 A special thanks to ixl for sponsoring today's video. It is 7 30 and my 12 year old is up and ready to start her homeschooling day. So you guys in today's video, we're just going to follow along my 12 year old and I'm going to share with you her independent homeschooling routine. So after she completes her morning chores, the first subject of the day she does is math. Math is not quite her favorite subject, but she told me she loves going ahead and getting it done and getting it over with first thing in the morning. Typically during this time why my oldest is working on her math independently, I am getting ready for the day. I'm doing laundry and my husband is getting my two younger kiddos ready for the day. So my oldest loves coming into the homeschool room while she has it to herself to be able to really focus all of her energy on math and to be able to get it done and get it done effectively. She also likes to get done any other independent subject. She can get done before breakfast. She really loves utilizing her morning times to be focused and to really get a head start of her day and I don't stop her however much work she wants to get done in the morning. I just go ahead and allow her to go ahead and follow her checklist for her to-do list for the day. So this day she was actually able to get done with math and grammar in the morning time before we break for breakfast. Hi you guys, my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I am sharing with you my sixth graders independent homeschooling routine. As you guys already seen, she already completed math and grammar and right now she's back here helping me make breakfast for us all this morning. We're keeping things really really simple and if you hear her two younger sisters I have two other kiddos who are in kindergarten and pre-k they'll kind of be in this video as well. You kind of see them around as I'm filming. So right now while Bri is actually helping me make breakfast I'm going to go ahead and grade all the assignments that she did so far and we're just going to go ahead and take you along our homeschooling day. So uh yeah here we go. Guess what Bri? You got them all right. You did good on your first. It has been so cold this winter you guys. So every morning me and my oldest daughter we have been enjoying drinking tea and this morning I made us some homemade orange tea with some honey really just to keep us warm because downstairs is really really chilly so this morning you guys was our morning to do our bible study. I modified our homeschooling schedule and we only do our bible study now three days out of our homeschooling weeks. It really ensures that we have that special block of time for us to really be able to uh dig into our bible studies and really to do it thoroughly and I don't really feel rushed so this is a Tuesday so our bible days now are Monday's Tuesdays and Friday's so right now Bri is actually learning about the fruit of the tongue and we really have been enjoying this new bible study as well in our homeschool. So while I'm doing bible study with my oldest as you guys can see my younger two back there they're playing with Play-Doh I actually already did their bible study earlier and I complete off our bible and morning routine with my oldest. Okay you guys we have finished bible and right now what I'm going to go ahead and do is I forgot to go over Brielle's agenda with her so she's going to check off all the things that she did and we're just going to have like a brief check-in so she can work independently because what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go ahead and start working with my younger two right now at this point because she's pretty much off on her own so um all I think we have left to do is vocabulary she's going to IEW and then she's going to work on I Excel and do some Spanish in a little bit before lunchtime so that's like our goal so we're going to go ahead and look over her uh checklist I want to see what we got done so far and we're going to go from there. Okay Bri so we so check off what we did so we already did math and you did fix the grammar so yeah so we just have your vocabulary corrections IEW and then you can put I Excel you're going to be doing Spanish on your I Excel and then history. Yay! 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One of our main subject focus areas this year has been vocabulary. I am actually preparing Brielle right now for the PSATs and her vocabulary is one area that I definitely want to make sure we strengthen in preparation for her to take that test. Brielle is actually on a college path here in my homeschool. Right now she's in the sixth grade but I definitely want to ensure she's able to begin taking high school credits in the eighth grade and then begin doing dual enrollment in the tenth grade. So because of that she has to take the PSATs a little bit earlier. I don't want her to become nervous about that test so I definitely am preparing her in small ways by ensuring she has this extra vocabulary practice. Brielle's last subject that she completes before lunch is writing. Writing is her absolute favorite subject in our homeschool and I definitely know in the future she definitely is going to have some type of career in writing. She writes all day long it doesn't matter how many subjects she writes in she still finds pockets of time to do her writing so I definitely want to ensure this is a skill she strengthens the most in our homeschool. So while for others writing may be daunting writing is her thing so I definitely ensure that we do writing every single day for us in our homeschool. After lunch my oldest went straight into history. She's actually learning all about different types of moss so what I did was I found the really cool video for her to watch on moss and in her history this week she was challenged to draw a picture of a moss so that's what she's doing as well. I really have been enjoying iXL too because they actually had an extension where Brielle was able to learn more about this week's lesson which is Islam so she was able to use iXL this afternoon as well for her history lesson which was amazing. Okay Brielle let's see your drawing. Your moss looks so good. Good job. So yeah so Brielle decided what is the moss that you're going to write your research paper on again? It's called the Great Moss. The Great Moss in Iraq. So the Great Moss in Iraq is the one page research paper she's going to do so right now Brielle is just going to just start her outline. We gather some information for her and then after this she actually is all done for today. You excited Brielle? You think good today. All right I'm gonna go ahead and let Brielle get started. After my sixth grader is done with all of her school work she gets into like some of her fun electives she likes to do in the afternoon and one of her favorite passions she has right now is writing like I said before. She actually has a goal this semester to write a 200 page short story so she is really into drafting out all of her creative writings and you guys I really enjoy when she finishes a short story because then she reads it to me as well so this is one of my daughter's passions and I love when she finishes home school she can get into her passion projects. Okay before Brielle finishes off her day she typically does her independent reading at night time so Brielle what book are you reading again? I'm reading Irish June it's called The Secret Sin Spice the last book of the series. Tell them how fast you read the first two. I read the first two in two weeks. Well I think it was a week and a half. A week and a half she read the first two books. That's it was really good. Yeah it was really good. Here is the first two books so this is the first honest June book and then here is the second one so if you have any middle school girls these are good series it's really really cute and Brielle is really really enjoying them so she typically does her independent reading at night but I just wanted to share with you guys what book she's reading because a lot of you guys want to know what book she's reading so uh yeah. Okay you guys that wraps up my sixth graders independent homeschool routine. As you guys really were able to see in this video she's really able to kind of like follow off her checklist and do whatever she needs to do. I do after each subject really follow up behind her to make sure she understands everything so she doesn't feel like she's just like left out to drive but she's doing really really well in our homeschool. It's about 230 and she's completed like all of her course subjects for today. We alternate between history and science and today you only seen her do um history so tomorrow will be a science day for her um so that's the only two things that we alternate but other than that um this is pretty much her flow. I'm really really proud of her. I'm proud of um just all the hard work that she puts in every day and she really really loves her flow. Um right now again she started doing some of her electives uh creative writing and she likes to do independent reading. They do like free play. Sometimes they get into arts and crafts and um she's learning how to sew in the evenings with my oldest daughter too as well. She's been getting in the kitchen with me and cooking dinner so uh our homeschool really is an extension of our home so uh she's pretty much learning throughout the whole day and that's the blessing about homeschool that I really really have been enjoying throughout the years especially as I'm seeing my oldest really flourish. So again I want to thank iXL for sponsoring today's video. Be sure to go ahead and check inside of my description box. I will have all the information about iXL and if you would like to try it out in your homeschools. It definitely is beneficial for me and my homeschool for all of my kiddos. It allows everyone to have like their independence and I'm able to really dedicate one-on-one time with each and every one of my learners. So as always you guys thank you so much for watching today's video and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye!