 Brittany Ann, welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys, in today's video, I'm going to share with you how I plan my homeschooling week. I am so excited about today's video, just because I really love watching these videos, seeing how different homeschooling moms plan their weeks. I love seeing the moms who just are open and go, free, willy-nilly. And I love seeing also to the moms that have everything planned out from the minute. I really feel like I can take away from both of those styles. And I really hope that in today's video that you guys can take away from how I plan my homeschooling week. And hopefully it can help any of you guys out there. So if you're interested in seeing how I plan my homeschool week, 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 have a nine, three and a one year rule and I'm in my second year homeschooling. My homeschooling year started off pretty rocky this second year, but you guys, things have smoothed out. And I really feel like it's because of how I plan our homeschooling weeks and how I keep things simple and open and flexible for change that has really helped me along my homeschooling journey. So I'm going to go ahead and flip this camera around and I'm going to show you guys all of the ins and outs and how I plan my homeschooling week. My teacher's guides right here that I use with some of my teacher guides right here in this magazine file that I use. And I have my planner right here and I'm ready to go ahead and start planning our homeschooling week. We just came back from vacation. We had our first quarter break so we completed our first eight weeks of homeschooling and now we are going into our ninth week tomorrow. So it's Sunday. I typically do all of my planning on Sunday nights but I had to film this video for you guys in the daytime so you can actually see what's going on. So, yeah. So what I do is the first thing I do is I go on to Google Docs and I type up like some of my goals that I have for our homeschooling week. So before we went on vacation, I just went on Google Docs and I just typed in week nine and 10 and some of the goals that I have for us to reach for those weeks. And then what I do is I'll translate this right here into my planner so I can have something to check off at the end of the week to see if we reached our goal, if we didn't. If not, it'll just get shipped to the next week. It's really not a big deal. I just like to have some sort of a plan. So that is pretty much how I do it. So the first thing that I have here is I'm going to look inside of my Abeka Arithmetic 4 answer key for my daughter Brielle who's in a fourth grade. I'm just going to look in here to see what lessons she's going to be doing this week. We typically do five math lessons a week and I'll just see if she's going to be learning a new concept, if it's going to be something reviewed. I'm going to see the days that I'm going to have to teach her the lesson versus the days where she can just open up her workbook and do it on her own. So that is what I do. I typically would just look through here, see if it's anything new and kind of like go from there. Okay, so my daughter is actually on lesson 24 right now and I look through the five lessons she's going to be doing this week which is going to be lessons 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28. And it's nothing new she's going to be learning. This is really going to be a review for her. She did a Abeka Arithmetic 3 last year. We went through one math change this year. We started off using Singapore Dimensions Math and within our first three weeks of homeschooling we switched back to Abeka Arithmetic 4. So she's not quite at the lesson that she would be with us doing eight weeks of school which is no problem. We're going to get caught back up. It's not really a big deal because sometimes she can do two of these math lessons at once. So since Abeka is still giving her that review she's not going to be learning anything until lesson 33. I'm just going to go ahead and my planner. I'm going to go ahead and write down all of the math lessons that I have for us to do for this week. Okay you guys, along with the Abeka Arithmetic 4 I do let my daughter use the Abeka Arithmetic tests and speed drills. And I just looked in my teacher guide and I see she's going to actually be doing, let's see if she's going to be doing a test this week. No test this week. I typically don't let her like do the quizzes or whatever because I feel like with me seeing her do the lessons I can see if she is getting the concept or not but I do like for her to do the tests just because it's a good marker for me to see if she mastered that concept before we go on to our next set of work and also too I like to keep her test for record keeping. I know within a state of Georgia we typically don't have to keep or we don't have to keep a portfolio. However, just for my comfort I love keeping some of her sample lessons for each of her subjects just for my personal I guess comfort. So I will be making a separate video for you guys showing you how I found her portfolio because a lot of you guys have been asking. So when I get towards the end of this quarter I will have enough stuff to follow away for our first semester and then I can show you guys how I start that process. So yeah, so she doesn't have any tests this week but she will have, let me see if I can show it to you guys. Here we go. So she will have some speed drills. So this is speed drill 24 and 25 and then also too she will have speed drill 26 and 28 because 27 is a quiz and I'm not gonna make her do the quiz. So that is everything as far as math goes. I really could have just opened this and go and just gave her the next lesson but I just kinda like to breeze through it, look and see if it's anything new, look and see if she has a test just to prepare me for the week. So math is all checked off. Now we're gonna go into language arts. Okay you guys, first off with language arts is spelling. We are using Evan Moore building spelling and a lot of these spelling lists in here you guys, I'm not gonna lie, like my daughter is really good at spelling. I went ahead and I bought her grade level six because I look through the fifth grade spelling words and they're not challenging enough for her but it's a few concepts in here that I wanna make sure she knows as far as vocabulary and things like that. So I am sticking with level four with her. However, I'm just going over the weeks in which I feel like we need to cover. So we're pretty much towards the end of this spelling book or I should say in the middle we are actually going to be going into week number 13 for her spelling list and this is pretty self-explanatory for Brielle. She can just open this up and go. She doesn't need me but I do just like to write down in my planner what week I have for us to do. We're probably gonna be finished this spelling book by the end of this semester and once she finishes this spelling book I'm not gonna give her any more spelling for the year. I'm seeing that she really needs to be focused more on like vocabulary. So we will go ahead and go into our wordly wise vocabulary for a second semester and she would do that then. So I have a more spelling we're gonna be in week 13. I'm gonna go ahead and write that down in my planner right here. Okay you guys for language arts we use language lessons for 11 education level five for her. But you guys I found Rod and Staff at the thrift store for 13 bucks. I got the teacher's manual and I got the student book. And you guys why does my daughter love these lessons and Rod and Staff. This is an old I believe it's either an old Mennonite curriculum and it's really simple. The lessons are like really simple. It's like black and white. She has like her oral drill and then she has like a few written problems. For the most part we just go in and we do the oral drills. I might have her do some of the written work but these lessons within this Rod and Staff building with diligence English it takes us 10 minutes. So in total with her doing master books and Rod and Staff. I mean it's like 20 minutes of English and she loves it. English is her favorite subject and she likes it. So I'm just gonna give it to her. So she enjoys Rod and Staff and master books. I know it may be redundant for some but this is her favorite subject and yeah. So I think within Rod and Staff since I just picked this one up from the thrift store we are going into lesson number seven. So we're gonna be talking about complete subjects and simple subjects. It's a small oral drill right here and then it is a little written drill and sometimes within the written drills I just give it to her orally. I let her show me where we are going to be dividing up her sentence diagrams. I tell her to point to the complete subject point to the complete predicate and by doing it that way it's eliminating her from actually writing and this is just pretty much used as like a oral drill. So she really loves these and I've been enjoying it too. So we are going to be doing I'm just gonna go ahead and just write seven, eight, nine. Yeah I'm just gonna write seven, eight and nine and if we do more that's perfectly fine but again she likes this old English curriculum and you guys like whatever makes my daughter happy I really don't mind as long as she's getting English. So I'm gonna go ahead and write that in my planner right here that we're gonna shoot to do Rod and Staff Lessons Oral Drills seven, eight and nine. Now as far as master book goals my daughter she started this in our third week of homeschooling. So she is doing pretty good with this. She goes through these lessons on her own and let's see where we're at. We don't do the spelling in master books because we do the Evanmore spelling. Sometimes she just still likes to do it and I let her because again English is her favorite subject and I'm not gonna stop her if she wants to do more work and okay. But within master books we are going into lesson. Let's see here. So we're on day number 28. So typically I'll just do like five lessons and I'll schedule it but she always does more. So whatever she wants to do that's fine but I just go ahead and write the next five lessons. So in my case it'll be day 28, 29. I'm not gonna have her do the spelling and then it'll be day 31, 32. So we can end off the week in master books on 32. Again like I said she typically does like two lessons a day so she might end up doing more. I'll just document it within my Google docs of what we actually accomplished on week nine at the end of the week. Like I said I don't stop her I just let her do it and she loves it. So master books has definitely been like a win in my household and I'm so happy that I just went back to what we knew and I just went back to something that my daughter loves. So I'm gonna go ahead and write that down in my planner. Just a simple goal as far as master books. Okay you guys the next course subject we are going to be doing is science and history. So for science I do science two days out the week and I do history two days out the week. This week is gonna be a little bit different because tomorrow I have to go to an algae appointment for my daughter Leia at 1.30. So that's typically the time we homeschool and get our core subjects done is when my two younger ones are taking a nap. So I know we're probably only going to have either one science or history or two histories in one science. So I think this week because last week or our last quarter week we didn't have a lot of or we didn't do a lot of history. I think that this is gonna be a heavier history week. So I'm only going to schedule for us to do one lesson within our God's Design for Life by master books. We are doing The World of Animals. We didn't finish our lesson. What lesson were we on? Here it goes. So we didn't finish lesson number five. We are talking about monkeys and apes. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and we're probably going to go ahead and start off with just lesson five this week. So that's the only thing I wanna schedule for us to do. I did find a really cool documentary on Disney plus on monkeys that we're gonna watch this week. So I think that that'll be like a really good compilation with this lesson since we are only gonna be doing one science lesson this week. So that is what we're gonna be doing for this. Now within the God's Design for Life World of Animals they do have them doing like a project that they're gonna be working on. So here, let me go ahead and grab her project that she's working on right now. Okay, so this is my daughter's project that she's working on for The World of Animals. Since we did Marine Biology last year and we are doing an Africa unit study I have allowed her to choose 10 African, 10 African mammals that she can dive deeper into to research on. I found this cute little template right here from Teachers Pay Teachers. So she writes about the animals. She writes about the animals name, weight, length, their family and group. Then she locates their specific habitat and of course all these habitats are gonna be Africa. Then she writes about the animals diet, their life cycle, their behavior and then just some interesting facts. So this is her first mammals report that she did on zebras. So she just has to finish writing about the behavior and interesting facts about zebras and she can just do this on her own time. So she can continuously work on her African mammals project. So I'm gonna go ahead and schedule this for Brielle to do just anytime throughout the week that she has extra time to pick this up. I will have her go ahead and do it since it is gonna be a lighter science week for us. Okay you guys, let's see. I have math, language art, spelling and science. So right now I have to see what we're going to be doing for our amazing Africa. Okay, so this is what we're actually doing for our geography slash history study for our first semester which is the Amazing Africa Heritage Pack by Amber O'Neill-Johnston. Right now we are actually doing Ethiopia. So the only thing, this is pretty much open and go as far as her lesson plans. It really just tells me the books that we're gonna read. So we're going to be reading, here I have all the books right here. So this week for Ethiopia, we're going to be reading wherever I go. We're gonna be reading about Ethiopia in Africa, Amazing Africa. We're gonna also be reading the Perfect Orange and then we're going to be reading about Ethiopia in Africa is not a country. So that pretty much sums up Africa. It's pretty simple. It's really Charlotte Mason inspired. We read, we talk about it. It has video links that we're gonna be watching and this is like perfect for us to do in the morning time with my two toddlers. They watch the videos, they get a kick out of them too. So this is really, I guess I could say it's kind of like a family subject because we can just sit down on the couch and do this amazing Africa study and it's been beautiful. After we do do a country, I will give my daughter like the country's flag and she'll write like a paragraph about something she's learned about that country. So this week, like I said, since we didn't do much of Africa, we may shoot to go through three countries this week or yeah, three countries this week within the continent of Africa. So that's what I'm gonna schedule for us. If we get it done cool, if not, it's all good. Again, she loves this, I love this and this is something we do in the morning right after our reading time for everyone, you guys. So we're gonna be doing weeks number 11, 12 and 13. Okay, you guys, the last thing that I plan for which is always the first thing we do each morning is our Bible and our reading time. So we are actually using the characters matters cards from September and Co. The characters we've gone through so far has been compassion, diligence, honesty and faithfulness. So I think we're gonna go ahead and review those characters but I do wanna add one more character for the