These are great tips! I think it’s really important for new homeschoolers especially to realize that it takes time, like years, to really feel like you know what you’re doing. Don’t compare yourself to seasoned homeschoolers and feel like you have to have it all together right away. Be consistent with what you’re doing and you’ll learn yourself and your children and develop a rhythm that works best for your family.
Totally agree with "Work on independence as soon as possible" @4:02. Why? One answer is because when they are interested in a topic they can continue to dive deep on that topic on their own.
In addition to audiobooks, keep an eye out for graphic novels for your more reluctant readers. There’s a trend recently of middle-grade novels being adapted into graphic novels (Wings of Fire, Animorphs, Percy Jackson, etc.), and that can encourage your kids to transition over to the original novels. My middle schooler read through all the Wings of Fire graphic novels and then moved to the originals to finish out the series.
Could you do a video on middle and high school age homeschooling? I currently looking into homeschooling, but none of the videos I have seen focus on middle and high school age kids. Please help!
Probably because those moms are too busy teaching and driving their kids places. Try finding moms irl in local homeschool groups. This will be way more valuable than a video online.
Hi! Love this so much, thank you!!! PLEASE do a video about the four day week and year round school when you are able! I appreciate your knowledge so much! :) See you next week! 😊
FYI, I am able to do 4 days a week with the Good and Beautiful curriculum and complete the curriculum within the same schedule the public school system has. We take 2 months in the summer and I plan the next school year. We do 4 lessons in math and language arts each week. 1 science lesson family co-op for my younger kids and 2 history lessons. This leaves either Monday for a cleaning day or Friday for an errand day. I homeschool 4 kids, 2 are in highschool and are mostly independent.
We do this too! Fridays are for outside, music lessons and the library or something like that. Sometimes we go on nature walks and sometimes we do art cooking projects. My kids enjoy earning lego building days as well.
Same! I have 4 kids. One reason I love The Good amd the beautiful is because there's only 120 lessons. So much flexibility! We do lessons mon-thurs. In the mornings we do group subjects. I rotate science and histor, or whatever unit we're working on. Throw in 5 mins of a Bible story and a chapter of read aloud if we have time. We usually spend an hour together, then they move on to language arts and math. We break to go play outside (while I do housework) and for lunch. Normally all they have left to do after lunch is one subject (so 30-45 mins of work) Fridays are my town day. I need that day! They do things that don't require me. They can practice their music, play outside, read, whatever. As long as they don't bug me all day 😂 We also don't do lessons on co-op or field trip days. We still manage to finish our curriculum. We still technically count Fridays as a school day, because my state requires 180 days. When we do 4 actual lesson days a week... we follow the "year round homeschooling" schedule of school for 6 weeks, get a week off. Repeat to get 6 "6 week increments in" leaving a nice summer break and 2 or 3 weeks for Christmas. I also just discovered this year, outsourcing their science and history. They do Power Homeschool for science and History. It's tailored to their ages, it doesn't require me, and I know they're getting what they need in those subjects, if our day derails and we don't get to it in group subjects. It gives us more liberty to do fun unit studies and take our time without feeling like we're not covering enough ground. That was meant to be a short comment... sorry 😂
I looove what you said about technology and chores. Were going to move to Florida within 1-3 months and once we do we’ll be homeschooling, but we already have them doing chores and they dont have any electronics at all. They watch TV as a family and on on occasion they get to use a tablet but in this day in age kids are getting raised by tablets/phones and are being exposed to things they shouldn’t be.
You could make your own butter easily, so the rations were probably used more for meat and rarely for butter! My understanding is it was for either or, not both.
Loved this video!!! Thank you so much for making a homeschool specific channel. I absolutely love these videos and all your little rants lol that is the way my brain works too!
Yes! The Good and the Beautiful was my favorite curriculum that was new when I started to use it. I wish it were out much earlier in my homeschooling years! I shuffled through various ones. I did a mix of unschooling in everything. I like what you said about individual goals. That's great! My older sons loved when I would include audio and documentaries into their day too. I read to my children even in their older teen years still! It is important.
Keep checking back for new content in your homeschooling channel. I've watched all these multiple times and still love them but also looking forward to more nuggets of wisdom! Gonna be homeschooling with a newborn a 4th grader and kindergarten next year and I'm a little worried about not sticking to a rhythm that works well for all and doesn't let my 4th grader "slack" because mom isn't right next to her...
I’m a new homeschool parent for a 9th grader. I’m struggling with coming up with a curriculum and I desperately want to get it together. I need to understand it as well as it not be out of reach for her to learn.
This new channel along with your others are such a blessing to me. Thank you! I am a very new home schooler, I just have a preschooler and I didn’t know how difficult I was making it. ❤ I was the problem lol, thank you Angie!
I love how you pointed out that social media and video games have great potential to rob children if their childhood. It's so true. If we use games, its for school or learning and its strictly limited. The stuff is so addictive also. But great point.
If you could do a video (or link the video) where you talk about how you incorporated the kids into the household chores. Specifically how you introduced it to the youngest kids
How do you know if your children are meeting the grade level benchmarks for reading, writing, and math? I imagine that the curriculum comes with assessments, but how do you know that those assessments align with the grade level benchmarks?
You can look up the standards on your state board of education website but most states don’t require homeschoolers to follow the public school scope and sequence. Tons of kids in public schools are ahead of or behind grade level and teachers scaffold to meet them where they are (or they get left behind when the class moves on).
How do you report to the state that your children are learning? I’m seriously considering homeschooling but all these details make me nervous. I have an 8-5 from home and I don’t see how I’d do this throughout the day and what my child will be doing during non school time while I work. My husband works out of the house and comes home just in time for me to finish up work while he takes over. Also, in your state, how do students meet university requirements while homeschooled? I’m in CA and other than signing up for an online school that offers the college prep courses I don’t see how my child will be eligible otherwise. This is such an overwhelming idea, which is why I’m still exploring. 😅 thanks for all the tips and answering my questions.
You need to find out the requirements for the state of California. She doesn't live in California, so her answer will do that no good. I used to live in Delaware where you only have to take attendance and you turn nothing into the state except your attendance data. Now I live in Maryland which is much more regulated. Instead of directly reporting to the state, I report to an homeschool umbrella that reviews a portfolio. As you can see, the standards are very different depending on the state. Just Google homeschooling in California.
I personally HATE homeschooling worksheets and such that I have to print out. Because instead of just having a workbook, I have to make sure there's paper and ink and all times. And there's already ENOUGH for my ADHD self to try and remember on a daily basis xD
The good and the beautiful language arts has been fantastic in my experience. A very Charlotte mason approach with a really solid foundation for grammar, writing, along with art and geography.
I'm there with you! MasterBooks is affordable but just not working for one of my children, everything else is simply out of my budget or looks soooo dull!
"Pre-school" is entirely unnecessary. If you look into early child development, all that a child requires is to be able to play and BE. Curiosity and learning go hand in hand with a young child's natural playful inclinations. Even just being outside in the natural world involves so much learning and play for little ones.
These are great tips! I think it’s really important for new homeschoolers especially to realize that it takes time, like years, to really feel like you know what you’re doing. Don’t compare yourself to seasoned homeschoolers and feel like you have to have it all together right away. Be consistent with what you’re doing and you’ll learn yourself and your children and develop a rhythm that works best for your family.
Thank you! Someone needed to say this
Agree. I've been homeschooling for 4yrs now and I'm still changing and learning ways to make learning work for my kids and thier styles and levels.
Totally agree with "Work on independence as soon as possible" @4:02. Why? One answer is because when they are interested in a topic they can continue to dive deep on that topic on their own.
In addition to audiobooks, keep an eye out for graphic novels for your more reluctant readers. There’s a trend recently of middle-grade novels being adapted into graphic novels (Wings of Fire, Animorphs, Percy Jackson, etc.), and that can encourage your kids to transition over to the original novels. My middle schooler read through all the Wings of Fire graphic novels and then moved to the originals to finish out the series.
Could you do a video on middle and high school age homeschooling? I currently looking into homeschooling, but none of the videos I have seen focus on middle and high school age kids. Please help!
Probably because those moms are too busy teaching and driving their kids places. Try finding moms irl in local homeschool groups. This will be way more valuable than a video online.
