 Hey you guys, my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video, I'm going to be showing you all the things that I get up to while I'm prepping for our upcoming home school year. So first and foremost, I just want to show you guys where I'm starting off with. I am starting off with trying to organize my two daughters' carts. I have a preschooler and a fourth grader this upcoming home school year. And I'm so excited to get things prepared for them. This is just how my office right now is looking with all of our home school supplies. I really have to get things in order, but first I need to make a quick library trip so I can go ahead and drop off all of my books so I won't get any late fees. So I'm just dropping off our library books. I really been happy that our local library has been open for me again and I'm so excited to check out books. Every time you guys, I do go to a library, they always have some type of arts and craft. Therefore, the parents to pick up and my daughters have been enjoying doing the crafts. The librarian's been putting together. I just want to show you guys like a quick library haul of the books I picked up that I've reserved for us. I'm so excited to be able to just try out new books and different titles and things I see. I love just reading them and seeing if I want them in our own home library. So you guys, I'm actually starting off organizing my three year olds cart Leia. Leia is my three year old and you guys, she is a very busy person. She's a busy body, but she loves when I play with her with all of these interactive preschool games that I picked up just from various places. I did make a video on my channel showing you guys all of my preschool resources that I do have to play with with Leia and right now I found these really cute ziplock I guess mesh bags that you're able to store things more flat. So I'm just taking out these puzzle pieces that I got from all these. They were only $4.99 you guys and I'm just using these ziplock bags to organize them so I can put it on her cart. Now in order for me to remember what puzzle pieces is in each one, I went ahead and I just cut out a portion of the label and I slid it in the front part of this little ziplock bag that I found. You guys, I'm going to try my best to link as many things as I can down below because I know it's so useful to be able to go back and click those links just to see the different items that a lot of people show and I know I'm very appreciative when people have links in the bottom of their description box. So yeah, I'm really excited for Leia to start off our school year and for me to be more intentional doing activities and games and things like that with her. Leia, my three-year-old, she does have a speech delay. However, I do not want that to stop her from learning and having fun and doing other things just because she's not speaking at the level that most three-year-olds are speaking. I feel like I shouldn't stop doing things like showing her numbers and counting and ABCs. We are in speech therapy. Her speech therapy will start back up in August. However, I just want to make sure that we can still have fun and I still want her to be incorporated in some other learning other than just her speech and language development. So if any of you guys are new here to my channel, again, my name is Brittany. I'm actually a mom of three girls. I have a nine, three and a one-year-old and you guys, I am actually going into my second year of homeschooling. So I am very excited. I'm hopeful. I'm nervous and yeah, I just have so many mixed emotions. You guys just interned into my second year of homeschooling. I think what it is is that I know the things that I did wrong and I'm going to try my best not to do the things that I did wrong last year. But I really need to focus on everything that went well. So yeah, if any of you guys are in my shoes with this upcoming homeschool year, you guys, we got it. We can make it. Yeah. So right now, you guys, I'm actually working on my oldest daughter, Brielle, who is going into the fourth grade. I'm working on her homeschool card. So Brielle was in a third grade last year. And you guys, she did an awesome job last year. She really pushed through and she really made her mama bear proud. And this year, I really want to just focus on, I guess, just our bond together as a family unit. I really want to focus on things that Brielle loves and enjoys. And I really want to take this opportunity that I have to homeschool her and just to make memorable and enjoyable moments with Brielle. You know, I know I was thrust into this homeschooling year, you guys, and it really has been a big challenge just to overcome just being pushed into such a big commitment as homeschooling my daughter. However, you guys, like I don't really see myself turning back, especially at this point. And yeah, so I really I'm really just looking forward to our upcoming year and I just really hope that it will just be awesome. OK, now that I'm finished rambling to you guys, I'm just going to tell you what's going on. I went ahead and I organized all of Brielle's markers and her color pencils and things like that in this little basket. I actually just took out the supplies that we use regularly, which is her color pencils and crayons, and I put them inside of a pencil box and I put the rest of our art supplies that we use less frequently. More so when we're doing like our particular art in this little art basket. I wanted to do something different this year, you guys. I wanted to put Brielle's regular things she's going to be using in a latch made bin just because I know Brielle wants a sense of independence. She does have like a desk in an area that she works in upstairs. We work on our dining room table. We work on our couch. Sometimes she comes into this room right here, which is my office floor and she works on my office floor. So I really just wanted her to have something where she could just keep all of her school supplies and things in and just, you know, it'd be portable for us to go in the various places around our house. Now, I know I do have this big office, you guys, that I could make into a homeschool room. However, I tried it twice. I actually was going to make a video, you guys, showing me setting up my office into a homeschool room, but it just really didn't work out for me and for my family and for our dynamic. And, yeah, so I do have this extra room upstairs that it could potentially turn into a homeschool room. It could turn into a playroom or it can turn into another kid's room just because I have my two youngest daughters who are my one and three year old Sharon in a room and of course, Brielle has her own. OK, you guys, I wanted to show you a package that just recently came in the mail from September and Co. These are their character matters flashcards where you're going to be going over one characteristic and it has a Bible verse with it and it has some positive affirmations. You're going to be saying with your kids and I seen this originally from Ashley from Grace and Grit. And you guys, I just had to get them for my daughter and for my family. I think this is going to be a great addition to our morning and to our Bible time. So here I am showing Brielle her latchmate and she is very excited to see all of her things in her latchmate. She's asking me right now, like, where's all of her items at? And I think she is really going to enjoy this latchmate system that I put together for her. And I'm so excited that she is getting excited about school just as I am. As you guys are watching this video, we have about three more days into our official start of our second year of homeschooling. And I cannot be any more excited. Like I said before, I am nervous, but more so, I'm excited for our journey to continue. OK, you guys, it's another day and I had to go back to Michael's to get another latchmate for my youngest daughter, Leia. She doesn't have much curriculum, but I do have a lot of wipe and clean erasers. My mom actually found these at Burlington and bought them for Leia. And you guys, she loves these wipe, clean handwriting and just different activities with the dry erase markers. So I do have her learning folder that I did show you guys from my preschool resources video. I'm just going to flip and show you guys a few more pages of just her learning folder that we do go through. And also to you guys, something new and a new addition that I have added into Leia's homeschool is purely preschool. So I'm really excited for her to do her purely preschool, just because, again, it is a literature based preschool. And I love just all the hands on activities that it does include. I have Leia's crayons going in here. And you guys, I went to the store and I found Leia her own first pencils that I'm going to be putting at the top along with her safety scissors and her latchmate. So I'm so excited for my baby girl to have her own bin. And I think she's really going to enjoy having one like her big sister and really feel a part of our homeschool. OK, you guys, the last thing that I'm doing in today's video is putting together my first science unit that we're going to be doing our school year, which is the mammals science unit from the good and the beautiful. As I'm putting this unit together, I'm actually following along with Ashley from Grace and Grit putting together her first science unit from the good and the beautiful as well. You guys, I really have been enjoying doing these good and the beautiful science units just because it's just everything there for me. I don't have to think about it. It's open and go. And I really feel like I can take away add to these science units and my daughters, they love them. Even Leia, who is my three year old, you guys, she definitely has been coming in and listening and wanted to be a part of the activities, especially when we did our botany unit from the good and the beautiful. So we're not starting off our year doing science, but are starting off our first quarter doing science, but our second quarter. We will be doing it. And I just want to have everything ready for our first semester. So I can just be intentional with my time with my daughters while we are working. So here you guys is a look of how the unit looks on the inside. I just used a three ring finder to separate all of my or to house my unit. And I used the sheet protectors to put the little stories and whatever activities that I need to cut out within each lesson. So I'm going to give you guys a quick like little flip through of the mammals unit study and just show you how it's laid out in the lessons and things like that. Now, one thing about the good and the beautiful that I do love and I do enjoy is that this unit study is for grades K through eight. They do have an extension for the seventh and the eighth graders. So what I do is I just put the extension all the way in the back of the three ring binder just because, honestly, you guys, my plan is really to reuse this curriculum, especially as my younger girls get older and they want to do the mammals or the different units that we did over again. Yeah, so I really want to just keep my sciences and things in good condition because I really can see myself using at least the mammals and the botany and the marine biology. The ones that we've done so far was excellent and I can see me doing them again. OK, you guys, I just want to give you an overview of how both of my daughter's carts are looking. I showed you guys this part at the top of Brielle's that has like all of her art supplies, especially like all of her pastels and things she's going to be using with her good and beautiful language arts. Here goes Leia's car at the top. I have all of her little curriculum. I have her numbers puzzles. I have a little bin that we do sensory things in and I have all of the ziploc bags that I put together in today's video with all of her puzzles and her games and everything that we need to do our taught schooling, free schooling. And I love how organized it is. And it's easy for us to just grab all the things we like and everything can stay contained. It has its own home. Now, at the bottom of her cart, I do have her counting bears and I have another little ziploc bag that has all of her printables that I laminated from taught schooling that net that we can play different interactive games with all of her counting bears and things like that. Now on Brielle's second shelf right here, I do have the books from the good and the beautiful that goes with her language arts that couldn't fit. I have her place value chart with our math. And at the bottom is my baby section. I do have my teacher's guides for our amazing Africa. We're going to be doing our fixed grammar and our dimensions math. So, you guys, I am so excited. I feel prepared. I feel ready to start this next homeschooling year. And you guys, I am ready to go. I'm excited and I'm pumped for now. Now, I want to give you guys a little sneak peek into what's going to happen in our next video. If you guys do notice on my side of my office, I no longer have the other bookshelf that house all of my books because I made my downstairs area into a homeschool space and I cannot wait to share it with you guys in my next video. So you guys, thank you so much for watching today's video. I really hope you enjoyed it. Please don't forget to comment, like and subscribe. And I want to thank everybody for joining me here on my journey on YouTube. I will see everybody in my next one. Bye.