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Curious about Learning Language Arts Through Literature Homeschool Curriculum? In this video, I'll walk you through lessons from the Purple Book (5th Grade Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum), so you can see exactly what it's like. MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO: 📖 Language Arts Curriculum – https://blessedhomeschool.com/llatl ********************************************* Hey there! I’m Sara, and I’m a teacher-turned-homeschooling mom to 4 kiddos (including a set of twins!). I balance homeschooling while working full-time from home, and am so thankful you are here. I love sharing about homeschooling on my blog, Blessed Homeschool, where you’ll find tips, resources, and curriculum reviews. Whether you are a newbie or a veteran, I hope you will leave inspired and equipped with what you find. MORE VIDEOS YOU MIGHT LIKE Homeschool Day in the Life — https://youtu.be/6-JcAvI0-Q4 Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum FLIP THROUGH — https://youtu.be/iPDflDjpd-0 ********************************************* NEW TO HOMESCHOOLING?
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Hey guys, welcome back to my channel or if you are new here, welcome. Today I'm going to be giving you a more in-depth look at the language arts curriculum I used this year for my fifth graders, which is learning language arts through literature from Common Sense Press. This is an integrated complete language arts program all in one, which I know is very appealing. So hopefully this video will give you a better idea of how this curriculum might work in your homeschool. And also some tips I think will be helpful if you are going to implement this
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Like I mentioned, I used this curriculum with my twin girls this year who are fifth graders
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I've been homeschooling them from the beginning and we have used a few different things for language arts
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When they were younger, we used explode the code and all about reading and spelling
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And then from second through fourth grade, we used BJU Press. There is a lot that I love about BJU Press, but I will say it was very time consuming for us
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We had a separate curriculum for spelling, for English, for reading, and for handwriting
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So it was taking my girls sometimes two hours a day just to get through all those components of language arts
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We got to the point where we were simply running out of time in our day as they got older and especially as they grew more involved in some other classes and activities
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So when I heard about this curriculum from a friend, I thought it sounded like an amazing option simply because we could learn language arts skills, not as isolated subjects, but integrated
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Studies have shown that an integrated approach may help with retention, so that was good
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And it looked like the lessons would also not take much time during the day
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I also liked that my kids would be introduced to great pieces of literature, and that literature
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would be used to teach them spelling, grammar, and writing skills. This curriculum is available for first grade through high school
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They do offer placement tests, so you can utilize these if you aren't sure which book your
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child should begin with. The books aren't labeled by grade. They have color names. So this is the purple book. My son used the tan book this year. But they do say on their website which grade level the skills kind of match up with. So the purple book teaches fifth grade language arts skills. Another thing that was really appealing to me is how affordable this curriculum is. I was spending a lot of money on our BJA Press curriculum. And with this, I just needed one book for all of our language arts and it was less than $30. I did also purchase the
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teacher book, which I do think that you need and that you should do that. That was another $30
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And I also purchased a couple of the books we would be reading for our book studies. Two of them
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we already had. But that was it. Okay, just a couple more things. And then I'll show you what the
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curriculum actually looks like. I mentioned purchasing books for book studies. There are four books
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that go along with the purple book. Four book studies. Your kids will be reading Farmer Boy
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trumpet of the Swan, Number the Stars, and Cats. when I was researching this curriculum I was kind of confused about how the book studies
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worked I couldn't really figure it out or find out how they were going to be integrated into
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the curriculum so hopefully I can help shed some light on that for you I really like the
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idea of the book studies but they are not really scheduled into the curriculum very well in
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my opinion if I could go back and redo how I used these book studies I would so with that
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little teaser I'm going to go ahead and start walking you through the curriculum But don't worry, I will explain a little bit later about what I mean by the book studies and what I would do differently
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So let me flip my camera around and flip through this book for you
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Okay, so what I'm going to do now is actually take you through one of the units in this book
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So you can see exactly what it is like and what is covered. I remember looking it up online and yes, you can see one example of a couple pages online
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but I think to see the entire unit or chapter all at once is really helpful. So I do have a teacher
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book. I will show this to you in a minute. This follows really closely with a student book
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This is my daughter's book that she has used this year. So you will see some of the work in it
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So we will start with the table of contents just so you can take a look at this. And you can
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see this online too, but you will see there are 36 total lessons. All
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All of the learning language arts through literature levels are written for a 36 week school year
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There is dictation with every lesson and kind of reminds me of a unit study almost in that you've got sections that focus on specific skills
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So you will see we've got oral presentation. There's a poetry unit right here and speech making that is a big focus
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But even within those units and in all the other lessons like the everyday words lessons
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so you see that a lot everyday words. In all these lessons, your kids will be learning all the important fifth grade language art skills
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So there's grammar, spelling, creative writing, and also the idea regarding writing is that
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kids are learning good writing in part by having good writing models that they are using through
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their lessons. So these literature passages that they're focusing on like America or Mr. Popper's Penguins
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these are the models for them and they will be using words and sentences from those passages
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to help them learn their language art skills. Okay, so let's go ahead and take a look at some of the lessons
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And then I won't forget, I will come back and talk about these book studies
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You see them in here. So we've got book study for a farmer boy, trumpet of the swan, number of the stars, and then
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Caddy Woodlawn. Okay, so we're going to go to Mr. Popper's Penguins, the start of that unit
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Okay. All right. Again, I think it'll be helpful for you to see how an entire unit is really going to go
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So let's take a look at everyday words using Mr. Popper's Penguin text
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Now, this is the student textbook, and I think you'll see that it's pretty open and go
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And for the most part, aside from some of the dictation, you could have your kids work through this independently
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That's going to depend on your kids. Sometimes mine worked independently, but often I sat with them and just checked their work or work through it with them
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But you guys, I didn't prep for this at all each week. It's super open and go
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Each lesson is broken down by day. So you see day one and day two
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So you can clearly see when to start and stop each lesson
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Okay, so at the start of every lesson, you have a passage
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So it'll tell you where the passage is from. Part of it is usually bolded because that's what they're going to use for dictation
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And this is the passage they're going to focus on for five days. So for that entire week
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So for day one, they read the literature passage. they have to narrate it back to me
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Then they do some dictation. So I read it out loud to them and they write down what they hear
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And then they have to go back and fix any mistakes. So they're comparing what they wrote to the passage
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Okay. So that's their dictation. Here they're listing words. So words that they missed or they misspelled
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They're going to list them out. And those are going to be their spelling words for this week
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The reason this is blank is because I had my kids keep a separate notebook and we kept all
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their spelling words in there. And throughout the week, as they misspell other words, then you add to
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that spelling list, and that becomes their list for the week that they work on. Often kind of
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sprinkle throughout, they will give spelling tips, but it's not like they're focusing on just
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that tip or those patterns. It's really kind of whatever words they misspelled, whatever words that
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they are misspelling as they do their writing throughout the week things like that They working on those words for spelling Okay and then they copy these words underline the T So kind of focusing on that spelling
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tip just for a little bit. And that's it for day one. For day two, they're talking about what a
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complete sentence is. Gives them an example, talking about fragments. Can they tell the difference
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between a fragment and a sentence? And then they move into talking about the complete subject and the
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complete predicate. And then they have a little practice to go along with that. And I do want to show you
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how the teacher's book kind of lines up with this. Let me see if I can find for lesson three. You'll notice
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that this is the teacher book and it looks very similar to the student book. So it's again broken
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down by day and it kind of tells you step by step what to do. For the most part, it's the same
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but they do have an answer key on the sidebar. Okay, so as you go through each page
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depending on what the kids are having to do, they give you the answers right there, okay
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or anything else you might need to know. But for the most part, it's pretty much the same as the
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student's book. It's in a very conversational format. It's really easy to teach. Like I said
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open and go. And they do have the answers on the side. So I really think you are going to need the
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teacher book in order to go along with this. It's been a big help for us this year
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Okay, so that finishes update two. Oh, actually, no, we have some more on this page. Okay, so here they have a little writing prompt. So pretend you're an animal or pretend that animals delivered to your house by mistake. You're discussing a situation with me, their parent. And then they're told to write a paragraph of at least five sentences about the day the zoo animal was delivered to their house, talking about indenting, talking about what a paragraph is, and then it gives them space to write. So again, afterwards
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We went through and added like this word here, if she misspelled it, that gets added to their notebook, and we work on that for spelling during the week
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But that's it for day two. So you're already seeing pretty short and sweet lessons
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Day three, they're going back and they're using that literature passage to underline and mark all the words that begin with capital letters
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So they're going into talking about common nouns and proper nouns. They have a little bit of practice with that
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and then they have different capitalization rules. So this is actually part that we cut out
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They have some cards for different grammar and writing rules that they will use
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Okay. And then some more practice with capitalization. They are matching them to the words in the literature passage
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and they are kind of noticing what capitalization rules do those follow
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And then we move on to part G, looking at another one of the capitalization rules
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They have some practice with capitalizing in these. little fragments right here. On the fourth day, they always review spelling words, and there's
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some kind of enrichment. So these are completely optional if you find that it's something your kids
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would enjoy doing, or you want to assign them to challenge them or stretch them a little bit more
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We didn't end up doing this one. And that wasn't day four. That was day three. So reviewing the
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spelling words, day three. Okay, and then moving on to day four, referring back to those complete
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sentences talking about the different types of punctuation that goes at the end of the sentences
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and then letting the kids practice that. They're going back to the literature passage in Part B
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finding a word and writing it down, talking about synonyms, comparing it to another word in the
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passage that has the same meaning, close to the same meaning. It often will have them get out
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at thesaurus to look up synonyms for different words. So working on vocabulary. Just a little exercise
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again referring back to that passage. Day four is when we typically do the pre-test for spelling
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oral or written. And then day five, usually pretty short. They will usually do dictation one more
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time. And hopefully they'll have some improvement based on when they did it the first time. They
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will take a spelling test on this day. And then there's always some kind of optional activity. Again
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optional. You can choose to do it or not. And then at the end, there's, there are some review activities. So again, these are reviewing concepts that they did this week. So we've
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got fragments or complete sentences, subject and predicate, proper common nouns, capitalization
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working on book titles, punctuation, and synonyms. So a great review to go back through everything
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you've done that week. We don't often skip this because I think the review is good practice
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but I mean it could be optional but I think the reviews are usually good and really just give me a good idea
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if my kids are mastering what they've learned that week. So that was lesson three. That's one week's worth of lessons
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When we move into lesson four, we are still using Mr. Popper's Penguins, but we're going to be using a different passage this time
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You'll start to see a couple similarities. They're reading, they're doing dictation, they're doing vocabulary
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again spelling words and if they don't miss any spelling they give suggested
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spelling words that they could practice they have their spelling tip here and
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then they start talking about suffixes a little bit day two this week we're seeing
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subject and predicate again talking about verbs and action verbs right and then
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adding that on to what they've learned about subject and predicate so again talking about action verbs and being verbs and then some enrichment right
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here for day two on day three three, we go into helping verbs. Some practice with helping verbs. They're going back to the literature
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passage and finding words from the passage that end with the suffix, I-N-G. And then it talks about that
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just a little bit, some rules for that. Okay, on day four, we get into adjectives and what adjectives
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are. They have to come up with some of their own adjectives. Referring back to the literature
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passage, they are talking about how Captain Cook is a penguin, and then they do a little bit of research
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on penguins, making a list of some facts. It kind of tells them what to look for. So the basic
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information where they live, how they produce offspring, things like that. And then we've got another
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writing prompt in Part D. So imagine you have a pet penguin and he's walking around your living
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room while you watch him, compose a paragraph of several sentences describing what your penguin does
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and how he looks as he walks around. So they're using the words that they listed in 4B and their information
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that they found in 4C. So they're practicing using those words in their writing
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and also encouraged to use adjectives. We've got our spelling pre-test. This was more dictation on day five
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and then our spelling test. And then again on day five, we have our optional activities
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and then that review at the end of that week. Okay, and then after those two lessons
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we come to an assessment. There are assessments throughout this book. So you guys will see about every three or four lessons
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There is an assessment in there. So the assessment is just something short again to kind of make sure that the kids are on the right track
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that they have understood everything that you went through in that the past couple of weeks
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So that is what their assessment looks like. And this was for lessons one through four
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I only showed you three and four. So this included one and two as well
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Okay, for the next two weeks, they are still in. in Mr Popper Penguins Again a different passage This one they kind of stuck with this passage for a while Some of the other ones they stuck with for three weeks You had two weeks with America three to four weeks or so with different passages
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They never necessarily read the entire book unless you ask them to or you have them, but they get a couple of different passages to focus on from each book
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If I could go back, I would probably have them read the entire book as we were going through this
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it was something that I just didn't do. Okay, lesson five. Reading this passage again, you've got dictation, and then again, spelling words, and then their spelling tip right here. So they give this spelling tip, and they give some words to work on, but that's not the only tip that they're necessarily going to be focusing on, because it really depends on other words that your child has misspelled either in the dictation or throughout the week as you're going through your language arts. But they are practicing that tip right here. And again, that's it for day one. Super short
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The lessons do not take much time. Here's a look at day two
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Again, subject and predicate, simple subjects. So they're going back and they're still practicing things
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that they have already worked on. They had an activity where they are doing a timeline
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So they had to research a little bit about Captain Cook with this
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They had to look them up on the internet. And using this model, they had to make a timeline for Captain Cook
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So they did that in their notebook. And then they had just some questions to answer
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for the rest of day two. All right, day three, pulling out adjutant, from the literature passage, focusing on adjectives, bringing in commas a little bit
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talking about that, practicing using that, talking about possessive pronouns a little bit
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And then moving on to day four, they did a little bit of letter writing
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So talking about how to address an envelope, how you should structure a letter, and they practice
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writing a letter to somebody. All right, this gave a little list of all the capitalization rules
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These are the ones that they kind of cut out that were on their cards. They were to reread their letter, make sure all their capitalization was good
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Then we did the spelling pre-test. Day five with dictation again and spelling test
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Optional enrichment. We skip a lot of the optional enrichment, but I do like to have them do the review activities
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So again, that's at the end of every week. There's two more lessons where they're using Mr. Popper's Penguins text
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So I'm just going to quickly show you what's. those look like. You can glance over the pages to see how these are going to work. You'll notice the
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same kind of patterns. Dictation, writing down some spelling words, reading a spelling tip, practicing
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that a little bit. We've got present tense and past tense practice, talking about context clues
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some enrichment there, day three. Again, always going back to that literature passage to teach concepts
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using it, doing some practice with forming the plural of words. In day four, they talk about double
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negatives, using hyphens correctly. And here they had, again, to do a little bit of research. So
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looking up this person and writing down some sentences about this explorer. And they did some of
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this in their notebook as well. We had some Atlas work. So they found some of these things on the
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map and had to label this with those places. day five we probably didn't have time that day we didn't do the dictation spelling test review activities
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so I chose not to have them do this part but here is an example of where I just picked out something
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I noticed she was struggling with so we really needed to focus more on this for that week and these
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ones on the back all right and then with lesson seven dictation spelling there's our spelling tip for
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this week talking about those suffixes again here we're moving into adverbs
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talking about how everything they've been reading is a narrative, written as a narrative, because it tells the events of the story
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They have to do some work on narrating and putting the pictures in order
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More practice with plurals and that O, adding an S or an ES
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Here we get into written reports a little bit. What a paragraph is, talking about topic sentences, gives them an example of what some supporting sentences might be for a topic
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And then they are to write a paragraph here with notes from when they researched Captain Cook or Admiral Bird
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They could have chosen either one and written a paragraph about either of those people
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On day five, they had to share their report, which was really just kind of like a small paragraph
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But they practiced reading it aloud and presenting it to us, spelling tests, and then review activities as usual
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Okay, so I hope that gives you a good idea of how your day today is going to look with this curriculum
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I know that that was kind of long going through that, but I really had no idea what this was going to look like or how it was going to be structured
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And so I think if you're considering this, hopefully that was helpful for you to actually see the length of the lessons, what's going to be covered in the lessons, how it's going to be covered, and things like that
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So now I want to talk to you guys about the book studies. So let me flip back to the table of contents for a minute
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Like I mentioned before, you will see here that the book studies are listed in the table of contents
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We've got the farmer boy, trumpet of the swan, number of the stars, and caddy woodlong
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They are not really scheduled into the curriculum. You are just supposed to do them on your own time, work on them in addition to the rest of the curriculum
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or maybe take a break from the rest of the curriculum for a week or two to do these
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So you've got 36 weeks of lessons. if you have room in your schedule to take, you know, a couple weeks each time a book study comes up
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that's another way that you could do that. All of the book studies will give you a summary of the book
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and the kids will work on vocab skills, reading comprehension, and do some other activities along with them
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For Trumpet of the Swan, there are some of the lessons that use passages from this text
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So they're going to do a book study on trumpet of the swan, and then they actually have some lessons that kind of pull from the Swan
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that. And my girls really, I think, liked this because they were seeing connections between what
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they were reading and the lessons that they were doing. But for the other books, they're really
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kind of separate. So they'll read Farmer Boy, but they don't work on any passages from that
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within their other lessons. So let me show you what they do give you to go along with these book
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studies. So I'm going to pull back my teacher book real quick. And let's look at
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We'll look at Farmer Boy. Okay, so this is the first book study that they came to, and they tell you kind of what skills they're covering with this
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So if you flip the page, you are going to get a summary of the book
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If I could go back, and I will probably have to do this with the future book studies
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but I think it's a good idea to try to read the book along with the kids
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But if you can't or you don't do that, they give you a little summary of it here
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And then again this is really similar to what in your kids books but you have the answers on the side So they have some vocabulary here This was challenging for my kids and kind of frustrating for them It tells them to find the word in its context So it tells them it gives them a word it tells them what chapter it in but they have to kind of go through and skim through that chapter until they find that single word And I think that a good practice but they did kind of have to kind of have to kind of have a hard time with it just took a little while and they got a little frustrated But then they were to reread the sentences before and after the word see if they understood the meaning of the word based on its context
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And then they were to look up the word in a dictionary and write a definition and use it in a sentence
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Or it gives them this option down here. And you'll see, let me show you in the student book
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So Farmer Boy is on page 29. Here is what it's going to look like for the kids
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So they don't get that summary, but they do get space to write out their definitions and write their sentences and then use it in the sentence here
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All right. And then if we flip the page, this is back to the parent book. They give you different discussion questions
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So after they read the chapters, look for sections of the text that give you the answers to each question
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Prepare for a discussion with your teacher and choose several sections to read aloud to him or her
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So it will break it down by chapter. So chapters one through four and it gives a question
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question about that. And then for the parent, it gives an answer. So if you don't read it with your kids and
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you don't know the answers, it does give it to you. For the kids, it does the same thing. So it'll
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tell them the answers within these chapters. Look at the chapter if you don't remember the answer to
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this question. Now, I personally struggled with these book studies because this being the first time
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I used this curriculum, I didn't know how to use them or how to fit them in. When we came to one
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I simply had my girls start reading the book and they read it on their own and we kind of just
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continued with the rest of our lessons. So if I could go back and do it again, I would have
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scheduled these book studies in and been specific on what I wanted them to read by when. And when
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they should do like the vocabulary activities or when we would have the discussion. There's also
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sometimes some other activities that go along with your book studies. Because with everything else
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going on in our schedule, it was hard for me to actually remember to go back and do this extra work
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and have these discussions with my girls because we would be continuing on and doing all this
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stuff. And then I would forget, oh yeah, we have discussion questions or we have to come back and
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do this. And if you're doing it with one kid, it might be easier. But for me specifically, I had
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two girls reading it. They were sometimes at different spots in the book. So then I had to remember
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okay, who was on what chapter, who was on this chapter, who was discussing what
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and I made it harder for myself by not making either a plan and saying, okay, read chapters one through four this week
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And then at the end of the week, we discussed the questions and we went back and we did vocabulary
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This obviously isn't chapter specific, but some of the questions are chapter specific
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But anyway, I think it also would have served me well to take that break from the rest of the curriculum and just focus on book studies for a couple of weeks
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and we have time in our schedule to do that as well. So this is just something to consider
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Again, I didn't know exactly how the book studies were supposed to work, but if you're going to use this curriculum, going into it, have a plan
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Just know this is how it's kind of laid out, decide if you want to do the book studies on their own
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or if you want to do them alongside as you keep moving through the curriculum
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I think either way is fine. We have a couple book studies left
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We still have to do our caddy woodlawn and number of the start. So probably what I'm going to do is take that break when we get to them and see how it goes doing it that way
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And since I didn't plan these out very well, a lot of times since I lost track of what they had read and which questions we should be discussing, we often just ended up doing this stuff as an afterthought after they had finished reading the entire book
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Most of the time they did okay with this, but I don't know. This might just be me, but I do much better with a plan
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And I didn't like these book studies feeling like an afterthought to everything else we were doing in language arts, if that makes sense
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So this is totally a personal preference. Some of you might look at this and think, wow, this is not a big deal at all
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I know exactly how I would do that. But I'm sharing it simply because it was something that I just had to figure out at first
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So just be aware of it. Think about how you want to incorporate the book studies into the curriculum
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And again, like I mentioned before, if you can read the books along with your
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kids, I think it would provide for some greater points for discussion, even though it's not necessary
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I am probably going to go through and read with my kids for the last book studies we have to do
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And kind of along those lines, if you have the opportunity to go back and grab some of the
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other books that they're going to be working with, so, you know, Mr. Popper's Penguin
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Strawberry Girl, Amos Fortune, Freeman, some of those books, if you can grab them and read them
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as you're going through this. It might make for just some good extra reading, good literature
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help your kids to make more connections to what they're doing in here. So that might be another
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suggestion if you are just looking to add more literature or more reading onto this. Okay, so that is
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pretty much it for the book studies. I can show you real quick what the trumpet of the swan book study
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looks like. See what page that's on just so you can have an idea of one more of them. So same thing
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you get your summary, you have vocabulary, which is very similar to the other one, and then your
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discussion questions. And then here is that little extra activity that they have to go along with
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this one. All right. So that is how the book study works. You have about four of them, I think with
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most of the levels, but this one had four. I know my son had four of them this year as well. And that
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is how these are going to work. Okay, so I hope that gives you a good idea of what this curriculum
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looks like, how it's structured, and how it might work for you. After using it for almost a year
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I will say there have been pros and cons, and when I say cons, I mean specifically for our family
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and these might be different for you. I've already mentioned a couple of the pros. The price is
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amazing. The time spent on language arts has been wonderful for us this year. I love that there is
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no prep with this curriculum. I can just open and go. It has really fit into our schedule well. I think
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the dictation practice and copywork has been good for my kids. The grammar and vocabulary portions
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have been helpful. And my girls honestly enjoy the lessons and have liked the books they've read
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even though I might have dropped the ball on the discussion part of the book studies. That is on
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me. The only con that I have noticed with this being an all in one curriculum, there are some areas
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in which my kids need just a little bit more instruction. For my girls, that has been spelling
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and I feel that they also need more direct instruction and practice in writing. So you may or may not find that to be the case for you. It's so you could simply supplement with other curriculum or other practice or it may lead you to switch curriculums entirely. But that's going to be something you have to decide. And hopefully this flip through gave you a good idea of what this curriculum is like and will help you make that decision. I think this might be a great curriculum to try if you are looking for an integrated approach to language arts and you want something that will encourage you to you
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use great pieces of literature in your lessons. If your kids don't necessarily struggle with
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spelling or writing, this may be a great fit as well. I will leave the link to the curriculum page
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in the description below so you can check it out to learn more. Take a look at the other grade levels
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see the scope and sequence, things like that. Feel free to leave any questions in the comments
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and if you like this flip through, please give it a thumbs up and I'd love for you to subscribe
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preschooler, my fifth graders, and my sixth grader. Thank you. you so much for watching. I will see you next time
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