I love alphabet acorns for learning letters, letter sounds and an object that starts with the letter. Thinking of giving mcguffy readers a try to advance our skills
You're so welcome!! Thank you for the thank you!! This video did take me many days from filming to editing it all together ha! But worth it! So fun to connect with other homeschooling moms and hopefully provide a good insight into these programs / resources!
Thank you for these yearly videos - our family really appreciates them! I watched it until the end. Thank you for taking the time to link all of your resources. We’re looking forward to trying some out next year!
I love your curriculum videos so much! It is so inspiring and I love all the detail that you share with us! Thank you for taking the time to share! I watched all the way through!
Thank you so much for sharing this with me!! It makes me so happy to hear that these videos are helpful!! Yay for watching all the way through, thank you! xx
Please keep making these videos! They are so awesome and helpful. My toddler is a little younger than your kids but it gives me great insight on what I want to add during our homeschool year.
Thank you so much for letting me know!! If you have any homeschool video requests / topics you'd like to see in a video please let me know! Helps me plan content ideas! :) Also, if you have not watched my Kindergarten curriculum video you may enjoy it as well! th-cam.com/video/mrld_n45UZA/w-d-xo.html
It's so true! Also so much learning takes place through play or during conversations or reading! My kids love to ask questions while driving in the car and it's a great time for us to chat about whatever they're interested in! Such as why is the sky blue? They keep me on my toes!! :)
Loved everything you shared! My oldest is in public school but absolutely loves learning, so I feel like the Good and The Beautiful math might be fun for her to just do at home. I’ve also never even heard of the Draw Write Now books! Ordering them asap ❤ And will reference this video again as I prep my 3.5 year old for some tot school / pre school at home. Thank you again!
Thank you for watching! I do not post my kids faces on social media or put them in my content often... so I'm not sure how I'd visually show our school day! Would it still be interesting if I just talked about our school day rhythm?
Loved this so much!! A lot of great book recommendations I picked up today! I would LOVE love love to see what your realistic homeschool day looks like, like a full day in the life. That would be so helpful to me!!
Thank you so much! I don't share my kids on social media and I don't like to film them too much while we are doing school as I find it's distracting and I really want us to focus on their education :) So I'm not sure how I'd visually capture this! But I'd be happy to create a video where I talk through our schedule and daily rhythms! :) Let me know if that is of interest :)
I watched the whole thing and I loved the in-depth explanation of everything you use! I am hoping to start homeschooling my daughter and son next year (K and preschool 3) and they are very hands on so it was extremely helpful to see the different curriculum you use but also it is a biblical worldview!
Thank you for taking the time to share! Our kids are the same age and we’re also big fans of G+C and Little School of Smiths. I’m doing my best to stay patient and saving Sequence 1 for my oldest’s second grade year, and doing the Primer program together this upcoming year. Sequence 1 looks so good though, and I’d love to see a mid year/end of year review when you’re done. I love seeing your picks and will be checking out “A Reason For.”
You're so welcome! So fun our kids are the same age! Love hearing your insight into how you'll be using G+C! Yes it will be interesting to see how we go through Sequence 1! I can see us going through it more slowly because learning all 50 states in one year PLUS the history is a lot!! :) So we always do the best we can! :)
Oh I'm so glad it's been helpful! So wise to do lots of research! Also know that once you get started you may also change your mind about what you want to do based on what's working / what isn't working for you and your daughter! Thea beauty of homeschool is the freedom to make choices and changes!
Thank you for your videos! It's so fun to see what other homeschool mamas are doing and getting fun new ideas. We LOVE the Little Pilgrims Progress and I'm sure your family will too. I have a 5 and 3 year old and we started with Little Pilgrims Big Journey and I would Highly recommend this series before starting the Little Pilgrims Progress. I defiantly don't think you have to, but LPBJ is another great option for the littlest pilgrims. Thanks again!
Oh I'm so happy you left this comment! I was just seeing another mama share about LPBJ and was wondering how it relates / differs from Little Pilgrims Progress! Any thoughts you have on that would be so wonderful. It sounds like reading LPBJ first would be ideal for younger children?
I’m definitely doing that 100 chart of books for the summer ❤ awesome job mom and yes i watched it to entirety .. great to do chores to and I stopped and added things to my cart 😂
Thank you so much!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful!! That's so great you're going to do the 100 chart of books for summer too, it's really fun!
I watched all the way to the end, I’m doing kinder/1st grade with my daughter in August and it will be my first year after she’s been in prek for two years we’ve she seems advanced in language arts so I’m planning to have to adapt a bit as we go. It’s a lot to sort through so long videos are helpful!
Thank you for watching! Kinder and 1st grade are such fun years! Homeschooling is a wonderful way to support an advanced child for the very reason you mentioned of being able to adapt and customize her education! I find that The Good and The Beautiful is quite advanced, I believe they even mention that, so it's a great program that has kept my daughter (who I also feel is advanced) challenged, engaged and still having fun with learning!
Great resources thank you!! I went ahead and got dash into reading since they said tis a full reading program. We were also doing Good and Beautiful but will pause that for the summer. I’m using a combination of Dash into reading and the Montessori Wabseca reading program!
Hi Megan I just discovered your channel from your hyperthyroidism video. I’m also struggling with that because my father has hyperthyroidism too so it’s pretty clear he passed it onto me. How did you decide to still have kids? How did you deal with possibly feeling like it was selfish to still have kids even if they might inherit that disease from you? I’m not really sure if I want to do that anymore if it means passing on these health issues
This is the most helpful walkthrough I’ve seen yet, thank you! Question: if Sequence 1 is for 1st-3rd grade, do you just repeat everything 3 years in a row? How does that work?
Thank you so much! Wow great question! I haven't thought that through yet exactly! I know that for the primer program I have used it for multiple years revisiting certain stories, books, manner and verses etc. So maybe I will do that for Sequence 1 too! I may span the geography over Year 1 and Year 2 because learning all 50 states for year 1 seems a bit much for me! This upcoming year I envision more of introducing all 50 states, reading books about U.S. geography and focusing on just a few states in depth that she is already familiar with such as the state we live in and a few more. Then in year 2 building upon that! But we'll see as we go! Same with the history! We'll do the best we can and we may break it up over 2 years! Maybe it would be helpful if I shared a mid-year review video too? I could share how the programs we are using are going, any changes, thoughts or updates to our routine! Let me know if that would be helpful! :)
@@HealthyGroceryGirl thanks for taking time to reply! ❤️ I like that approach, doing some of it now and circling back more in depth the next year. So freeing… I forget sometimes we can use curricula however what we want! 😂 on the flip side, too much freedom is scary for me, so thanks for making these videos on what you’re thinking through! I would for sure watch a “how it’s going” review if you ever do one. Thanks!
Hi! Our state does recognize preschool, and then pre-k (or TK) and then kindergarten. In our home we start a very gentle preschool at 3.5, then we begin pre-k at 4.5 and kinder at 5.5. That is how the ages work out for my kids - but of course every family is different! :) For those who start preschool at 3, there is another year where the child may not be ready for kinder level lessons but has advanced from preschool :) I personally do not get caught up on the grade levels - rather I use them as a guide to help me with curriculum picking as well as sharing about curriculum here too :) As you can see from my video I am fluid with programs and may advance or hold back on a program based on my child's readiness regardless of what grade level the program says it is. At 3 years old I am teaching my child beginning letter recognition (but not expecting mastery), an introduction to letter sounds (but not expecting mastery), shapes, colors, counting, patterns, the weather, an introduction to the days of the week and months of the year, and a lot of learning through play, nature, time outside, lots of reading and more! This helps my child become familiar with letters, numbers and more so that we can build upon that awareness each year :) You can watch my preschool video here to learn more! th-cam.com/video/KzD5bbvKWZo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=BWTmoBG19iISVw-Z
@@HealthyGroceryGirl oh that is awesome, thanks for explaining, doesn’t sound like too much on the child after your explanation. Well have a lovely homeschooling, best wishes to you!
I love alphabet acorns for learning letters, letter sounds and an object that starts with the letter. Thinking of giving mcguffy readers a try to advance our skills
These videos are so helpful! Could you share what your homeschool daily schedule is like and how you fit all of these subjects into your day/ week?
Thank you for all your time energy and effort to provide us with excellent videos
You're so welcome!! Thank you for the thank you!! This video did take me many days from filming to editing it all together ha! But worth it! So fun to connect with other homeschooling moms and hopefully provide a good insight into these programs / resources!
I love the long homeschool videos like that! ❤thank you!
Yay! Thank you so much!
Thank you for these yearly videos - our family really appreciates them! I watched it until the end. Thank you for taking the time to link all of your resources. We’re looking forward to trying some out next year!
You're so welcome!! Thank you for appreciating them!! It makes it worth it!! Wishing you a wonderful homeschooling year!
I love your curriculum videos so much! It is so inspiring and I love all the detail that you share with us! Thank you for taking the time to share! I watched all the way through!
Thank you so much for sharing this with me!! It makes me so happy to hear that these videos are helpful!! Yay for watching all the way through, thank you! xx
You gave me so many ideas! Thank you!
Yay! Glad this video was helpful :) Thanks for watching!
Awesome video. Thank you!
Please keep making these videos! They are so awesome and helpful. My toddler is a little younger than your kids but it gives me great insight on what I want to add during our homeschool year.
Thank you so much for letting me know!! If you have any homeschool video requests / topics you'd like to see in a video please let me know! Helps me plan content ideas! :) Also, if you have not watched my Kindergarten curriculum video you may enjoy it as well! th-cam.com/video/mrld_n45UZA/w-d-xo.html
Watched all of the video and loved all your thoughts
Thank you so much! :)
Great pick! Thanks for sharing ❤.
Thank you!!
Great ideas! As a Pre-K teacher, I’m amazed at how much kids can absorb. They want to learn!
It's so true! Also so much learning takes place through play or during conversations or reading! My kids love to ask questions while driving in the car and it's a great time for us to chat about whatever they're interested in! Such as why is the sky blue? They keep me on my toes!! :)
Watched your video in its entirety! We are also planning on several of the same so it's nice to see your layout!
Oh wonderful!! Thank you for watching :)
Watched all the way through! This was so thorough and helpful, thank you so much for sharing!💗
Thank you so much for watching! I'm glad you found it helpful! :)
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!! :)
Loved!!! 😊
Thank you!!
Loved everything you shared! My oldest is in public school but absolutely loves learning, so I feel like the Good and The Beautiful math might be fun for her to just do at home. I’ve also never even heard of the Draw Write Now books! Ordering them asap ❤ And will reference this video again as I prep my 3.5 year old for some tot school / pre school at home. Thank you again!
Love watching your curriculum videos 🥰 I’m definitely going to try the reason for handwriting and spelling. Looks great!
Thank you so much! We're really looking forward to A Reason For too!!
I’m only half through and I love all the picks so far! Definitely similar to my style. Thank you for sharing!
You're so sweet, thank you!!
Thank you for sharing! I would love to see a day in the life with your homeschool routine!!
Thank you for watching! I do not post my kids faces on social media or put them in my content often... so I'm not sure how I'd visually show our school day! Would it still be interesting if I just talked about our school day rhythm?
I totally respect that! Yes, just talking through it would be super helpful for me. Thanks so much for your wonderful content!
Amazing, God bless you!
You're so sweet! Thank you! God bless you as well! :)
Thanks for sharing all this! We have an upcoming 3rd and 1st grader and I found lots of great ideas. I watched the whole thing😂. It was great!!
Oh wonderful!! Glad my video could provide a few good ideas!! LOVE that you watched the whole thing, thank you! You get a gold star ha!! :)
This is extremely helpful. Thank you 🎉🙏🏻
So glad you thought so! Thank you!
Loved this so much!! A lot of great book recommendations I picked up today! I would LOVE love love to see what your realistic homeschool day looks like, like a full day in the life. That would be so helpful to me!!
Thank you so much! I don't share my kids on social media and I don't like to film them too much while we are doing school as I find it's distracting and I really want us to focus on their education :) So I'm not sure how I'd visually capture this! But I'd be happy to create a video where I talk through our schedule and daily rhythms! :) Let me know if that is of interest :)
@@HealthyGroceryGirl yes! Would love that too!! 😊
I watched the whole thing and I loved the in-depth explanation of everything you use! I am hoping to start homeschooling my daughter and son next year (K and preschool 3) and they are very hands on so it was extremely helpful to see the different curriculum you use but also it is a biblical worldview!
How fun to start your first year of homeschooling! I wish you a wonderful year!! :)
So excited to see all of your plans! Thankful G+C is a part of your school year 🫶🏻
Really looking forward to starting Sequence 1 and revisiting Primer with my son and daughter too this year - it's so good!
Thank you for taking the time to share! Our kids are the same age and we’re also big fans of G+C and Little School of Smiths. I’m doing my best to stay patient and saving Sequence 1 for my oldest’s second grade year, and doing the Primer program together this upcoming year. Sequence 1 looks so good though, and I’d love to see a mid year/end of year review when you’re done. I love seeing your picks and will be checking out “A Reason For.”
You're so welcome! So fun our kids are the same age! Love hearing your insight into how you'll be using G+C! Yes it will be interesting to see how we go through Sequence 1! I can see us going through it more slowly because learning all 50 states in one year PLUS the history is a lot!! :) So we always do the best we can! :)
Loved the video
Thank you so much!
This was the most helpful homeschool video for this age I’ve watched, thank you!
So glad it was so helpful!! xx Thanks for watching!
This has been the most helpful home school video I’ve seen thus far! Thank you! My daughter will be 3 soon, so I am doing alllll of the research 😃
Oh I'm so glad it's been helpful! So wise to do lots of research! Also know that once you get started you may also change your mind about what you want to do based on what's working / what isn't working for you and your daughter! Thea beauty of homeschool is the freedom to make choices and changes!
Thank you for your videos! It's so fun to see what other homeschool mamas are doing and getting fun new ideas. We LOVE the Little Pilgrims Progress and I'm sure your family will too. I have a 5 and 3 year old and we started with Little Pilgrims Big Journey and I would Highly recommend this series before starting the Little Pilgrims Progress. I defiantly don't think you have to, but LPBJ is another great option for the littlest pilgrims.
Thanks again!
Oh I'm so happy you left this comment! I was just seeing another mama share about LPBJ and was wondering how it relates / differs from Little Pilgrims Progress! Any thoughts you have on that would be so wonderful. It sounds like reading LPBJ first would be ideal for younger children?
I’m definitely doing that 100 chart of books for the summer ❤ awesome job mom and yes i watched it to entirety .. great to do chores to and I stopped and added things to my cart 😂
Thank you so much!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and found it helpful!! That's so great you're going to do the 100 chart of books for summer too, it's really fun!
I watched all the way to the end, I’m doing kinder/1st grade with my daughter in August and it will be my first year after she’s been in prek for two years we’ve she seems advanced in language arts so I’m planning to have to adapt a bit as we go. It’s a lot to sort through so long videos are helpful!
Thank you for watching! Kinder and 1st grade are such fun years! Homeschooling is a wonderful way to support an advanced child for the very reason you mentioned of being able to adapt and customize her education! I find that The Good and The Beautiful is quite advanced, I believe they even mention that, so it's a great program that has kept my daughter (who I also feel is advanced) challenged, engaged and still having fun with learning!
Great resources thank you!! I went ahead and got dash into reading since they said tis a full reading program. We were also doing Good and Beautiful but will pause that for the summer. I’m using a combination of Dash into reading and the Montessori Wabseca reading program!
Wonderful! I haven't heard of the Montessori Wabseca reading program, thanks for sharing!
I miss this kind of videos so much
Thank you for sharing! xoxo- T is for Tot :)
Yes!! Love your boxes! Here is the website for anyone interested :) tisfortot.shop/
Hi! This video is great Where can I buy that laminated pouch book that you put your alphabet worksheets in??
Hi! Thank you! I think you mean this? amzn.to/49YLDmB Let me know if not so I can help provide the right link :)
Hi Megan
I just discovered your channel from your hyperthyroidism video.
I’m also struggling with that because my father has hyperthyroidism too so it’s pretty clear he passed it onto me. How did you decide to still have kids? How did you deal with possibly feeling like it was selfish to still have kids even if they might inherit that disease from you?
I’m not really sure if I want to do that anymore if it means passing on these health issues
What markers and how do you clean the menus? I tried once but felt like it never cleaned well.
I've been using these dry erase markers and they clean well! amzn.to/4beT0aI
This is the most helpful walkthrough I’ve seen yet, thank you! Question: if Sequence 1 is for 1st-3rd grade, do you just repeat everything 3 years in a row? How does that work?
Thank you so much! Wow great question! I haven't thought that through yet exactly! I know that for the primer program I have used it for multiple years revisiting certain stories, books, manner and verses etc. So maybe I will do that for Sequence 1 too! I may span the geography over Year 1 and Year 2 because learning all 50 states for year 1 seems a bit much for me! This upcoming year I envision more of introducing all 50 states, reading books about U.S. geography and focusing on just a few states in depth that she is already familiar with such as the state we live in and a few more. Then in year 2 building upon that! But we'll see as we go! Same with the history! We'll do the best we can and we may break it up over 2 years! Maybe it would be helpful if I shared a mid-year review video too? I could share how the programs we are using are going, any changes, thoughts or updates to our routine! Let me know if that would be helpful! :)
@@HealthyGroceryGirl thanks for taking time to reply! ❤️ I like that approach, doing some of it now and circling back more in depth the next year. So freeing… I forget sometimes we can use curricula however what we want! 😂 on the flip side, too much freedom is scary for me, so thanks for making these videos on what you’re thinking through! I would for sure watch a “how it’s going” review if you ever do one. Thanks!
Send all the books
Preschool and pre-k is the same thing. So I don’t know what your teaching your “preschool” at 3 years old? Please explain, thanks!
Hi! Our state does recognize preschool, and then pre-k (or TK) and then kindergarten. In our home we start a very gentle preschool at 3.5, then we begin pre-k at 4.5 and kinder at 5.5. That is how the ages work out for my kids - but of course every family is different! :) For those who start preschool at 3, there is another year where the child may not be ready for kinder level lessons but has advanced from preschool :) I personally do not get caught up on the grade levels - rather I use them as a guide to help me with curriculum picking as well as sharing about curriculum here too :) As you can see from my video I am fluid with programs and may advance or hold back on a program based on my child's readiness regardless of what grade level the program says it is. At 3 years old I am teaching my child beginning letter recognition (but not expecting mastery), an introduction to letter sounds (but not expecting mastery), shapes, colors, counting, patterns, the weather, an introduction to the days of the week and months of the year, and a lot of learning through play, nature, time outside, lots of reading and more! This helps my child become familiar with letters, numbers and more so that we can build upon that awareness each year :) You can watch my preschool video here to learn more! th-cam.com/video/KzD5bbvKWZo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=BWTmoBG19iISVw-Z
@@HealthyGroceryGirl oh that is awesome, thanks for explaining, doesn’t sound like too much on the child after your explanation. Well have a lovely homeschooling, best wishes to you!