ALL THE TIME EVERYDAY. It is more like a writing "mini unit", then they will get a break and do geography or art for a bit. it helps them breath. Then back to writing again. we have loved it.... sorry this is long..... As for keeping your kiddos in the same level, you could! but that is up to you, you know them. Do they want to do their "own thing". I would say pray about it and your answer will come ;)
Thank you for getting back to me!
What will you do once you are out of this? That’s what I am nervous about. My daughter is in 5th grade. What do I do after!!! (Yes I plan too much)
Do you think it would be too challenging for a child that struggles in school?
I don't think so at all! I actually think it would work better becuase it isn't loooooong busy work. it is right to the point, just what they need. not too much, but just enough.
I was wondering if you use their typing curriculum and if you do, do you like it. Thanks!
I just got it and we are going to start it! I will let you know how it goes
I just had my daughter take the placement test. Umm...yea, I was a little surprised. I know Jenny says over and over on the site not to worry if you don't place where expected, but still... :-( It's a bit like standardized testing anxiety.
What surprised you, did she score higher or lower than you expected? honestly, do not worry about it. If you start lower than you expected, I would see that as an amazing opportunity to touch on everything that might have been missed before! The curriculum will ease all of your worries, and once you dive in all of this anxiety will go away. It truly is amazing!
Lower. I'm not too worried, but I was surprised. I agree...the placement test itself is reason enough to try this curriculum. It was pretty tough... In a good way. :-) Looking forward to more of your videos sharing your experience with TGTB. Always encouraging!!!
Since you’ve done both, how would compare the writing *instruction* to IEW?
I would say this is an encouragement! Start today and move forward. You will see great improvement and their love for learning with deepen and blossom!
As far as IEW, it does not follow the same syllabus they do exactly, but I have found it to be excellent in the writing! I don't feel to supplement at all, I really feel this is giving my kids strong skills in all their L/A subjects :)
Hi. Came across your channel and I’m So glad I did. I just withdrew my son last week 3rd grade and I’ve been researching sooooo much on curriculum but I’m really liking TG&TB . Do you use this for all subjects ? Also what are your thoughts on Math U See ? Thanks ❤️
We use TGTB for everything except math right now. I use Math U See for my kindergartner and we love it! It is a great program. My older ones use Teaching Textbooks because it is all on the computer and is very independent and easy for me to check their grades. Either is a good choice!
💙 I’m Catholic and have been researching this curriculum. It looks like all portions will be great for Catholics except the history curriculum. Their website states its written from a Protestant perspective and I’ve heard there are a couple of lessons that reflect poorly on the Catholic Church. That’s okay though. There are plenty of Catholic history curriculums we can use. I’m using TGTB for the rest because it’s awesome.
Hi Chantal, so glad you wrote. I love catholics, that is wonderful to find that you are of that faith ;) I have several catholic instagram friends and they have loved it, but I can understand your hesitation if that is what you have heard. I haven't found anything bad written about the catholics in the history curriculum, I will check with my catholic friends that use it. I find it very honorable that you are researching and making sure it works for your family and faith, that is what all of us should do with everything we bring into our homes. Much love to you!
Chantal, if you don't mind what will you use instead. I am also Catholic and thinking about what I will use and not found anything family style?
I went on the jenny phillips website and it looks like all of the subjects are separate. There is a separate tab for ELA, math, science, history, handwriting. I was under the impression that this was an integrated curriculum. Could you just give me some more clarification about that before I order. Thank you.
hi Nicole! I know it can be a bit overwhelming at first, let me help ;) Language arts, handwriting and math is per student and specific grade level. History, science is schoolroom style, family style (so you only need 1 book per family here). hope this helps!
How would you compare this to a unit study approach?
I still do unit studies in my history and science :)
The placement test sold me too lol!
Thank you so much! This video is so helpful!!! :)
I love the nature notebook
Have you done a video showing the curriculum and I can't find it or not yet?
I just took one today of a lesson with my kinder. instead of just opening the books and showing you all (there are already so many good videos on youtune like that!), I decided to actually show a lesson with my kiddos using it. so right now I am editing my kinder and will have that up ASAP! it will be part of a "how we do the good and the beautiful" series ;)
Wonderful info thank you!!
we do the assesment
I noticed in one of your other videos that your youngest is doing explode the code. Did you just decide to add that in addition?
yes, I have been using that since he was in preschool, it works really well to get him to do it independantly so I can work with the older kids.
Do your twin boys do TG&TB language arts on their own or do you sit and do it with them as a group? It says its self directed in level 4, but I still have been sitting down with my son and doing this with him.
they do half of it independant and then the other half I sit down with each of them alone and help. I love to sit down with them. That is partly why I love this, because it really gives me motivation to sit down alone with them everyday and hear them read and ask them what they thought of the poem and help them. that is what makes me happy :)
Hi again!! Did you catch my question I asked you in my response about twins? It’s a specific question about Homeschool Planet! Thanks for any input!! 👍😊
I'm really considering switching to this curriculum from AAR but I'm concerned it's not as thorough with the phonics rules as AAR. What are your thoughts on this since you also did AAR.
I love it and it works for us. It is wonderful and so full of light and keeps my little squirly boys attention ;)