week. So I think we're gonna possibly add in, let's see. Our next character is actually forgiveness. So we're gonna be talking about forgiveness this week. So that is the character I'm going to write down and my goals for the week. We always use this little devotional called how God grows a courageous girl. This is amazing, my daughter reads it to me, we talk about it. So this is also part of our Bible time and we also read our Sabbath school lesson. We are on lesson number, let's see. Yeah, we're on our lesson number two. So we just read over our Sabbath school lesson. We discuss it, we talk about the message and the memory verse. And then the last thing we do is I got this book for my daughter and it talks about God's 10 promises and it just goes over the 10 commandments. Within her Sabbath school lesson we are in the Old Testament and we're talking about Moses and Joshua. So it's really fitting that we're going through each of the 10 commandments and this book pretty much explains to her what the commandments are, what they mean and it really breaks it down in a manner in which she as a nine year old can understand. So everything like as far as Bible, it all goes together. For our read aloud, we are reading packs and we are on chapter number 14. So we're gonna, I strive to read at least one chapter every day, Monday through Friday. I'm really hoping that within these next two weeks we will be all done with packs. So the last thing I have to do you guys is I have this little teeny book right here and I go ahead and I put in like, hopefully you can see this, let's see. I write like our daily plan that I have for my daughter. I put like little stickers and stuff like here on her book and I write this out every evening before I set our homeschooling table. So I'm gonna go ahead right now and I'm gonna write out what I have planned for her to do on Monday. Again, Monday is gonna be a lighter day because I do have to take my daughter to an allergy appointment. So for the most part, Monday, we are only going to be doing Bible and reading together. The rest of the time my daughter is going to work pretty independently. Probably the only thing she's gonna work with me with is a little bit of English and when I check her math work and I'll probably do that when I come back from my daughter's allergy appointment. So for the most part, she will be on her own. She can read what she has to do and she'll get it done. Okay you guys, my daughter, she loves stickers. So I have all of these stickers right here so I can fill out her little notebook for tomorrow. And all I do is I look at my plan for the week and that's how I know what to write down daily on her little notebook right here or her little makeshift agenda. So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and fill out everything just copying from my planner to here and I don't do this all at once. I just take my time and do one day at a time because if she doesn't get to a lesson or anything like that, I don't wanna have to rewrite the whole week even though I do use erasable pen. I just write this the night before or whatever. Like I said, sometimes she does do multiple language arts lessons, math lessons. So yeah, I just do this each day. And then she looks forward to looking at each day to see what stickers or what I wrote on her little book. So yeah. One thing I forgot to mention to you guys is that we do a four day week schedule and this plan that I showed you, I just take all of these things that I want to accomplish and I divide it up by four days. Friday is our fun art poetry tea time. She may have a math lesson and that's it. So the other thing that we're gonna be doing this week is we're gonna be doing creative writing and we're gonna be focusing on poetry. Our poet this week is gonna be Maya Angelo. I forgot to mention you guys that I am going to start Pearly preschool fall with my daughter Leia this week. I'm really excited. Let me see. I have, sorry about the mess in here. I went ahead and I checked out some of the books that I need for us. And I think this right here is the book that we're going to use this week when we talk about how to grow apples or how do apples grow? So we're gonna read through this book. And then I think the other book is Apple Farmer Annie, I believe. Let me just double check in here. Cause I think I ordered that book from Amazon. Here, yeah. Apple Farmer Annie. So those are the two books that we're going to be doing for this Apple unit right here. I'm really excited for us to dive into this one with her, especially during fall time. I really love Pearly preschool because you guys, I can do these little lessons with my three year old in like 10 minutes. She loves it. She has fun and I feel like it's perfect. And I feel like I'm not overwhelmed with all the other homeschool stuff that I have to do for Brielle. So yeah, so I have our health and science cards ready to go and laminated. And we are all set to go to do our Apple's unit in our Pearly preschool for Brielle. I hope you guys enjoyed today's video seeing how I plant my homeschooling week. I really hope that it has been encouraging and inspiring to any of you guys out there. As always, thank you so much for watching today's video. Please don't forget to comment, like and subscribe. And I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye.