Mid-Year Homeschool & Life Update // Curriculum WINS & MISSES // Wrapping 2023 & Goals for 2024

[@OdetoAbode]

✨Goodbye, 2023! HELLOOOO 2024!!! I'm sharing all about some big life challenges we faced, what worked well in our homeschool (and what didn't!), some of our celebrated accomplishments, and a few of our homeschool goals for 2024. I would love to hear all about how your homeschool year has been thus far, and any goals you have 😊

[@LionWolverine]

Did you ever get around to reading The Hobbit? I'm reading it right now with my 12, 11, and 10 year olds, we love it! It's so nice to 'meet' other JW families who love homeschooling and books, as we don't know any in real life in our area of Canada ❤

[@OdetoAbode]

We never did, but it's still on my TBR shelf 😍

[@HeatherAnne10]

I would love a more thorough review of Dash! Specifically how you use it as a supplement.. I also bought it as a supplement but I'm really trying to figure out how to use it/work it into our schedule. 🤔🤷‍♀️

[@OdetoAbode]

I'll try to get that out soon!

[@katieprimacio_]

I am in the same boat and I’d love to see a video about how to use as a supplement!

[@SevenInAll]

Pregnancy DEFINITELY impacts the everyday of managing homeschool and life. And your husband losing his job had to have added an insane amount of stress. I'm glad for his new job and it sounds like his new schedule will be really nice for your family! Have you looked at Homeschool Languages for Spanish? I'm not sure if it might be too basic/simple for where your girls are at already, but I know they have a focus on practical/usable language in the home. I know I was weak on speaking Spanish this year and consistently using it at home because my brain on pregnancy...is not functioning at 100% in a second language. lol!

[@OdetoAbode]

I actually have a trial for Home Languages sitting in my inbox, waiting for me to download/sort/print. I'm excited to try it! I got another rec too that I may look into.

[@OdetoAbode]

Pregnancy brain + homeschool is so rough 😅

[@ashleymurphy4813]

Thank you for this video! We have very similar curriculum picks and interest. Lol wish us luck, we are starting Beautiful Mundo this summer😬

[@OdetoAbode]

I hope y'all love it! It's a really great program!

[@MB-oc6rb]

We also revisited audiobooks and suddenly my nine years olds are obsessed!!! So it’s been a nice experience.

[@OdetoAbode]

Awesome!

[@jessicaTX964]

My goals are just being consistent. Our fall always gets a bit sidetracked. We have all the birthdays. Plus Halloween, Thanksgiving and then Christmas between Oct-Dec. A couple ideas you might look at: Homeschool Languages Spanish. It's very hands-on, very kinesthetic, very conversational, and relatively open & go. For Poetry: Learning through Literature has a free poem of the month you can sign up for. They will email you a poem each month with a little teaching guide that tells a little about the poet & the poem and has a peotic/literay device to discuss. Congrats on the baby!!

[@OdetoAbode]

Thank you so much! I actually have a trial of Homeschool Languages ready to go, so I'm definitely excited about that. I'll look at the poetry resource! Consistency is so difficult to maintain... Always a goal!

[@BaileyAcademy]

I've been on break from youtube too for health reasons. I'm planning to do an update video soon too. I missed you and congratulations on baby #4!! Sounds like things are doing better. Oh and my sickness level got better with each pregnancy for me, the first was really bad. Full day vomiting till 8th month, had to take prescription meds to not vomit.

[@OdetoAbode]

I look forward to your update! Pregnancies are so unique, from each mom and each consecutive pregnancy!

[@schultesweeties]

It takes us forever to finish read alouds. It has been hard for us to be in friend book clubs because we are always struggling lol. But we keep trying!

[@OdetoAbode]

I'm glad we're not alone in the struggle!

[@hannahhensley8497]

Ooh excited to see! I’m finally ready to pull the trigger on bookshark science so excited to see any reviews!

[@OdetoAbode]

Yay! I plan on having a more thorough review of Bookshark in the next couple weeks, but there's a little about it in this update 😊

[@hannahhensley8497]

@@OdetoAbodewould love to see a more in depth review now that you’ve started write by number also!

[@OdetoAbode]

@@hannahhensley8497 That is coming next week!

[@Michelgia523]

The Hobbit is best saved for older anyways! You probably did yourself a favor :) It’s very wordy and detailed. We do chapter book read alouds before bed. I just can’t fit them in my day ❤

[@OdetoAbode]

I can't seem to wrangle everyone before bed, they all would rather read their own books lol

[@indiravandalen2239]

So with bookshark i found that doing thr previous week experiement on monday worked for us actually. And then if we were all ok and able to do one more experiemnt then i do the one from that week. I learned leaving anything for friday is a no for us.

[@OdetoAbode]

That is a great suggestion! I typically use Mondays to front load a lot with Language Arts and History, and then start up our "days" with Bookshark on, like Wednesday. SO I'm not sure that would work for us. But, definitely something to consider!

[@jessicajones611]

Do you have a review of Bookshark C with history please? Just watched an unboxing think it was 8 months ago, but I was just wondering if you have done a review on it? X

[@OdetoAbode]

The review comes out this Friday! It's only for Science, though. We haven't used their History at all.

[@jessicajones611]

@@OdetoAbode ok, did u not like the history? X

[@OdetoAbode]

@@jessicajones611 I've never tried BookShark History. I did a lot of research when looking at history programs, and settled on History Quest. We love History Quest, so I never felt the need to try Bookshark.

[@jessicajones611]

20m 35secs - quick question, I clicked on this video because I saw u inboxed Bookshark C, but you are using history quest and not Bookshark now? Hope my question makes sense x

[@OdetoAbode]

I use Bookshark for Science, and History Quest for World History :)

[@watchrayray2521]

Oh so it's my fault?! 😉

[@OdetoAbode]

Always 🙃🤣