 love the way you set up your planner. It is my first time using one and it's possible would you go over your last year's planners and I love your idea. Hey guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I'm going to change it up and do something a little bit different. I am going to be answering all of my unanswered comments that I have here on my YouTube channel. You guys I am so happy for all of you new subscribers that have subscribed to my channel. I really feel grateful for um I guess my little platform here on YouTube growing and I'm so happy for all of my new subscribers and my new viewers. I really appreciate all of you guys and in attempts to remedy me not answering all of my YouTube comments I gather all of my most commonly asked questions and I put it together and I'm going to answer all of those questions today for you guys. I am going to try my best to be better at answering all of my comments on my YouTube channel. It's really hard you guys just because um when I get a more deeper question or a more elaborate question it really takes time for me to like really think and make sure I you know answer the question thoroughly and a lot of times I always say oh I'm going to come back and answer that question later and I never come back to it. So I'm going to do my best in attempt to answer all of my unanswered YouTube comments and if you guys like this type of video I definitely will make more for you guys and I'm going to do a lot better at answering all of you guys's questions or at least as many as I can. So you guys the first most common question I always receive on my YouTube channel is um this one right here which is do you have any videos or guidance on how to create a schedule for your preschooler? How does a typical day go for you with your youngest? And I definitely will say I do not have any videos on my channel as far as scheduling tips for preschoolers um but I will direct you to my friend Rachel from Seven and All. She has two young boys that she is homeschooling now. I believe they are three and five. They are um similar ages as my younger ones here and I got a lot of tips and guidance in helping me create schedules and routines from her video. Another one you guys who is a big YouTuber here on this platform is JDA and she really specializes in that like preschool, kindergarten, uh routines and things like that and I definitely love watching her video for tips in like creating my schedule and routine with my younger two. I'm not gonna lie it took me a long time to really get them in the flow of homeschool because I was really inconsistent with them and over the summer you guys. I really put my foot down and I began to be um really consistent with them in their schedule so they understood and they knew uh you know their morning time. This is a time we eat breakfast and do bible. This is the time we're reading. This is school time. This is outside time. So I really had to be consistent in our rhythms in our home uh and it really made I guess squeezing in that educational time with them a lot easier. So um I definitely will um link some of my favorite videos from Rachel from Seven Awe and from JDA that I loved um that helped me incorporate some type of schedule and routine for my younger ones. My next question that I have is from Jennifer Wilson 9195 and she asked me um how do you like math with confidence? I'm considering it for my youngest when she's old enough for kindergarten work and I have been receiving so many questions you guys about math with confidence or in particular kindergarten math with confidence and you know how I am enjoying this uh program right here with Leia. So um we started kindergarten math with confidence in January. I wasn't consistent with this program so in the summer I come I completely started it over from the beginning and right now we are on week nine. I definitely will say I absolutely I you know I love this program and I really don't want to speak too soon especially since I'm still kind of like in the beginning part of it but I really have been enjoying it. I've been enjoying the games the hands-on activities. I will say some of the warm-up exercises that they have in the beginning the ones that take a little bit longer like uh we have been playing goldfish and things like that sometimes I separate the lesson where we will play like goldfish uh during like our um afternoon time whenever we have downtime and then I focus on the meat of the lesson. So sometimes I break up the warm-up section from the actual lesson that's a way like I try to keep my daughter's attention focused because sometimes I feel like the warm-ups and the lesson practice may feel a little bit scattered um so that's something that I have been doing and really shaking it up and it's really been fun uh something else I definitely will say about kindergarten math with confidence if you are going into this program just know it does take some prep work uh what I do at the beginning of the week is I make sure I have all the supplies and materials that I need for the whole week and I put it in like my little cubby um so I can ensure when I am sitting down doing lessons with Leia I have everything I need whether it requires like straws or I need a construction paper whatever I need it's typically something I do have in the home but I do make sure I uh look ahead and I plan I love that this is scripted and you know it's really been so much fun um as far as this with um what is it kindergarten not kindergarten but as far as this program with math you