Grace & Grit is a good channel on here for middle and high school.
Thank you!!
The dollar store has those reusable sleeves if anybody is interested most of the dollar stores.
Would love a list of your favorite documentaries or docu-series!
Hi! Love this so much, thank you!!! PLEASE do a video about the four day week and year round school when you are able! I appreciate your knowledge so much! :) See you next week! 😊
FYI, I am able to do 4 days a week with the Good and Beautiful curriculum and complete the curriculum within the same schedule the public school system has. We take 2 months in the summer and I plan the next school year. We do 4 lessons in math and language arts each week. 1 science lesson family co-op for my younger kids and 2 history lessons. This leaves either Monday for a cleaning day or Friday for an errand day. I homeschool 4 kids, 2 are in highschool and are mostly independent.
Oh, thank you for sharing your schedule! :) It sounds like your days are full, but not overwhelming! That's my goal!! :) @@breanne2117
Sounds like a fantastic schedule. What time do you start and finish for the four days? Thanks ❤@@breanne2117
We do this too! Fridays are for outside, music lessons and the library or something like that. Sometimes we go on nature walks and sometimes we do art cooking projects. My kids enjoy earning lego building days as well.
Same! I have 4 kids. One reason I love The Good amd the beautiful is because there's only 120 lessons. So much flexibility! We do lessons mon-thurs. In the mornings we do group subjects. I rotate science and histor, or whatever unit we're working on. Throw in 5 mins of a Bible story and a chapter of read aloud if we have time. We usually spend an hour together, then they move on to language arts and math. We break to go play outside (while I do housework) and for lunch. Normally all they have left to do after lunch is one subject (so 30-45 mins of work)
Fridays are my town day. I need that day! They do things that don't require me. They can practice their music, play outside, read, whatever. As long as they don't bug me all day 😂 We also don't do lessons on co-op or field trip days. We still manage to finish our curriculum.
We still technically count Fridays as a school day, because my state requires 180 days.
When we do 4 actual lesson days a week... we follow the "year round homeschooling" schedule of school for 6 weeks, get a week off. Repeat to get 6 "6 week increments in" leaving a nice summer break and 2 or 3 weeks for Christmas.
I also just discovered this year, outsourcing their science and history. They do Power Homeschool for science and History. It's tailored to their ages, it doesn't require me, and I know they're getting what they need in those subjects, if our day derails and we don't get to it in group subjects. It gives us more liberty to do fun unit studies and take our time without feeling like we're not covering enough ground.
That was meant to be a short comment... sorry 😂
I looove what you said about technology and chores. Were going to move to Florida within 1-3 months and once we do we’ll be homeschooling, but we already have them doing chores and they dont have any electronics at all. They watch TV as a family and on on occasion they get to use a tablet but in this day in age kids are getting raised by tablets/phones and are being exposed to things they shouldn’t be.
I feel so glad to see people homeschooling.
I'm also a homeschooling mama and its always learning watching people like you.
I absolutely agree with a 4 day a week and year-round schooling.
You could make your own butter easily, so the rations were probably used more for meat and rarely for butter! My understanding is it was for either or, not both.
Loved this video!!! Thank you so much for making a homeschool specific channel. I absolutely love these videos and all your little rants lol that is the way my brain works too!
So glad you made this separate channel for homeschooling! Thank you❤
Yes! The Good and the Beautiful was my favorite curriculum that was new when I started to use it. I wish it were out much earlier in my homeschooling years! I shuffled through various ones. I did a mix of unschooling in everything. I like what you said about individual goals. That's great!
My older sons loved when I would include audio and documentaries into their day too. I read to my children even in their older teen years still! It is important.
Great tips!! I like to buy curriculum pdf so I can reuse them!!
anxiously awaiting your curriculum choices for next year!!
Yay so happy you have made a specific channel for home schooling! I love this!! ❤🎉
Didn't know you have a homeschool channel !
Keep checking back for new content in your homeschooling channel. I've watched all these multiple times and still love them but also looking forward to more nuggets of wisdom!
