 Now you guys for the main show you're gonna see what I have picked for our overall core for the upcoming homeschool year for her and we have decided to go with how you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel you guys in today's video I will be sharing my sixth great homeschooling picks for the 2023 2024 homeschooling year so if any of you guys are new here to my channel again my name is Brittany I'm a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 11, five and three and I will be entering in my fourth year of homeschool you guys so I am so excited I am a little bit nervous you guys and starting off middle school I really did a lot of research and I really took a lot of time and selecting the picks for my middle schooler because I really was looking into picking curriculum that was really going to suit her overall and it was really going to help me accomplish the goals that I want us to reach this homeschooling year so you guys uh without further ado I'm going to go ahead and get on into this thing I have everything laid out and we're going to go ahead and start off with math so with math you guys we are going to be continuing using math you see and we are going to be going into the zeta level you guys switching to math you see this upcoming homeschool year was the best decision that I ever made Brielle is doing so awesome in math and I'm so so so happy with the series so this is Matthew sees data she will be using the live video lessons from Mr. Demi to get her video instructions and then for the math you see her manipulatives actually changed so she is going to be using the math you see a decimal and um or this is the algebra and decimal insert so she's going to actually be using this insert kit for pre algebra and for the zeta level so this is going to be her primary math we are going to supplement this this year and I will share with you towards the end what we're going to supplement her math with so as far as grammar goes we are going to be continuing with the fixate grammar series so this is fixate grammar book four we have completed three of the fixate grammar book series you guys and I absolutely love this grammar program it's short it's sweet it's effective it's very thorough and I'm happy that we are continuing with the series so um because vocabulary was a struggle area for my daughter I decided to add in an extra supplement for her for vocabulary and we will be using the word roots level one so I don't have any anticipation on us completing this book because it's pretty thick for a vocabulary book we are just going to take our time and helping her build those vocabulary skills now you guys for the main show you're going to see what I have picked for our overall core for the upcoming homeschool year for her and we have decided to go with oak metal you guys I am so excited you guys because I am partnering with oak metal to present you guys today's video and I'm going to share with you their entire great sixth level all of the literature and all the things that Braille is going to get up to this homeschooling year I really love this curriculum because it is set up for the student so I am really coming in in the back end as parent and as facilitator each week my daughter gets the opportunity to choose from several selections of assignments she's going to be really hands-on a lot of the assignments are creative it involves a lot of art and writing and I'm really going to be able to see another side of my daughter while we are using this oak metal curriculum so this is the English curriculum and as you guys can see this is the student book and the teacher's manual you see how thin the teacher's manual is compared to the student book again because it is written to the student so the English and the history actually coincides together so in the English this year she will be learning how to write expository descriptive writing she's going to be doing opinion writing persuasive writing and she is also going to be learning how to do MLA format you guys I didn't learn that till high school so this curriculum is really going to enhance those writing skills and I'm really really excited for her about that so the English actually pairs along with the history and this year we are going to be going over ancient civilizations and again this is the teacher's manual and her student book so what's really cool about oak metal is that when it's a lighter English week it means that it's going to be a heavier history week so by doing the weeks together it's really really uh it's really set up for the student and I really love how they automatically know okay if she's going to be writing a paper in history I'm not going to have her do a paper in English she's just going to be doing grammar so it's really cool how they combine the history and the English together in this oak metal series so here is all of the literature that Brielle is going to be reading this homeschool year and I'm going to briefly go over all the books so the first one is maru uh it says maru of the winter caves I have the rainbow people the golden bull the shakespeare stealer the eagle of the knife the ugly one this is castle diary once there was twice there was and then I have two reference books that we're going to be using which is the lairs book of Greek mythology and you guys this book is beautiful like all the illustrations and things like that in it it's awesome so I'm really really excited as we are going to be talking about Greek myths because again we are going to be going over all of ancient civilizations and then the last big reference book that came with the package is 101 inventions and awesome facts of muslim civilizations and again you guys this book is beautiful like all the illustrations and things like that in it so now for science we are going to be doing oak metals basic life science and I'm really really excited Brielle's going to get an opportunity to really master those skills as of writing like a lab report and things like that we're going to be using our microscope this year so I'm really really happy and I'm excited for us to dig in a really really deep into life science so this right here is the student course book and then the teacher's manual as well so to supplement Brielle's math you see we are going to go ahead and do the oak metals math the oak metals math you guys is so clean and it's so simple and I definitely think because this year this upcoming homeschool year is a testing year for us in a state of Georgia I do want her to get that spiral review of the other concepts that she learned in math you see already so we're going to be using the oak metals math as a supplement and I really like how simple and thorough the oak metals math is it's really easy and I definitely think we're going to be able to pair it very well with the math use these data this homeschooling year now you guys uh one thing I haven't showed you and I'm not too sure about it because as you guys can see oak metal is a is a pretty complete package like I really didn't have to think about everything anything everything's like really all laid out for me and I'm like second guessing this choice but I'm going to show it to you guys anyway because you know I love IEW I actually purchased IEW in November but because oak metal is very heavy in writing I don't know if we're going to need this so I'm going to hold on to it and if I find that I want us to start the IEW we will probably start this in second semester and or we will start it the summer of her seventh grade year so I do have this year this is going to be definitely an honorable mention because you guys you know I love IEW I definitely feel like the foundation that IEW laid is really going to prepare Brielle for all the writing she is going to do in oak metal so I have this year I don't know if we're going to use it or not but it's just going to be an honorable mention for right now and as our middle school years go on I definitely will update you guys and let you know if we decided to add an IEW or not now for Brielle's electives we kept it really really simple this year we are going to be doing music through living harmonies this is from thistles and biscuits I'm really really excited for her to learn all these musical instruments around the world and I definitely think it will pair very well since we are going over ancient cultures and civilizations so this is living harmonies as far as her personal electives she's going to continue doing creative writing I am going to have her do a creative writing class throughout school this home schooling year and hopefully she'll have fun doing that and she's also going to continue with piano through Hoffman Academy this is going to be our third year doing Hoffman Academy we are really nearing the end of these units and I definitely think at this point I'm going to have to decide if I'm going to do like private piano lessons for her because she definitely is enjoying using Hoffman Academy and we're nearing the end of this program so you guys these are my sixth grade homeschool curriculum picks I'm so excited I just definitely want to let you know flip throughs you definitely will see inside of Oak Meadow I definitely will have like a lot of planning videos um I will not leave you behind I definitely will take you guys along this process as I'm learning a new curriculum I'm so excited for us and I definitely know this is going to be a rich and fun homeschooling year for us and starting off middle school so as always you guys thank you so much for watching today's video I cannot wait like I said to update you guys on our journey with Oak Meadow and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye