📚 HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM CHOICES! Preschool, Kindergarten, & Elementary

[@OaksandArrows]

We are using many of the same curriculums! I just jumped into starting a KZbin channel of my own and shared what I am using for my 4th grader, 2nd grader, and kindergartener. 😊 We are in a very similar stage of life! ❤

[@kim6433]

I will 100% give your channel a follow and I’m excited to see your videos ☺️ starting out with my first and she’s been very advanced and moving fast so I love watching a variety of videos!

[@aprilknerr4443]

This was such a great break down of your home schooling. ❤❤❤❤ I really enjoyed it.

[@elyssafuchikami1126]

My 3 year old does the same thing as your 4 year old -- I love it! Such a blessing.

[@mary-annemonckton288]

Thank you for sharing the curriculums and things you use for each year level. I would be interested to see what each day looks like for each stage of learning. Eg. What your preschooler does each day. I’m starting the homeschooling journey, and whilst every child is different, it would be good to see how each day of schooling is structured and roughly how much content to cover each day. Thank you so much 😊

[@thismiamimama427]

Hi Tabitha!!! I wanted to thank you sooo much for directing me to CLE for a beginner reader rather than the TGATB. My 1st grader is using the "Learning to Read" Unit, and so far, it is phenomenol. I prayed to the Lord for direction, and He answered. ❤🎉❤🎉 (P.S. You suggested it to me in another post. Lol)

[@ThisMamasHouse]

I am loving it too! I’m so glad it’s been good for your family

[@thismiamimama427]

@ThisMamasHouse YAY! God bless this company! Great program, christian worldview, and wonderful prices. 🥳 My 7th and 4th grader are also doing the language arts program from them, and so far, so good 👍

[@berrypatch5583]

We just love and do the exact preschool and kindergarten workbooks that you use😁. I have never done TGaTB K books...once I finish CLE I will look into them for our little one this year. I plan to do Developing the Early Learner this year after CLE K2 so far.

[@Blessed_SAHM_Of3]

We are in our first year, homeschooling our oldest in kindergarten. We chose the Abeka curriculum and I am excited to use it this year along with alot of the other wonderful things I have collected for her kindergarten year❤

[@ThisMamasHouse]

We used Abeka for several years! It’s fantastic!

[@sahmof7]

So cool we are in our 12th year of homeschooling too!

[@Rachel-eh3oc]

Okay once again, you are SO YOUTHFUL!! Mid twenties!

[@ThisMamasHouse]

Oh my goodness 🙈 thank you! ☺️

[@jamieliik4927]

I’ve done TGTB wind and waves last year and am currently doing field and flowers with my kids (we currently in first grade ages 5 and 6). We love it. We do science 1x per week and the lessons are short but informative and my kids have been able to talk about the things they have learned months later and have been able to identify things around us that they been able to remember.

[@ThisMamasHouse]

That is awesome! We are enjoying it so far!

[@vanessapodkomorski942]

I did the same with my 4 year old when learning letter sounds. Once she mastered all the sounds then we introduced the upper, lower, and identification. She’s 4.5 and can read BOB books already. We started letter sound flash cards at 2.

[@BakingMamaof3]

Thank you so much for sharing the curriculums that you are using this year Tabitha! I am excited to be fully diving into homeschooling this year, especially with my kindergartener! God bless you and your beautiful family! 🙏❤

[@ThisMamasHouse]

Have fun! Hope you have a wonderful year

[@Mamato3]

Great tips on only teaching sounds! That's what I do too!

[@meagandaoust6815]

Love me some homeschool curriculum haul!! We use Aquinas Learning for our core and we are blessed to have a center here so we meet once a week. You might be interested in the TAN publishing series. They have great Catholic Science, History, and Bible/Catechism series. And they have all the options, texts, audio, video. So beautiful! We use IEW, All about spelling and reading. Singapore Math,(Primary Mathmatics) but because of you we start with Abeka. We love Explode the Code for early years. Also, we use the book, "Memorize the Faith" EVERY CATHOLIC SHOULD OWN THIS BOOK. It uses St. Thomas Aquinas' method of memorization. My kindergartners have the ten commandments memorized during lunch in one day. It's so great. We also started using Fix It! Grammar! love it! Love the water color books and some of the ABC books! They will be first day of school books for the kids. Our youngest five are homeschooled with Aquinas Learning, then I have three boys in an amazing Classical Christian School my husband attended (Trinity at River Ridged) and then my oldest, who just graduated is moving out of state for college. We are all over the place and have been in all the places, lol!

[@ccgill9535]

your blouse is beautiful!

[@juliequates9529]

The Preschool books are adorable. I bought mine off CLEs website.

[@ThisMamasHouse]

We are loving them! I couldn’t find the GHI series in CLE so I got them from milestone!

[@AHeartForHomeEducation]

I'm glad you said that about TGTB pre-k uppercase/lowercase. We just started this program and I haven't liked all the uppercase/lowercase stuff. Glad to hear my instinct is probably right and we can just stick with the short sounds.

[@ThisMamasHouse]

Yeah way too much for a preschooler! It all comes together eventually and short sound is the most important!

[@katielindsey4481]

We are using CLE for math and LA this year and I so wish I would have found it sooner! The math is perfect for my girls. TGTB had too much going on for them to focus on the lesson.We also switch to Teaching Textbooks for 3rd and up.

[@AniBanani24]

LOVE fix it grammar! IEW is the best program for writing as well. I also love that Andrew Pudewa is a trad. We use Our Lady of Victory for literature and the Catholic Textbook Project books for History and Latina Christiana through Bellarmine studies- he’s a trad who teaches online classes for homeschoolers. I used to do the Good and the Beautiful for everything but switched over to TAN science (and IEW for grammar and writing) and love them so much more, especially since they incorporate saints and virtues into the each lesson (TAN). We use the correspondence Catechism through Our Lady of Fatima as well! Love the sisters!!!

[@AniBanani24]

Our Catholic Faith is a great book for Catechism as well. You can find it through Angelus Press.

[@ThisMamasHouse]

TAN science was another I’m looking at! For history too!!

[@elizabethreedy4381]

⁠using Tan History and love it so far. I’m learning my history too.

[@stefanybeyer4653]

We use CLE math too, until fourth grade. I haven't looked into their other curricula, though, thanks for sharing that. We love Catholic Heritage and use it for most subjects, adding in All About Reading and IEW for writing.

[@killuaxkillua2384]

My five year old loves the CLE kindergarten 2. We started with 1 and it felt like a waste of time because while we hadn’t done formal school he definitely already knew a lot of that stuff. So we regrouped and I decided to just skip ahead to the kindergarten 2 of CLE and it’s doing great for us. It takes longer since it’s 1 session in the book, 1 session in the activity book, 1 session back in the lesson book for a total of 3 sessions equaling 1 lesson. We also do math with confidence kindergarten 4 days a week (mon-thurs) the Bible story book and coloring book from rod and staff, and on MWF we do the 100 easy lessons to teach your child to read. When those lessons get too long we just do half. And that’s plenty for us lol

[@ThisMamasHouse]

That sounds like he is getting a wonderful homeschool year!!

[@ShellyStephen]

With all that literature how many hours a day do they spend doing school work, in order to get through the books at the end of the year. Can you do a video on how you do grades and keep records on how they’re doing in school. I’m new at all of this!

[@ThisMamasHouse]

This year we’re working from 9-2 with an hour break for lunch. I’ll definitely be doing more videos explaining our routine and things!

[@tozieholl857]

I miss you, Mama. I pray that you are doing well. 🥰

[@TheGLOSSette]

I only have one child who is 6. I started with her when she was 4 too cuz she was well beyond ready. She always had older friends (a year or two older) and bery mature for her age. Over the years her attention span obviously got better but even at 4 she was doing well for her age. So it really depends on the child and if they are gung-ho about doing school

[@ThisMamasHouse]

I agree completely!

[@jennyharmony1371]

Hi there, I clicked on this video because it said '12th year homeschooling' in the description? Do you have an older child who has already graduated? Could you share what you enjoyed using for High school? Thanks!

[@ThisMamasHouse]

@@jennyharmony1371 my high schooler goes to public school now, not based on my decision but her and her fathers

[@yesii921]

Was distracted by your beauty 😩 you look like Gal Gadot! I have a first grade homeschooler so I like looking at other curriculum. Thanks for sharing!

[@ThisMamasHouse]

Wow! Such a nice compliment! So cool we both have first graders!

[@searraalizabeth]

She also looks like Adelaide Kane!!

[@yesii921]

@@searraalizabeth oh wow, yes!!

[@searraalizabeth]

@@yesii921 this was my first video I’ve seen by her and I was like is that her?! Haha

[@yesii921]

@@searraalizabeth 😂

[@kikomartin-pr]

That is amazing.

[@agathareimer2924]

I grew up on the cle curriculum and what I remember is they never pushed their religion in the books.

[@christinascatholichomemaking]

Interesting. You use the same books that Seton uses for PK.

[@ThisMamasHouse]

Oh nice!! I did the official pre k books by rod and staff as well before the ABC series

[@tammyw8959]

Great choices. I love Fix It Grammar. Just throwing it out there for next year, Catholic Heritage Curricula is really good too.

[@ThisMamasHouse]

I’ve just recently heard of it! We did MODG years ago and tried a little bit of Our Lady of Victory, but it wasn’t a good fit. Definitely going to be looking into it further! Thanks for the suggestion

[@human2divine]

Is the religion curriculum for sspx? We do fssp

[@ThisMamasHouse]

It’s made by the SSPX sisters and I think would be perfect for an FSSP family!

[@LauraS1104]

I don’t homeschool but I love watching your videos lol I’m so curious why homeschool requirements are so different than in school requirements. Like, why do our in school kids learn so much extra stuff?🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Stephan-ix8me]

Public schools don't try to push a particular narrative.

[@LauraS1104]

@@Stephan-ix8me narrative?? I was talking about subjects. Our kids are in a private school but I was talking about all schools in general.

[@ThisMamasHouse]

It really depends on the state as far as homeschool requirements. But I agree. There is a big difference! I think because schools have to meet standards to get funding?

[@LauraS1104]

@@ThisMamasHouse hmmm that could be.

[@flyingsignals]

Have you ever looked at Robinson Curriculum?

[@ThisMamasHouse]

No, but should I!?

[@Bob-d7r1v]

Send all the curriculum books by post please so I don't have to by them thanks so much

[@ThisMamasHouse]

Ha!

[@dannifulker7494]

👏🏼❤️

[@Jettsmom98]

Thanks for sharing. I homeschooled my boys about 30 years ago. There wasn't much out there then. So many choices now. My granddaughters are now homeschooled. Not sure what curriculum they use. I'm not super impressed with it. I think my granddaughter is bored with it. My niece uses TGTB and loves it.

[@antonio83]

I would like to know if you teach your children that humans descend from apes. Or if there are books that don't spread this huge lie.

[@ThisMamasHouse]

Umm no 🤣 we are Catholic and don’t believe that in the least bit

[@Stephan-ix8me]

Evolution doesn't teach that humans descended from apes, only that they have a common ancestor. That's a huge difference.

[@stevendelucas6311]

@@ThisMamasHouse Do you expose them to the various theories, or just the ones that you personally believe in?

[@ThisMamasHouse]

Yup! They all know about various theories! And they learn about other religions too :)

[@katielindsey4481]

We are using CLE for math and LA this year and I so wish I would have found it sooner! The math is perfect for my girls. TGTB had too much going on for them to focus on the lesson.We also switch to Teaching Textbooks for 3rd and up.

[@ThisMamasHouse]

CLE is AMAZING!!