 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 with you all of the extra resources, all of the fun things, the projects, all of the extra stuff that I have scheduled for us for our 2022-2023 school year. I pulled out like all of it and I put it right here on my little nugget. You guys, today's video is going to be like a very informal video. This is not like one of my typical filming days. I'm actually doing this all on my own. Actually my husband is like watching the kids for me. They're taking a nap. We're on our spring break. So I decided to go ahead and film this video. So hopefully I can be successful and sharing with you guys all of this. But if you hear any chaos, if my toddler comes in here, anything happens, just know. I'm just trying to do it all. So yeah, let me go ahead you guys and flip you around and show you guys like all of the extras and all of the fun things that I'm adding into our school year. Okay you guys, if you have not seen like my curriculum pick videos. I would definitely suggest you watch my curriculum picks video because it will kind of help you go along with all of the like resources in the books that I'm going to be showing you today. So if you haven't watched it, then go ahead and stop right here and watch that video. So you won't be kind of like confused or anything like that. So yeah, so you guys in our science units this year, we are actually going to be using God's design for heaven and earth and we are going to be focusing on the space unit. I decided last minute that we're going to do the space and the water unit. We're not going to do the space, planet, earth and water because God's design for heaven and earth has like three units. So I'm just going to focus on the two, the space and the water. So our main person we are we're going to be sending a few people but the main person we're going to be studying and I might have my daughter like write a little book report on or a bibliography. I should say we'll be Catherine Johnson. So I picked up this book right here from Amazon and hopefully this will be like a good book for Brielle to be able to read independently to find out more about Catherine Johnson and her impact in space. So this is one of the resources that we're going to be using. I also have Who Was Galeo. You guys the Who Was books are great resources when you want to add in like the extra things and this right here is going to be a book we are going to be using as well. This Who Was book. So hopefully Brielle will enjoy this as well. I also have hidden figures. You guys we actually use this book for Black History Month when my daughter was actually just getting a little glimpse of talking about Catherine Johnson and you guys I just want to let you know I'm still not afraid to use picture books in my home school for my older elementary student because I feel like picture books are still good for them at this age and especially ones like this that is jam packed with a lot of information. So I'm really happy for Brielle to be able to learn about all the other women that impacted the space race and I definitely think this is going to be a good book for us to read. I also want us to watch Hidden Figures the movie. So that will be like something extra we can do as we're studying space and I think that this will be like a fun little treat for her to be able to read the book and then we can watch the movie as well. Something else my daughter she actually picked up this book from Costco's when we went and it's a DK book. Of course you guys like I'm addicted and this book is called Throughout the Night Sky and I definitely think she is going to enjoy this. This doesn't just go and talk about excuse me this one just doesn't talk about space but it actually talks about different creatures. It is a really really informative book and I really think that my daughter is going to love pulling out this book as a resource as we are talking about space and we are talking about how everything all connects and I really think that this is going to be like a good resource and a good tool for us to use and it was just so crazy. She found this book at Costco's and wanted us to buy it. So yeah this is going to be definitely a great one and of course you guys I love DK books. I actually purchased this book on our first year of home schooling so I'm so happy that I can finally pull this out. I thought we were going to be doing a space unit our first year. However we didn't get to it so I'm happy for us to be able to utilize this DK book you guys honestly I feel like if you wanted to study space and you are like confident you can just get this book right here and you will be able to do a full space unit by yourself just using this DK book. I'm not that savvy and confident just yet as a home schooling mom I definitely still want to have like some type of guy but this DK book you guys is beautiful. I love the pictures so you guys I definitely feel like this is going to be like a really really good resource to be able to pull out as we study space. So I'm really excited for us to finally dig into this encyclopedia and again some of these resources that I'm showing you guys I have had since my first year of home schooling so it's really really cool as I'm going into my third year of home schooling all the resources that I have just accumulated so as far as history you guys we are going to be studying American history this year and yeah I'm really excited we're going to be using beautiful feat American history which is going to be like a literature based history. So these are just some of the extra resources that I have that I'm going to pull out when I feel like we just need to dive in deeper into different topics topics. This book you guys is called an indigenous people's history of the United States for young people. I have read the first four chapters of this book and it was amazing and I definitely feel like this right here this book is definitely a good read for probably I would say if your kid is like in high school maybe like 9th or 10th grade you can actually assign them this book as an independent reader because it is written very very simply for understanding and I really really enjoyed it so far at what I have read and I definitely feel like I'm going to be pulling some nuggets out of this book as we are studying American history early American history. This is another resource that I have which is Howard Zenz a young people's history of the United States and again this is just a really good critical critical thinking theory in depth understanding different groups in their motives with in United States history. This goes beyond timelines and dates but it really gives you a greater understanding of just American history and I really have loved this one so far again I have read like the first five chapters of this book which were primarily focusing on the early American history so I really feel like I have like a good a good understanding of it and if my daughter does have like critical questions I feel like I can answer them for her and we can pull this book out as a guide as well. Now who was books I have I have what is it what is the Declaration of Independence I have what was the Gold Rush what was the Lewis Clark Expedition and what were the Salem witch trials as we are studying early American history I feel like these are going to be some fun ones for us to read I also have my DK American history encyclopedia you guys like I love this encyclopedia I purchased this encyclopedia my first year of homeschooling and this was like the best purchase that I feel like I've purchased my first year of homeschooling because we definitely have used this all of our first and second years we have not died deep into American history but when it was different topics or timelines that we were at especially as we were reading a lot of who was books I was able to pull out this DK encyclopedia and it definitely has been a great tool in my homeschool something else and this is a new one that I've added into my library which was the timelines for our timelines from black history leaders legends and legacies this encyclopedia you guys I purchased it of along for black history month and this again was a good resource in a tool that I'm going to continue to pull out and use as we are studying American history so these are like all of my extra books and resources that I'm going to be using for that now as far as projects goes you guys we have two main projects that we're going to be doing so in heaven and earth our gods this or in heaven and earth for our universe they have a big project that they're going to be doing where my daughter is going to be doing a solar system model and she is going to be working on it as she goes throughout the solar system so I'm really excited for her to do this project this is just something she's going to be working on throughout the unit as we go into space and then for early American history through beautiful feet they have a few research projects that she's going to be doing a couple of lack books and things like that that she's going to be doing throughout this text they have recipes and things like that you guys this is amazing so the research projects and the writing project she's going to be doing is going to be for early American history so that's going to be a way I can get some more writing in for her and her science project is going to be a solar system model so yeah those are going to be her two main projects for the year now you guys I'm going to give you like a sneak peek into my daughter's independent reading and our read aloud I thought I was going to like make a separate video for it but I don't think I am I think I'm just going to show you guys right now but here is a literature study that I want us to do which is role of thunder here my cry I really want my daughter as she is getting older to get used to breaking down books for their vocabulary for their literary elements for the theme the plot the topic like all of those different like deeper components I as she's getting in this upper elementary beginning middle school phase I definitely want her to do that and I feel like role of thunder here my cry will be the perfect novel study for her to do I didn't include this one in my curriculum picks video just because this is an extra and if we don't get to it I'm going to be okay with us doing this the next year however I do have this here if we are able to get into it it will be great again this is just like basic worksheets vocabulary this has a lot of like critical thinking she's going to be analyzing the characters it's just a really really great tool for me to be able to use as we are going through this book I wanted to read this book this year but I didn't want to do a literature guide with him so I'm happy I went ahead and I purchased that along with it now along with real for reading these are going to be some of her independent assigned readers now for the past few years you guys I have just allowed real just to read whatever she wants when she wants it but this year I do have a few books that I'm going to be assigning her to read and along with her being assigned reading these books I am going to have her make an interactive journal where she has to after she reads the book she's going to have to answer these questions about the setting the main conflict the resolution the protagonist and antagonist and the main plot of the story so this little sheet she's going to have to do for each of the independent readers that I sign her I'm not going to sign too many this year but I do want her to get used to being able to identify these things as she's written a story I know she loves reading for pleasure but I do want her to get used to being able to pull out and identify these things as she's reading on her own so I have some easy readers you guys especially as we're going into American history these are way below her reading grade however I feel like because I'm having her do a little bit more with these books it's it's better for me to use like a easier book than for her to be doing like a bigger novel by herself since this is going to be a part of like her independent reading so I have the what is these are like nostalgic you guys I have an American girl me Chris Christine actually purchased this one you guys from the third story was like 10 cents so I'm happy I have this one especially as we are doing American history she's going to be reading Sarah plain and tall as an assigned reader she's going to be reading the courage of Sarah noble and again you guys these books are like so thin she'll probably be able to read them in a day and answer this right here as far as like her independent reading she's going to be reading this book right here which is an American girl this is Kayla's story and I really feel like this is going to be a really good read for her this one might take her a little bit longer than the other ones however I feel like it's going to be great for her to be reading this as we are doing early American history and again you guys this is like this is so nostalgic because I read these adi books when I was growing up and these are the first three in the adi series which is adi surprise adi learn to lessen and meet adi so these are going to be another books that she's going to be doing for her independent reading independent assigned reading so I feel like this is not too much my daughter she's going to enjoy this so pretty much I'm going to have her do like maybe one or two assigned readings per month answer her questions and yeah okay now you guys as far as our read alouds I just kept it really really simple these are going to be the books we're going to be reading together she loves a little house in a prairie series so we're going to be finishing up I have the first four years I have little town on the prairie I have these happy golden years I have the long winter I have a wrinkle in time because I really feel like this will be a really really cool read aloud for us to read especially as we're doing like our space unit I have the year of Miss Agnes you guys this is just a classic and I know this is definitely going to be a fast read but I just really felt like I wanted to read this one with a briel I have the secret garden I have Esperanza's rising and I also have inside out and back again and I might be reaching as far as like my my power for like our read alouds especially because we are going to be doing like a literature based curriculum with our American history but I definitely just wanted to have like some selections for us to be able to read this is going to be a heavy literature year for my daughter again like I said before but I definitely think she can take it on now as far as poetry you guys we do poetry every other Friday and this school year we actually read through Maya Angelou she was our poet for the year and it was so fun reading all of her poems we only have like a few more pages left in Maya Angelou to finish up her for like our poetry time so my book that I'm going to be using this year it's going to be out of wonder poem celebrating poets so I'm really excited for us to dive into this one right here for like our poetry tea time that we're going to be doing I schedule poetry tea time you guys every other Friday so just twice a month so this is going to be the main book that we are going to be going through some really excited and if we finish this one too soon I really feel like we can still go back and read some more of Maya Angelou and we can dive back into hip-hop speaks to children as well for like the times where we do do poetry this hip-hop speaks to children has like a CD-ROM component that goes with it and yeah I even think my younger ones will love this so this is going to be like our main book that we're going to be use using for poetry okay you guys something else that I have is I want Brielle to do a composer study Brielle actually is practicing and learning how to play the piano and I figured something to add into like our music aspect of our homeschool is for us to do a composer study this composer study you guys is actually from the heritage mom blog and this one is let me see if I can pronounce it right is it Le Chevrolet de Saint-Jean yes cuz it's French so I believe that's how you pronounce it if I butchered it I'm sorry but this is going to be like our composer say that we're going to be studying about him he was very prominent during the American Revolution so when we get into the American Revolution within history I feel like this will be a great time for us to pull out this composer study it's very very simple if you guys want to look it up just go to heritage mom blog calm and she has like the schedule and everything completely free on her blog that you can do this composer study this is just one of the three books the other two books I'm going to check out from the library that I need for this composer study now you guys as far as health and mental health I didn't share this right here on my main curriculum video just because I don't know or I don't know how long we are going to be going through these type of books but these are some of the resources that I do have like for like health emotional type of studies that I want to do with my daughter this book right here is called me and my feelings and I am really really excited to continue to read through this book right here with my daughter and I definitely think she would love it this one right here is the book that I am reading with my toddlers what are feelings and this is just a us born lift the flat book you guys and this one is so cute so I really feel like these are like really good interactive ways for me to go over the feelings along with my daughter I can actually have a resource to do it with my toddlers and this book is so cute the speech therapist she actually recommended this book for Leia so I had to purchase this one from the us born site so yeah these are like my emotional books now you guys for like health and safety and all those type of things my daughter actually read this book at the beginning of 2021 she read this book of the care and keeping of you this is just a 90s type of care and keeping of you book it goes over everything that a girl needs to know at my daughter's age I really didn't find anything wrong with this book this book was a really perfect introduction just for just the basic health type of things that your 10 11 12 year old may be going through so this was a great resource however for this year you guys I went ahead and I got the care and keeping of you part 2 for her to go ahead and read and I definitely think this will just be a continuation of part one I also have this unit right here from the good and the beautiful I don't want to say it out loud just in case my channel gets flagged so you guys see the title and everything like that my me and my daughter we actually did go over the first two lessons of this because after she read this book you guys she came with me with a few questions and in August of last year we did do the first few lessons however before this year ends I do want to go ahead and complete this book right here I'll give you guys a review on how I felt about this if you know just as we finish it I don't read this word-for-word I really just use it as a tool so I cannot wait to come back to you guys with my overall and my final reviews of this unit from the good and the beautiful we did start it like I said in July August of last year so I just want us to go ahead and finish it up again this book right here it go it's a little bit deeper than the first one so I know she will have more questions so I just want to be able to have tools and resources to be able to answer those questions for my daughter so this is going to be all the things that I'm going to be using for health now the last thing that I have I'm going to show you guys and this might be a stretch is I have exploring nature with children you guys this was like a midnight purchase that I purchased and you guys I so want to be like that nature mom and I really want to do this I don't know how much or if it will get done but I really really want to want to do this exploring nature with children especially with my younger ones so I think I'm just going to go ahead and set out twice a month for us to do this I know this curriculum it is a year-long curriculum I'm not going to you know bound myself to it but I definitely wanted you know I want to get out there I want to do more in nature especially with my young toddlers so this is just one of the DK encyclopedia books that I already had on my shelf I know this curriculum calls for other nature books that I will eventually add to my collection however this is just one of the books that I have that I know we can use as a resource but this is a stretch I'm not going to kill myself but this is something that I I aspire to do better in my home so okay you guys I know that was a long one I was pretty chatty in today's video but I hope you guys enjoy seeing like all the books all the resources and I like the extra things that I'm going to be pulling out using as a tool I don't expect to complete or finish all these things I showed you in its entirety these are just things and resources that I know I have on my shelf and things that I know I potentially want to be able to use within our home school so you guys I'm hopefully today's video you liked it you like this chatty kind of like informal video as always you guys I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye