For your geography classes you could get one of these scratch off maps but instead of scratching off places you’ve visited you could scratch places you’ve learned about! Each kid could get a turn and then by looking at the map it would be easier for them to recall what they’ve learned.
I've always had a less than stellar opinion on home schooling, but after watching you for a while and watching this new channel, I get it now! And honestly, things like naming the capitals and all the presidents is something public school never taught us and since I always loved lists, that's something I could see myself really enjoying learning as a kid. Also, I hated school so much and it certainly helped foster my anxiety so i think home school would have been better for me , situation permitting. Anyway, all this to say, thanks for opening my eyes to this and making it seem like a possible alternative for my future kids :)
I am absolutely loving this new channel! You've inspired me to begin my own homeschool journey with my 4 year old this fall so your new channel could not have come at a better time
I love looping! My daughter wanted to do typing, cooking, and sewing, so we added those in in addition to science/history. It’s a wonderful system! We use US map laminated placemats for the kids to practice tracing different states. Then we’ll talk about the capital of that state as well. 😊
Carolina Rodriguez I got them from Amazon. Just search “Painless Learning Map of USA Placemat”. 😊 Also crayola thin washable dry erase markers are wonderful to use with them. 👍
Hey Angela :) Just an idea for teaching your kids about world geography and cultures of the world: Why don’t you make use of your subscribers from all around the world and have them send you pictures and letters about what their country / area is like, recipes etc.? :) I’d be very happy to contribute, I live in Hamburg/Germany and would be happy to send your kids a letter about northern Germany, what it looks like, the wether, the culture, the typical food, etc. That’d be such a fun project, wouldn’t it? :)
Hamburgs Perle love this idea! I'm an American born Nigerian living in America. However, I was raised in the Nigerian culture, food, dress, music, etc...
I get SO excited for these videos. I’m not even a parent but I just love watching these. It’s making me want to home school my future kids. Please keep posting these 💕
I love that your kids were making noise in the background -- strangely makes me feel better that my kids yell when I'm making videos, too! This is great content and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this. This makes me feel SO much more empowered with those subjects.
I love these videos I want to learn how to homeschool for my future family. But honestly right now I’m using theses videos to encourage myself to start school again. I have college courses that are super important to me. And watching you plan for your kiddos gives me tones of motivation to plan for myself and get moving. Thanks so much for sharing. ♥️
Omg!!! I had that exact book of children from all over the world when I was a kid. I’m almost 30 and seeing it was such a flashback! I LOVED that book and still remember some of the kids in it, I read it over and over. I’m sure they all will love it too. Xx
Love the idea of a looping basket! I’ve heard of loop scheduling, but not a looping basket. I plan to incorporate this into our homeschool routine. Thank you for sharing!
I don’t homeschool (I follow because I love your other channel and find homeschooling fascinating) my middle child is almost 16 and next summer will be sitting his exams (we’re in the UK so he’s sitting GCSE’s) and I think I’m going to tweak this idea for a revision schedule rather than a timetable as like you say life gets in the way sometimes but I can decide frequency of subjects based on how important and work it from there so thanks for explaining the idea 😃
We have done this in our homeschool the last few years. Love it! We called it morning time. We use material world and what the world eats last year and the kids really enjoyed it. I’m sure you all will too.
Loved this! I see a few things I want to purchase for my own classroom once I begin teaching. Current Elementary Ed major for those who may have never seen my comments before. I still remember learning all of the states, their locations & capitals in 4th grade. Ten plus years later I thankfully still remember them all. So, whatever it was that helped me learn them worked.
A friend introduced me to the concept of a looping basket a few years ago, and I'm glad you reminded me. ;) It's the perfect fit for our family's homeschool style. :)
What a genius idea! Thank you for sharing this. We're just really getting into the swing of homeschooling again this year and I'll be implementing this immediately!
Liked your ideas. We’ve done morning baskets and looping for a few years now, and I’ve loved it. I feel so much more productive. Also wanted to share the the Children Just Like Me book has a new version covering other countries!
Great video, Angie! I just got back from a Great Homeschool Convention this weekend and got to hear Pam Barnhill speak a couple of times (she's hilarious, btw). Definitely love the idea morning/looping baskets! 😊
For Geography we do the Snack crate subscription. That way we can learn about what they eat and be able to taste their food. Also, they send a fact sheet about that country and you can do lap books with it.
This is an excellent idea! Thank you for doing this video! Yes, please do an update video on how this is working for you, and I love the idea of making up some type of procedures for it! I really want to do this with my children! Again, please, please, please do an updates video and show us how do develop our own and develop our own procedures to go with it! I will be following! Thanks!
As a teacher now SAHM I love your outlook on education. I wish I could have ran my classroom like this but there was a lot of control from admin. This looping basket is a great idea! I cannot wait until my kids are a little older to start homeschooling. We are starting to work with my three-year-old on letters and numbers and letter sounds so I am considering purchasing the good and the beautiful preschool curriculum. I cannot wait to continue watching your homeschool videos. I just love watching your family you're such an inspiration.
Home, home in New Mexico ! I’m a teacher turned Homeschool Mom and it is SO FUN to be able to do what you and your kids love instead of being told what you HAVE to do! The freedom is lovely 😊
Why am I just now hearing about a Looping Basket! So the last few years I have attempted to have the extra subjects done on a certain day of the week. And for the reasons you mentioned I failed miserably! I'm setting this up now! Thanks Angie!
For learning world geography I recommend checking out RUclips channel Geography Now, I think that especially the older girls could like it. There is an episode about each country (the guy is making them alphabetical order, the latest episode is Mali I think), every episode is 5-20 minutes long. I also really like Khan Academy, but I assume that you probably know it.
Looping is such a lifesaver! I love Usborne books too. They’re amazing! We have Material World which is such a neat book. I just ordered Hungry Planet yesterday so I can’t wait to check it out! Loving your new channel and all things homeschool!
I love the Classical conversations song for the states and capitals! My kids know the states and capitals so well already from the song! I’m loving your inspiration for homeschooling, your such a fun homeschool mama.
I was just watching some of Pam Barnhill’s Loop Schedule stuff here on YT. Thanks for explaining! Inspiring me to get geared up for our year!! Thank you.
I remember when I was still in school, when we learned about different cultures and what they eat we would do a fun class activity by bringing some type of food from that culture to share...it was fun and a great way to learn. I think it would be a great and fun activity for your kids if they learn about the culture and then choose a food that they learned and make it together 🙂 just an idea
So simple yet Brilliant! Just what we needed! Thank you for sharing. This will elleviate SO MUCH PLANNING STRESS! Im putting this in action asap. For instance this week we planned science for Thursday, but our dog is getting surgery... This was my pickle on how can I do or dont do this along with history rotation with out the guilt of being behind on week #2!
Just found your channels after following on Instagram :) the book about different children looks great! We have been learning about different cultures and my kids really enjoy learning about them
I love that your homeschool name is Bloom Academy! One sweet word to encapsulate so much. We do our looping basket in the afternoons to combat the post-lunch sleepiness/crankiness. Have you heard of Letters From Afar? We are going to add those into our geography study next year and I’m so excited! Sodbuster Living has a video on them. Your kids might like them as well!
As a non American i used a quizz online for states, states' capital, even states "nickname", rivers etc. different levels ( found the state, click the capital name, locate the capital on the map...) and there is a timer option so you can challenge yourself.
Thank you for explaining looping. I have watched a few videos on it and want to try it but wasn't sure how to go about it. We are doing the US States/Presidents as a unit and after we are going to do monuments/state parks. Once we get done with that I am going to start working them around the world by continent. But I also want to work on history and science so looping will be incredible!
Also "Expedition Earth" from Erica @ Confessions of a Homeschooler was our absolute favorite world geography curriculum! So many fun hands on projects and cultural studies.
I think I’m going to try this I’ve heard of this before of course but I’ve never implemented it because I didn’t see a real reason to until you explained the way that you did
New subscriber!! I'm so excited that I found your channel. I love the idea of a looping basket! Might need to implement this in our homeschool this year.
We are looping this year too...excited to try it. We're also doing President's and States. I finished making my President's resource, working on the States. My daughter is obsessed with the Presidents. She memorized them a couple of weeks ago and is now working on the first ladies and the pets! :-) We have the same pet book. Another resource you might like for your older kiddos are the "Who Was" books. They have them for many of the Presidents and events in US history. They are easy read alouds and even though my kiddos may not grasp all of the points, they are getting a lot of the information. And like you, I'm also an Usborne fanatic. I haven't signed up as a consultant yet, but I need to do it...they are just awesome books!
OH gosh, we love the Who Was books! I just saw the first ladies fandex on Amazon and now I want it too! LOL! Yes girl, if you're an Usborne fanatic, selling them is the way to go!
I love this channel! We are a family of children born in our hearts and children born from my belly :-). We homeschool and I’m loving this channel so much! I’m excited to see your binder!! I would also like a video on games you play (you mentioned a game.) We really like to make learning fun and we have several games we bring out to learn time, world geography, US geography, money, etc. If you have a good game suggestion for presidents, that would be GREAT!!!
I’ve done schooling in both Australia and America and the approach that the two countries take are so, so different. I lived in America for 3 years from when I was about 7. I still recall every state and their capital city and I can still place most of them on a map. I have no idea what this knowledge does for me. Aside from being a cool party trick. American history is so much more focused on their own history as opposed to world history. And the interest in world history seems to only stretch as far as America was involved in it. Australia is totally different. Big focus on the world around us. Maybe because our own history is pretty limited by time and is also pretty horrible in terms of attempting to genocide our indigenous peoples. Australia seems to focus more on English, American’s more on math. Very interesting!
About geography I saw one video about doing continents bins and inside she incorporated books to read with fiction non fiction curious things, a game related, a map she printed etc. I love that idea!
I really love this idea! I've been trying to figure out how to schedule in our science and history and this seems perfect :) Thanks for linking everything up. Also love that your kids are screaming in the back, lol, now I like your channel even more!
I scheduled ‘loops within my loop’ for each of those resources in each individual subject. So for your president loop, you could have a smaller loop within that rotating between each resource. I actually have mine listed in OneNote as checkboxes so I can just pop on my phone to see where we are mark off what we did.
Have you looked at the book "Give Your Child the World?" It has lists of children's books that correlate to different parts of the world. Some were non-fiction, some were fiction, and some were true-ish stories that had been somewhat fictionalized. I have been participating in a short summer session going through all of the parts of the world with my girls, but I can see how it could easily be stretched out into a year long set-up, since it is really just different amazing children's books to read to enforce what is being learned in other curriculum. My daughters, 5 and 8, absolutely loved it, and they have learned so much about how people live in other parts of the world.
Love this idea! I’ve heard from someone once that she does one in the morning and another in the afternoon which I think is so fun. It gives variety and fun beginning with a fun end to the day. The afternoon could be artsy or something like that. Also not overly familiar with usborne books, I have a few, but they look so good.
Love this video and this channel! I would love to see your favorite Usborne books or even an Usborne book haul. My kids enjoy these books so much, and I am amazed with how many they have. We have quite a few Usborne books from going to friends parties, and I got a giant box of free books from doing my own party recently, but there are still so many more! I didn't even know about that State's Capitals book you have linked above--it looks neat!
There is a newer edition published 2016 or 2017 also. They are both great. Some countries are the same, but different children, and some countries are different.
You should look into the fifty nifty United States song. It names all the states in alphabetical order. I learned it in elementary and I can still name all the states thanks to it today.
I’m 100% sure we could be great friends just based on personalities! 🤣 Also... I’m now gonna do a looping basket! Mine will literally include the same subjects. I laughed when you listed yours because that was mine at the start of the video!
Awesome ! I admire how organized and enthusiastic about starting home schooling this year with your kiddos. I know you didn't mention anything about space study which I know you will eventually get to do I wanted to share a poem I learned years ago to learn the order of the planet's it goes like this: Murcury, Venus, Earth and Mars Asteroids which are not stars. Jupiter, Saturn say them fast, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto's last....or since Pluto supposedly Isn't a planet anymore you could end it "Uranus,Neptune is the last. I thought it was a fun way to learn about the solar system.
LOOOOOOOVE! We are looping too but only with electives, as of now.. All homeschoolers know this could change quickly.. in fact I’m already thinking of it haha
Have you seen the confessions of a home schooler exploring countries and cultures and she has a road trip USA one too I’m planning to use exploring countries this year coming for my kids
Fun thing for presidents for the older kids could be- a quiz, a quick fire name as many presidents in a set time as you can, as the year goes on name as many presidents in order as you can and at the end of the year a quick fire name all the presidents in order.
Get the "Scrambled States of America" game to go along with your US geography studies. It's such a fun family game and I promise it will help them memorize the states and US map fast!
I love looping baskets - though I do mine a bit differently. I'm homeschooling my grandkids (1 for sure, 1 on and off - he's 2 and wants to read like big brother) and I'm homeschooling myself - to actually learn all those things I was supposed to learn in college and in public school - and didn't. Because my eyes and my wants are infinitely bigger than reality - I invariably don't finish all I had planned (oldest grandson is 4 and ADHD so time learning is either limited by his need for movement - we do however have a lot of movement involved types of learning - or by the need to address a subject as isolated from other topics). For myself - well, I tend to overwhelm myself. So for us, it works to take each subject and whatever doesn't get done tht day, gets worked on the next. ie - one day I did the morning basket materials, MOST of the written work EXCEPT for math - and that was it. Next day we picked up with morning basket (done daily), and went straight to math, then to science. and continued accordingly. After completing all the studies thus far, we start all over again - or, if time and energy are flagging - we wait until the next day. True - I don't complete all I planned for a week - BUT we are getting an amazing amount of things actually completed.
If you are looking for something to learn US states, you could get the Time For Learning states book. It’s like the one you have for presidents I gives a short overview of each state, the capitol, some fun historical fact, and it has some of those fun pull outs and flaps and stuff. I did both of those books when I was In school.
I want to homeschool just so I can plan and organize (I’ll join your musical!). Seriously, my kids are doing great in school, so I’ll have to live through others for now.
If you are looking for any resources for memorization, I have been using a few RUclips videos for my child. There are some great US State and Capital raps/songs nowadays. (I even found the 90s rap I was taught in school! 🙈 LOL)
Will you add in other countries history too for the older girls, like english kings & queens? I think its pretty interesting for kids of the girls ages 😀
For your geography classes you could get one of these scratch off maps but instead of scratching off places you’ve visited you could scratch places you’ve learned about! Each kid could get a turn and then by looking at the map it would be easier for them to recall what they’ve learned.
Your enthusiasm makes me happy. There is nothing better than being excited to learn with your babies 😘 love you mama!
You are such a wonderful mother and teacher to your kids! They are so lucky to have someone so invested in them.
I love the basic question: what do I want my kids to learn? And then going and finding resources to match that. Very simple but very wise!
I've always had a less than stellar opinion on home schooling, but after watching you for a while and watching this new channel, I get it now! And honestly, things like naming the capitals and all the presidents is something public school never taught us and since I always loved lists, that's something I could see myself really enjoying learning as a kid. Also, I hated school so much and it certainly helped foster my anxiety so i think home school would have been better for me , situation permitting. Anyway, all this to say, thanks for opening my eyes to this and making it seem like a possible alternative for my future kids :)
I am absolutely loving this new channel! You've inspired me to begin my own homeschool journey with my 4 year old this fall so your new channel could not have come at a better time
I love looping! My daughter wanted to do typing, cooking, and sewing, so we added those in in addition to science/history. It’s a wonderful system! We use US map laminated placemats for the kids to practice tracing different states. Then we’ll talk about the capital of that state as well. 😊
Taming the Frizz Where did you get the placemats? Sounds like a good idea.
Carolina Rodriguez I got them from Amazon. Just search “Painless Learning Map of USA Placemat”. 😊 Also crayola thin washable dry erase markers are wonderful to use with them. 👍
Taming the Frizz THAT is a great idea!!!
Angie you are so enthusiastic about learning, your kids are so lucky to have you as their teacher,
Hey Angela :) Just an idea for teaching your kids about world geography and cultures of the world: Why don’t you make use of your subscribers from all around the world and have them send you pictures and letters about what their country / area is like, recipes etc.? :) I’d be very happy to contribute, I live in Hamburg/Germany and would be happy to send your kids a letter about northern Germany, what it looks like, the wether, the culture, the typical food, etc.
That’d be such a fun project, wouldn’t it? :)
That's a great idea!
Hamburgs Perle I love it! I'm from Chile! Please Angie do it!
Cool idea! Switzerland 🇨🇭here
Hamburgs Perle love this idea! I'm an American born Nigerian living in America. However, I was raised in the Nigerian culture, food, dress, music, etc...
I like this idea. I have 3 children. We are homeschoolers. We are from Russia. We are glad to enter in such project.
It makes my day to watch you and hear kids being normal kids it makes you so real and genuine. Lovely.
I get SO excited for these videos. I’m not even a parent but I just love watching these. It’s making me want to home school my future kids. Please keep posting these 💕
I love that your kids were making noise in the background -- strangely makes me feel better that my kids yell when I'm making videos, too! This is great content and I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this. This makes me feel SO much more empowered with those subjects.
Could you do an updated school room tour?
Yes please 😊 and the storage room haha the things I watch
zuzaem yeah!
I love these videos I want to learn how to homeschool for my future family. But honestly right now I’m using theses videos to encourage myself to start school again. I have college courses that are super important to me. And watching you plan for your kiddos gives me tones of motivation to plan for myself and get moving. Thanks so much for sharing. ♥️
Omg!!! I had that exact book of children from all over the world when I was a kid. I’m almost 30 and seeing it was such a flashback! I LOVED that book and still remember some of the kids in it, I read it over and over. I’m sure they all will love it too. Xx
Love the idea of a looping basket! I’ve heard of loop scheduling, but not a looping basket. I plan to incorporate this into our homeschool routine. Thank you for sharing!
I don’t homeschool (I follow because I love your other channel and find homeschooling fascinating) my middle child is almost 16 and next summer will be sitting his exams (we’re in the UK so he’s sitting GCSE’s) and I think I’m going to tweak this idea for a revision schedule rather than a timetable as like you say life gets in the way sometimes but I can decide frequency of subjects based on how important and work it from there so thanks for explaining the idea 😃
We have done this in our homeschool the last few years. Love it! We called it morning time. We use material world and what the world eats last year and the kids really enjoyed it. I’m sure you all will too.
Loved this! I see a few things I want to purchase for my own classroom once I begin teaching. Current Elementary Ed major for those who may have never seen my comments before. I still remember learning all of the states, their locations & capitals in 4th grade. Ten plus years later I thankfully still remember them all. So, whatever it was that helped me learn them worked.
So happy to see your homeschool videos again!
I am loving this intro. Thanks for taking this on and sharing.
A friend introduced me to the concept of a looping basket a few years ago, and I'm glad you reminded me. ;) It's the perfect fit for our family's homeschool style. :)
What a genius idea! Thank you for sharing this. We're just really getting into the swing of homeschooling again this year and I'll be implementing this immediately!
Oh, Loove you even more now that I know you like Pams content..she is so sweet Pam.
Liked your ideas. We’ve done morning baskets and looping for a few years now, and I’ve loved it. I feel so much more productive. Also wanted to share the the Children Just Like Me book has a new version covering other countries!
That "Children Like Me" book was a favorite of mine as a kid. I saw it poking out of the basket and got excited.
I just heard Pam Barnhill speak at a convention this year. Best talks of the whole conference.
Love our morning, looping basket! Great stuff! Thanks for sharing yours!
Love the separate channel for school stuff. Obsessed with your science chalk wall😍😍
Great video, Angie! I just got back from a Great Homeschool Convention this weekend and got to hear Pam Barnhill speak a couple of times (she's hilarious, btw). Definitely love the idea morning/looping baskets! 😊
For Geography we do the Snack crate subscription. That way we can learn about what they eat and be able to taste their food. Also, they send a fact sheet about that country and you can do lap books with it.
This is an excellent idea! Thank you for doing this video! Yes, please do an update video on how this is working for you, and I love the idea of making up some type of procedures for it! I really want to do this with my children! Again, please, please, please do an updates video and show us how do develop our own and develop our own procedures to go with it! I will be following! Thanks!
I can't tell you how wonderful this idea of looping sounds to me! 👌🏼 Thank you for sharing! 🙌🏼
As a teacher now SAHM I love your outlook on education. I wish I could have ran my classroom like this but there was a lot of control from admin. This looping basket is a great idea! I cannot wait until my kids are a little older to start homeschooling. We are starting to work with my three-year-old on letters and numbers and letter sounds so I am considering purchasing the good and the beautiful preschool curriculum. I cannot wait to continue watching your homeschool videos. I just love watching your family you're such an inspiration.
Home, home in New Mexico ! I’m a teacher turned Homeschool Mom and it is SO FUN to be able to do what you and your kids love instead of being told what you HAVE to do! The freedom is lovely 😊
Why am I just now hearing about a Looping Basket! So the last few years I have attempted to have the extra subjects done on a certain day of the week. And for the reasons you mentioned I failed miserably! I'm setting this up now! Thanks Angie!
For learning world geography I recommend checking out RUclips channel Geography Now, I think that especially the older girls could like it. There is an episode about each country (the guy is making them alphabetical order, the latest episode is Mali I think), every episode is 5-20 minutes long.
I also really like Khan Academy, but I assume that you probably know it.
Looping is such a lifesaver! I love Usborne books too. They’re amazing! We have Material World which is such a neat book. I just ordered Hungry Planet yesterday so I can’t wait to check it out! Loving your new channel and all things homeschool!
You said "children! I love them but they're loud!" and my boys looked at me and grinned. Lol
I love the Classical conversations song for the states and capitals! My kids know the states and capitals so well already from the song! I’m loving your inspiration for homeschooling, your such a fun homeschool mama.
I was just watching some of Pam Barnhill’s Loop Schedule stuff here on YT. Thanks for explaining! Inspiring me to get geared up for our year!! Thank you.
The book "Children just like me" was my favorite book when growing up. I LOVED it.
I am loving this new channel! Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas that you pass on to us. ❤
I love Pam Barnhill!!! I got to meet and listen to her at a conference this year:
I remember when I was still in school, when we learned about different cultures and what they eat we would do a fun class activity by bringing some type of food from that culture to share...it was fun and a great way to learn. I think it would be a great and fun activity for your kids if they learn about the culture and then choose a food that they learned and make it together 🙂 just an idea
Pam is awesome! Love her free resources and podcasts.
So simple yet Brilliant! Just what we needed! Thank you for sharing. This will elleviate SO MUCH PLANNING STRESS! Im putting this in action asap. For instance this week we planned science for Thursday, but our dog is getting surgery... This was my pickle on how can I do or dont do this along with history rotation with out the guilt of being behind on week #2!
Just found your channels after following on Instagram :) the book about different children looks great! We have been learning about different cultures and my kids really enjoy learning about them
I love that your homeschool name is Bloom Academy! One sweet word to encapsulate so much. We do our looping basket in the afternoons to combat the post-lunch sleepiness/crankiness. Have you heard of Letters From Afar? We are going to add those into our geography study next year and I’m so excited! Sodbuster Living has a video on them. Your kids might like them as well!
I will check out Letters from Afar! We are doing our basket after lunch too! I'm hoping that will revive them :)
As a non American i used a quizz online for states, states' capital, even states "nickname", rivers etc. different levels ( found the state, click the capital name, locate the capital on the map...) and there is a timer option so you can challenge yourself.
I love that you are posting all these homeschool videos now! ❤️❤️
Thank you for explaining looping. I have watched a few videos on it and want to try it but wasn't sure how to go about it. We are doing the US States/Presidents as a unit and after we are going to do monuments/state parks. Once we get done with that I am going to start working them around the world by continent. But I also want to work on history and science so looping will be incredible!
Also "Expedition Earth" from Erica @ Confessions of a Homeschooler was our absolute favorite world geography curriculum! So many fun hands on projects and cultural studies.
I think I’m going to try this I’ve heard of this before of course but I’ve never implemented it because I didn’t see a real reason to until you explained the way that you did
Love your video. I think I might loop some subjects this year. You have some great resources as well. Now I want to by more books!
New subscriber!! I'm so excited that I found your channel. I love the idea of a looping basket! Might need to implement this in our homeschool this year.
haha i love your videos. "Planners and Binders" showtune was the best! Thank you for sharing!
I like the loop basket. I want to incorporate that. Thank you for sharing what you will be using. You gave me some great ideas for resources.
