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You guys, welcome back to my channel for another video. Today's video is going to be the last of the
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unboxing videos for my 2024, 2025 school year. I got one more box in today and I am really excited about it
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Something kind of new that we're going to be implementing next year. And I'm also going to be
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walking you through my thought process of how I've been kind of planning out our daily routine
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and how I'm trying to get organized for the next year. So if you have been homeschooling for a while
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you might already have your routine down. This might not be very helpful to you
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but if you are curious to see how my type A wheels are spinning
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and how I go about kind of setting our plan and getting things ready for the next year
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then stick around. All right, this box right here. I want to give a shout-up and thank Masterbooks for partnering with me on this
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This right here is something that I saw online and was really excited about because I've been wanting to implement something like this in our homeschool
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And I didn't know that something like this existed. So I'm really excited to open this up and take a look at it and show you guys what it is
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I know you're probably wondering what exactly are you talking about Sarah
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So here we go. Okay, so something that I have been really wanting to bring back into our homeschool is a morning time, a time where we all come together in the morning and we're working on some things together, doing some of our Bible work, doing some reading, just spending that quality time together in the morning. So you guys know next year I will have a seventh grader, twin daughters that are in sixth grade, and then a kindergartner. So a little bit of an age gap there. I really just wanted to be intent
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about how we start our days. I did this when my oldest was in kindergarten. We had more of a
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morning time routine and I just really want to kind of do that again because my older kids are
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on their own a lot now for some of their independent work and, you know, some of the stuff we do
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together with them. And I wanted to find a way that we could all come and work together and bring
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my little one into the mix too. So what I saw on the Masterbook's website was they have a
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a set of or a product line of morning baskets where these are curated I don't want to call them
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baskets you don't actually get a basket but curated products where they put together kind of a lesson
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plan and they have different themes of like a morning basket morning time and the one that I saw
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I was really excited about because one of the products we actually already use which is a new catechism
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by Israelain and I was already planning on kind of working that into our morning time
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You guys know, I love pre-c curated materials. Life is just so busy
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It's so hard for me right now to kind of pull things together and figure out what I'm going to do
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There's so much good stuff out there. So if I find something, someone has been like, okay, this is the plan
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This is what you're doing. I can just open and go. I have a schedule to follow
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That is, that's it. That's what I need. So one of these things that I have in this box is the are the morning basket supplies
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And then the other thing is going to be art curriculum for my daughter
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I had been trying to figure out what to do for art for her
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She really wanted a different art curriculum this year. We're going to be kind of stepping away from creating a masterpiece for this next year
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And I found something through master books that I think she's really going to love
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So let's take a look at what is in the box. Okay, this, I believe is actually a tumbler
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Oh, look at this, all right. So I don't have one of those fancy, really expensive tumblers
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What are they? The Stanley Cups. I don't have one. I really, I really like them
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I just haven't bought one yet. This one is from Master Books. It says where faith grows
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I love the color. And I finally have a Tumblr. Can I fit in with everybody else now that I have a tumbler like this
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This is really, really fun. I love this. Okay, I see our art curriculum
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So I got living art lessons and an artist journal So these are going to be for my one of my daughters who is in sixth grade She is artsy one and is really interested in trying out She wanted something
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kind of separate for art. So that is in here. And then it looks like I got the morning basket
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So let me get this box out of the way. This is a nice note. Thank you for the opportunity to serve your
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family. Hebrews 13, 8. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday. and today and forever. Thank you, Ethan. That is certainly true. Okay. And then all of the
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morning basket stuff is in this wrapper. So let me open this up and show you what's in here
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Okay, this is going to be just a really quick overview of what is included in here. So these are all
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things that we will be doing during our morning time. And like I said, they have schedules. Everything's
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all planned out so they'll tell you what you should be doing every day and how to get through
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these and what I love about it is there's really kind of something for everybody so all of my kids
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with their different ages are going to are going to have something that they will be able to
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interact with that they will love to do all right so all these books are included I forget the name
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of the morning basket that I ordered. I think it was it was a faith themed morning basket
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but this is a catechism that we currently use and love. And it's going to be really helpful
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to have an extra book for my older kids to kind of look through. Okay, so that is what is in the box
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And the schedule, I actually, um, you can print those and order them for free. So if you're curious
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about what those morning basket schedules look like, you can actually go on the master books website
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and order the schedule. So you can see what it looks like and how it's going to
