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Do you ever notice how we don't have to teach our kids to be selfish? Mom
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It's part of our sinful nature. It comes way too naturally sometimes
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Instead, we have to be intentional about helping our kids build character traits, such as kindness
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compassion, empathy, and selflessness. Last month at the Teach Indiligently Home School Convention, I met the guys from Generous Family
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and I was really impressed by their generous students' homeschool curriculum kids
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I finally got my hands on a box, and I'm still. so excited to share it with you so you can learn about a fun easy option for inspiring kindness in your
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kids building generous hearts and most importantly learning about biblical generosity and teaching
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the compassion of Christ through practical application. Thank you so much for checking out my
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channel. I'm Sarah and I love sharing tips, resources, and encouragement with homeschooling parents here and on my blog, blessed homeschool.com
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If you would, please hit that subscribe button below so you don't miss out on future
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content. I recently did a video on our homeschool choices for the fall, but we're actually
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going to give this curriculum a try over the summer. And if it goes well, we'll continue with
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it in the fall. I have a preschooler who will be five in December, twins will be in fifth
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grade and a sixth grade son. I love that the generous students homeschool curriculum kit was
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designed to be completed by the entire family from pre-school. school all the way through high school. So if you desire to teach great life skills in your homeschool
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build a Bible-focused family, and raise kids who are generous and giving, probably most of us, right
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I think you're going to love this curriculum. So let's dig in. I'm going to unbox this thing
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and show you everything that's included. Plus, I have an amazing, generous offer to share with you
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This company practices what they preach. Okay, so here is the box, generous students' homeschool
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addition, seven ways of living generously road trip, seven ways of living generously road trip. Seven ways of living
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generously that we're gonna learn about. So on the side, we've got 26 week curriculum
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with daily activities teaching biblical generosity. 125 plus Bible verses more than 40 historical
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and biblical generosity heroes, journal prompts, audio and video stories, library lists, and more
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So let's go ahead and open this up and see what we've got
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Right away, we've got three student journals that come with this box
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We have one Generosity Heroes book. All right, we've got some stickers, generosity jar
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and then three sets of stickers, probably to go with the student journals
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and then our instructor guide. Okay, so those are their contents of the box, I'm going to go through the student journal, this book, and the instructor
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guide flip through them just so you can see what each of them look like Okay so I going to go ahead and start with the instructor guide Let open this up All right so right away we have just some instructions for the teacher
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lesson objectives and contents. This is, as it said on the box, a 26-week curriculum
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so there are all of our 26 weeks. And they do say it should only take about 10 minutes or so a day to complete
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So not that time consistent. assuming. Okay, so if we get into week one, what is generosity? It will tell us our objectives. Okay, so we're
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going to write what we're grateful for, create our personal definitions, look at verses about
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generosity during devotional time, meet one of the generosity heroes, and then watch a video
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and have a discussion. Okay. So for the day one, we've got, looks like a very scripted lesson and
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an interactivity. So it tells me what to do before we begin. And it tells me exactly what to say
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And when I need a pause, allow them to answer, and then some different suggestions for the
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answers. So it looks like it's very scripted out. We've got a simple lesson. And then we have
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an activity. It's probably going to go along with our journals. And then we have a Bible rest
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stop. So we're going over a scripture verse and then we have some questions about that. Let's take a look real quick at our journals and see how this matches up. So we've got our
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roadmap in the beginning. And then, okay, so right here, what is generosity? Get into gear
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So color coded. It matches up really well. It gives the student a space to write this in their
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journal. For the get rolling part, again, there's a space to write
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their brainstorm and then their definition. And then we get down here for the rest stop
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again, just a little space to write out their answers for that portion
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Okay, so we get into day two. All right, so we've got map it out, a scripture connection, devotion time
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some Bible verses, and again, very scripted with what I need to say
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We have an activity to live it out and then a prayer
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Okay, so we've got kind of a theme supporting devotional on this day, and we have an opportunity to live out what we are learning
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If I go to that day in my journal, you'll see we have our scripture connection
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Again, more space to write. And let's see, I think it's just actually for this day, it just goes to the live it out
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This must be day three. Yep. Okay, so on day three, that's where we find this generosity hero
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Okay, so every week on day three, it says we're gonna feature a generosity hero
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And that is gonna pull in this book right here. So here it says, we're gonna read amazing stories of generosity from historical, biblical
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and everyday heroes that serve as wonderful examples of living a life of giving These real life heroes will show you that even though giving may not always be easy it always the best Okay so we got it looks like about a couple pages per hero And there
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our first one right there. So we're going to read this. And then we have a couple of questions to
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discuss and the kids can fill that out in their book. So a lot of great
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people in here that we're going to read about some biblical, some historical
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We read about him this year in our curriculum. Okay. So there's that book, our generosity throws
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Okay, so that's day three. We have another rest to stop here
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Days four and five. So on these days, Okay, so it says fuel up
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All right. We're going to watch a video it looks like, have a discussion
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So these, yeah, we're going to log into the instructor portal for this. They're going to write down any questions that they had
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Okay, and this goes to week two. So here, it looks like day four and five are kind of combined
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They've got some extension opportunities listed. So an example would be writing an acrastic poem, creating a generosity story, a craft idea
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It says for younger students. So it looks like day and four and five are just going to be videos, games, stories to kind of round out our week
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And just offer additional fun activities that the kids can do. They've also got on this page a library stop
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So theme-related supplemental reading list, if you want to go to your library
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grab some of these books. This looks like it'll be something really helpful that'll just
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introduce and reinforce the theme that you're learning about. And then it moves right into
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week two. So again, lessons are look like they're going to be really short, but looks like
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they're going to promote some great discussions. I love that the kids have their own journals
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that follow really closely with the teacher manual and they're going to have a great
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little keepsake when they're done with this. What I'm going to do now is actually log
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into the instructor portal. Haven't done that yet. So we're going to log in and look around
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so we can see exactly what's included there. Okay, so I've logged into the instructor
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portal here, and it says that I'm going to find videos and audio files for the lessons
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additional activities, resources, and things like that on here. It looks like they are still
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obviously adding more content. So I'm not sure if they've got the full
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amount here yet or not. But let's just scroll through and see. They have week one. They have a couple
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of videos to add to your lessons. There might be an audio file here that they're going to add
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Week two a couple of other videos Week three Okay we got a download here So just an additional activity So they do have some printables some extra videos I think the coloring pages will be great to use with my little one
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since he won't have his own activity journal just yet. All right, so just
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scrolling through, it does look like they've got some great resources here and
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that they will continue to add to it. So some different links
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probably to go along with that lesson. It's going to scroll through quickly
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Right, and that at the end of the program, week 26, we have a certificate of completion
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and then it looks like we might be hosting a generosity party. There's some invitations there and an additional activity
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So it looks like for now, that's what you get when you log into the instructor portal
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I think mostly everything is going to be in your instructor guide and in your student books
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But these are just some additional resources that they've curated for you that can add just a little bit to your lessons
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And it does look like they're going to continue to add content to this so you can get the most value out of your kit
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I am excited to get started with this curriculum. I love that it's something we can all do together and it doesn't look like it will take a lot of time
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We can do it before our day starts, during our lunch break, or even in the evening after dinner
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I think that having a resource to help teach my kids to live more generously will help me be more
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intentional about it. Not that we don't have little teachable moments here and there throughout our days, but
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I think that having an engaging curriculum like this can really help drive the message home
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Learning about the different generosity heroes will be really inspiring. Plus, teaching my kids a biblical perspective on this is important to me
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And it can be time-consuming to try to create lessons and resources on your own, pulling everything
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together. Generous family has done it for you. And here's a discount code for you. Use the code
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