see primer because we are doing both math programs if anyone was to ask me which one do I love better there are both two completely separate programs and I love them both and I really can't say one is better than the other but I really have been enjoying both of our math curriculums this home school year so far I really been enjoying also to the picture book so last week our picture book was this one right here which is cn symmetry now uh this was a replacement book because I think the book that they recommended it wasn't in stock in my library so I went ahead and I grabbed this book because it was really similar and I really loved how since we were talking about symmetry my daughter had an opportunity to read like a picture book that really went in depth and explain and what symmetry is and um I love the incorporation of the math books and even though this um is like an enrichment exercise that you can do on Fridays with kindergarten math with confidence I read the picture book all week long and I really really love that so our next couple of picture books we're going to be using for the next couple of weeks is going to be left right Emma which we're of course going over left and right and these books are so stinking cute and then after that we're going to be using this book right here which is called pattern fish and um I love like all of the illustrations all of the books have been really really hits in my home school so far so I just make sure I at least have like three weeks worth of books on hand um for the kindergarten math with confidence because I didn't want to purchase all the books but um they definitely add like a little umph into the program so I really really have been enjoying it so you guys the next question that um I received is um I love the way you set up your planner um is it is my first time using one and it's possible would you go over your last year's planners and I love your idea so you guys um over the past couple of years I have been using schoolness's homeschool planners and this right here is my big uh schoolness homeschool planner that I used last year and then I have my new one that I'm using this year which is my homeschool minimalist planner from schoolness so you guys I am going to flip you around and I'm going to show you guys the inside of both of the planners and how this one looks and compared to this one right here I am going to kind of give you guys some glimpses of what we've been up to in our homeschool don't worry I will give you guys our um August homeschooling update next week and you'll kind of know like all the nitty-gritty things that we have done but you will see some sneak peeks when I show you guys inside of both of these planners and the layouts and the differences really really quick so um I absolutely love schoolness planners um I'm not going to lie I do miss my bigger one because I miss all of the pages that I have but this one is working out just fine but I think next year I may go for the bigger uh the bigger one again so these are my schoolness planners and I'm going to flip you guys around and show you the inside of them okay you guys these are actually my two planners this is my planner from last year my new one from this year the only difference is is that I actually uh took off the binding myself and I laminated the front cover of this uh schoolness minimal minimal planner because it actually doesn't come like this all of the planners come like this with the I don't know there's just a regular binding on the side and this is how my um planner looks after like a year of wear and tear so I really feel like it held up pretty well so I'm going to go ahead and show you guys how this planner looks right here since I have another video showing you guys the setup already of this one so this is last year's planner this is just the big bad boy in the lesson planning so this is my first page of my planner I still didn't fill out my index this right here has our schedule and our yearly overview all the days that we took off I have our attendance record the curriculum that we used last year and I even marked like if we finished it or not I have all of the resources that we've used so this is history science this is all the things that I use for my pre-care at the time I have our fill trips which you guys I don't think we did any fill trips last year and you know it is what it is we have different seasons for things so yeah that is my fill trips calendar that I tempted to do here is the books that we read and I have all the little pictures in here I didn't complete it and do all of them I kind of got fatigued towards the end but it's okay so what I'm going to do you guys is I'm going to pull out a week and show you guys how a week of my lesson planning looked here so here is my reflections page where I would take a picture of either me working like with the kids so here I'm going to zoom you guys in so right here I have a picture of my oldest doing her science and doing math and then I have a picture right here of me working with my four-year-old at the time she was four on her um Matthew C right here and then I have a picture of all of her crafts that she got up to in her all about reading pre-reading this right here was a schedule that I typed out for um how we were doing like our weekly days so I always glue it in on here and if it was anything I wanted to write in or fill out I would here is actually how our whole week would look so uh I would reverse plan so in starting off our week I will only write like the subjects and