BEST WAY TO ORGANIZE YOUR ABEKA HOMESCHOOL 4th Grade curriculum // HOMESCHOOL ORGANIZATION

[@Teoloverbdc]

Thank you so much for this! This method absolutely worked for us! So easy and organized!

[@JoyfulYessi]

Yey!! 👏 You're so welcome! I’m si happy it works for you too 🤗

[@robertvangorder1983]

My son’s 4th grade is coming today, so I will be viewing this a little later! Thank you for this. ❤️- Michelle

[@JoyfulYessi]

How exciting 😆 will this be your first year? I hope that you will find it helpful 😁 Thank you so much for watching 🤗

[@sarahphilipp5619]

I’m the mama who put together 18 flex binders together for the whole year last year. It has been the best year! I love Abeka accredited and the flex binder system! I’ve been using Abeka with all my 3 girls since preschool 2 and 3 program! This year I just finished putting together 16 binders! So much easier the second time around. 4 th was a little challenge because of learning her revised 4 th grade curriculum and book reports etc but I can’t say enough thank you to you for sharing this system! I told my mom about this all so. She homeschools her 2 grand children. I sent her to your channel.

[@JoyfulYessi]

Yes! THANK YOU so much for sharing g this with me!!!! This just makes me so happy to know that this system worked so well for your entire family too! 4th grade was definitely a year of adjustment for us too, especially since he was coming in from the public school setting. 5th grade seemed so much smoother for my son! Once again, thank you for sharing and I home your mom finds it as helpful as you have 🤗

[@JesusLovesYouuu11]

Fellow abeka mom here 😊 Thanks for sharing! I love this idea! God bless y’all!

[@JoyfulYessi]

Hi there 👋 It’s so wonderful to have you here! 🤗 What grades are you homeschooling?

[@stephaniegalbraith94]

Thank you so much for this!

[@JoyfulYessi]

You are so welcome! I’m so happy you found it helpful 🤗

[@samantitadechile]

Thank you mommy! what a great and easy way to organize school work you have...ill be doing the same thing soooonn.....i felt so overwhelmed because i knew it was a lot but you make it very simple!! thank you so much!!!!

[@JoyfulYessi]

You are very welcome! I’m so happy you found it so helpful! 🤗Let me tell you, it makes it so much simpler to navigate through the work and keep track of everything by quarter and subject. Both of my kids and my husband absolutely live this system as well! 🤗 🤗

[@samantitadechile]

@@JoyfulYessi Querida Yessi, donde puedo ver lo que ensenan en cada grado? quisiera ver lo que ensenan en 4to y en 8vo grado....gracias por tu ayuda, lo organizare tal y comolo hicistes tuu, excelente video, saludos!!!!

[@JoyfulYessi]

@@samantitadechile Hola! Me alegro el escuchar q este video fue de ayuda y q ya esta preparada! Para ver lo que se va a cubrir en el año, vas al website de Abeka, presionas donde dice homeschool, luego a resources, luego presionas scope and sequence, hay te dará todo los grados. Presionas el pdf para el que necesitas y después hay sale el documento con todo lo que se cubrirá para cada clase. Espero q sea de ayuda! Cualquier otra preguntita me deja sabe 🤗

[@samantitadechile]

@@JoyfulYessi siiiiiii encontre todo!!! gracias por tu increible ayuda querida yessi, te sigooo, un abrazo!!!

[@JoyfulYessi]

Que bueno!!!! Gracias un abrazo de mi parte también 🤗

[@ashleypnw6922]

I love this! It is so well organized. Great Job Momma!!! This is my first year using Abeka with my children. Your flow is really inspiring; knowing exactly when each thing is to be taught. I love that layout. I will be teaching my two oldest Abeka 3rd grade (no videos). And my youngest ABeka k5. What might be the benefits to setting up flex binders for each of them as supposed to just handing them their full workbooks each day? Before I get to tearing; I feel like I need a little more info. If you had any insight why this method might be better (as it looks better to me, but nervous to start ripping, lol). Thanks!

[@JoyfulYessi]

I'm so happy that you like it! thank you! We will be doing k5 this year with our daughter and 5th grade with our son and we do the videos. Great Question! The reason why I love this binder system is because I have the whole quarter set up in one place and I don't have to worry about having so many workbooks ready every day. My husband and I both do the homeschooling and we both work, so sometimes our kids homeschool out of our home, so we like our materials to be very mobile and fit in one backpack. Since we did accredited, all the work was all in one place for me when I sent out the progress reports. For me I just fell like it's more efficient.

[@ashleypnw6922]

@@JoyfulYessi That makes sense! I know you are busy and I appreciate the response!!! Thank you so much! I really like how you pointed out in one of your videos the curriculum is a tool that you use to work for you; not the other way around. I really see this system as a way you use it to work for your family needs versus being a slave to it. I like that. I really think this could help the day flow better for my kids; and possibly making homeschool on the go more of an option; just one binder versus many big consumables. Thanks for sharing this helpful video!

[@JoyfulYessi]

@@ashleypnw6922 Yes! I’m a for Believer of curriculum being a tool! I can’t wait to hear how it works for you 🤗

[@jennyortiz3046]

Thank you for such an amazing video! We are doing our first year of homeschooling with abeka and are excited/ nervous. Your videos are definitely motivational for us. Thank you so much. God bless you and your beautiful family

[@JoyfulYessi]

You are so welcome & THANK YOU so much for watching and the wonderful comment 🥰 it means so much to me to hear that They are motivating! I know the feeling!!!! I’m there with you! When we started w our daughter with her k4 it took some trial and error but we have finally found our groove! We are homeschooling our 4th grader for the first time so I’m so excited as well! So we will be sharing some of that journey this year for sure! I can’t wait to hear how your year goes!!! Amen! & God Bless you and your family as well🤗

[@jennyortiz3046]

Hi! I am so happy you are feeling better. I wanted to check in and see how it’s been going with homeschooling? The first few weeks this year were challenging for us. I was definitely not use to it and felt that the work load was a lot with abeka (especially the accredited version) ! I felt like quitting at times. But I have got to say it’s a lot better now. We have gotten more into a groove of things and my son (4th grade) and daughters (9th and 10th grade) have been learning so much. I am so glad we stuck through it. The bond and memories we are creating is totally worth it and I wouldn’t change it for the world! I cant believe we are ending the second quarter already! Next week I’ll be getting ready to submit the progress reports! You have been a tremendous help for me! You have truly been an inspiration. I used your ideas with the notebooks and the setup and it has made things so much easier. Any other ideas you may have as time progresses, please share. Do you plan to continue homeschooling next year? Again thank you for all you do. You are an amazing person! God bless you and your family! Stay healthy my friend❤️

[@JoyfulYessi]

Thank you!!! Oh my goodness girl we were on the same boat as you as well!!! It was such a challenge at the beginning and definitely very overwhelming. It took some adjustments for sure for us and with all the unexpected curveballs we’ve had the last couple of months it has been something else but it was actually the best decision for us! God’s time is perfect. My husband n I were actually talking about making a homeschool update video w how we’ve made it work. It has truly been a blessing n we are definitely Continuing to homeschool!!! I’m so happy that you have found them helpful! Thank you always for your constant support! God co tongue to bless you and your family too 🥰

[@mrsbeesalazar980]

Thank you so much for posting this ! This will be my first year doing abeka with my 3rd grader and 6th grader. I’m filling your binder system but I’m nervous cause I don’t have my video manuals in yet and I don’t know which subject they will be starting off with first 😮 any information or an video u can post to help with that I would greatly appreciate!!!! God bless !!!!

[@JoyfulYessi]

Hi there! I’m so glad to hear that you have found this helpful! Your 1st year! How exciting! Are your video manuals backed up? Based on our sons 4th & 5th grade they seem to all follow the same format. Bible first (doesn’t need a binder section) then arithmetic, reading, language, spelling, history, science (i didn’t do a section In The binder for penmanship) if you have the dvds you can pop it in just to double check that’s the order, that’s the ordered that we follow. However, if you want to you can change the order of the subjects that you want your kiddos to work on. 🤗 I am planning on making a more detailed video on how I organize the binder for our son for this year’s 5th grade But, if you want to check out my end of year curriculum review for 4th grade, I talk in there about how we structured our homeschool days. I did that one not too long ago. That might be helpful in giving you a better idea on how it went for us and some modifications that we did. I hope this is helpful 🤗 You got this💪🏻 God Bless!

[@mrsbeesalazar980]

@@JoyfulYessi Ok great I’ll do that !!!!! I ordered the kit I haven’t gotten the teacher manual things like that show what to use for each lesson that’s on back order and I’m doing accredited so I’m assuming my girls have to watch videos as well correct like for each subject that the teacher posted online

[@JoyfulYessi]

@@mrsbeesalazar980Yes! If you are doing accredited they have to watch the lessons. When you send in your progress report you will sign saying that they did watch the lessons.

[@xojosselyn]

Another great video sister, thank you! I went and bought the flex binders you recommended and my daughters Abeka K4 curriculum should be getting delivered today so I’m super excited to set it up like you did. Ahí te cuento! 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽 Dios te bendiga. 🕊

[@JoyfulYessi]

How exciting!!!! Have fun unboxing 🤗I hope it works well for you!!!! I can’t wait to hear how it goes! I appreciate your support 🥰 if there’s any other videos you think I should make that would be helpful let me know and I will try my best to make one🤗 Amen! Dios les bendiga mucho también 😁

[@xojosselyn]

@@JoyfulYessi I would love to see a “Day in the life” video of how your typical homeschool day goes, or a Q&A video, or your Homeschooling must haves!

[@JoyfulYessi]

I’m going to work on making some of these 👍😁 thank you 😆

[@jent2513]

@@JoyfulYessi this is so great thanks for the awesome ideas. Question how do you organize the 4th grade bible?

[@JoyfulYessi]

@@jent2513 I’m so happy you found it helpful 🤗 Great question! for Bible we are not doing the journal. So I just kept the tests in the video manual since there aren’t too many and will be giving them to him when the time to take the test comes. But you can definitely add it as the first section in the binder since is the first class🙂

[@machitect]

I use the crate system :)

[@JoyfulYessi]

That’s a great system 🤗

[@reydavinci]

Hi, I was wondering if you purchased the Digital Teaching Slides, they are an extra $60 and they are mentioned in the Lesson Plans. I read that they are an aid but I wonder if you used them or what you thought of them?

[@JoyfulYessi]

We didn’t find it necessary to purchase them for our family. I feel that the video lessons have been very thorough and sufficient for our kids. One thing that we did get our son was multiplication and division flash cards because he really needed to practice those and he used the cursive formation guide that comes in the penmanship book. I laminated it for him and he would refer to that often. Besides that, we haven’t purchased any additional aids 🤗

[@reydavinci]

@@JoyfulYessi we never purchased the videos, just the parent and student kits. Do you recommend the videos as well?

[@JoyfulYessi]

@reydavinci It sounds to me like you are doing parent led, if that’s the case then you don’t need the video. We do the academy, so we purchase the entire curriculum as a kit with the video instruction. We absolutely love it, especially because we are also working parents, it just makes it so much easier for us and the concepts are taught very well.

[@madisonshults9135]

Great video! What do you do with completed work?

[@JoyfulYessi]

Thank you! I keep the tests, some of the quizzes and anything that shows progress to use for our end of the year portfolio and evaluation along with the progress report, such as book reports and penmanship. When I did accredited I Wouk mail in the tests with the progress report to Abeka everything else I toss out. 🤗

[@madisonshults9135]

@@JoyfulYessi Is unaccredited better? I’m brand new to Abeka. I’ve got 3 kiddos going into Kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 5th grade. Seems overwhelming to do accredited.

[@JoyfulYessi]

@madisonshults9135 it really up to the person. Some prefer the accredited for accountability reasons. But you are getting the same curriculum, you just don’t have to mail things in and you do all the record keeping and in my opinion you get more flexibility with unaccredited. I did a video earlier were I explain all the similarities and differences of both. 🤗

[@madisonshults9135]

@@JoyfulYessi Thank you!!

[@madisonshults9135]

Also… I am looking at reports to understand where everything is to be organized… where are the exams for all subjects?

[@heathersavage4023]

Hi! We're starting to homeschool my daughter with 4th grade abeka academy soon. We're actually withdrawing her from public school so we're kinda starting awkwardly. Do you have any recommendations on how we can sort through the curriculum so she's not starting on day 1?

[@JoyfulYessi]

How exciting! 🤗 I really think it depends on where your daughter left off in her previous school. Based on our experience, I have to say that I think starting from the beginning might be best for math, language & spelling for sure because the skills do seem to spiral, so the teacher teaches some concepts and steps that are used through out the lessons. We have found that it was much more rigorous than what our son was used to, and adapting to the concept of homeschooling was definitely an adjustment! So having some simpler concepts at the beginning helped with not getting too discouraged and frustrated. We are 2 months into the school year, and he has adjusted well. So maybe give the first week a try, see how she does with it and if she seems to be flying through maybe try moving her ahead around lesson 40 & see how she does 🤗 I hope that this is helpful.

[@sarahcepeda622]

Have you done book reports for 4th grade ? Can you share what did you do ?

[@JoyfulYessi]

Yes we did! For the biographies my son did 2 from the “Who Was” books, they met the 100 page requirement and are high interest! We also did one on “Frindle” which my son also enjoyed reading. If I remember correctly the first 2 were done using the books that came in the curriculum. We read the books together by alternating taking turns to read. I hope this answered your question🤗 Let me know! I did a video of 4th grade Abeka end of year review on my channel that I explained it a little bit more on how we did it that might be more helpful.

[@sarahphilipp5619]

Thank you!! Marvel bookstore had those! She wants to do Helen Keller for her biography. What did you do for non fiction? How did the State Notebook go?

[@JoyfulYessi]

For our state book I got a very easy reader from Amazon that really answered a lot of the questions in the state book it was called “Pennsylvania, What’s So Great About This State”. I also had him do some research online, and he also looked up pictures to put in the notebook. For the quizzes and tests, I just made them using the questions provided in the back of the video manual. We ended our state into with a trip to a local maple farm, because it is one of the things that is made locally around here in PA, and we saw the process for making maple syrup and the. Made our own too 🤩 it was quite fun. What state are you guys in?

[@sarahphilipp5619]

Thank you for letting me know how you did the State Notebook. That’s a great fun idea about going to a maple farm and making maple syrup! We are in Texas.

[@prisalmonsmith9562]

Did you already mention where you put all the work when finished ? Do you keep it and if not how do you store it.

[@JoyfulYessi]

Great question! 🤗 I’m keeping everything in the binder until the end of the quarter. At the end of the quarter I’ll remove that quarters material and add the next quarter’s material. Since we are doing the accredited version I have to mail in the progress reports and mail in the tests with it. Here in PA we have to have a portfolio of student work and an evaluator check it, so I’m going to keep his work in hanging folders by subject in a bin for my evaluator to check. Then after the end of the year I’ll just toss🙂 I hope that this answered your question 🤗 thank you so much for watching!

[@gatescheerdirectorchrissym1306]

How do you know when the quarter ends?

[@JoyfulYessi]

In the appendix on the back of the video Manuel there’s a section that has the quarterly progress reports to fill out, I used that to determine when the work quarter ended. As for the specific dates, when you log into your Abeka account it’ll say when the work has to be submitted by, they use the full 12 months instead of 9. I personally just follow my school district’s quarterly dates for our own personal pacing just because we have to have our evals submitted to the district by the end of June. 🙂

[@barrycook8116]

Do you have the required Bible verses for 4th grade by chance?

[@JoyfulYessi]

They can be found in the appendix of the Manual.