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work. So I have that, um, that'll be ready to print out and fit into our day to day plans
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All right. So morning basket. I'm excited to implement these next year. And if you're
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interested in the different morning baskets and seeing what master books have to offer, I will
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leave a link in the description below. Definitely go check them out. It, um, I think is a great
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concept and will make planning for that time a lot easier. And I'm really excited about these art
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lessons to to get my daughter started on me. She has just really taken off with her drawing and is
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really interested in this. So I'm excited. And this is the journal, just some blank pages that she can
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do her artwork in. Okay, so next I am going to put the camera around and just show you guys my notebook
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Like I said, I'm very type A, very, I have to plan things out. So I'm going to show you guys
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kind of how I've been thinking through what our schedule, what our routine is going to look like next year
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And also, I kind of have down on paper how I'm going to get this into homeschool planet
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Because we use homeschool planet as our main homeschool planner. So I will show you the brain dump first and then how that's going to look when I get it all into our online homeschool planner
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Okay, so this is my notebook that I've been working through the past few days
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and I'm really just trying to get my thoughts together for our schedule for the upcoming school year
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Last week when I was going through all of our curriculum, what I like to do is kind of just
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as I'm going through everything, have a notebook sitting out, and kind of start to envision what
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all of this is going to look like in our homeschool practically and how we're going to fit it in
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Now, this, what I kind of have laid out is kind of my thoughts for an ideal day
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So I have to say that every day does not look the same in our homeschool because we have days where we're out of the house doing things, days where things come up where there's unplanned stuff that we do
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But this is just a general, you know, on a day that we're home, how are we going to fit everything in type of big picture overview
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So as I was kind of going through my curriculum, I have everything picked out for all of my kids
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what I kind of did was sectioned it off to, okay, which parts am I going to fit in the morning time
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And then I have a section where I was putting independent work. So as I was going through everything, what are the things that I'm going to kind of have them or expect them to do on their own
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And then finally, what are we going to have to fit in where we're doing this all together
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So this is just how my brain kind of pieces it together Once I know what everybody is going to be doing I start to break it down into okay this is the stuff we all doing together independent work and then together kind of in the afternoon And again so this could be you know just like for science That going to be just my girls and my kindergartner For all about spelling that just my girls So this isn like all of us but pieces that we do have to do together
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father's role. That is going to be my oldest son, my twin girls, and then sometimes my
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kindergartner, maybe. But I like to have everything just kind of written down so I know that we have
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everything covered and see, you know, kind of how are we going to start to piece it all in. So
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what I have for the morning time, this is what I just showed you. Also here is going to be any read
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allowed. We have that week from my kindergartner's curriculum, any kind of Bible memory work
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or with Creation of the Greeks, we have the Bible portion, and we're going to do that
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kind of along with all this. If there's any kind of special holidays or videos that we have
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to kind of watch with our curriculum, we can do that together, and then World Watch News
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we're going to put during this portion as well. For the independent work, and I just made a note
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so I'm also thinking through homeschool planet. I'll get to that. in a second, but that's something that I have to set up. We use that to organize our daily activities
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So as I was thinking through my curriculum, I'm also thinking, how do I need organize this in
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homeschool planet? Again, very type A. So I think I'm really going to find out who my people
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are with this video, right? I don't know whose brain thinks like mine. If you do, leave me a
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comment below because, well, and I know that not everybody thinks this way and is, um, likes to be
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as structured as me. But like I said, multiple times, that's just kind of how my brain works. And it
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helps me to feel better just knowing that I have kind of a plan, even if it's a loose plan. I've got a
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plan in place. So independent work, I've got CTC math. We have essentials in writing for my son
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and my girls, essentials and literature for my son. My seventh grader has a science curriculum
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my girls will have literature. And then this stuff is kind of
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just some other things that they'll be doing independently. It's typically pretty quick work
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I had that art curriculum in here. I wasn't sure where I was going to put that
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but I think it's going to fit best here. We have typing, short typing lessons
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some of our Latin, some of their BSF homework, and then Book Basket, Silent Reading
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So that is all independent work. And then the stuff that we're doing together
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again, science for my girls and my kindergartener, all about spelling, basics for a biblical
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worldview, and then with my father's world creation of the Greek, that is going to encompass
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vocabulary, handwriting, history, and any extra science stuff, a little bit of art, and then
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Nath drill. And then I also kind of noted this was for my homeschool planet planning purposes
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how many times I wanted to schedule each of those. So as I was looking through my curriculum
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like when I was planning out of our science, kind of looked at their schedule in there and saw that they
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recommend, okay, a two time a week schedule was one of the options. And I thought that would kind of fit the best
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So I just rode off to the side how many times I was going to want to schedule that
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So then once I kind of had that big picture all planned out, this just helps me see, okay, I've got all the subjects covered, all of our curriculum
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Then I start kind of going into homeschool plan. We use this online program to help my kids see every day what they need to accomplish
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Helps me get everything straight know what I have checked off during the day
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And it's just a super helpful homeschool planner slash scheduler. So when I go in to create our schedule in there, I want to make sure I get all the classes assigned correctly
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some of them I assign together and some of them are going to be separate for my kids
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So I have the different courses and things over here and then I made a note to myself
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am I going to include this on homeschool planet or is it just kind of an extra thing that
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we're going to make sure we fit in during the day? So for morning time, that's not going to be a homeschool planet thing
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I'm planning on kind of putting together a schedule for this weekly, maybe having something
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that I put up on our TV or on our whiteboard with what we doing for morning time Science in the beginning So how many lessons per week Mine is what I put So in homeschool plan next year I am going to give myself
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some classes basically because I want to create a checklist for me. So these are some of those
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classes that I'm going to be doing with my kids. It's not independent work. So
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they don't have to check it off, but I want to make sure that I don't forget on the days that I
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want to get this done, that I have it scheduled. So I'm kind of going to set up my own
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schedule and homeschool planet where I have checkboxes where I know, okay, this is the day
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we're doing this, this day we're doing this, and so on. It just makes it really easy to
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schedule, rearrange the schedule, not lose track of things. So if you see mine, that's what I mean by that
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CTC math, we're going to do that daily. I am going to include that in Home School Planet
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and I'm going to make sure I create a separate course for each kid. All of my kids do CTC math
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and I kind of lumped it all together under one course this year, but I'm going to just make sure
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I create a separate one for each of my kids. EIW and Essentials in Literature, those are going to go on
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They're all separate for the kids, and then I have on there how many weeks the plans are
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and how many days per week I'm going to need to schedule that. I am going to include my kindergartner's work on mine, because he is not on there checking things off
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but I need to know what we're going to be doing every week. Science Shepherd, three days a week
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This is for my seventh grader. And then I just have a note on here decide what we're going to do after that
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because Science Shepherd, our curriculum isn't going to take us through the entire year
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So that's just a note for me. All about spelling level three
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That's going to go on mine. BJU Press Literature. I'm going to create that course for them together
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And that's going to be a daily course. And then Emma, for her art lessons, that's going to be on there too
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But I kind of need to flip through that book and see how I'm going to schedule that. And then we've got typing is going to go on there for them
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Basics for biblical worldview will be on my schedule. and then Latin, B-SF, how many times per week we're going to do that book basket
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And then for my father's world, that is a tricky one sometimes for me to figure out how to put on
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homeschool plan it because it encompasses so many subjects. So I'm going to be putting this on my schedule next year
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And I just made a note as when I'm going to set this up, every week I'm going to kind of need to
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plan out our activities, figure out how I want to do that
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and just put a little bit more thought into this portion of it
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So that is kind of what I was doing last week. Maybe it's a little bit overkill
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I don't know. But just sitting there with tons of curriculum in front of me for all of my different grade-level kids
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I just like to have it on paper. So I know that I'm covering everything so that I know once I have it in homeschool plan
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it's going to be organized. It's going to be set up correctly. And it's easier for me to see that on paper and kind of, you can see I've erased a lot of
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things and just kind of plan it out, get all my thoughts down before I transfer it to the computer
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So I don't know if this is helpful to you at all. I don't know if you are a planner like me, but I hope maybe it's somewhat helpful to see
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just a thought process in when you're juggling multiple grades, multiple ages, what this can look like
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And yeah, so I think, you know, pretty soon I'll be able to start getting this in
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homeschool planet and getting our school year actually set up for the year
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All right. Thank you guys so much for watching today. Short video, I hope you enjoyed seeing what came in the box
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This is the last of my homeschool curriculum that I was kind of waiting on for the 2024-2015
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school year. If you are curious about the other curriculum that we're using, I have some videos posted
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for sixth grade language arts for my seventh graders for kids. and then our kindergarten curriculum
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So definitely go check those out if you're interested. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up
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I hope it was helpful to you. And please consider subscribing to my channel
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if that's something you would like to do. I love sharing tips, curriculum reviews, encouragement
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all that kind of stuff with homeschool moms and would love to have you follow along
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All right you guys, thanks for watching. I'll see you next time
