Let's Talk About Kindergarten with ACE Curriculum

Today we take a look at the ACE's Kindergarten manuals, resources and PACEs as well as how to order the kit and what comes in the Kindergarten kit. I also show a few of things our family does with the resources to work for our family.

[@RobertasArtisticAdventures]

I love the ACE curriculum! I wish I could get my 12 year old granddaughter to do the basic reading and phonics of the ACE curriculum so she could learn how to read. She is so frustrated with it that she won't even try. Her brother learned to read early since I helped to raise him and read him 10 books of his choice every night when he was 2-4.5 years old. His comprehension was off the charts because when I'd read a well loved story to him, I'd change the name of the character or various activities or adjectives in the story and he would know the story by heart so that he'd catch me and tell me the correct information. We had much fun doing story time every night. Reading is such a basic foundation to a child's education. I love how ACE prints out text with the phonetic symbols and grayscales letters that are silent. An excellent way to teach reading! Thank you for sharing your wonderful teaching system using the ACE curriculum, Andrea. I know you are in heaven but just to say how much I appreciate the blessings of these videos for us to use as reference to make excellent choices in homeschooling curriculum. God bless your precious family! (((Hugs!!)))

[@abbyhinojos-carrera]

I really get excited when you upload ace videos!!! great video, great info!!

[@tonyadelaney7982]

I needed this I'm starting my son in a couple of days and it helped me prep for sure.

[@proverbs31mrs]

Hi Andrea! I am so, so glad I found you. I have five children ages 11 down to 3 years old. I found your channel a couple of months ago. I have been homeschooling for 6 years now and have used a lot of different curriculum and was struggling until a friend told me about ACE. I only have my 11, 10 and 8 year old on it. They love it! Yea! But I want to move my 6 year old over to it and my 3 year old. So, this Kindergarten video is very, very helpful. I am off to view the first grade one as well! Thank you so much for what you are doing!!

[@mediosfiscales4287]

Wow!! tour video really helped me. Thanks!!

[@JustSewTrish]

I usually skip homeschooling kindergarten. I am thinking this would be a great quality time exercise for my Kinder in the years to come. Thank you for sharing.

[@simplyraisingarrows7369]

I miss your videos , I am planning to do ace this fall for kindergarten and I’m so glad I have this video of your instructions . You are missed .

[@CookieCrumbFun]

I am so thankful I found you on KZbin! A mom in an ACE FB group shared tour video on how you out together the Paces in a binder. ACE is a good curriculum & we have used it for many of our homeschool years. Thank you for all the videos.

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

Thanks for the encouragement! I kept looking for ACE videos and there weren't many to watch, so I decided to start making them. I'm not an expert, but I hope to be helpful to others.

[@CookieCrumbFun]

+Andrea Mills I'll be sharing your videos with some fronds who use ACE. I'm so glad you decided to make some videos on it. you're right. none out there.! plus you have a big family! love that! we have 7 children. God is good.

[@AjahDTradeProdigy]

+Claire Cook yep I looked and there were no videos like the one Andrea is doing now, love the videos 👍🏾

[@pemery4christ]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@gwenrobinson3403]

Thank you for this informative video. You're the best.

[@happychild77]

Thank you so much for this! So much help!!

[@dorisampofowah4298]

Thanks for your video is very helpful!

[@MsPinkan3]

Thank you so much for the review! It was really helpful

[@marianapeterson6335]

I love how you broke this down. We have done ACE Learning to read curriculum in the past. All my kids have done it. Our last child who will turn 5 this year has been a little bored and I thought I should get her a head start. I have never done the Kindergarten ACE curriculum. This will definitely prepare her for the following year. When I start her on the reading program! Very worth the money!! I love your editing skills! You're such a wonderful mama! Thank you for sharing this! God Bless!!!

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

This is Tom Mills, I was Andreas husband. She passed away unexpectedly 2 years ago, but she would have loved to read your comment! Thanks for taking the time. ACE is really one of the best systems out there because its easy on mama....and lets face it, if mama isn't happy, nobody is! XD

[@tabireji]

@@TheMillsFamilyVlog I am very sorry to hear this. I liked the detail she covered in each video. Thank you for taking time to upload such useful resources. Blessings all the way from India.

[@pammccabe7535]

Back in the late 90’s before my child started kindergarten at a public school, they tested the kids to see if they were ready to start. They had to print their name, cut things out with scissors, know the whole alphabet, etc.

[@shayj3379]

So GREAT!!! Love your videos. Andrea.. love that you take your time, and go into great detail.. Good for you for informing others about A.C.E...very little info here on YT.. as you already know.. I was an A.C.E. student from 2nd - 9th Grade.. and loved it.. probably would have loved it a lot more if I could have homeschooled ^_^

[@AjahDTradeProdigy]

Hey Andrea we both come from the ACE school setting, I first started teaching the kindergarten program at the school I was at, it was difficult because the children are not working independently but the work is done together so if someone is absent it throws everything off, but when I started homeschooling I found that manuals was over whelming, so now I do my own thing for kindergarten, and I start my kids on paces in 1st grade. Thanks for the videos, I hope to start my own channel in the very near further

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

I know; there is a lot of extraneous information in the manuals. I use my own little chart (I think I showed it in the video) that reminds me what we're doing each day and then I just skip to the parts I'm interested in. We don't do every single thing. Good luck with your channel! I'm excited to see more people making positive ACE videos!

[@gisellesuarez6893]

Dear Ajah, I'd like to know if you know where I can get the used PACES for Kindergarten or primary. On the page they are expensive, and I work with kids from deprived backgrounds. I live in Perú, thanks for any kind of help :)

[@drummerlovesbookworm9738]

I love Kindergarten.

[@rainbowsandbuttons3651]

Thanks for this! My 5 older children have been doing ACE this year (I switched to it after seeing your videos -and it’s been wonderful!) My youngest will be three next school year and I wondered if you would recommend starting ACE preschool this year or waiting until 4 years old? Thanks!

[@shell94read]

Have truly enjoyed watching your videos and all the playlists on your channel!!! Did your husband use the DVD styler program to create/animate the number train? Would it be possible to give a brief demonstration of how to create video bulletins? For the letters I would just use Keynote on my mac and create different slides per letter and insert music. Just couldn't figure the train one out. :) Appreciate all that you do!

[@JustSewTrish]

Andrea, we are closing up the Virtual Homeschool Coop for this year. It will start up again for next year in August. I would love for you to join us! You have so much experience and wisdom that has value for so many!

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

Don't laugh... what is a Virtual Homeschool Coop?

[@JustSewTrish]

it is a seperate channel I run to organize and build the homeschool body of knowledge on youtube. I essentially ask questions and about 30 channels respond with what homeschool looks like in their home. The goal is to encourage and show the diversity in homeschooling.

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

That sounds like fun! Let me know when you start up again.

[@JustSewTrish]

Will do

[@thabiwillshine6737]

I am so glad, I'm found this video and thankful because it is help me to studying more about this curriculum. I have been using this Curriculum for 5 weeks.. and I have some questions and need more information. In the Manual Valume 1 that says about the book The Chistian Mother Goose Big Book, do you have any photo of that book? and do my child need to set her goal like in the level 1? and for the progress chart, do we need to make it with ourselve or we need to order and buy it? Appriciated for any answer. Blessing :)

[@sorayacupido6236]

Hi Andrea, I'm very happy because a found your video, I was worried because I didn't have any idea about the material about ACE kindergarten. My husband and I are planning to implement this program with our children. My daugther is just 2 years old, think maybe is kind of soon but we wanna be prepared with plenty of time. what age would you recommend us to start ACE homeschooling with our kid?

[@ArringtonMA]

My oldest is 2 and I'm looking into homeschooling him and different curriculums! Thank you for you review on this curriculum! I was wonder if I would really need to buy the manuals and just use the paces? Thank you for your help!

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

Hi! I'm glad you're considering ACE. In Kindergarten, the manuals are an integral part of the curriculum. All of the stories and directions are in the manuals. I'm sure some things in the PACEs would be obvious without directions, but many things would be meaningless without the manuals. You could probably get away without the manuals in first grade though you would miss some aspects of the reading lessons. After the first 12 weeks of first grade, none of the work requires any sort of teacher's manuals, which is really nice.

[@cagarcia0310]

Do you have yo purchase one for each kid? I have 2 in the same level.

[@gisellesuarez6893]

Dear Andrea! Thanks for the info! Do you know if there is a ppt version of the stories?

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

I don't believe so.

[@aniyah52411]

Do you happen to know if ACE has a pk 4 ? My child isn't ready for kindergarten. He just turned 4.

[@blessedmamalife]

Hi! Thank you for making all of these videos about ACE’s PACEs! I am almost positive this will be our curriculum of choice for our family. I have three kids so far; the oldest is almost 5. I’m torn on which curriculum to use for her. She knows all her letter sounds & can read a little. She doesn’t know sight words or long vowels yet. Would you recommend the Kindergarten with Ace & Christi or the ABCs with Ace & Christi? I am hesitant to do ACE until 1st or 2nd grade because there are so many subjects & I’m worried too much work may ruin the fun of school...I had planned on just teaching reading, writing, & math until 2nd grade or so.

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

If she knows her sounds and can read a little, you should go right to 1st Grade. Kindergarten is more like preschool. Social Studies and Science is mainly reading practice in 1st Grade so there's no reason you couldn't skip it and just do Math, English and Word Building. First Grade Animal Science is the pictures for the Animal Stories and Bible Reading is the pictures for the Bible stories. Those are also just optional.

[@ifeomadio3014]

Hi, these videos have helped a lot as ive been really confused as to where to start with my kids...5 and 3+. I was happy when I saw this question and your response. I want to find out if the first grade is also the same thing as ABC's with Ace and Christi... And also where do I start from for my 3 year old as he's never been to school. My other question is how do I get very cheap used and good ACE materials as we are on a very tight budget. Thank you so much.

[@JustSewTrish]

I keep getting overwhelmed by the binders. I have everything, but won't lie, I feel so overwhelmed byt the teacher book. But this helps, so I am going to try it.

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

It takes a couple of weeks to get the hang of ignoring the stuff that you can ignore. Somewhere in the first book there's a sheet that shows the lesson plan order for each day. You could copy that and highlight which things you want to do and train yourself to flip to those directions each day. I printed out my own version to hang up since I only do four days a week and I needed to remember where I was squeezing in extra lessons. I'll send you a picture on FB.

[@carlabryan1981]

Hi Andrea, so I had already purchased other curriculum for kindergarten, but do you think it's a good idea to just my the cd and flash cards for my kindergartener so he can learn the markings on the letters so it doesn't confuse him next year when we start 1st grade abc's with ace and christi? thank you for your videos they are very helpful!

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

I think that would be great. If you use ACE for 1st grade, the animals are the same so it would be nice to feel like he's found his old friends. Plus, the markings are really helpful for them to learn the hard/soft and long/short sounds. It would be an easy thing to add in to what you are doing.

[@jaredrara10]

Hello. May I ask what software did you use in editing the Animal Video Presentation?

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

It was called DVD Creator, but that's a pretty old program now. (Tom made it about 10 years ago.) He says something like DVDStyler (which is free) would also work.

[@Heather-cm3wv]

Do I need to use the manual's or do you think I would be ok with just using the PACE's? We're using the English and Word Building as supplements to another program.

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

In Kindergarten, all directions are in the manuals. Kindergarten Word Building is animal stories featuring that week's sound. There isn't any work to do in the W.B. PACEs; they're just the pictures that go along with the stories that you read from the manuals. If you use First Grade level English and Word Building, you could easily do it without the manuals, but in Kindergarten you definitely need them. I'm not sure how old your child is, but you can order this test to do to see which year your child is ready for: www.christianbook.com/abcs-reading-readiness-diagnostic-test/pd/225091?product_redirect=1&Ntt=225091&item_code=&Ntk=keywords&event=ESRCP

[@thevirgonian1]

Hi this is very helpful. I am signed in under my husband's account LOL. My son is 5 and ace told me he is ready for 1 St grade after the test he took. He knows his whole alphabet .to write it but he does not know the sounds the letters make I want him to learn phonics do you think first grade was okay to start him in will he learned all of that in first grade

[@Theblairspartyof6]

Thanks for posting these videos, they are very helpful. My question for you is, of I have more then one kindergarten student do I need to purchase another set of Pace's?

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

Yes, each child needs their own PACEs. You could get by sharing Word Building, though.

[@Theblairspartyof6]

Andrea Mills Thanks. Also is it needful to order the Basic Quick Start Kit as well?

[@wingzero1723]

Thank you for making this video, this is really helpful. Do you have the ABCs with Ace and Christi too?

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

Here is a video I did for First Grade (ABCs with Ace and Christi): kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJ2qanp4nZ1on68

[@wingzero1723]

Thanks! :) God Bless!

[@brittanyhollowell2547]

I been hearing different things. If My manuals say Preschool with ACE and Christi Reading Readiness - does the Kindergarten Pace books go with it?

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

They've renamed it several times over the years. Preschool, Reading Readiness and Kindergarten are all the same thing in ACE so no matter which name is on your manuals, they go with the Kindergarten PACEs.

[@feliciaallen9439]

does the kindergarten one come with dvds of the teacher teaching in the classroom?

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

No, it doesn't.

[@YolyCurls]

Hi, thanks for the video, is the $350 per quarter?

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

No, that's for everything for the whole year.

[@Kaykay-pb3bb]

Are you doing all k -12 paces review

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

For right now I'm just doing Kindergarten and First Grade. I hope to work on some other grades later this summer.

[@topteacher9591]

How do I attain more progress cards per student?

[@mercyluna7175]

How old was your son when he started kindergarten?

[@meannvlogs]

14:23 If your child has the skills for level 1 just take the RR Test.

[@bethanytaylor7656]

I would love to buy your animated CD! I have such limited space! Maybe get it copyrighted?

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

We gave a copy of it to Duane and Sarah Howard when they were visiting this summer in hopes that they'll develop it and sell it. It's something people ask as about all the time!

[@thevirgonian1]

He's done tons and tons of kindergarten grade books that I bought him at the store and all kinds of things like that but he does not know his phonics I don't want to make sure he does learn his phonics and knows how to read what do you think what are your opinions I went to a c e my whole entire life but honestly I don't remember I'm kind of old right now LOL

[@TheBonnieberry]

are you paid by ACE?

[@TheMillsFamilyVlog]

No, I'm just a mom that uses ACE and couldn't find many good videos about it, so I started talking about it. I doubt the people at ACE even know who I am!