 Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel you guys in today's video I will be doing my homeschool planning video part two So you guys if any of you are new here to my channel again, my name is Brittany I'm a homeschooling mom to three girls and this upcoming year I will have a sixth grader a kidney gardener and a pre-care and you guys This is my fourth year of homeschool that I am entering. I'm excited. I'm a little bit nervous But making videos like this and really having like somewhat of a plan to start off our homeschool year Is really like settling for me. It really just lets me know. Okay I'm not just jumping in head first like I was in my first year of homeschool I kind of know the start from the finish and you know, I'm just really really excited about this upcoming homeschool year So you guys in today's video, I am going to be planning out My curriculum overview for in particular my middle schooler I was going to combine my planning with my kidney gardener and my preschooler with my middle schooler However, for the sake of this video and for me to create like separate playlists for you guys like with middle school content And for like kidney garden pre-k content. I decided to separate out my planning video So in today's video, we are just going to be planning my oldest daughter's Curriculum her overview how I'm going to break down the weeks in her subjects And I already planned our first two weeks of our homeschool So you guys I'm going to go ahead and flip you around and we are going to go ahead and get on into this thing Okay, you guys here is the scary part where you line up all of your homeschooling curriculum on your table And this is for my sixth grader. I have lined up all of the pieces of curriculum I plan on using this homeschooling year as far as her core And the first thing I'm going to do is figure out How many lessons that I have in each piece pieces of these curriculums And how I plan to attack them on a weekly basis Okay, you guys we are actually going to start off planning our curriculum overview with math So you guys this year we're actually going to be using math UC data and we're going to be supplementing our math with oak metals Math six now I am supplementing math for my uh door this homeschooling year because this is a testing year for her So since math you see is a full on mastery curriculum And she's only going to be going over decimals and percentages with a little bit of review I want to make sure other skills that she already has mastered in the past that she gets an opportunity to review them because Oak metals math is more of a spiral curriculum So we're actually going to be using this as a supplement and a review in preparation for her standardized test But when you guys see inside of oak metals math six, you're going to see how simple And effective it is and it's not it's going to be really seamless with me doing both of these curriculums for her And I'm not going to really overwork her when it comes to math So as far as math you see zeta goes we actually started it over the summer and I'm so happy We got a little head start within math and um Brielle did an awesome job with math you guys. We actually completed the first uh unit within uh math You see zeta over the summer. So in us completing the first unit I know we already completed eight lessons math you see zeta has a total of 30 lessons So right now we actually only have 21 remaining lessons in math you see zeta So i'm going to go ahead and put a post it right here So I can remind myself that we only have 21 lessons So as far as oak metals math six goals you guys it has a total of 36 weeks and three Lessons per week which is 88 lessons So oak metals math you guys it's really really simple and I really like how um It's just clean pages similar to math you see and I'm going to give you an overview of how one week of oak metals math looks So this is day one, which is a skill check. So since zeta doesn't have any multiplication and division This will be an extra extra uh practice for brielle and it will be amazing for her to you know uh get refreshed on Some of these skills here is the skill practice sheet which has a total of only 12 problems on it And then the test again has a total of 12 problems or on it and then we go into the next week skill check So um since oak metals math is just in three days I figure within three days of the week when brielle does math We can go ahead and add these problems in and or we can break up these three lessons over the course of monday through friday I'm kind of going to see how she likes it and wants to add in her supplemental math But um as you guys can see it's really really simple and I'm excited for us to dive into oak metals math So this is our uh math. We have 21 lessons in zeta And 88 lessons in math you see so are in oak metals math So as you guys can see I actually don't have enough math to get me over for the whole school year So, uh, I may have to pick up the next levels of math in our second semester Who knows but this is something for me to keep in mind As I am going through my home schooling year depending on how fast she goes through these curriculas So, uh, this is math and this is how many lessons I have remaining in these curriculums Okay, you guys as far as english and history in oak metal these curriculums coincide with each other So if briel is writing a paper in ancient history, it goes along with the grammar She's learning in english and it also has a literature component. So I went ahead and I broke down each of these so each of these curricula pieces again has 36 weeks and or 36 lessons So, um, I know I really don't have much wiggle room when it comes to these curricula pieces because We have 36 weeks in our school year and exactly 36 weeks in our oak metals history and english Now the same thing goes with science. Uh, the basic life science has a total of 36 lessons as well. So, um, Again, uh, with most curriculas you typically have like, um, a little bit of wiggle room when it comes to it But for oak metal, it's 36 weeks spot on and um, yeah So I know this is kind of like how this curricula works. So you guys on to grammar So oak metal does have grammar in their curriculum, but their grammar is pretty light and because my daughter's strength is english I typically like to beef up this subject area for her and uh, you guys my daughter She loves rodent staffs build an english series We have been doing it now for two years and this will be our third year So we actually worked in rodent staff over the summer and we completed chapter seven in rodent staff six and it is a total of, um How many grammar chapters is it? It's a total of 10 grammar chapters I always skip the last chapter because it's like dictionary skills, bible concordiances and things like that. So, um It's a total of 10 chapters. So briel told me this year that she actually doesn't want to do fix it grammar She prefers to do only rodent staff And i'm going to respect her wishes So I went ahead and I purchased rodent staff seven used because when I counted out the grammar lessons in rodent staff six We actually only have a total of 31 lessons remaining in rodent staff english six and For rodent staff english seven. I have a total of 93 lessons. So in total there is 124 Lessons in these rodent staff curriculum, which is perfect. Um, it gives me a little bit of wiggle room I have 180 days of school. So for this particular subject if I only want to do it three to four days out the week Um, I can this curriculum. I actually sit down with briel So it is teacher intensive where i'm working it one on one with her versus her other pieces of curriculum where It's more independent and student led but because she loves this I went ahead and got it and I'll see how you know, we may tie in fix it grammar and or not this homeschooling year But for right now, I let my daughter win this battle and we are going to continue with rodent staff build an english series So this is another piece of our core curriculum Now these workbooks right here that i'm showing you guys are our supplement of workbooks Which pretty much means that I don't mind if these workbooks carry us to the next homeschooling year and or summer These are things that i'm uh using to help my daughter Hone in on specific skills work routes is for vocabulary and reading detective is just for that higher order of thinking and reading comprehension We typically do reading detective once a week and we actually started reading detective last homeschooling year because this level is For grades five through six. So we only have a total of 22 tests. So in me knowing this I know that reading detective Is a is a curriculum that I probably will pick up in our second semester and or Closer to like our third quarter or third six week term will probably be a time that I will pick up reading detective So I know this piece of curriculum. I'm not going to start off our homeschool year using As far as word routes goes word routes has a total of 30 lessons in it and it's sectioned off in a through d So that's um What five days out the week, but I looked at the first part of the word routes and it has like a pre test So the kiddos could pretty much do both of these pages in day one and then the rest of the days I will have her do bcnd So that is pretty much how word routes pretty much goes as far as a lesson So I know I have a pretty good buffer for word routes because it's 30s lessons I have 36 weeks in our homeschooling year So pretty much this is another piece of curriculum that I'm probably not going to start off our first week of homeschool with So I'm going to go ahead and put these two aside and know that I will pick these ones up later Now as far as braille's vocabulary cartoons, we have been working over this over the summer and It has been a huge hit. So I think we're going to continue this and starting off our homeschooling year First things first, but um as we get comfortable probably within like the second or the third week I will go ahead and add in word routes and she will be doing a combination of word routes and A vocabulary cartoons to really help her in those vocabulary skills So you guys this is the overview of my core curriculum now I'm going to show you guys my planner and how I planned out our first two weeks of homeschool Okay, you guys, this is my homeschool planner this homeschooling year and it's actually all set up for the most part As I go throughout the year. I typically add and change things up But this is how it looks starting off, you know, uh day one of the homeschool year I haven't started my index just yet. This is something I will typically do as I built my calendar or my My calendar as I built my planner and things like that but uh here is where I typed up my overview for my Sixth graders curriculum and everything that we're going to be doing and as you guys can see I went ahead and I typed up all of the lessons that we have left So everything that I went over with you guys I went ahead and I typed it up on this table of contents page So this right here is my core. These are things that I absolutely want to cover Uh in our homeschooling year. I want to actually complete them as far as my supplements These are supplemental things that I'm going to be using throughout my homeschooling year But these are things that I don't mind if I don't finish and or if it goes through summer So I definitely love having these things sectioned off So I know what are my absolute musts to finish and the things that I know that it's not really a must for me to finish And then I also have Brielle's electives down here that she's going to be doing this homeschool year So uh now that I know the amount of lessons that I have I actually broke broken them up through days So for math you see zeta. We're going to be doing that monday through friday for oak metals math I have monday through friday, but again oak metals math. It's only three lessons per week So it just depends on if we're going to break down the problems and or if she's just going to do those three lessons Three days out the week we're going to kind of like fill that part out as far as english goes We are actually going to be doing our oak metals english monday through thursday I believe we'll be able to cover all of the things in the english within four days as far as her ancient history We're going to be doing that on wednesdays and thursdays For her science. We're going to be doing it on mondays and tuesdays I like to be able to block off our history and science only two days out the week as far as english goes The grammar that I talked about We're going to be doing grammar three to four days out the week and for right now I have a schedule to do it three days out the week So we're going to be doing grammar tuesday wednesday and thursday as far as all of our literature and read alouds I have a schedule to do one once a month and as you guys can see I added in another book Which is the first rule of punk with a literature guide I wanted to try out blossom and roots new literature guide So I actually added in an extra literature piece for us this homeschooling year Again, here goes our supplemental things things that i'm going to be pulling in I still have the fixa grammar book for here Just in case it's something that I do want to add in for ladder weeks and or use over the summer So that's why I have used as needed as far as a supplement to science I am going to be using con academies Middle schools life science and I have used as needed because if there is a video lesson that corresponds with What bria is learning in life science? I'm going to have her watch that video and then do her assignments from oak meadow as a supplement Same as same with curiosity chronicles ancient times before I actually decided to Go with oak meadow. I was going to use curiosity chronicles So I am going to be using their interactive notebook from curiosity chronicles in conjunction with oak meadow's ancient history So bria will be able to have an interactive notebook and we will just pull out Any extra readings as needed or as wanted in Her ancient history. So these are just things that I'm going to be pulling out These are bria's electives that we are going to be doing and again, they're the same electives from last year I have living harmonies living art lessons She's going to be doing spanish through rosetta stone and then her piano is through hoffman academy and electives She does she's going to be doing um Her music and art every other friday and then as far as spanish and hoffman academy That's something she does on a deli monday through friday so you guys um here is my um My calendar that I already have pulled out with all the days. We're going to be taking off again This is a tentative calendar. So things may change Here is my field trips that I have already planned out for the homeschooling year And I was a little bit bougie you guys and I actually put a picture of each of the field trips We already did the tellage museum you guys it was so much fun But I went ahead and I have the rest of them This is not the order we're going to go on the field trips But I just wanted to put them here and I have some blank spaces if we have any other field trips that we might go on So here is the classes. I went ahead and just put um piano and spanish for briel as far as classes Um, we do have a homeschool group, but I didn't put it right here as far as the curriculum overview I just took a screenshot of each of the pieces of curriculum and I put it on uh this little curriculum overview page Here is a briel's rod and staff and then here is my kenny gardeners and my preschoolers work And again when I get to their planning video, I will show you guys in more details about that So, uh, let's go ahead and go to the next pages that I filled out, which is the curriculum, uh progress And here is briel's curriculum progress and again Um, I have already shaded out the math you see zeta that we did in her curriculum progress It's pretty much just her core. So she hasn't started anything else except for a math you see zeta So the next page is in the planner is my month overview. So this is my july overview. So, um, I have any other appointments that I have. So again, our first day of school is the 24th I put any like dentist and doctor's appointments. My birthday. You guys was on the 15th So I use this as like a general calendar. So, um, this is pretty much just on my general calendar for july as of right now This is my summer overview and everything that we covered in summer and the books that my kiddos Enjoyed my younger kiddos enjoyed this one and the all the independent reads and the reads me and briel read together And what we actually accomplished over the summer I have on this month in review Here goes august and um right here. I just have the weeks and again Other appointments that I'm going to be having for the kiddos. I went ahead and I wrote it on our actual home school planner So you guys now, let's go ahead and get into the week overview of how I actually broken down our curriculum because When we start off our homeschooling year, uh, we are not going to do every single piece of curriculum that I just showed you We're going to really give ourselves a soft start. So for briel, uh, first things first as far as her reading goes briel's fun independent reader She's going to be reading starting off her homeschool year is president of the whole sixth grade So she's really really excited to start off this book right now. She's finishing up fast pitch So she will be able to start this book When we start our homeschool year. So hopefully she will enjoy this This author is the same author that wrote the sweetest sound which was one of her favorite books that she read last homeschooling year As far as her assigned reader that she's going to be doing with Oak Meadows English this week She is going to be using um or she's going to be reading maru of the winter caves So this is going to be her first Book that she's going to be doing in correlation with her literature and her ancient history So you guys as far as math goes again, I just went ahead and I scheduled out math you see zeta I wrote um 9a through 9g the thing about math you see is that um typically during a week The kiddos are just mastering it. So she may not be doing all of the lessons 9a through 9g It's just we work on the skill until she masters it So I just put this down right here, but I won't know what she actually does until she does it Um, I have the three lessons for oak meadow that she's going to be doing for uh rod and staff six Which is what we're on. I have us going on lessons 89 through 82 And then she's going to be doing the worksheets that correspond with it. So Um, I have the worksheets right here So for these ones, she's going to be doing a worksheet 52 53 54 and 55 with her rod and staff six And it goes with the lessons that we're going to be doing for her oak metal english again I have us doing our literature, which is maru the winter caves in the oak metals english It actually tells us how long she has to actually complete each of the literature readings And it told me that she has a total of Two weeks to complete um maru of the winter caves. So this book has a total of I believe How many chapters is in this book? It's a total of 16 chapters. So she has to complete um eight chapters within this week So I know each day of the week she can come in and just read about two chapters She may even read more. So that's how I went ahead and I broke down the reading So she will be able to have it completed When it actually is time for her to complete the um reading now as far as this first week goes when it comes to oak metals math It's really going to be a review for briel when it comes to The grammar that they're teaching they're going over um simple paragraphs and this week She's going over compound sentences complex sentences. She's also going to be going over um Paragraphs and how to write detailed sentences and things like that. So I know for briel This is just going to be a lesson where I'm just going to have her Briefly read over it and we will kind of do like a oral review of all of these skills and concepts and things Like that. Um, I definitely know it's going to be something where um, she can kind of just come in And we can kind of just get this first part done in like one day I mean, we're going over declarative interrogative Exclamatory and imperative sentences like I know she knows that stuff So this is definitely going to be something where we would just do like a oral review As far as the paragraph structure will kind of just go over, you know, how to write a You know paper and things like that even though she already knows that she learned that from iew Now as far as the assignments for this week, um, what briel is going to be doing is she is going to be Defining these words right here that goes along with her oak metals ancient history She has mammoth. She has spear. So prehistoric. So all of these words she's going to be Writing out the definition then she has to use them in sentences So each of these assignments has um, what she's going to be doing throughout the week and for this assignment or this week It's so light. I can foresee briel being able to do this oak metals english assignment pretty much in two days So I went ahead and I scheduled her to do her english portion in two days So monday and tuesday she probably will be finished with all of her english assignments and one thing that's cool about oak metal is that um It's you you kind of really don't know if one week is going to take you longer or shorter But as i'm looking in it, I see some of the weeks may be longer and shorter, but they do balance out So english is a lighter week because in her ancient history this week Briel is going to be writing two papers in ancient history, which is really really cool So I know she's going to be needing to write her two papers in here. So what I went ahead and did was um I have her assignment checklist right here in oak metal. So she is going to begin oak metal with her Reading so each week in the ancient history She has some form of reading that she's going to be doing and this is about the stone age so the reading is just But oh this is it. So the reading is just two pages So she probably will get done with the reading or two wait one two no it's four pages So one two three four is the reading so on the day one she probably would do the reading in her checklist And then on day two or day one She probably will begin to create her world map because she's actually going to have like a large scale of a world map So I know I need to write in my planner to buy briel a poster board for Her to do her world map. So i'm going to make sure I write that down somewhere So she's going to begin doing her world map. So on day one Of ancient history. She can probably do those things then on day two of ancient history She can come in and choose one of the assignments that she's going to be doing so here. Oh You guys I keep on flipping back too far So she's going to be able to choose one of the next assignments, which is right here She has an opportunity to choose which is the following topic. She wants to write a paper on Then she can choose one of the projects she wants to do for the week And then she gets to choose the activity so for our activity She actually already chose that she wants to do the cave painting activity And as far as the writing assignments, you guys, I know for sure briel will be able to do these writing assignments Really really simple writing is her strong point and when we come in on monday I will actually have her pick out whatever writing assignment. She wants to do so These assignments again are spread out throughout the week and as I get more comfortable with oak metal I will kind of see engage How fast or slow we go through a week and get through each of the assignments So uh because of that you guys I actually only have a scheduled only doing Ancient history in english this week Now as far as our fun activity that we're going to be doing We're going to be doing living art lessons on friday for uh briel and I went ahead and put it right here I actually hold on one second. Let me go grab it for you guys Okay, you guys here is living art and what i'm going to do is we're going to go ahead and just do this simple activity Right here. I actually have all the watercolors and I have the pastels for us to do the jellyfish lines So uh what i'm going to do is just uh mark this with a post it so I know that comes to this page on friday And this is the art activity that we're going to be doing so hopefully briel will enjoy it and um Yeah, so that's pretty much our first week of school So as you guys can see it's pretty much half the load. We're keeping it really really simple And that's how I have planned out for the first week Now um in my weekly plan again, I didn't actually write out anything I just have everything labeled so when we actually get through each assignment I can kind of like write out what we actually did and for the week overview for the next week I did the same exact thing where I wrote a plan and um Then I will actually write out what we actually do when we get there So um, I really won't know what we need to do for week two until we finish week one So again, I just have my goals and what I want us to accomplish And that is pretty much how I have my planner and my first two weeks like planned out for us to start off our home school year We're definitely doing a soft start and I'm kind of like easing us in as you guys can see It's no read aloud that we're starting off We're literally just starting off with the core and we're really going to get our feet wet using this new oak metals curriculum And um, I really really can't wait. I love the hands-on projects that briel is going to be doing first week And I hope she enjoys it too. Thank you guys so much for watching today's video as I planned out my sixth graders homeschooling curriculum I really hope that this video was really um Selling for you to kind of see how simple it is to map out your overview of your curriculum And how to break it down into bite-sized pieces. Um, you guys to really be honest I never was this uh thorough when it came to my plan and when I first started off my homeschooling journey However, now that I do have some more experience under my belt having more of a plan really puts me at ease And really having everything together really ensures us to have smooth and effective homeschooling days So you guys I really hope you enjoyed today's video and as always I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one Bye