Lawd, I’ve been dragging my feet in getting ready for this coming homeschool year. I’m fully ready now! I’ve made lots of switches trying to find things that will enrich and brighten these kiddos minds and encourage their curiosity of learning.
Our main curriculum we will be using BYL(Build Your Library) for literature, geography, science, poetry, music, art and writing. For language arts we will be using Grammar Galaxy. Also I will be combining TL(Torchlight) with BYL to expand on their writing, spelling and vocabulary. Math we will be using TGTB(The Good and The Beautiful) and alternate with WM(Wild Math) which is an outdoor based curriculum. Now for history we will continue with History Quest. We also have Fun-Schooling Journals for extra language arts, math, life skills and cooking to help break up the monotony of school. Which I believe played a part last homeschool year as to why it was so bad. Thankfully we can put that behind us and learn from it.
Super excited to dive into this year’s curriculum! To start out we are going to be learning about the world around us which has such amazing books. I can’t wait for them to arrive 😁 Anyways this will give us a good start with BYL before dive further in to different levels of BYL with a combination of TL in a few months. So I will post more as books arrive 😃 Unfortunately I need to get my butt in gear and start printing the rest 🤣
Category: Build Your Library
Curriculum Nightmare!
Curriculum nightmare! Have you ever looked at how much curriculum is out there? It’s even harder to sift through to find a secular curriculum.
Thought I had everything figured out 😂 Wrong! Have to make a few changes since certain curriculum doesn’t coincide with the main curriculum I will be teaching 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ Certain curriculum picks were either to advanced or I had already covered it this year. So it’s been back to the drawing board 😩
I’m still sticking with BYL(Build Your Library) and some Fun-schooling Journals (some additional outdoor and extra curricular curriculum). I’m not going to do the TGTB(The Good and The Beautiful) for math or language arts (at least not right now) 😩 What I will be doing is adding TL(Torchlight) and Beowulf Grammar (not completely sure on the Beowulf Grammar or use something else) to expand on their language arts for spelling and grammar. So far I’m excited with my picks and so are the kiddos!
As for math, I’m still planning on getting WM(Wild Math) for their outdoor curriculum. Then the kiddos told me they would like to continue with EP Math(Easy Peasy All in One Homeschool) 🙄 I on the other hand, is thinking of using IXL Math for when the weather is not cooperating. So I’m undecided there so far 🤷🏻♀️😅
Scooter, step-mom asked is if my teacher brain ever stops for a moment 🤣 Apparently it’s a side effect of homeschooling that my brain doesn’t shut down so.
Curriculum so NOT working…
How I originally started teaching my kiddos was very eclectic. A lot of Unit Studies and child lead curriculum. For the 2021-2022 school year I went the more traditional route. Which you can read about in an earlier post. It worked for the first several months, but now unfortunately has run out of steam.
We are going to change things up and start fresh.
We have decided to go with Wild Math, Fun-schooling Journals(Core Journals, Math, Language Arts and and an elective journal) and Build Your Library (BYL) along with History Quest and R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey (RSO) for our new learning material.
It’s goes along line of how I first started homeschooling them. Which is more of a Charlotte Mason/Unschooling Secular way of homeschooling I used, which was more hands-on and I myself even enjoyed it. I don’t know why I decided to change it! WHAT WAS I THINKING?!
The beginning of 2021-2022 school year I decided to go a traditional route using Easy Peasy All-In-One Homeschool as our main curriculum along with other workbooks I thought they might learn a little more with. I was right, but also wrong at the same time.
The reason for this big change is… My kiddos have recently told me the curriculum is too boring and too easy. It’s basically not a good fit. Especially if they they’re not getting any benefits from it.
So I’m doing a major overhaul of our curriculum and will be reverting back to how I started since they enjoyed(so did I) and seemed to learn better and even more that way.
Homeschool Aunt Chaos 