 guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I'm going to share how we are going to be doing Black History Month in our home school this February right now so I'm so excited you guys to share with you everything that we're gonna be doing all of the books all of the resources all of everything so you guys 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 3 and 2 and I'm in my second year of homeschooling. You guys I'm really excited about Black History Month. We had so much fun in our first year of homeschooling for Black History Month. I really kept it simple but this year you guys I'm gonna amp it up just a little teeny bit. I actually have a plan for our Black History Month. Last year we really just did a lot of reading. We watched a lot of documentaries. We really had a lot of fun but I guess I just want to add a little bit more icing on the cake this year and I hope you guys can get inspired by some of these books that I'm gonna show you what we're gonna be doing and you can implement some of these things in your homeschool. So I have a list right here on my phone because you guys I seriously have serious mom brain like it's really really bad. Ever since I had my last daughter I really am having a hard time like remembering a lot of things. I'm trying to work on it as best as I can so I have some notes in my phone if I look down just don't worry that's why I'm looking down so yeah. So you guys the first thing I want to go ahead and say for Black History Month if you guys are hesitant you don't know where to start with Black History Month you can really just keep it as simple as just celebrating Black voices reading a lot of picture books going to your local library you can keep it as simple as that and that's really what I did last February to really be honest with you guys I really focused on Black history throughout our homeschool so it's not really a big thing for Black History Month just because we do it throughout the year that's really something that's important for me to allow my daughter to see Black voices just throughout everything whether we're studying science or history or wherever we are studying I always have like some type of Black voice so she's able to see it so yeah so Black History Month it's special because we do put a little bit bigger emphasis but it's really all throughout our homeschool so this month you guys I want my daughter to learn lift every voice and sing last year I started to allow her to learn it she didn't learn the whole thing I think she only learned the first stanza of lift every voice and sing however I want her to learn just the whole song lift every voice and sing so we're gonna be working on that and I'm really excited so right after we do our Bible time we will be singing lift every voice and sing I really don't know if my three and my two year old are really going to you know learn any of it they might just like hum the tune a little bit but for my oldest daughter Brielle yes I do want her to learn it and I really think that it's gonna be fun it's gonna allow us to have a little bit of extra music within our homeschool the second thing that I wrote down here on my list is that the focus for our Black History Month is going to be famous African Americans in science and in medicine after this month we are actually going to be doing our human body unit study in our God's design for life and I really think that it's gonna be a good Kickstarter before we get into our human body unit to focus on all of the African American influences in medicine and in science and I definitely think my daughter is going to enjoy that so some of the resources in the books that I have for us to do that is we are going to be using our and I know you guys see these all around YouTube but they are just really amazing but we're going to be using the little legends exceptional men in black history and then we're also going to be using the little leaders bow women in black history so I actually use these were only my these were my only two resources that I used last year as far as Black History Month and they were amazing they were great it was a really good kicking off point for our Black History Month so I'm really excited to use these however like I said before I'm going to be only pulling out and focusing on the famous African Americans that are in medicine and in science and I really think my daughter is going to enjoy it she love these books and I really think that they're gonna enjoy me putting them back out on our bookshelf now for my two little ones I have the little book right here which is called dream big little ones which is kind of like the same as these other ones however it's like in a board book form and it's so cute I love reading these ones to my toddlers and they're gonna be very excited to for me to pull them back out I did have the one that had the the men on it however I gave it to my nephew because I really feel like he's gonna enjoy it my brother actually told me he enjoys when he reads that one to him so yes so I only have the one for the women I need to go back and buy the one about the men as well just because I want my girls to see it influence within black women and men in in American history so yeah now as far as our read aloud for the month of February we're actually going to be reading roll of thunder here my cry and I'm so excited to read this book with my daughter and I know we're going to have some really really juicy conversations while we're reading this and I'm really really excited about it now as you guys know as far as our real outs I do allow my daughter to pick the read alouds for every other month however I picked it this month and I hope she enjoys this I really want to get her into historical fiction and I really feel like this is gonna be a good jumping point for us as far as American history we have not yet dived into American history for her fifth great year we will go deeper into American history however I think this is gonna be a good start and I really cannot wait to hear what she thinks her opinions and I really can't wait to dive in deep into this roll of thunder here my cry hopefully she loves it so yeah this is gonna be our read aloud for this month now some other books and other things I want to share with you guys is I have also the ABCs of black of black history and this is a new one that I'm adding to our library I also have the timeline from black history leaders legends and legacies and this one you guys was a recommendation from Tori from the Oglesville Han that was where I originally seen this one from I have a lot of these DK encyclopedia books however I'm so excited to add this one to our collection you guys the pictures in here it's beautiful it goes from the beginning to the end or not really to the end but it goes from the beginning of black history it starts in ancient times and it goes all the way as far as it can into present time so I really am going to enjoy using this book as a resource we have already pulled out this book because it's been an amazing resource for us as far as our geography study we've been doing this year which has been the amazing Africa the amazing Africa pack from the heritage mom block it's been amazing and this actually has been a great tool that I've been pulling in when we have been doing our geography study so I'm so excited about this book the pictures are beautiful and yeah it's just great so as long with us learning about or our focus on famous African Americans in medicine and science I also want to incorporate African Americans in our poetry tea time so our poet this year has been Maya Angelou so when we do our poetry tea time for this month of February we are going to be reading about Maya Angelou again and that's going to be like our arts for African American history so I'm really really excited my daughter has already read like almost half of these poems so we're gonna have to go back from it to the beginning and read some more of Maya Angelou's poems but I definitely I want to infuse this into our poetry tea time and I think it's gonna be amazing so yes I have this book right here and it's called poetry for young people by Maya Angelou so this is something we actually already started at the beginning of our school year for poetry tea time so I just feel like it's just gonna be a little bit extra special for this month another book I have that we haven't dived into and the only reason why is that I don't have a CD a CD player and I need to go to my mom's house and borrow hers which is hip hop speaks to children a celebration of poetry with beat and I'm really excited to use this book when we do our poetry tea times on Fridays this month we're gonna be doing poetry tea time every Friday hopefully I can stick with it I actually been doing pretty good with poetry tea time in our home school but I want to make this month's poetry tea time really really special so I need to grab her CD player so we can actually listen to the poems and follow along with it so I'm really excited to use this as far as like our art type of African-American history now as far as someone else we're gonna be studying for like the arts and for Fridays when it's gonna be our poetry tea time it's going to be Misty Copeland I have this really beautiful book called Firebird this is one of her picture books that she has made and it's amazing so we're gonna be doing this as far as our poetry tea time like arts and poetry I also have this book right here which is called American girl a girl named Misty and this actually just goes on the history about her life and everything like that I actually already read this one with Brielle when she was a lot younger however I think it's gonna be fun to kind of do like arts poetry study on Fridays just to kind of break it up I really want to give her like a good variation in this month of February now something else that I do have and I want to share with you guys which is a free resource from what is it called from puzzle huddle they actually have free African-American or black history coloring sheets so if you want your kids to just have like coloring sheets they have a whole bunch of them I just printed off a few because my daughter she loves coloring and even though not all these people are people in science and medicine I still think she's going to enjoy coloring I also have of course I have these which is the world of colors I have the markers and the crayons this is a perfect opportunity for us to pull these out from our homeschool supply closet I normally have them out but now we can use them even more and that is really just an additional resource that I have my daughter she loves coloring while I'm reading to her so I think that that's gonna be a good way to still infuse that influence in this month now another thing that I'm going to be doing is of course I do have to still challenge my daughter academically she is in the fourth grade she's an upper elementary and I am going to incorporate some writing and we're gonna be using this template right here so she can start writing some short bibliographies of these African-American people that she's going to be learning about and I definitely think she is going to enjoy it I actually have we actually used the same template last year she did an awesome job writing her paragraphs and I really helped I really feel like it actually helped her form her paragraphs and her more structured paragraphs by writing and doing these bibliographies last year and I'm really excited for her to do them again this year however I may go through her writing with a little bit more of a fine-tive comb I'm really going to challenge her as far as that we are going to have fun however this is going to be our main history for this month so I do want to still incorporate that academic standard that I have for my daughter too as well so you guys this is everything that we are going to be doing for Black History Month I really hope you can kind of take away how simple it is to incorporate black history in your homeschool this month so you guys thank you so much for watching today's video I hope you really feel an inspire and I cannot wait to see everybody in my next one bye