 Hey you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys we are going to be continuing with my curricula week here on this channel and in today's video I will be sharing with you guys my first graders curricula picks for the 2024-2025 homeschooling year. So you guys I'm really really excited about this upcoming year for my rising first grader. I really have more things planned for her this year. As you guys have seen for her kindergarten year I really kept things really really simple really stuck to the basics which was reading writing and arithmetic. But this upcoming homeschool year we are doing all subjects. It is official you guys we are required as a first grade in my state to teach all subjects math writing reading history and science. So I'm going to be sharing with you guys everything this homeschooling year. I'm a little bit nervous because I'm adding more to my plate when it comes to my first grader. But I know she's ready and I know she's excited about all of the things that we have planned for her. So we're going to go ahead and get kick started and I'm going to share with you guys math. So for math it's no surprise. We are going to be continuing with the math with confidence series. As you guys are watching this video we have already started first grade math with confidence with her. She has actually completed preschool of math with confidence kindergarten math with confidence. So this is going to be her third level continuing with the same program and I'm so excited. I love the games the mental math the conceptual knowledge that is in this curricula. You guys please do not be fooled by the student workbook and thinking that this curricula is too easy or it's gentle because the meat of this curriculum is in the games it's in the conceptual and mental knowledge that the kiddos will be gaining. So I really am excited to continue with another level of math with confidence. I really enjoy this program. My kiddos they all enjoy this program. They really love this hands-on approach with math. I will say this curricula requires a little bit more prep work than most math curriculums but from my experience I feel like it's so worth it for seeing the growth in all of my kiddos when it comes to their math knowledge. So math with confidence I'm excited to continue with this series. Now for this particular kiddo we always have done two math so she's going to actually be continuing with math you see alpha this year. She did kindergarten math with confidence and primer this year so she's just following suit doing two math curriculas. She loves it. I love both of these curriculums but I really love using math you see along with the kindergarten math or the math with confidence series because I like her using the blocks and gaining a different way in thinking about math and she really really loves using the blocks when I pull off this book. She calls this book her block book which I think is really really cute. So we're going to be continuing doing both the math with confidence and the math you see. Do I think you need two math programs in your home school? It's up to you but in my home school we really love doing two math curriculas. I believe all of my kiddos do two math curriculas in my home school. Now as far as handwriting goes we're going to be continuing with handwriting without tears. This is going to be the I think fourth book she's going to be doing because she did the green book the purple book orange and then yeah so this is going to be the fourth book. So I really love handwriting without tears. I love the systematic approach when it comes to teaching a print. I will say I think it's one more book after this which is the second grade printing book. I think that's going to be the last book that I do because I'm I don't really like their cursive that much but their print I absolutely love it. So we're going to continue with the printing series with this program and then once she rises into cursive I'm going to be looking for something else outside of the handwriting without tears series but overall I really really love this program for handwriting. Now as far as her language arts block everything that I have scheduled for her we are going to be continuing with all about reading level one. For this particular daughter my first grader she actually has a speech delay and she has been working through speech therapy across our fingers. She is actually going to be tested this I believe it's this April or May. She's going to be tested to see if she will test out of speech therapy because she's been doing so well. So we're still going to be working in level one. I'm taking this at her pace. She is doing good. She has exceeded my expectation when it has come to reading with I guess speech delay and a challenge and all about reading it really has assisted me in giving her the skills that she needs in learning like reading. So I'm really proud of her. I'm proud of all the hard work that she's done. So we're going to just go ahead and continue with the all about reading level one series. If we complete this this home schooling year we would just go into level two. If not I'm just going to be excited that we are still trucking along and we're making progress in her reading instruction and I'm so proud of this kiddo. So all about reading. Now as far as additional phonics we are going to continue using explode the code because you guys this really has solidified a lot of those phonetic skills for her. So we're going to be doing book one and a half and two this home schooling year. So I'm excited. I love explode the code. Now as far as like extra readers and things like that I have the Bob book set to which she's going to be on. Oh my gosh you guys I'm so proud of this girl. So we're going to be on box two and I also went ahead and I supported this company called Totlerts Can Read. He has his name is Spencer. He has a YouTube channel here and he really just leaves out a lot of good nuggets when it comes to just working with your kiddos when it comes to reading. I'm not specifically using his reading program but you guys I had to support him because I watched a few of his videos and it really helped me in giving my middle daughter instructions as far as phonics goes. So when I seen he came out with his own like decodable readers I went ahead and I got them and they're so cute. So here goes one of the readers. This one's called swim and I think this is a box of what 12 readers are together. So here's all the readers. So I am so excited to have supported his company because his videos on YouTube has been so it's been so valuable for me especially in helping my daughter with her blending skills in particular. I really enjoyed his videos. So I'm excited to use his decodable books. Now as far as spelling goes we are going to be using Zaynab Loser's spelling connections. I'm really really excited about this spelling program. It follows spelling doing like it the phonetic way. So she's going to be having like a simple list of words. She's going to be doing like a word study. She's going to be phonetically filling in the blanks. They have like a little reading comprehension checks towards the end and they have a little writing section. So I really have been enjoying what I've been seeing in the spelling connections book right here. So this is what we're going to be using for spelling. As far as like copy work and things like that I have this primary composition book from School Nest that we're going to be working on writing phonetic sentences and her drawing a picture of the phonetic sentence in her composition notebook and I'm really really excited for her for that. Now as you guys can see this is all of my language block. I am not adding in grammar just yet for this kiddo. If I find her reading has picked up a lot we will add in grammar our second semester. I haven't really figured out where I want to go or what direction I want to go in grammar with her just yet. So for right now this is everything in her language block and I will update you guys if I decide to add in grammar for her for a second semester and what we will be using for grammar but this is everything she's doing as far as language goes. Now as far as history and science what we're going to be doing you guys this was my hardest thing to pick was history and science. I really didn't know what direction I wanted to go in. It was it boiled down to either build your library all around the world because I knew I wanted to like some type of world cultures or beautiful feet and I ended up going with beautiful feet around the world with picture books. Okay you guys editing Brittany here I am coming to let you know I changed my mind already. I decided to go ahead and go with the build your library around the world level zero curricula for our world geographies and cultures this homeschooling year. The main reason why I ultimately made this decision was first and foremost my husband really helped me make this decision because I like the aspect of beautiful feet where we're reading the picture books however I felt like beautiful feet it did miss the aspect of having like a main spine and one thing that's cool about the build your library is we are going to be able to read a picture book in that specific country or culture that we're in along with having like some reference books which I really really am going to appreciate. So I'm going to briefly go over the spines but if you go to buildyourlibrary.com she has sample weeks of her curricula and she actually gives out all of the books that she uses in her curricula so you can really take a good look at everything that our kids are going to go over when it comes to around the world this homeschooling year with my kinder and with my first grader. So the spines for this particular curricula is cooking class and this is like a global Facebook. I thought it was so cute. I'm going to give you guys a quick flip through. So as we go through each country we can come in here and try out some of the recipes. You guys my oldest daughter she flipped this book and she's so excited too. So I'm definitely going to have her join in as we are picking out a meal and I love how it has the flags for each of the country. So this is cooking class. The other reference book we're going to be using is flags around the world and this is like an ultimate sticker book and it has all the stickers that we're going to be placing with the flags around the world as we go over each of the country and one thing I really appreciate about this book is that it's very simple text and I definitely know my first grader is going to be able to understand as we're going through the geography of these cultures and flags. So here is the other spine which is the World Atlas sticker book by National Geographic and again it has stickers for us to place as we go through each of the countries and cultures and I thought that was really cool. I love the informations and the snapshots the fun facts that we are going to go through as we go through this World Atlas. Now some of the bigger spines are children like me and this is a celebration of all children around the world and you guys I absolutely love this book. The representation I love just the all the little snippity facts that we're going to be learning and to have pictures of the actual kids in that area I mean it definitely will make it be more personable as we're going over the different countries we can kind of see what the children are like there. So this is Children Like Me by DK. Our big Atlas we're going to be using is the Children's Atlas and again this is a beautiful book. I love it. I love the snapshots of information we're going to be using as we go over each of the countries so this is amazing. And the last book that they have that is one of the spines is this Wild Animals Atlas. Now we do have another science curricula we already are doing but because we are going over the countries and cultures I figure it still will be fun for us to read this book so we can figure out like the animals in that area. I mean that's always fun so we'll know the flag the children and the animals in each country and culture that we're going to be studying. So I am really really excited about Build Your Library Level Zero so I feel like it's a great combination of us having good spines plus the picture books. I'm going to check out all the picture books from the library so I don't have to worry about purchasing anything else since I already have all my spines so I'm really really excited for us to dive into this cultural study. Now as far as science you guys goes I decided to go with sunlight science. It was really between sunlight and book shark and the only reason why I chose sunlight was because they had more literature and I really want more books. So that was the main reason why I chose this over book shark. I was actually able to get this at a discounted price on Rainbow Resources because this is not the most updated science curricula so I was really able to save I think like $80 all together by buying I think this is the 2019 version instead of like the most updated one which I didn't mind. So I don't have like the video links when it comes to the experiments or anything like that. I just have the books and the lab kit and things like that which I was perfectly okay with especially stealing it you know at a more discounted rate. So this is the Science K that's going to go over ecosystems, meteorology, physics, engineering and or in engineering design for sunlight. So I'm really really excited about this one. So the books that we're going to be using and reading are pretty much the same books. We have Ants by Usborne. This is Bees and Wasp by Usborne. This is Reptiles, Weather, Rainforest. This is Forces Makes Things Move. I have the Magic School Bus inside of a hurricane. This is From Seed to Plant. Why Do Elephants Needs Sun? And this is the DK Find Out Science Encyclopedia book. This is Wengars, Trees of Peace. I believe this is going to be the main person we're going to be using as far as like our bibliography study. I am also going to be adding in learning about George Washington Carver. Carver as well when we get into plants for the kiddos too. Now as far as the big science I guess manual this is the Discover and Do Science and you guys know science has always been my week subject so I'm most excited about the lab kit. So I can make sure that I'm doing science. I did pick the four day a week science schedule and hopefully I'm thinking about combining it to do just two days, two longer days of science instead of the four. So that's how we're going to tackle science here in my home school. Now as far as literature goes for my first grader, she is going to join in with my pre-kinder with Melanated Tales. And the core books for Melanated Tales is Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folk Tales, Black Mother Goose, and Her Stories which is African American Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales. So I'm really excited about all of the literature that I'm going to be reading this upcoming home school year with my kiddos. I really feel like this home school year I was really scattered when it came to literature. I just picked out books that they liked from the library and I really wanted like a book list, a curated book list and that's why I went with the Heritage Pack so I can ensure that we're doing like all the literature we're reading all of our folk tales that I want to read with my kiddos and I'm on more of a schedule instead of just picking random books from the library. So I'm excited to have this as far as her literature component, her and my youngest literature component this home schooling year. So we're going to be doing the Melanated Tales. This is a 30 week schedule or 36 week schedule and it just has a few pages for us to read. So what I'm going to do is we're primarily going to combine all of our literature for just Monday and Friday since those are like lighter days. So that's how I'm going to do literature for my younger two. So you guys these are my curricula picks for the 2024-2025 home schooling year for my first grader. I really hope you guys enjoy watching and seeing everything. If you want to see any flip foods or anything in more in-depth please let me know. I definitely will make a separate video for you guys. Stay tuned for my next video which will be my rising seventh graders curricula picks. As always you guys thank you so much for watching today's video and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye.