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Homeschool+ Curriculum Review
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Mar 23, 2023
Homeschool+ from Age of Learning is a great option for homeschooling families that want a comprehensive, interactive, multi-sensory and adaptive curriculum their kids will love! Your kids will be engaged in productive screen time, and you'll love the provided offline activities that complement what they're learning online. Check out my full review here: https://blessedhomeschool.com/homeschool-plus-curriculum-review/ Check out Homeschool+ for YOUR homeschool here: https://blessedhomeschool.com/homeschoolplus
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Hi everyone, I'm Sarah from Blessed Homeschool and this is my buddy Oliver
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We have really been enjoying Homeschool Plus from Age of Learning. They're the creators of ABC Mouse and Adventure Academy
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So today we're just going to give you a little peek into some of Oliver's daily lesson plans
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Do you have anything you want to say? Okay, so I think I'm in seventh grade
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You're in preschool. Oh yeah. I finished all my school. You did finish all of his schoolwork for today
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And what's your last thing? And I got all three candies. So we're going to show you my schoolwork
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All right. So let's go. okay so this is what the screen looks like when I log in and I'm under the daily lessons
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so right away you'll see my math academy and my reading academy and both of these
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use Age of Learning's patented adaptive learning system. And this means that the lessons are going
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to automatically adjust to whatever your kids need to work on. So based on how they do as they move
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through the lessons, you don't have to change the levels or do anything like that. It will
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automatically adjust. So both of these will show up every day of the week. And then when you scroll
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down, there's going to be one additional lesson, and this is going to change every day. So for
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example, today he did a lesson on cultures and places to explore, but some of the other things
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that you'll see will be animals and habitats, colors and shapes, first Spanish words, community
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citizenship. These are all the options that were given to me whenever we selected pre-K
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K for when I set him up as a student. So let me show you around. When I click into cultures and
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places to explore. It opens up this window and we've already completed it for today, but there
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are a lot of different activities that your child can walk through depending on whatever the topic is
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So today he was learning about pandas and exploring the Wolong Panda Sanctuary. So we started with a
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video, um, really cute animated characters really keeps the kids engaged. And then it takes you to
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a painting page. So this was just a page that he could have fun clicking around and coloring the
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panda picture lots of different ways Then we went to a sentence cutout This was really neat He enjoyed playing this He got to take the words and drag them and match them to different places on the sentence
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So just a matching and also just getting familiar with words. The next one was a paint by number
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And with the paint by number, he would select a color that was attached to a number and then have to match it to the specific number on the picture
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And if he got it wrong, it prompted him to try again. So it was a great number of recognition and coloring activity
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He really enjoyed it. We also had Speaking Like a Scientist. It taught him all about endangered animals and what that means
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There was a fun fact video about panda paws, all about giant pandas
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This was a read aloud. And then one thing that I really loved was that this lesson and all lessons really have
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a hands-on component. So there was a craft that we could do
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It walked us through how to make a panda with paper plates and construction paper. Another great thing is that this has a lesson plan where if I click on it, it takes me to
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a PDF that I could print out if I want to. And this just gives you some key vocabulary, the concept that you're going to be looking
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over your objectives, your activity. an activity to dig deeper. And so just all this information in case you want to spend a little
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bit more time learning about this particular topic. So I already showed you the daily lessons
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and now I wanted to go into the lesson planner just to give you an idea of how easy this is to
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use and how flexible it is when you're planning your daily lessons. So here is a page. I actually
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just set up this profile today just to show you. So you're going to notice a couple of blank spots
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over here, but typically those would be filled with your lessons. So this shows me a week at a
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glance, and it has pre-populated the lessons based on its recommendations for the Math Academy
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the Reading Academy, and the additional lesson options that I've chosen. So you see the
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Monday through Friday at the top. And there's an easy button here where you can toggle on and off
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Today is Thursday, so it's not letting me turn that off since we're already into this day
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But yesterday being Wednesday, you can see that for my math academy, we had a 10-minute goal set
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And since we didn't do a lesson, I just have a little notification pops up that tells me
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the goal for the lesson was not met. So when I move into Thursday, it's just going to pick back
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up where we left off So remember the program is adaptive So it going to adjust based on what we need I don have to rearrange any lessons or do anything like that I have the time set for 10 minutes because I got a four and his attention span is really short They give a
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recommendation of 20 minutes. You can also click here to easily adjust the time to set your own
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goals. If you didn't want to do math that day, you could also really easily toggle that off
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We scroll down, same with Reading Academy. Since I just set up this profile, we didn't do a
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lesson on Wednesday. Same thing with the timeframe for reading. Okay. Then when you scroll down
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you get into your extra subjects that, that you can do. So they recommend one to three lessons
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per day. Right now I have it set up to do one and then it alternates. We're doing something
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different Monday through Friday. So I believe if I scroll down for Wednesday, we had a lesson
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in community citizenship. Today, Thursday, we've got a lesson in first Spanish words
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So it tells me what the goals are. So the goals are going to be knowing Spanish words for house
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apartment, building, city, and town. Again, I can toggle that on or off depending if I want to do
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it that day. And another great feature is that I can go in and actually edit this from here. So if
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I click on edit, it's going to take me right into what the lesson will be for that day. So you can
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see kind of like in the other video, we've got lots of great options for learning. We're going
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to have a little intro video, city sites video. Then there's a game he's going to get a play
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and then a final video. If I wanted to edit any of those, I could cancel them and delete them
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or I could delete the entire lesson. So those are some great options to have in the lesson planner
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If I go back, we'll also see for Friday, it's going to shift
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We're not going to do Spanish again. We're going to do colors on Friday, a little bit of art. And same thing
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If I go in, I can edit. But just to give you an idea of some of the activities they have, we've got a video, the
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color song music videos. We've got music in there. There are a couple of books we're going to read about colors, a puzzle to try, an art activity
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Looks like he's going to get a color, some clothes, and then a game
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So really great wide range of activities keeps them interested and really so many different ways to learn
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OK, I also wanted to show you if I go to. My account settings, this is where you would be adding your child and selecting their birthday, all that stuff
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And I go into the schedule. This is when I set up the profile where I set my initial goals for time And then I also get to pick my schedule for these different class options So again my son is four So you not going to see anything selected for
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first or second grade options, but we have different lessons chosen for different days
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of the week. So he's not doing too much on any single day. So animals and habitats we've got on
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Tuesday. If you scroll down community citizenship on Wednesday, you can see there are great options
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for science in here, culture and places to explore on Monday. There's options for maps and landmarks
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There's the Spanish words and then art. So a lot of additional options that can be completed along
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with the My Math Academy and My Reading Academy. Finally, I wanted to just share again how great
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of an option it is that when you have those extra lessons, like Thursday, we have that Spanish lesson
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you've got these additional lesson plans where you can download them and you get that PDF with
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offline activities that are going to complement what your kids are doing online. So you really get
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the best of both words. They get some interactive time on the screen with really engaging videos and
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games and adaptive learning. And then you have some time off the screen where you can spend with
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them just reinforcing what they've learned, doing different activities, going deeper, and you have
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it all here. I hope this video gave you a great idea of what to expect with Homeschool Plus
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My son has really enjoyed using the program and he asks to do it every day
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We've loved my math academy, which offers personalized learning plan. So kids can truly master the topics that they're studying
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And then my reading academy is a fully adaptive learn to read program with digital books, games, and videos that will help your kids build a solid foundation and love to read
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And then, of course, the individual courses that cover the arts, sciences, and general studies are a wonderful addition to any homeschool
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Homeschool Plus is a truly adaptive, multi-sensory program and provides a great mix of engaging
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interactive, productive screen time, along with hands-on, interactive, offline lesson plans. As a mom, you know your kids better than anyone, and your curriculum should give you that control
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to tailor to their needs. Homeschool Plus is a great option for homeschool families looking for a comprehensive, flexible
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and unique program that will engage your kids and put you in control of their learning
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You can find my full review of Homeschool Plus on my blog at www.blessedhomeschool.com
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