TGTB LA Level 4 | HOW WE MAKE IT WORK FOR US! Review & Flip Through | Do a lesson with us!

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

How do you make your curriculum work for you?

[@jerilyn-ourhomeschooltable]

I’m so glad you mentioned that it’s mostly independent. That’s what I was hoping! We’re doing Level 3 right now. 😊

[@hollybeth3525]

You have helped me tremendously with my homeschooling for my kindergartener. I love that you always show alternative methods, not just “by the book”. I think if everyone did it tailored to their kids personal learning styles, homeschooling would be even more popular than it already has become. There is no “one size fits all” for education, and I think it’s so important for parents to understand!! Because of you, I am doing the Good and the Beautiful level K, and supplementing with Abeka for my oldest daughter. It LITERALLY brings tears to my eyes to see how far she has come in our few months of homeschooling. She is so advanced for her age, and to know I am the one educating her brings so much pride and confidence to my life. Before I ever started officially homeschooling, I knew I wanted to do it, but was filled with self-doubts that I wouldn’t be able to do it well. With all of that being said....thank you for your amazing content, you are my favorite person to watch-obviously, since I have kids ages 4 1/2 and under and I am watching a level 4 curriculum video 🤣 Merry Christmas to you and your lovely family 💕

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

😭😭😭 this comment totally and completely made my day ❤️❤️ thank you so, so much for you amazingly kind words! I’m not sure they’re deserved, but thank you!! I’m so glad to hear school is going well for you and your family! That’s so encouraging! It’s the best feeling to know that what they’ve learned (reading, math, etc) is because of your hard work and dedication to the job…it’s extremely rewarding! I get tears of joy too ☺️☺️ Thanks again, Holly! You have the best day and Merry Christmas to you too❤️

[@hillaryenloe]

This was one of the best descriptions on the good and the beautiful curriculum. Thank you.

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Thank you so much for your kind words! That means a lot! I’m glad you found it helpful 😄

[@lifewithginab]

We are doing level 2 and I am loving how the geography is incorporated!

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

We’re doing it too with Lexi…she’s so so on the geography part 😂 but she does it

[@SevenInAll]

This is the level that my youngest sister just finished up! She enjoyed it quite a bit, and grew a lot with paying close attention to directions by the end of the year--at the beginning she often missed parts of the directions or didn't pay close enough attention.

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

That’s a great observation on your end… it helped with her reading directions better! All part of the independence they’re trying to foster

[@RockSimmer-gal4God]

We also do TGTB language arts a little differently. We love how they incorporate geography into the language arts curriculum even though we do our own geography learning. We don’t focus on the individual reading as my kids read a lot. We do our own spelling activities. We loved that TGTB focuses on spelling rules!!! We do writing activities as well.

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

I agree! The geography is pretty cool that they add in! I love the spelling rules too!

[@lorriel9629]

How do you do the spelling pages while not using the spelling lists as they intended? Doing half writing and half spelling a day would work great for us. Thanks you for the informative video.

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

I took the list in the back of the book (including all of the bonus words), and she just does one row a week (I went by rows, not columns). I think there about 25 rows so she will have spelling words for that many weeks.

[@SummerMeyers]

Love that you meet her where she is and how her work is laid out. Mom win! 🎉🎉

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

It took a little finagling but we got all worked out! It does feel nice when they’re happy with where they’re at 😌

[@aler5164]

I like how you make it your own. Thank you for sharing.

[@theartworld6396]

This content is very cool and beautiful.👍✨👍 I look forward to more from you.👌✨👌

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Thanks so much 😄

[@gabrielledrummond]

I love this! I'm wanting to do IEW with my kids but also want a little extra. This totally helped me see that I can do both. Thank you for this flip through and showing us how you make it work for you ☺

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Sounds great!

[@andrewjessicahersh9466]

Very thorough, engaging and helpful. Thanks!

[@lifewithginab]

I love how independent it is for the student!

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Yes it’s flexible so you can do lessons together but since it’s written to the student, you definitely don’t have to!

[@countrywisheshomeschool]

Thanks so much for this! I'm planning to get TGTB level 4 next for my daughter. She is almost finished with level 3

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

I hope she enjoys level 4 🥰

[@shaynabelknap2675]

Thank you so much for doing this video….. 😊

[@brittanyolga]

My daughter really enjoys the Writing Workshop Level 4. I really hope level 5 has a Writing Workshop too. I love how you are making the curriculum work for you guys not you working for the curriculum 🙈.

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Ooh I haven’t even checked out level 5 yet 🤔🤔 I hope so too!!

[@RockSimmer-gal4God]

The old level 5 doesn’t but I believe they are changing it up.

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

@@RockSimmer-gal4God good to know! Hopefully just in time for next school year 😌

[@RebeccaEnsz]

I really like how you do your spelling words. My daughter is going to do that level next year and she enjoys spelling tests as well. Thanks for the idea!

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

You’re welcome! It’s working well for us!

[@HomechoolbythePond]

I love how you made this your own! That reading def seemed advanced to me.

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Thanks! Yea this lesson seemed to have some difficult words but I really like it…it definitely presented a challenge to her!

[@lifewithginab]

Loved seeing the flipthrough! Sound like an awesome level!

[@lifewithginab]

I loved seeing your daughter doing a lesson. This level from TG&TB looks great!

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Thanks Gina! Yes we’re liking this level…she really enjoys it!

[@SummerMeyers]

My oldest did level 4 last year and it looks like they updated it again! So pretty! 😍 She's almost finished with Level 5 (she flew through it this year) and I adjusted it to be more independent. There was a lot of reading aloud to me, which we adjusted. There's great build up with Writing essays and setting it up, but not a separate book like Level 4. Which I think is a bit of a bummer, but I guess that's because grammar is taking a back seat now that the basics are pretty thoroughly covered.

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Yes I think they put this newer edition out last fall. We’re really loving it! Good to know about level 5! How did your daughter like it?

[@SummerMeyers]

@@thepracticalhomeschooler She didn't at first because it felt like a lot of busy work with the Sentence Dictation and grammar cards. I also had an additional reading list for her, and she was needing to write a paper a week for her co-op so there was a lot going on. Now I go through each lesson and cross out redundant work, and repurpose the lesson to work with her papers she's working on. She's a lot happier, and her handwriting has improved with the Sentence Dictation which I had been yammering at her to do for years now. 😅 So it works great! She's the only one I've had to make adjustments for--my other 2 I don't need to change anything. Wow that answer was a lot longer than I thought and then some. 😅😅😅

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

@@SummerMeyers o that makes sense! Especially considering the extra work from co op! It’s always nice to find that perfect balance 😊

[@audrichavez]

Boy is my dyslexic child gonna struggle with this level..

[@worldofweeze]

My son says the same thing about complete sentences! "Noooooooo!!!!" 🤣

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Bahahaha 🤣🤣

[@jerilyn-ourhomeschooltable]

I really like how you’ve broken up lessons to do a little bit of this and that on each day. 😊

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

It worked really well for her!

[@arikawithana3023]

I have a Larissa and the same age 😊❤

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Aww 🥰

[@courtneymonroe1210]

Do you feel like this is on grade level or a little advanced?

[@ashleym9305]

This was such a good review. We just started blending TGAB Simply Math 1 with our other math program and it’s amazing. We are now using their early readers and I’m considering getting the Level K as a supplement to AAR Level 2 with my 1st grader. Did you use the earlier levels of TGAB?

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Sounds great! It’s nice when you find a few things you like and combine them! We did a little, but I prefer Abeka for the younger years (just a personal preference 😊).

[@kristinkager6701]

What made you switch from Abeka LA? We are using Abeka parent led grade 3 right now and I love it but next year, I will be homeschooling two kids and I feel like Abeka just has so many moving parts. I’m considering TGATB LA for my kiddo next year.

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

I think it depends on the level for Abeka. I can’t speak for the math (as we’ve only supplemented with their math), but for the LA, I found the 3rd grade to be the most straightforward. K5 definitely has a LOT of moving parts and the parts and charts get progressively less each year. But yes, it can be overwhelming! I have several videos on Abeka and how we tweak it a bit. I love Abeka for the younger grades, and would have definitely used it this year for her, but I always reassess every year to see which direction we’re gonna go. We decided TGTB was going to be a good fit for this year. (She used it in the past and it had to much fluff for her which is why we went with Abeka), but now she’s a bit older and can appreciate it a bit more.

[@irenescotti4687]

Hi, I am wondering how the writing in this level was.

[@tabithafuhrman910]

I think 3rd/4th grade cause I have a 4th grader and she reads with pretty much zero mistakes and pauses large words and all. But she is placed is reading 6th /7th grade

[@mamamarigold9040]

Did you do Abeka for 3rd and this for 4th with the same child? We are currently in Abeka 3rd. I love the way this brings in so many subjects though. Can you give me a quick comparison/review/preference from your perspective, please? ☺️

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

Yes she’s the same child😊 we liked both for different reasons. I’ll probably do a side by side comparison video of the workbooks in the near future. But I have done a video of the scope and sequence of Abeka and TGTB for levels k through 4, which gives a comparison between them as well, so you can get an idea. I’ll grab the link and it will explain the differences

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJqlq3Z3j5aHY8U There are timestamps so you can see what part best suits your interest. Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions!! 😄

[@tamiivory7406]

Where are the challenging spelling words listed. I couldn't find them

[@tamiivory7406]

Nevermind. I finally found it.

[@shannaproffer5865]

I thought she preferred Abeka… is there a reason why you changed from that to the good and the beautiful? Sorry if you mentioned this in another video

[@thepracticalhomeschooler]

She did…for 2nd and 3rd grade she loved Abeka and would still be totally on board if we chose to Abeka for 4th grade. I loved the layout of TGTB level 4 and when I showed her, she thought it looked really great too! I really made sure I showed her samples of both so she could get a good idea of the lessons for each. We talked about it a lot over the summer and ultimately decided to go this route. But for the younger years, yes she definitely preferred Abeka 100%!