Gonna be homeschooling with a newborn a 4th grader and kindergarten next year and I'm a little worried about not sticking to a rhythm that works well for all and doesn't let my 4th grader "slack" because mom isn't right next to her...
Awesome tips! I tried your Amazon storefront lists but got page not found.
I’m a new homeschool parent for a 9th grader. I’m struggling with coming up with a curriculum and I desperately want to get it together. I need to understand it as well as it not be out of reach for her to learn.
The Good and the Beautiful Early bird sale is on 🎉🎉🎉
Just ordered yesterday! ❤🎉
This new channel along with your others are such a blessing to me. Thank you! I am a very new home schooler, I just have a preschooler and I didn’t know how difficult I was making it. ❤ I was the problem lol, thank you Angie!
I love how you pointed out that social media and video games have great potential to rob children if their childhood. It's so true. If we use games, its for school or learning and its strictly limited. The stuff is so addictive also. But great point.
Thanks, Angie! You're awesome!
If you could do a video (or link the video) where you talk about how you incorporated the kids into the household chores. Specifically how you introduced it to the youngest kids
This is just sooooo good!!!!! I would love to see your morning routine ☀️
Make a video about how to do your amazing hair-dos. Who agrees? 🎉😂❤ Ty for being such a great, godly teacher. Xo
I love all of these points and would watch videos breaking down each topic.
Good advice. Keep it coming.
Angela, you are so helpful 😊
I never knew you had this channel! Love it!
Thank you, thank you! I really needed this video!
This was very nice and helpful !! Thank you so much ❤
❤ love your homeschool videos. So helpful, informative and interesting.
How do you know if your children are meeting the grade level benchmarks for reading, writing, and math? I imagine that the curriculum comes with assessments, but how do you know that those assessments align with the grade level benchmarks?
You need to ask yourself if and why you want your child to meet public school standards, and which standards.
You can look up the standards on your state board of education website but most states don’t require homeschoolers to follow the public school scope and sequence.
Tons of kids in public schools are ahead of or behind grade level and teachers scaffold to meet them where they are (or they get left behind when the class moves on).
Hey…where’d you get that shirt?!
I need an audio book list for upper elementary!
How do you report to the state that your children are learning? I’m seriously considering homeschooling but all these details make me nervous. I have an 8-5 from home and I don’t see how I’d do this throughout the day and what my child will be doing during non school time while I work. My husband works out of the house and comes home just in time for me to finish up work while he takes over. Also, in your state, how do students meet university requirements while homeschooled? I’m in CA and other than signing up for an online school that offers the college prep courses I don’t see how my child will be eligible otherwise. This is such an overwhelming idea, which is why I’m still exploring. 😅 thanks for all the tips and answering my questions.
You need to find out the requirements for the state of California. She doesn't live in California, so her answer will do that no good.
I used to live in Delaware where you only have to take attendance and you turn nothing into the state except your attendance data. Now I live in Maryland which is much more regulated. Instead of directly reporting to the state, I report to an homeschool umbrella that reviews a portfolio.
As you can see, the standards are very different depending on the state. Just Google homeschooling in California.
Do you use a group curriculum for Bible?
Not Consumed is wonderful!
What was the math facts app you mentioned?
I personally HATE homeschooling worksheets and such that I have to print out. Because instead of just having a workbook, I have to make sure there's paper and ink and all times. And there's already ENOUGH for my ADHD self to try and remember on a daily basis xD
There are homeschool dads as well.
I tried to use your Amazon links but unfortunately none of them are working.
Writing 😢 we can’t figure it out. We can’t afford IEW.
The good and the beautiful language arts has been fantastic in my experience. A very Charlotte mason approach with a really solid foundation for grammar, writing, along with art and geography.
Have you looked into Brave Writer?
I'm there with you! MasterBooks is affordable but just not working for one of my children, everything else is simply out of my budget or looks soooo dull!
Writing and Rhetoric has worked really well for my fourth grader!
Check out the writing class by Dr. Lybrand!
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"Pre-school" is entirely unnecessary. If you look into early child development, all that a child requires is to be able to play and BE. Curiosity and learning go hand in hand with a young child's natural playful inclinations. Even just being outside in the natural world involves so much learning and play for little ones.
Meal planning is the worst for me.