 Hi you guys, my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel So you guys in today's video I am going to be talking all about my october homeschooling update So you guys I know it's kind of weird for me to be talking about our or my october homeschooling update because we are Still in the month of october, but for us we are actually finished homeschooling because we are on our Weeks break of homeschool. We have done the sapeth homeschooling schedule Where we're doing the six weeks on one week off So as you guys are watching this video, we have officially completed our first 12 weeks of homeschool So we are about what 25 percent of the way done with our homeschooling year And it's so crazy to kind of like think about it like that, but um, I'm really excited We're not going to kick back start like our homeschooling until november 1st So we're going to really enjoy this break. I'm really happy for you guys. I was really exhausted and I'm loving this schedule because it's making it be be like more intentional in taking breaks within our homeschool So you guys like I have a list of stuff that I want to talk about in this update I went ahead and put it on my phone in this video. So I'm not just like flying off the seat of my pants I really want to make sure I like touch on everything that has happened for us and Just all of the just all of the things you guys look. I'm already rambling but um before I really get into the update I do want to give you guys like kind of like a channel update and like what you can expect from my channel in the month of november So I put a poll on my youtube community tab just asking you guys what do a lessons you want to see From my channel because in this upcoming month, I'm really going to bring you guys inside of my homeschool I'm not really going to be showing you like a lot of books and you know, just talking to you guys in front of the camera I'm really going to show you guys more behind the scenes So I am going to be doing a saxon do a lesson with me with nicole the math lady I'm going to be sharing a week of a river of voices from blossom and root or a history curriculum And I'm also going to be sharing a week of iaw and I'm going to do a day in a life for you guys So those are some of the videos that I have planned for you guys for the month of november I may have a few bonus videos for you guys as well Just so you guys can kind of like come inside and have like a more in-depth view of my homeschool How things run? I mean, it's not always perfect over here And I just want to share that piece of me in my homeschool. Okay, so now into the update Let's go ahead and start off with the books that we have enjoyed this month I'm going to start off with our riddle out. You guys we are still reading this book the secret zoo We haven't been going through our riddles as fast as we have in our previous years Which is okay because we are doing like a literature based history curriculum We are reading more literature from our history, which is perfectly fine with me But the secret zoo is still it's so great It's really reminded me of like the Chronicles of Narnia because I actually seen the movie and I'm really liking this fantasy And it's a lot of fun. We are listening to this one on audible So it's been great, especially over like our lunchtime So I want to share some of the books Brielle is reading independently because I think I forgot to share them in my previous updates But Brielle, she finished reading this book right here something to say and she really enjoyed this one This book is about a young 11 year old. Her name is Janine and she's really shy in her school until someone like befriends her and I really really love Brielle reading this book because I'm finding sometimes Brielle can be more of an introvert Especially when we get into like outside public settings and she really related with Janine in this book And she really enjoyed this one. Um, so this one was something to say Right now, Brielle is reading this book right here. It's called like magic And it's just about a group of girls finding a mysterious box in the library and they are passing things between each other it's another book personal narrative about friendship and Hopefully she enjoys this one right now She is about Cora the way through it and she said she really enjoys it one of the girls in this book She is actually home school So, uh, Brielle is definitely getting a kick out of being able to relate to a character in this book called like magic So if you guys want to know the rest of the independent readers that Brielle is going to be reading throughout the school year We did make a video together about that and I will go ahead and put it in my description box and in the icards So you guys can check out that video to see all the other independent reads. She is going to read, uh, the school year So you guys as far as like history goes our history read-alouds from a river of voices has been so great We actually, uh, did a read-aloud through youtube of encounter and i'm just going to put a picture of it Up because I actually already or we actually listened to that one on, um, youtube And it was really really good. We enjoyed that one We also read a short chapter book called morning girl and I returned that one from the library already so I will go ahead and insert a picture of that one and that was uh, that book morning girl was a great book just talking about the encounter their first encounters of The europeans and I really enjoyed that one. Brielle really enjoyed that book. It was definitely a great short read-aloud We also read josie dances and this was a great book a coming age book of a native american young girl in her first pow wow So we really enjoyed reading this book this month and those are some of like our history Highlights for brielle and as far as my younger two my four and my two year old you guys This month their favorite book was omari's farm and this is definitely a cute picture book I think I shared this one with you guys on my fall Favorites and this book just goes along as omari is looking through her family garden trying to find a pumpkin And she is uh embarking on all the different various fruits and vegetables until she finally finds a pumpkin for their pumpkin potluck So this is definitely a cute reel out that my daughter is they want me to reach them over and over again this month So we really enjoyed omari's farm So those are like all of like our book highlights for this month So um, what else do I have on here on my phone? Okay? Yes So you guys we actually went on our first homeschool hangout our first homeschool group We are pandemic homeschoolers So, uh, we never really had the opportunity to like have a sense of community within our homeschool until this year is really when I started to feel more comfortable for us like going out and doing more like events With my daughter. So our local library actually has a new homeschool group, which is completely free. They meet twice a month So, uh, we actually did pumpkin science and my daughter had so much fun. Um, I had a lot of fun. You guys just honestly meeting and talking to in person other like homeschoolers I feel like I do have opportunities to connect with a lot of like homeschooling families and moms and Things like that over the internet, but it's something special actually meeting and speaking with someone in person And it was a really fun experience for me my younger two toddlers they made friends right away And uh, bria really had an awesome time. She's definitely more shy So she was very reserved when we went to the hangout and I kind of was able to see her personality You know outside of our home and outside of her comfort zone But at the end she started to warm up a little bit So I'm hoping as we go to our next homeschool hangout, which is actually this thursday That she may open up a little bit more to the group this thursday They're going to be doing spooky chemistry. So I'm really excited for her to have fun Doing that. So um, that is something I'm going to try my best for us to be consistent Especially since this is you know free and it's local for us to be consistent in going to the homeschool hangouts twice a month in like our local library So another thing that I have on here I want to talk to you guys about is that we are actually going to do our first Field trip of the year and I know it's so crazy like we are already 12 weeks And and I haven't done any field trips yet, but we are actually going to go to uh, a native american preserve local to our Area since we are finishing up our indigenous unit with a river voices And I really think it's going to be awesome for bria to be able to see like these long houses and These uh different artifacts and things like that of native americans since we finished off that unit So that is what we're going to be doing next month And I'm so excited for us to finally go like on our first like homeschooling field trip So, uh, we're really excited about that one as well So you guys as far as like I guess curriculum goes um, I'll start with like my youngest one or our curriculum update Everything is going good with leah leah is my four-year-old you guys her core She's mainly doing is all about reading pre-reading. She's doing preschool math at home by kate snow And she's doing handwriting without tears. So that's like her main core lineup We do do like fun units like our purely preschool fall unit and we do Up adding some like playing playing preschool units as well just like for fun, but that's like her core I'm going to show you guys some of her like uh letters that she's done for um from all about reading So right now we actually finished the first four units in the all about reading pre-reading And you guys she has mastered the skill of like the rhyming and rhyming words She loves ziggie the zebra, but here is some of her uh letters that she's done with all about reading So she has a and b And then this one is c and then d so she is going to have like a really really cute portfolio at the end of this um pre-reading unit and i'm really really happy of my decision to add like in a formal Phonics program for her because i'm definitely noticing a difference not only uh with her and her uh skills But she actually is doing much better with her speech with the all about reading pre-reading program I do have to make sure I read to her 20 minutes a day just one on one And it's really making me be more intentional with like reading with leah So all of her lineup is going great. I'm so happy with all of the decisions that I have with her curriculum Now as far as briel you guys like briel like we are finally at a place where everything's like mellowed out as far as like our curriculum We are really enjoying saxon saxon seven six We actually started it this month because she finished six five and saxon seven six has been going great It definitely um is still a review from six five and her doing these review lessons has really been building her confidence within math She has been really um acing these lessons acing these tests And it's really showing me that saxon was definitely a great fit for her And i'm so happy that I switched her uh last year when I did to saxon because Now she is becoming more confident in math math is you know, not necessarily her strong subject But she's confident. She's doing well And I can see her progressing in this subject. So i'm so proud of her for all the hard work. She's done So saxon is going good Iew you guys is going good. We are actually on week 10 of iew. Um, I don't have anything bad to say about iew guys It's going so well. Um briel like I said before we're not doing like two weeks in one week anymore She is really slowing down when it when it's coming to like that editing process. Um She is really finding her own voice within writing and I'm really seeing like um as it's further along with the iew You were right now. She's at the point where she can't use certain words like seesaw said So she's on the part where she can't use some verbs So it's really challenging her to use other verb Other words in her writing and it's really challenging her as far as like her vocabulary And uh while we're on the talk about vocabulary you guys like briel I can definitely say we definitely are struggling in our homeschool when it comes to like her Retaining vocabulary in my last update you guys Um, I did talk about me dumping wordly wise because she was just dumping the words at the end of the week because we were already doing 180 days of spelling and word study and this 180 days of spelling and word study does focus more on like the Prefixes the suffixes the root words and it really focuses on those things with the spelling words as well So I felt like it was kind of redundant as well as doing wordly wise And she was kind of like already getting it with 180 days But um, she still wasn't doing really well when it came to the vocabulary portion. So what I did for briel was I started to um Just really go over those definitions with her and I really challenged her Because like one of her words was compensate last week And I would say bri what is a way you can shorten the word compensate into two words And she said to pay so when I would ask her what the meaning of compensate was she would say to pay And another one of her words was comprehend and the two words she chose for comprehend was to understand So by us shortening like the uh meaning or the definition of the vocabulary where she's retaining it a lot better And she's doing so well with vocabulary So I'm really happy to take this approach with 180 days of spelling and word study And combine her spelling with her vocabulary Spelling she's great at spelling. Um, she really is she really has mastered the skill of spelling phonetically So i'm really not focusing much on the spelling aspect of this book, but more so the vocabulary So her vocabulary is finally we're finally getting somewhere. I should say um, but um everything all in all it's well I definitely know vocabulary was an area we did have to focus on because I did test briel at the end of our school year and I tested her for the past two years That we've done our homeschool So I really didn't see any growth when I look back at her test and her vocabulary It kind of like just stayed the same. So I knew that that was the area we needed to work on So as far as like briel some of the fun stuff that she's been doing this month and a resource I really have been enjoying has been this my story journal from chanel from intentional homeschool She actually um added this to her shop and I went ahead and got it because this is just a cute story board that briel is able to plot out like all of her creative writing. She's able to Kind of like really think about all of her creative writing her characters her Conflict her plot her summaries So she's really able to like utilize this uh template when she's doing her creative writing before she had this journal She was really just using like a scrap note paper and all of her stuff was getting all over the place She was like losing some of the pages when she was coming up with like stories for her creative writing So she was so excited when I showed her this new template for her to do like all of her stories and Math out some of her characters. Uh, hopefully she doesn't mind, but here goes um One of the characters who's the villain that she drawed out and she mapped out for one of her stories that she's writing right now So i'm so happy to uh allow her to be able to use this as she's working on her creative writing briel she did have like a Writing block this month and she was so nervous because for a whole week. She wasn't doing her creative writing She was like kind of getting stumped on what she wanted to write The story she was writing wasn't uh turning out the way she wanted it to So uh, she took like a week off of writing then I printed off this journal for her you guys and then like now She's just like flying as far as like her fun creative writing So i'm so happy that um, I was able to find this from chenelle shop and she actually offered it for free For a whole week as like a promotion right now I think it's only five dollars and honestly I probably would have still paid five dollars for this my story journal because she's really really um enjoying it Okay, you guys, let me see did I mention everything? Okay, actually Okay, you guys that is really everything as far as october and our update and everything that has happened in our home school Um, like I said before things have definitely settled down. Uh, nothing new has really been happening over here Which i'm so happy about um So you guys I really look forward to doing all these day in the lives do a lesson with you guys So you can kind of come inside of my home school a little bit more and I really hope you stay tuned on my channel to Watch these videos that i'm going to be making for you guys in the upcoming weeks So as always, thank you guys so much for watching today's video and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one Bye