@@shaynabelknap2675 Thank you so much for watching! We love doing the videos ❤️

Glad you enjoyed it!

It is so encouraging to know that you are finding our videos helpful! Homeschooling during the early years is such a precious time! My advice is to not rush into academics too quickly. Enjoy things like being outside in nature, cooking in the kitchen together, playing, and reading books. If your little one starts to show interest in learning to read you could bring in things like letters or a phonics program. We both love books a lot and have been collecting them for years now. I personally thrift many of the books we own. I would have a running list of chapter books from curriculum booklist and anytime I was thrifting I would look for those titles. A few years ago we turned our formal dining space into a library and bought several bookcases to store our home library.

@@Home.School.andLife thank you for your message and advice! Keeping a running book list to search for while thrifting is a great idea!

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@reflectionsinthebible3579 Hi! We didn’t use the DVD. We bought the online course through BJU that we get for 18 months. It has the lessons and then it also has some scenes where it shows the language /lessons being used in context. So- I’m not sure on the Christian Book dvds.

@@eric1689-mlc 😂😂😂 A few were brave enough to try it - but it didn’t get eaten 😂

We bought the microscope from Amazon. But- yes - we did spend a lot of money on biology this year for our high school students. We bought the textbook, lab books, and specimens from apologia.

@ I'd live to see an update. Have a great biology year!

I’ll see if a can do a flip through video of the evidence book!

Thanks! I will have to try making my own. It’s my new favorite cleaning supply!

Glad you enjoyed the haul!

IEW has programs that can be used from early elementary through high school. I personally started their writing program around 4th or 5th grade and have used it into high school

@@JillRB I love keeping it out for a few weeks for some added inspiration. ❤️❤️Love having something written to hold in my hand 🤚

So glad you found us!

Hi! I think my kids would say my top two subjects are math and history as well! We did just pick the high school world history curriculum with Masterbooks that covers a large time period area. It isn't bad--- We just really love all the extra resources with SOTW and the chronological approach :) It isn't too hard to go back through since we've already used them twice. For whatever history time period we are in-- I always love assigning extra books for the appropriate age. There are so many to choose from! :)

Hmm. Didn’t see that. We haven’t had an issue with the books we have. The teacher books have great “extra” enrichment ideas that have been helpful. When we got to some more modern hostory- a few of the books we used as supplements and aids were HEAVILY slanted towards what we considered untrue accounts of history. (It wasn’t SOTW) but - it did provide great discussion within the family and prompted some personal research from each kid- so that was actually an unplanned positive .

Also - have either of y’all tried Biblioplan?? That along with Beautiful Feet are my top contenders.

Hi! Sorry for the slow reply. The holidays got us off routine. The not grass we used would be too advanced for your kids ages-- BUT- looking at the younger notgrass history- I think it would work perfectly for family style teaching. A friend of mine used it and has similar kids ages to yours and she liked it pretty well. The biggest thing to me would be doing research for book lists and adding in your own read alouds and fun assignments. For science - we have really liked The Good and the Beautiful and the Gods Design series with Masterbooks ❤️

We have not used that! Will look it up

@@Home.School.andLife thanks! We ended up deciding on MasterBooks for all of our curriculum this year. They have something for everyone honestly.

Would love to hear your changes too! I’m excited about our “book basket” changes we are going to make. Video coming on that soon!

@@Home.School.andLife we have done the Easy Grammar books forever. My kids wanted to try something different, because they felt like they were doing the same thing every day every year. We switched to something different and it isn’t going well for my 9th grader. It isn’t worth the anxious feelings he has each day, so we are making another switch. After Christmas break he is starting at the beginning of Fix it Grammar. Being that it is well below his level I plan to go through several days of assessments in one day , and possibly skipping some of the assignments if he completely understands the concepts. I’m starting at level 1 to make sure he gets the concept of the curriculum. We will most likely get through a good portion of the level 2 book as well before the end of the year. I also tried a new curriculum to teach my 7th grader about Arthropods. It was supposed to be just something extra and fun, but the main book has been miserable with way too much unnecessary reading. To replace it I purchased the Arthropod curriculum from The Good and The Beautiful. It just arrived this week and just by looking at it I think it’s going to be great!

