 Hi you guys, my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I'm going to share how I am planning to end our homeschooling year strong We are at our final finish line and we are going to do this thing 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 am wrapping up my second year of homeschooling So you guys I am so excited right now. It is Sunday and tomorrow we are going to be back from our spring break So uh before we ended off our spring break, you guys I came upstairs into our homeschool room and I just did some last minute planning And I just really wanted to be effective in coming back hitting this thing home Wrapping up this year. What a nice little bow. So um, hopefully some tips and some things that I am doing to end off my Year strong pin. Hopefully help you guys as you are ending off your homeschooling years So you guys the first thing that I did when um, trying to figure out how I'm going to end off this year strong was I look back at all of the goals that I made for briel for her fourth year of homeschooling And how I figure out the goals that I want her to reach is I actually utilize my Georgia state standards for ELI and mathematics I know a lot of homeschooling families don't like to use state standards Especially the ones that are used for the public skills system or the public school system for their standards. However, I personally I like using these standards just because um, you guys, I don't know what the future holds I don't know if ever we will be placed in a situation where my daughter does have to go back to public school or to the public education system and I just don't want to set my daughter up for failure I want to set her up for success. So utilizing these standards are Really just guidelines and tools for me to make sure that my daughter if anything was to happen She will be at least ahead or right on par with her peers And um, that's just something that is important to me I went ahead and I checked out the homeschooling year by year book From our public library at the beginning of fourth grade and I kind of compared what was in that book to the Georgia standards And they were pretty much the same. So I just decided to go ahead and utilize the state the Georgia state standards for ELA and for mathematics So from the standards and the goals that I have right here I made a short list of some things that I want us to accomplish before the end of the school year And you guys like I'm really really proud of my daughter because for most of these standards We are probably at the halfway point for fifth grade right now according to the Georgia state standards So I'm really proud of her. I'm proud of all the work. She's put in I can't believe just naturally by us just being home and working through our lessons We're kind of like just checking off those uh marks just naturally and um, I'm really proud of her It is a couple of things that we have to check off our list as far as her writing for fourth grade, which are She needs to write a thank you note She needs to write a friendly letter a book report and a newspaper article So those are like her last for writing assignment She has to do to officially complete the ELA for fourth grade And then we can kind of finish up some of the things in ELA for fifth grade as far as her writing standards So I'm really proud of Brie. She's done really really good. So those four writing assignments you guys I'm going to go ahead and sprinkle in throughout our last six weeks and um, yeah So those are like the main goals as far as standards that I want her to reach Now you guys now that I know the goals and I know where I want us to reach as far as the end of our last six weeks I kind of have to do the second thing which is get my daughter motivated and pumped especially coming back from our spring break So you guys I went to the dollar tree this morning And I just grabbed my daughter a couple of cool things to put on her desk As a surprise as an incentives to just say you've done so good so far Let's end this year strong my daughter. She loves these like little journals. So I bought her a new journal I bought her some more stickers. Oh my my daughter. She loves stickers you guys She's a sticker girl and I actually found this really cool watercolor set in the dollar tree They have like a new section you guys in a dollar tree that has like three and five dollar items And this was in that section. So she has a couple of um art lessons that she's going to need her watercolors for So hopefully by seeing these cool little things on her desk on a Monday morning She will kind of be excited to finish off this homeschooling year strong And it'll kind of just give her like a little incentive a little push knowing that I'm proud of her So that is like a little surprise that I have for free So you guys let's go ahead and go through the curriculum and where I want us to be at by the end of this school year So this is our living art lessons you guys that I absolutely love this is going to carry into our fifth grade year and um We actually are going to be finishing up the first chapter, which is online And that's why I need the watercolor So we have three more lessons to go and um, I'm really excited for her to do this We do our art on fun friday So I want us to finish the last three lessons in the first chapter in living art lessons So you guys as far as um history, we are finishing up amazing africa Which is a heritage pack from ambronell johnson You guys we have had so much fun doing this heritage pack learning all about the continent of africa Through picture books and it was so much fun. We have about three more weeks left We do two lessons a week. So we have six lessons in totals three weeks left Remaining of our amazing africa unit. So we will definitely have this finished well before our last six weeks My daughter is actually kind of sad because she told me she had so much fun doing this But um, we're gonna be finishing up amazing africa Now as far as spelling you guys we are doing 180 days of spelling and word study We started this in january. So we're only going to get in about week 18 or unit 18 I'm not we're not going to finish this baby up. But uh, I'm just happy that uh, we got a good spelling curriculum that she loved So we're going to end it off our year using or we're going to end off our year on unit 18 or week 18 of this one Now as far as briel for her reading tests, um, or her reading kind of comprehension skills that I give her She's going to be actually finishing off this book. She has about six more Reading comprehension tests and I'm really happy for her to finish this off Because it's going to prepare her for the testing that we are going to do at the end of our school year So yeah, so reading comprehension. We have about six has left Now as far as science you go you guys goes we actually finish the world of animals We are actually on the human body unit study. We're having so much fun We have 28 lessons remaining that we need to complete to finish the human body unit These lessons you guys are so short and so sweet. We do science twice a week And each time we do science we do two to three lessons because they're very short. They're very sweet They're very thorough lessons. So um, I'm excited for us to finish off our year doing the human body Now as far as math you guys goes we are actually uh working through saxon We started saxon in january again another curriculum. We started mid year. Um, she's working through saxon 6 5 right now And we are going to end off our school year on Lesson 60 saxon has a total of 150 lessons which includes 22 tests 12 investigations and 120 um math lessons So she's going to have completed or she's going to be completing 60 Lessons she's going to be on test 15 and she's going to end on investigation number five So in total for us to meet our halfway point We have 28 lessons remaining for us to meet that point. So I'm really proud of my daughter I mean, she's already doing fifth grade math right now. So um, I'm not worried that we're not going to finish this curriculum Up we're just going to keep on going using saxon throughout the summer and into her fifth grade year So um, yeah, this is you guys saxon has been amazing. So um, yeah, so we're going to finish off on lesson 60 Now as far as English guys, we are doing rod and staff building English Christian series and we love this one again of as well And um, my daughter we actually started this one in our eighth week of homeschooling So what I did was because my daughter is so strong in English and in grammar I looked at the last four chapters that we have to do and I went ahead and I marked off the lessons I know for sure. She knows we don't need to do Uh, especially this chapter right here that they have is on punctuation I'm actually just going to give my daughter the end of the uh chapter review And that's going to satisfy that lesson or that chapter of punctuation Just because I know that's a strong point. I watch her writing all the time and I'm seeing she's doing all these things So it's no sense to waste her time, especially in an area that she is already doing good in That's a tip of advice I will have if you have started any curriculum mid-year You want to finish it off before the end of your school year? I would definitely say just go through the lessons and see what skills your kids mastered and just skip those babies you guys Um, the public school system does not complete 100 percent of the curriculum And I don't think you should expect yourself to complete 100 percent of any curriculum that you have in your house These curriculums are just used as a tool and a guide So mark off those lessons that your kiddos don't need and keep moving forward you guys reach those goals And that's how i'm gonna reach my goals So in total the lessons that I want my daughter to do is going to be 22 lessons So we're definitely going to reach that at the end of our last six weeks Now one other thing that I want us to accomplish you guys is I am going to go ahead and give my daughter a standardized test Again this year in a state of georgia I'm actually not in our testing year this year However, you guys it was so beneficial for me to get back those results of my daughter standardized test After our first year of homeschooling because it really allowed me to be able to see the areas that she struggled in the areas that she excelled And it and it helped me be able to figure out like where to start off in curriculums I don't want to waste my daughter's time and I don't want to waste my time especially on areas and that are her strengths So um, I definitely want to go ahead and carve out some time to give her her standardized test I've decided that the last week of april We're going to carve out three days for her to do a standardized testing this year If you guys have any questions about standardized testing and how I do it in my homeschool Um, I would be glad to make a video for you guys because I had to do a lot of research Especially in my first year of homeschooling to try to figure out what tests to use How to do it it was like a lot of stuff and I definitely want to go ahead and give you guys that information To help any of you guys out there who have to do homeschooling testing and kind of like where to go and where to look So, um, yeah, I definitely will make that video uh after we complete our testing for this year So now that I have my goals I know where we have to or how many lessons we have to complete in all of my curriculums What I did was I went ahead and I started making a plan in my planner You guys I bought this planner at the beginning of the homeschool year and I'm not going to lie I do not like this planner. I won't recommend it Uh, I use erasable pens and when I erase and I need to erase something the paper kind of like scratch up This is not my favorite planner. Um, so I cannot wait to get into my school and that's a planner that I actually have for our upcoming school year However, um, I'm just going to finish off our year using this planner and um, yeah But what I did was I wrote down all of um our last six weeks I went ahead and carved out the date. I do do reverse planning. So I write what we do after we do it But uh for the sake of our last six weeks you guys I went ahead and I just wrote the lesson number that I want us to complete because I know we can do it So I went ahead and I filled it in for our last six weeks just knowing that plan And from there you guys I made my daughter this cute little weekly sheet because my daughter is uh, She's very independent now. She is working very very uh good So I made her this little weekly list of all of the things that I want her to accomplish at the end of the week And she can kind of like check it off So she can know what she has to do what assignment she has and she can kind of be on the same page as me and um This little weekly sheet I actually just found it on pinterest if I can find the link I'll put it down in my description box But I just went ahead and I printed it off and of course I had to use like colorful pens and all the things kind of like decorated to get her excited for uh the end of our school year So um you guys that is everything that is how I'm planning to end off our homeschooling year strong I really hope this video you guys kind of gave you some inspiration and some tips on how you can kind of like End off your homeschooling year strong wrap it up in a nice pretty bow. Um I'm so excited and I'm so proud of all of the things that my daughter accomplished It's so crazy when I look back at her work from our first year of homeschooling To now it's just crazy to see just the amount of growth that she has had Within our homeschool and I'm proud of her I'm proud of my stuff myself for like sticking it through especially through the hard days where I just wanted to give up I'm just proud of myself for keep on going. So um you guys we can do this We can end these years strong Leave me down a comment section below how you guys plan to end off your homeschooling year strong Are you tired? Are you done? Are you ready to go? So you guys as always thank you so much for watching today's video and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye