 Hey guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I'm going to share with you all of the things that I was influenced to buy by YouTube homeschooling mamas. So if you guys are interested in seeing all the stuff I was influenced to buy then go ahead and stay tuned for today's video. So if any of you guys are new here to my channel again my name is Brittany. I am a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 10, 4 and 2 and I just finished up my second year of homeschooling. I was reached out to from Nikki from blessed homeschool mess to be a part of this collab and my video is really really late but I definitely wanted to go ahead and add to this collab um and definitely show you guys that even as the influencer myself I definitely have been influenced here on this platform. I really feel like this video is giving me like mean girl vibes. I saw Katie Herron wearing army pants and flip flops so I bought army pants and flip flops or whatever um I know I'm definitely like given my age and everything like that especially because that movie is like nostalgic but um yeah so let me stop chatting and I'm going to go ahead you guys and share with you all the things that I was influenced to buy from YouTube. So I guess we can just start off right here. So one of the first things that I was influenced to buy on YouTube were these September and co character matters cards. So here goes the character matters in the bible. I have the character matters in the home and I also have the character matters in the world. So I originally seen these from Samantha's channel from amongst out. She was showing like either her morning basket or her bible video and I was like oh my gosh I have to have these character matters cards. So I went on Etsy and I purchased them. So this is like one of the things that I was influenced to buy. Something else that I was influenced to buy was from Wendy from plan prep pray. You guys uh Wendy she is really a wealth of knowledge especially when it comes to the younger preschoolers ages. So she made a video on her channel just talking about all the levels and the things that she does for her kiddos as they're preparing to really be a part of like her homeschooling day. So I took a lot of inspiration from that video and this is the pal that I purchased from Wendy's video. The first thing I purchased and I was influenced to buy was what your preschooler needs to know. You guys this is definitely a good resource and I'm so happy that I did purchase this because this book right here it has like a lot of songs stories poetry it goes over like history science for the little kiddos and this has definitely been a great asset to my homeschool so I definitely was influenced by Wendy to purchase this right here. This is what your kiddo needs to know from core knowledge. Something else that I purchased that Wendy mentioned on her channel was these rod and staff beginner like preschool workbooks. You guys I'm not gonna lie I purchased these in November and my daughter just now has started these and she really has like been enjoying this one in particular. We literally just started doing this one. It's literally been sitting in my closet my homeschooling closet and my daughter she's seen it and she was like oh mommy I want to do it. So we started doing this one and she really has enjoyed doing these little simple like uh worksheets from um rod and staff. So I'm so so so happy that I did pick up these this whole bundle right here you guys was only like 10 bucks and these are really really great uh like pre-k preschool worksheets so uh yeah Wendy made me buy it you made me buy it girl. Something else that Wendy influenced me to purchase was these books right here from uh JDA which is the preschool writing workbook also the preschool literacy workbook and the preschooler beginner math workbooks. Now this series is actually made from a fellow YouTuber here on YouTube her name is JDA. She has a wealth of knowledge on her channel and she came up with her own like preschool pre-k curriculum. I've seen these workbooks mentioned from Wendy from plan prep prey um and then I went over to JDA's channel to really see how she uh utilized these workbooks within her homeschool and they were so affordable you guys. Each of these workbooks were only I think nine dollars and then also too I purchased her PDF bundle which was even more affordable because I was able to get all of these plus the coloring book that she has in her series for only 15.99. So it definitely was affordable um I just wanted to have the heart copies as well but um I'm able to utilize these not only with my um four-year-old but also with my two-year-old too I can reprint off the sheets as many as I like so um yeah Wendy you you got me girl so that is something that I was influenced to buy. Now another thing I was influenced to buy was from uh Rachel from Seven and All. You guys I was influenced to buy her new preschool program and I'm so so happy I purchased these. These were two great great great easy to implement units that I did in like my homeschool with my preschoolers this year. We started off our year doing the purely preschool insect unit and then in the fall time we did the purely preschool fall unit and my daughter's absolutely loved this one. We were able to like go to the pumpkin patch after this um they was able to paint and do something like arts and crafts and life skills and I really really enjoyed these purely preschool units that Rachel created from Seven and All. So you guys definitely check out all of the other preschool units that she has because she has like a plethora of them right now on her um website. It's called Where You Learned That. I think that's what it's called. I'm gonna link it down below but yeah I was definitely influenced by her to go ahead and purchase her a new preschool curriculum and it definitely was like a hit in our homeschool. Something else that I was influenced to buy from Rachel from Seven and All was preschool math at home. Now I seen preschool math at home mentioned by her and also from Jasmine from um One Caffeinated Mom. They both mentioned this preschool math at home workbook and how they were implemented in their homeschool for their younger toddlers and you guys like I'm so happy I got this cheapy $16 resource because this has been a fun hands-on way that I'm able to teach math to my four-year-old and you guys my four-year-old she is really a busy body and uh using resources like this has been really really great for her. She's not confined to being like sitting down and doing a worksheet. She's really able to learn these concepts using her hands and we are almost wrapping up chapter two right now so she is doing so well with this and I'm really really excited. I think I'm gonna continue with this program with her because it's working so so so well with her. So uh Rachel from Seven and All she inspired me to get this book from Amazon. Something else that Rachel from Seven and All inspired me to get was this Gentle and Classical Preschool um from the Gentle and Classical Press. She did this with her kiddo last year. So the Gentle and Classical Preschool goes hand in hand with preschool math at home so because I was already doing this I was like I might as well go ahead and do the Gentle and Classical Preschool and combine these programs together because at the point my daughter she kind of like outgrew the purely preschool units and I'm so so so sad. Her skill level and I just wanted to take her up a notch so that's what made me go ahead and start off this program. This is a new program to us. We've been doing it for about I think two or almost three months right now and we've really really been loving this one. So Rachel you got me girl too. Now another program that I was uh inspired or influenced to get was playing preschool and I heard about playing preschool from Christy from these little sprouts. You guys like Christy I was like watching her Instagram feed when she was doing this with her son um she actually also did playing preschool year two and you guys I was just like seeing all the fun hands-on activities she was doing with her kiddos and I knew this was gonna be a great one for me to do with Leia because Leia is my middle daughter she's busy she's hands on and you guys this curriculum has been so much fun like right now since the summertime and we finished off our school year uh Brielle my oldest she's kind of like taking a break right now I have been focused in heavily on my two toddlers so we picked this baby back up and we are on the nursery rhyme unit right now we're having like so so so much fun with this one so yes Christy you got me too girl so I bought playing preschool because of Christy. Okay you guys now I am going to talk about the youtuber that has influenced me the most and I wouldn't really say influence but I'm gonna say inspire me the most. I found Tori from the Oglesby Ohana really when I was making a pivotal decision in my homeschooling journey you guys I already had my daughter enrolled into public school to start off um for the third grade and after I watched one of her videos I immediately it was like a few hours later I tossed and turned with it I went on to my computer and I filled out the declaration of intent for the state of Georgia to homeschool Brielle um so she was really one of the most influential inspiring youtube mamas homeschool mamas that I've seen and she really uh has made a big impact for me in my homeschooling journey and um yeah she definitely has influenced me the most I'm going to share with you guys some of the mama books that really has helped me along my homeschooling journey that she shared and all these books that I'm sharing you guys with you I purchased with her links that she had because I definitely wanted to make sure she got that affiliated money for these items that I purchased from her because uh I definitely wanted to support her in any way that I can because I feel like the videos she was giving were so motivational and they were free so it was like this is at least I can do so the first book that I purchased from tourist recommendations was rhythms of renewal and this book goes over trading stress and anxiety for a life of peace and purpose and you guys this book is amazing I know it's not necessarily homeschool related but it's really to take care of the homeschooling mama and this this book has been great you guys I love this book um I have even been going back to the books because after each chapter it has like a journal entry you do and I've been going back and really reflecting on the things that I wrote um but this has been a great great great read another read that I read and I purchased because of Tori was the brave learner and this book definitely helped me along my homeschooling journey to really let go and to set the table for a natural learning within my homeschool um this definitely was a great read it was kind of a little scatter and you kind of have to get used to the format that Julie Bogart writes in her book but it's really really a plethora of knowledge and I definitely recommend any new homeschooling mom to read this one my absolute favorite homeschooling book that she recommended was the call to the wild and free um this book you guys I read this book I think in like two days because it was just a wealth of knowledge it was encouragement and it just really uplifted me at a time where I really felt low in my homeschooling journey so this book the call to wild and free was my absolute favorite homeschooling book uh so I'm really really happy I read this one so this one or all three of these books really has helped me along my homeschooling journey now as far as resources for the kiddos I'm gonna quickly show these to you guys because I have a big stack because a lot of like my root allows and a lot of my book recommendations I really get from her channel because you guys her book recommendations are like gold but I bought these little leaders books and I used them for black history month when I seen her I used these with her kiddos you guys this is one of my favorite books that she recommended and we read it in the fall time this is magnificent homespun brown this you guys I love it um if you want to talk about like poetry rhyme repetition if you want to talk about onomatopoeias um things like that you can definitely use this book for uh going into those literary devices to go over with your kiddos by using this fun picture book but this one was great my daughter loved this one another book that I bought from her was the hip hop speaks to children you guys I listened to the CD in a car with my kiddos and we're listening to the rhyme and the poetry and the beat and this really got us excited about poetry in our household so this was a great recommendation from her another one I think all homeschool mamas get into this book which is sing a song of seasons and you guys at first I wasn't a believer because I checked this one out at my library but you guys every single morning when we do like our morning time this book is pulled out if I forget to do the morning poem my daughter she always like oh mommy we forgot to do our nature poem and this has definitely been a great great great asset in our homeschool and it's just a definitely an easy way to incorporate like poetry in your like homeschool so I love this one and the last thing that Tori has gotten me addicted to has been DK books I have like a big collection of DK books you guys like if you want to do any unit or study anything DK books are like great and they're affordable I really feel like DK books are more affordable than usborn books and you kind of get a little bit more using like these encyclopedias to do like unit studies just to have on your shelf for your kiddos to look through and um yeah I love these now one thing that I learned from Tori was Tori mentioned in one of her videos about the heritage mom blog and you guys I feel like out of anyone or anything I've been most influenced by was her blog you guys um Amber from the heritage mom she actually makes these really really cool heritage packs and we're going to be doing the heart and soul heritage pack we actually did the what is it we did amazing africa this year and I really really enjoyed it so I have a lot of her heritage packs you guys I have her hem study I have both of them and also two from amber I have her new book which is a place to belong and I'm so excited to read this book right here you guys this book goes over celebrating diversity and kinship in the home and beyond and this book right here is really not just for homeschooling moms it's just for any type of mom that just really wants to incorporate you know diversity kinship um a place to belong within your home your community and I'm so so so excited to dive in deep into this book right here I'm actually going to start it this weekend I was kind of scared to start it because I know how I get with like books and everything like that you guys once I start reading I can't put it down so I'm trying to get a couple of things done around our house and then I know I can dive into this book this weekend kick up my feet and I'm so so so excited to read this one so I heard about the heritage mom through Tori's channel and her website you guys is really really great for like book recommendations she has like so many free resources composer studies art studies and it's just like you can tell she really puts her heart into her blog and I definitely have loved that resource so you guys I hope this video wasn't too long as you guys can see I definitely have gotten influenced as well on this youtube platform so you guys do me a favor go ahead and check out Nikki's channel subscribe because she is a new youtuber mama on this platform give her channel some love check out all the other ladies who make videos in this playlist thank you again Nikki for allowing me to join I'm sorry my video is late but as always you guys I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye