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Hey guys, it's Saturday here and on Monday we are beginning our official first week of our homeschool this year
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The first week that we're fully loaded with all of our curriculum. I just wanted to do a quick video to give you a glimpse at our schedule and see how I have it organized
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what we'll be doing, and just give you an idea of what a day of homeschooling can look like
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don't know me, I'm Sarah. I blog over at blessed homeschool.com and techie homeschool mom.com
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and I also love sharing tips, resources, and reviews here on my YouTube channel. So please
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hit that subscribe button to stay in the loop with future content. Okay, so this video will be
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pretty short and sweet. If you watched my planning video, you may have an idea already of how I have
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our year laid out. I have updated just a couple of things and made a few changes to our schedule
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but not much. I use homeschool planet for all of our homeschool planning. And if you're looking for
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something to help you plan and keep you organized, I highly recommend checking it out. You can get a
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30-day free trial and I'll leave that link in the description for you. Also, you should know that I have
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four kids that I'll be homeschooling this year. My oldest son is a sixth grader. My twin daughters are
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fifth graders and I have a four, almost five-year-old that I'll be doing pre-k with this year
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So if you're interested in seeing how we'll fit all that in and what we're using, this might be helpful
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to you. Okay, so basically I'm just going to show you my screen on my computer and talk to
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you through our daily routine for our upcoming first week. Here we go. Okay, so I'm logged into my
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homeschool planet. We are starting on August 7th. So this right here just kind of gives you an
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overview of our week. I have different classes and different items color coded. So if I scroll down
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you can just kind of see an overview. These are all the lessons and assignments that we're going to be
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doing next week. It looks like a lot. But I'm going to kind of talk you through our brief schedule
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which is really more like a routine to show you kind of how we're going to fit it all in
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Okay, so let's just start with Monday. It's pretty much the same every day
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Every day I have, this is what I added from the last video. I added a Bible time at the top
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So what we're going to do is I am envisioning us starting around 830 or so
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We're going to gather together and we're going to do the Bible part of our curriculum
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So there's, I know there's a section in our My Father's World exploring countries
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and cultures and I need to look at voyage of discovery, but we're going to do our Bible time together
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So I just created a separate little assignment for that so I can see it there and then check
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that off. Okay. And then after that, I have right here, this is my preschooler, my father's
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world voyage of discovery. So he's going to be doing this every day except for Thursday because
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eventually we're going to start our co-op on Thursday. So I have it set up for each day. Now this is
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really more for me to check it off than it is for him. So I will be following the lesson plan from
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those books. But during the time that I'm working with my preschooler on his lessons, my bigger kids
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are going to have some independent work that they're going to do. So what you'll see here is
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daily devotional. So my kids will be doing, we'll work on their morning devotionals. We use
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the not consumed devotionals for those. And I will put a link to those in the description. We
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absolutely love them and then they also have morning chores that they're going to do I
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think on my last video I had put morning chores and afternoon chores together I ended up
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splitting them up so they they have a chore to do in the morning and a chore to do in the afternoon so I split them up They will each check off when they have their chore completed And then again this is while I working with my preschooler
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They're then going to move on to their CTC math. This is what they work on independently
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And all I have in here is for them to complete their assignments because I have their assignments already assigned in CTC math
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So they will just log right in there and see exactly what they need to do
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Then their Latin work is independent. This is a class that I teach them at our homeschool co-op, which we haven't started yet
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So right now they're doing some vocab review. They're doing any makeup work that they haven't finished
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And this is going to be independent work that they will do throughout the week. And then after that, they've all got music practice
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So my son does piano. One of my daughters does cello and the other one does violin
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So they will have music to practice. And then we got their learning language arts through literature
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Now this is not independent. However, when they do get to a book study, like my daughters are going to have a book study coming up
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they will have some silent reading they can do. So this will be another option for independent work that they can do at this time
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And then the other thing that I have, and I'm actually going to move this around, because the other thing that they can do independently is I have typing on here
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We use typing.com for typing lessons. They're very short, quick lessons. They can get it done usually in less than 10 minutes a day
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So just a little bit of practice each day. They log in and I actually want to move this up because I want them to be able to see it right away for their independent work
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So homeschool planet is great. If I want to move this, I'm just going to click on it
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I'm holding on to it. I'm going to drag it up here, and I'm going to put this right under Latin
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Okay, so I'm going to drop it here. And it's going to ask me, do I want to change the order of this class every day or only on Mondays
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And I want to do it every day. So there, boom. All right
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So it's going to move up underneath their Latin every day, except for Thursdays, which I don't have it on Thursdays because that is going to be our co-op day
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So this just makes it easy for Luke, Emma, and Carly. When they are logged in, all of their independent work is going to come up first
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So once they get all this done, if they still have time left, if I'm still working with Oliver
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then they can do some silent reading from language arts. If they don't get to that, they'll do that at another time during the day
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Okay, so I am anticipating the work with my preschooler not taking more than an hour or so
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So we'll do that on Mondays and then Fridays I did add Kinderbach
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This is a program we've been using from music in our homeschool. So he's getting some very basic music theory and some little piano lessons through that
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I will be writing a review on that soon, but we're pretty early in and he is really liking it
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So two days a week, we're going to do that. So again, that'll take us about an hour to complete
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And then while I'm working with him, my big kids are going to do their independent work
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Okay. So all of that should be checked off. Then we get down to language arts Now I do work independently with my son on his and then I been working with my daughters together So again while I working with one of them the other ones can either be completing their silent reading or anything else that they need to finish So language arts will be after that After we finish language arts it probably going to be about time for lunch as how I thinking that it going to work So we take a break probably about an hour or so for lunch It won take us how long to eat but preparing the meal
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and then that gives me a little bit of time to regroup, maybe get some work done during that time
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So lunch will be next. And then afterwards, I'm actually going to make one more change
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because my father's world exploring countries and cultures. I'm going to drag this up
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I want this to come right before our heritage. studies. Okay, so we'll do every day there. Okay, so next up, this is my father's world exploring
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countries and cultures. It's with my big kids. With my preschooler, if there's something that we're
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doing in here that he can join in on, I certainly will let him. Otherwise, I will have something
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for him to do or play with on his own. So that's going to come up right here. Now, exploring
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countries and cultures is a lot of geography, not as much. history from what I've heard. We are still working through Heritage Studies 5. We actually started this
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This is from BJU Press, and we started this last year, got about halfway through, and so we're still
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slowly working through this. So on the days that we have time, I may not get to it every day
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but on the days that we have time where this might be a little bit light, we are going to do some of
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our Heritage Studies. And if we miss it that day, it's really easy in homeschool planet to adjust
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and shift our schedule. So that's what's up next. I'm anticipating anywhere from maybe one and a half to two hours
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I haven't dove into this curriculum that we haven't done it. So it's just a guess
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One and a half to two hours, maybe to complete both of those things. And then after we're done with that, we'll move into our BJU Press Biblical World View Basics curriculum
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And that has been taking us maybe about, oh, about half an hour or so
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So we'll spend about half an hour on that curriculum. And this one, this was great
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I just used the homeschool planet lesson marketplace market lesson. Let's try that again
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Homestchool planet lesson plan marketplace to pre-populate all of these lessons. So I didn't have to type any of this in
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I found this curriculum in the lesson plan marketplace. And it added all the lessons in for me
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So great tool to use. If you have curriculum that is available there, use it to pre-populate all of your
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lesson plans quickly and easily. Okay. And then finally, we've got our generous family box
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which we've really been enjoying. I have it listed every day except Thursday. And again
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this is one of those that it's really going to depend on the day. We may get to it every day
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Some days we might skip it or move it to the next day. It's really a go at your own pace. Now
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the lessons are very short. You can watch my video review on it. They're very short. Usually
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less than 10 to 15 minutes. So I anticipate that we will get to it a lot of days, but again, if not
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it's really easy to shift the schedule using homeschool planet. And then finally, at the end of the day
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this is where I added their afternoon chores. So I use zone cleaning, chore chart. You can read
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about it on my blog. I'll leave a link for you if you want to see how we do our chores, but they've got
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afternoon chores to complete, and then we're at the end of the list. And then once everything is checked
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off. The kids know that they are good to have electronics or whatever else that they want to do
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And that's just how I keep track of that. Typically, you know, we'll be done. I'm, my plan is to
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hopefully be done before three o every day And we will see how it goes It kind of the first week is always a little bit of trial and error to kind of see how things go But this is what our schedule
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looks like. Once we are done with everything for the day, really all I need to do is go in to
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homeschool hall and that's where I keep track of our hours for our school, for our homeschool
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state requirements. So I will log all of the hours spent on our subjects. And then I also go into
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CTCMAP and I double check what they've done for math that day and make sure there's no big
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issues that we need to go over or things that they need to repeat, things like that. I'll also
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check any Latin work that they need to do. And then usually once a week I'll go in and see how
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they're doing on their typing. But that's pretty much it. So I hope this gives you just an idea of, you know
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obviously what everybody has to do. But, you know, if you're curious about what, you know, a homeschool
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schedule looks like, how it's set up, how it works if you've got a little one and older kids
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you know, this is how we do it. And so I hope that it's helpful for you to see and just give you
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an example. Okay, so while I have you here, the last thing I want to show you, the other week I got a
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question, if you could print off assignment lists from homeschool planet. So let's say your child didn't
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use a computer and you wanted to keep track of all of your assignments here, but you also wanted
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a sheet where they could do a checklist and print this off. So it's very easy to do, very easy to
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customize. You're going to come up here to reports and then assignment lists. So you're going to
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select which report type you want. I'm going to choose assignment list and then the layout you want
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I'm going to go, let's do by date, then class, then student, or let's do this, by student
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date and class, and then we're going to customize. So let's just do one student at a time
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We'll do all. Well, you could do all of them if you want to, or, you know, in my case, I might just
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select the ones where they're working independently, but we'll just leave it as all for
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right now. And then no later than let's change this to, since it's Saturday, I need to go to the end
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of next week. Let's say I just want to print off an assignment list for next week
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We'll select that. We'll do all categories. We only want to show uncompleted. Now you can also print a report of their completed assignments. So you have an option there. But since I'm going to do a checklist, we'll do uncompleted and then all resources. Okay. So then we'll hit okay and it's going to populate a list. Okay, so Luke for Monday, he has everything listed out for him. Okay, his devotional, his assignments, Latin tells him exactly what he needs
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to do for each assignment, okay? And then it's going to go to Tuesday. All right, Wednesday
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Thursday, and Friday. And then if I scroll down, I can print this. And then, you know, it doesn't
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look super pretty, but it'll give me a list of all of his assignments. And again, I would probably
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shorten this just to the things he's going to complete independently, print it front to back
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save some paper, but really easy to do. I just wanted to show you guys that real quick
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since I did have some questions about that. Hope that it was helpful
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All right, well, I hope that little peek into our first week of homeschooling was helpful to you
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If you have any questions at all, please leave those in the comments. I would love to chat with you about any questions that you have
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We'll see you next time