We are looping this year too...excited to try it. We're also doing President's and States. I finished making my President's resource, working on the States. My daughter is obsessed with the Presidents. She memorized them a couple of weeks ago and is now working on the first ladies and the pets! :-) We have the same pet book. Another resource you might like for your older kiddos are the "Who Was" books. They have them for many of the Presidents and events in US history. They are easy read alouds and even though my kiddos may not grasp all of the points, they are getting a lot of the information. And like you, I'm also an Usborne fanatic. I haven't signed up as a consultant yet, but I need to do it...they are just awesome books!
OH gosh, we love the Who Was books! I just saw the first ladies fandex on Amazon and now I want it too! LOL! Yes girl, if you're an Usborne fanatic, selling them is the way to go!
Sounds great! We stagger subjects with my twins and I have lamented missing days and getting behind. Might need to pick up looping instead. Thanks
I love this channel! We are a family of children born in our hearts and children born from my belly :-). We homeschool and I’m loving this channel so much! I’m excited to see your binder!! I would also like a video on games you play (you mentioned a game.) We really like to make learning fun and we have several games we bring out to learn time, world geography, US geography, money, etc. If you have a good game suggestion for presidents, that would be GREAT!!!
I’ve done schooling in both Australia and America and the approach that the two countries take are so, so different.
I lived in America for 3 years from when I was about 7.
I still recall every state and their capital city and I can still place most of them on a map. I have no idea what this knowledge does for me. Aside from being a cool party trick.
American history is so much more focused on their own history as opposed to world history. And the interest in world history seems to only stretch as far as America was involved in it. Australia is totally different. Big focus on the world around us. Maybe because our own history is pretty limited by time and is also pretty horrible in terms of attempting to genocide our indigenous peoples.
Australia seems to focus more on English, American’s more on math.
Very interesting!
About geography I saw one video about doing continents bins and inside she incorporated books to read with fiction non fiction curious things, a game related, a map she printed etc. I love that idea!
Awesome books recommendations even fir those not homeschooling. Loved the Children like me! Will def buy!
I really love this idea! I've been trying to figure out how to schedule in our science and history and this seems perfect :) Thanks for linking everything up. Also love that your kids are screaming in the back, lol, now I like your channel even more!
I scheduled ‘loops within my loop’ for each of those resources in each individual subject. So for your president loop, you could have a smaller loop within that rotating between each resource. I actually have mine listed in OneNote as checkboxes so I can just pop on my phone to see where we are mark off what we did.
Have you looked at the book "Give Your Child the World?" It has lists of children's books that correlate to different parts of the world. Some were non-fiction, some were fiction, and some were true-ish stories that had been somewhat fictionalized. I have been participating in a short summer session going through all of the parts of the world with my girls, but I can see how it could easily be stretched out into a year long set-up, since it is really just different amazing children's books to read to enforce what is being learned in other curriculum. My daughters, 5 and 8, absolutely loved it, and they have learned so much about how people live in other parts of the world.
Beth W We love Give Your Child the World! They’ve all been favorites so far!
oooh I had that 'children just like me' book when i was little and I LOVED it!! ❤❤
I do a loop schedule for these subjects already so doing a basket it just genius ... thanks for sharing !
I'm always daydreaming about new things for our morning basket! Ugh I drive myself nuts lol.
I love pam barnhill!! Her mornjng basket podcast is fab!
Love this idea! I’ve heard from someone once that she does one in the morning and another in the afternoon which I think is so fun. It gives variety and fun beginning with a fun end to the day. The afternoon could be artsy or something like that. Also not overly familiar with usborne books, I have a few, but they look so good.
This is brilliant! Thanks for sharing! I’m so excited to try this for the coming school year!
There’s a really cool Melissa and Doug puzzle of the US that could be helpful for your kiddos!
Love this video and this channel! I would love to see your favorite Usborne books or even an Usborne book haul. My kids enjoy these books so much, and I am amazed with how many they have. We have quite a few Usborne books from going to friends parties, and I got a giant box of free books from doing my own party recently, but there are still so many more! I didn't even know about that State's Capitals book you have linked above--it looks neat!
You must get the MAPS books. It's great for the littles to look at World Geography and pictures. The book is vivid and just purely awesome.
