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I would love an update on how you are getting on with ttis curriculum

Evolution has not been the “mainstream” accepted theory for more than a decade in science environments (it violates the third thermodynamics laws among other absurd “beliefs”). But the “news” will arrive to the masses when the editorials get rid of all the materials they still have, as usually happens. Science and public are widely diverted according to economic purposes. But this happen to any field of science I guess. I am lucky to be a scientist myself… I am so sorry no curriculum is still Talking about the electric universe theory and other updated more accepted theories.

These look great! I have been looking for more games to buy for homeschooling!

We are trying to organise our games!!! I haven’t bought any math game but we use playing cards for math games alongside boards we have!!! We have the same approach to subjects!!! We sometimes finish a subject in November and then pick up another subject!!! We only use workbooks for what we need to!!! We use a lot of books and documents for learning!!!

What age do you think this is good for? My son is in first so I was planning to find CZcams videos lol. I'm wondering if I should do more though. Thank you for sharing all this.

I just got the election night game in mail today lol❤

Love this video content. Thank you!

This was an amazing selection of ideas and resources! Thanks so much for this.

History class was one of my favorite classes when I was in school

What is your favorite history curriculum and resources to use from preschool thru high-school?

We did U.S history last year and we learned the founding fathers but didn’t do elections!!! We are using easy peasy government!!! Those books are awesome!!! I don’t like workbooks either!!! I feel we need to be critical thinkers as ppl!!! We have got fed up with using all books!!! We got sucked into the idea of just books and we are moving back out of it again!!! I have family members who think they kno everything!!! We love the easy peasy videos!!! I didn’t kno of school house rocks!!!

I would love to see a deep dive for history!

Hey @lifeinthetrenches we were wondering if you would be interested in reading the world atlas we wrote? (If not yeah I get it, I might not respond to a random comment in my comment section either ) Our atlas is called "The World A Comprehensive Guide to Geopolitics" It has breakdowns for over 1,400 geographic regions covered. Every continent, every UN member, every partially recognized nation (Taiwan, Kosovo, Palestine etc.), every autonomous region, every external territory. We even included breakdowns for every known base camp in Antarctica, by both summer and winter populations. It has over 440 colorized maps. And over 490 colorized flags. And we even included a geography section full of facts such as the largest rivers, lakes, deserts, the lowest elevations, highest altitudes, longest mountain ranges, most northerly and southerly nations just to name a few. It took us almost 2 years to make. I'm proud of it. We finally published on June 12, 2024. Almost 2 and a half months ago.

I’ve been buying more kits but I still get extra stuff for experiments in our curriculum!!! When we travel science experiments can be hard depending upon our location so we try to get it in when we are at home even though our home is a different place now!!! Being in the U.S it’s even easier to get supplies!!!our film things are in the U.K!!! We got our science curriculums and we are doing 2 as it’s 2 subjects but both this year are health themed!!! One curriculum we are only doing certain chapters I think!!! That’s what we seem to be doing as I got the 2nd curriculum for rabbit trails as my kids had questions!!!

I used to be so NO RELIGIOUS COMPANIES! I have aged and like a fine wine, I take what is good from whatever source I see fit, now. I am sad that I spent so much time avoiding a lot of good material from religious companies. Most especially if that material can be downloaded as a PDF and I can open it in an OCR, like Wondershare Element, and just...edit it. Any way I like.

I "think" we will be using Beautiful Feet, Joy Hakim, AND Pandia Press.... LOL It is a bit difficult, eh? It is SO easy to make Beautiful Feet secular. I change out a book here and there and then just use a similar format as them for those book lessons.

Can you find the readers at the library?

I am in CA, with a charter, and they will buy the curriculum, just not the teachers guide.

Can give a list of field trip you took or would have liked taking during each unit? I will be using this curriculum this year and I want to take lots of fields trips 😊 Thank you!

Nice idea mam. Keep rocking ❤

We lived in New Zealand for 5 years and it was so amazing!!!

I can’t love this video any more! 💖 I so appreciate your perspective and topics you’ve been sharing through your videos lately. We also homeschool through a CA charter, and between 2 back to back pregnancies/newborns in the last 3 years, we’ve ended up schooling through the summer to “catch up” or finish our curriculum. It’s so hard to get the public school model out of my head. Where we are in northern CA, temps have been 105-115° this summer which isn’t uncommon. While watching this, I realized that we really should be utilizing our break time during the spring and fall since we literally will burn if we spend time outdoors. 🥵 Your content and calm demeanor are so encouraging to me while I lose the rigidity that I hold myself. 🫶🏻

I struggle with this topic as I want to homeschool In a rigorous Way but doable so relaxed!!! I like a hands on approach as well!!! I often switch up when we do certain things!!! I refuse to do long hrs of instruction and we focus on depth!!! We love rabbit trails!!! In Aussie history textbooks the 1st ppls aren’t mentioned, I don’t agree with that personally!!! One of my kids does masterbooks math and they encourage math outside the textbook!!! We do more discussions than essays!!! My older kids call them papers as they have to write a few for their classes but I think they write enough!!! We have to keep a portfolio but I doubt it will be a binder per kid!!! I reflect a lot!!! We are classical homeschoolers but I want to do it in a relaxed way!!!

I think for myself, focusing on consistency is providing rigor for my kids💕love your videos lately!!

We find a discussion is a good marker but sometimes I have to ask certain questions!!! I backwards plan and I’ve taught my older kids to backwards plan!!! We have a mix of curriculum and kid led research projects and deep dives!!! Public schools focus on in and out but I agree on skill development!!! Our homeschool room is a storage room and we homeschool in different places!!! The woman you didn’t kno I remember hearing it from Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography audiobook!!! We are planning on visiting the Bondi aboriginal places that still exist in the spring or summer (September to January)!!!

I’m a first time viewer here. I have to just say I love listening to you. You just talk like you’re talking to a friend. I love your personality and your comments. You’re so honest. I’m subscribing. “It’s not all about the kids.” Haha yes. Love it.

My son was homeschooled for 3 years, but I outsourced everything because we constantly argued throughout it all. It wasn't worth continuing and ruining our relationship. Now I'm homeschooling my daughter (5) and my biggest fear was not being qualified to teach her to read. We do use a curriculum. it's an open and go style. She's reading like a champ. We have surpassed my expectations by leaps and bounds. I'm glad that there are people out there (like you!) who say don't cut yourself short.

May I ask what how you are pacing this? How long is each lesson if you were to do all the things listed? Would this be too much for a 7th and 4th grader, my 4th grader?

Thanks for sharing. This looks great and not at all overwhelming to me. When you talked about other history curriculums in this video, may I ask what is ‘history of the world,’ I haven’t heard of that one, would you mind linking it for me? X

I love curriculum but we sometimes don’t bother!!! We don’t use a geography curriculum unless my kids ask for one!!! We addat curriculum!!! Rabbit trails are awesome!!! I have 3 kids doing write by numbers in a class now!!! One of my twins was sitting in with her bother and asked me to enroll her so I did alongside her twin brother!!! My older daughter is doing a year of research for a social studies credit (Japanese culture, geography and history) she wanted to do it!!! Reflection is key in education especially home education!!!

Love this style of video. My son is in mainstream school here in Australia but I’m strongly leaning towards homeschool for next year (ex teacher here too). It’s amazing how many teachers homeschool their kids!

The whole family got burned out apart from my older daughter but she’s only researching Japanese history and culture and geography!!! We travel to different countries so it’s more travel schooling!!! I saw travel schooling is any homeschool that travels in any way!!! I love to buy a curriculum to adapt to our needs so we have a guideline!!! Homeschool classes helped me to pull out my kids as I knew I’d struggle in certain areas to teach!!! Homeschool is completely different than school!!! The mean mum had to come out recently but I have teenagers who don’t listen!!! We don’t use summer books but we homeschool year round!!!

Thank you for sharing your family adventures. ❤ This was an enjoyable video to watch. I love how beautiful California was at this time of year. Once I realized how much our fam life is being weighed down by trying to keep up with the curriculum's pacing, I finally took the hint in spring just to slow down. And we got to enjoy, too, Southern California's natural beauty. Just watching this makes me already miss it! 🥲 Didn't get to finish any curriculum in my first year of homeschooling 🤷‍♀️ but that's okay because I also remember having teachers that didn't either.

We end the yr at Easter so we just did a Easter unit and went to New Zealand for a few days with my older kids so we could jump off the sky tower!!! My younger kids stayed at home with their grandparents!!! We had an event at home and then had some time off and New Zealand is a quick flight for us!!!

You have been such an inspiration to me. I have been going through the motions for the last year. I've been nothing but overwhelmed and easily irritated. Now, I just need to talk my husband into letting me do some life changes so we can slow down, too. Thank you. ❤

Thank you for this. It really eased my mind❤. I often wonder “but what if I ‘m not teaching what they need to know or enough of something”? Got to take it step but step 👍🏽

Woohoo!

I hope anyone new to homeschooling listened to Xuan's advice at 17:04. I wish I didnt overdid the curriculum research last summer when I first started. 😅 Xuan, thanks for the little extra video footage (like the June Gloom weather) you added to this book haul. I too have kits I would like to finish this summer before the start of the new school year (when we may end up with surprise more subscription kits) but I am still trying to take it easy this summer since I am just getting over a health scare last month. How do you go almost no curriculum in a public charter school situation?

We are in Lima so it’s mega hot!!! My stepdad went to the mountains and said it was cold tho!!! We heard the season depends on elevation!!! Our homeschool room wasn’t ever used apart from storage so not having one isn’t a problem!!! My older kids are in their own hotel room next to ours so they have their own space!!! Individual learning is awesome!!! We had a week of food technology on a cruise and it was awesome!!! My older kids went on their own to their room for the classes!!! The ocean book looks awesome!!! The vlogs are awesome!!! We love the Clark the shark books and my older kids will read them for extra phonics practice!!! Nothing wrong with rolling over curriculum!!! We love Easy Peasy, it’s free and online!!! This year we watched a movie of a book instead of reading it!!! We where learning about a famous athlete who refused to run on a Sunday!!! I was an early years teacher so we could be more creative!!!

Thank you for this review!

I don’t fold laundry but we hang it up!!! For family subjects I do the same thing!!! My high schooler is included as well as my 8th grader doing high school credits and I let her do high school level!!! History is different for my 16 year old at the moment due to my kids hating it!!! We’ve been doing food classes for everyone in our community so it’s been fun and my kids are doing different classes to us adults!!! I learned to braid bread!!! Still got a lot to learn!!!

I LOVE YOU! So real and beautiful ✨

We have stopped homeschooling on comp days as my kids love to watch them!!! I love the kneading process of baking bread!!! I’m trying to teach my kids the separation of work and life!!! I love working in bed as well!!! I plan trips for work as I used to be a travel agent!!! We still have seaweed left from Japan!!!

I used to do heatless curls like that!!! I was a kid so I’d forgotten how k did it!!! It’s awesome that ur finished your course!!! I’ve never made lemonade but often buy cloudy lemonade as it’s a made form Lemons!!! I’ve been making sure laundry is done before we move locations even if I did it the day before!!! My kids have been eating too much Mac and cheese but I’ve allowed them as a treat!!!