@@JillRB Sounds like we are making similar changes! :) Hope it all goes well.

I switched my 10th graders to Essentials in Writing for grammar and writing and it’s going so well. My 6th and 7th graders I switched to CTC math and it’s going well also.

@@Grace_Filled_Homeschool I've heard a lot of people like the Essentials in Writing. I'm excited about our changes!

Absolutely! We both have enjoyed our couple years of a very "planned" Christmas school. But, it is funny- we are both doing major construction on our homes at the same time. So the "simple" plan for this year is so much better in our families!

It is such a fun book to read during the Christmas season! I hope our simple plans were an encouragement to you!

I’m so glad you found our channel! Our hope in doing this is that we will be an encouragement to someone along the way.

I get lots of menu ideas from watching other peoples grocery hauls! Gets me out of recipe ruts 😂

@@Home.School.andLife Yes, that too! I also love to see how differently people eat & the combos they make, even if it's nothing I'd eat. I'm totally a nosey-Nellie. LOL

Glad to know it wasn't just me! I had no idea. I went back and looked on the listing and couldn't find anything to show it was used. So bummed. But thankful I can send it back. :)

Thank you so much! Homeschooling teens is definitely a different season than the little years. We have had to do a lot of adjusting!

Thanks! It was my first time to film a DITL!

I just filmed one yesterday! Putting it up next week :) Thanks for the encouragement!

For each video lesson, there are PDF textbook pages that you can click on. We use those ALL THE TIME. You can also email them, and they will send it to you via email the entire PDF textbook. But, I found it easier to just click on the textbook pages for each lesson. Even on the questions, it will tell you the textbook lesson and give you the pages. You just click "textbook pages". Let me know if you find it!

Hi! Thanks for commenting! Using it has been a very good "staple" in our day to just come together. It is not as "deep" as the Bible studies we have done in the past as a family. But, it is tying us together and giving an EXCELLENT overview of the New Testament. I am really enjoying it! The timeline section and historical figure sections are our favorite.

Thanks for being here!!

It’s nice to know we aren’t alone and there are people still continuing to get creative to make things work for their family!

I was unable to find the exact maps online. They only say K12 so they must have been from our states online public school program. Here are some I found on Amazon that are similar in size. a.co/d/7LhQToL

Thanks so much!!

We will get that put together and send it over!

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for watching and always being so encouraging!!!

I am thinking of using Sonlight for our next year of high school history. I love teaching it through reading so much better!

@@Home.School.andLife I do as well!

That’s a great idea! I will!

Love! My oldest is also in 9th grade and has goals of playing collegiate athletics. I’m happy to go into more detail on how we did our schedule and why I chose the options and share which one we settled on and why. It was definitely good for us to try them all out to see what worked best this year with the workload and schedule.

That sounds perfect! I’m going to do the “Faithpedia” from Not Consumed along with their bible studies. I will incorporate all the “fun things” and extras in that time. One year I did a book about weird inventions during our Book Basket time and the kids liked that.

Awesome! Thank you!

Me too!!

I don’t have a complete list yet. I’m going to be assigning some biographies and novels that go along with our history. I should make a list now though!

My kids always start with The Boxcar Children series, Magic Treehouse, or Imagination Station series.

I personally think Saxon is a great curriculum! My littles enjoy the colorful aspect of Horizon, but once they get to the middle grades they want something simple and straightforward. It also saves us a lot of money on curriculum because we reuse the textbooks from 5/4 up and the kids do all their work in a math notebook. We had planned to use it through high school, but we are now using Shorman.

You bet!

Yes, our state allows homeschoolers to be partially enrolled at the local public school. You can participate in academic classes, electives, or athletics. We have only participated in athletics so far. We have friends who have done band, choir, theatre, art, and high school math. Not all states have laws that allow this, so I would check with your local school district.

@@Home.School.andLife Thank you for the info. I will check with our school district for sure. Hope ya'll have a fun year!!

No, we do not use an online program. My high schoolers do take a few online classes, but my younger crew only use the computer/tablet for typing and educational games/apps occasionally. In our state the only requirement is to turn in a letter of intent to homeschool to our local school district. All states have different requirements and you can find out what they are on the HSLDA website.

@@Home.School.andLife ok thank you!!