I’m not a homeschooler but I’m buying that. ‘Children just like me’ book. My daughter is only 3months old but I think that book is a wonderful tool 🇦🇺
Tash C I loved the book as a kid! It’s a great pick.
There is a newer edition published 2016 or 2017 also. They are both great. Some countries are the same, but different children, and some countries are different.
You should look into the fifty nifty United States song. It names all the states in alphabetical order. I learned it in elementary and I can still name all the states thanks to it today.
I’m 100% sure we could be great friends just based on personalities! 🤣 Also... I’m now gonna do a looping basket! Mine will literally include the same subjects. I laughed when you listed yours because that was mine at the start of the video!
I'd love to see a video on your planner and binder!
Awesome ! I admire how organized and enthusiastic about starting home schooling this year with your kiddos. I know you didn't mention anything about space study which I know you will eventually get to do I wanted to share a poem I learned years ago to learn the order of the planet's it goes like this: Murcury, Venus, Earth and Mars Asteroids which are not stars. Jupiter, Saturn say them fast, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto's last....or since Pluto supposedly Isn't a planet anymore you could end it "Uranus,Neptune is the last.
I thought it was a fun way to learn about the solar system.
LOOOOOOOVE! We are looping too but only with electives, as of now.. All homeschoolers know this could change quickly.. in fact I’m already thinking of it haha
This makes so much sense!!!!
Have you seen the confessions of a home schooler exploring countries and cultures and she has a road trip USA one too I’m planning to use exploring countries this year coming for my kids
You explained this very well! I’ll have to look into it more...the idea sounds great! 😊
Have you ever done your planning binder video? I would LOVE to see it!
I have a friend who was just telling me a similar concept and I love it! Also, I've totally been thinking about becoming an Usborne rep!!!
I love it so far! I'm addicted to building our library and it's the perfect way!
We are also trying to grow our library! I would love to hear more about becoming a rep for Usborne💃🏻
I just found your channel and love your vids (subscribed and currently binge watching)!
such a smart idea! love this new channel!
Fun thing for presidents for the older kids could be- a quiz, a quick fire name as many presidents in a set time as you can, as the year goes on name as many presidents in order as you can and at the end of the year a quick fire name all the presidents in order.
Get the "Scrambled States of America" game to go along with your US geography studies. It's such a fun family game and I promise it will help them memorize the states and US map fast!
Jonah is the one who's asleep??
I love looping baskets - though I do mine a bit differently. I'm homeschooling my grandkids (1 for sure, 1 on and off - he's 2 and wants to read like big brother) and I'm homeschooling myself - to actually learn all those things I was supposed to learn in college and in public school - and didn't. Because my eyes and my wants are infinitely bigger than reality - I invariably don't finish all I had planned (oldest grandson is 4 and ADHD so time learning is either limited by his need for movement - we do however have a lot of movement involved types of learning - or by the need to address a subject as isolated from other topics). For myself - well, I tend to overwhelm myself. So for us, it works to take each subject and whatever doesn't get done tht day, gets worked on the next. ie - one day I did the morning basket materials, MOST of the written work EXCEPT for math - and that was it. Next day we picked up with morning basket (done daily), and went straight to math, then to science. and continued accordingly. After completing all the studies thus far, we start all over again - or, if time and energy are flagging - we wait until the next day. True - I don't complete all I planned for a week - BUT we are getting an amazing amount of things actually completed.
If you are looking for something to learn US states, you could get the Time For Learning states book. It’s like the one you have for presidents I gives a short overview of each state, the capitol, some fun historical fact, and it has some of those fun pull outs and flaps and stuff. I did both of those books when I was In school.
Pam is one of my favs!
Was there a presidents game? Thought I saw you hold one up, but didn't see a link? Maybe I imagined it ;)
I want to homeschool just so I can plan and organize (I’ll join your musical!). Seriously, my kids are doing great in school, so I’ll have to live through others for now.
If you are looking for any resources for memorization, I have been using a few RUclips videos for my child. There are some great US State and Capital raps/songs nowadays. (I even found the 90s rap I was taught in school! 🙈 LOL)
Love videos like this one. Very informative! Thank you!
Will you add in other countries history too for the older girls, like english kings & queens? I think its pretty interesting for kids of the girls ages 😀
I learned something new!! Thanks for sharing!