the dates across and then as we go throughout the course of the week I will go ahead and fill it in and then I love this planner right here is because it had these daily detail pages and what I used them for was to write out specific things that my kiddos was working on things that I wanted to incorporate for the next week uh areas that I thought that they did really really well in and I really loved incorporating these daily detail pages because it was really notes and reminders for me as I was going into the next weeks and then my weeks will kind of go off the same and here goes another week I tagged to show you guys so here is another week this is a week where my oldest finished IEW we were so proud of her and um again here goes our week overview so now all of the weeks will be completely full which is completely fine I mean I feel like that is homeschooling some weeks are busier than others so this is how this week looked and again here goes my daily detail pages where I like to write details of what all the kids got up to and then here is my you know next month and this was our last month of the year so that is how this planner looked for last year now here is my school next planner oh you guys excuse the table I didn't clean it off this is our homeschool table but it's all good um here is my homeschooling planner uh and how it looks right now I'm going to give you guys a brief flip through again so um here is my first page of my new school Nest minimal planner my index page is of course still not filled out yet I have our uh overview of our curriculum the lessons in each one and how I plan to attack them I have my calendar for the school year and all the field trips that I want to do right here I actually took a picture of the field trip and I plugged it in on this page right here here is our attendance record so here is all the days that I highlighted that we have done so far this homeschooling year here is our um classes that my oldest is taking and then here is the curriculum overview pages for uh all the kiddos here is the pages I haven't started these of the book list that we've read I think I just started my Kenny Gartner's books I'm only going to put her favorite books right here and I think I'm going to go ahead and write out the book list so when we end off our first six week term I'm going to come back in my planner and actually write out all the books but these so far were her two favorite this homeschooling year so I'm going to go ahead and go to our August month overview so here is my month overview at a glance and I have different things and schedules that I have going on so far for the month um here is my month in review so I will come back to this page after we complete the month of August so here let's go to my weekly layout so here is our first day of school pictures here is like my weekly goals for the week and any type of things that I have I want to do in the calendar I put there so this is our first week back at school I highlighted some of their favorite books our hymn study and um here is our second week back at school my goals and plans some of my um Kenny Gartner's favorite books for that week and again um this is everything that we did for that week so I reverse plan so the only thing I will have out at the beginning of the week is the subject and the days of the week and I will fill it in as we go and what I've been doing is taking this last column and using it as a note section so here is our third week back at school uh again somewhere a book I had to reread for my Kenny Gartner that she enjoyed one of my daughter's favorite books she enjoyed and again this week was a slower week for us so um these are the goals that I have for us to do on our third week and a new um independent read my daughter read that week notes here is our week four what we got up to my weekly reflections goals books that my kiddos read we had our home school hangout and they talked about pollinators which was really really fun uh here is like some of the books that the kiddos enjoy a new read aloud and then right here is our next week that is coming up which is uh week five and I have my goals that I did already and then right here this is how my calendar actually or my um planner actually looks for that week where I just write out everything that I plan to do and then as we go through each day I will fill it out so now I have my notes and then I have my morning time right here on the side I have math English literature history and science for my oldest for my younger two my Kenny Gartner and my preschooler I have them right here at the bottom because my oldest kind of takes up most of the planner for right now so this is how my planner is looking right now you guys so I gave you a sneak peek and I can't wait to talk to you guys about my August update and all the things we got up to in my next upcoming video okay you guys another most common question I get is how do I create the small little pictures that I put inside of my planner so for the most part how I create those pictures is I go on to amazon and I type in whatever book that I am looking to make a small picture or replica to put in my planner and the main keys that I press because I am using a mac or iOS I press command shift four to take a small screenshot of that particular book that I'm looking for and that is how I I guess get the right size that I want so typically I don't resize the image I just use that little image that it has on amazon so at that point then what I will do is I go to whatever like word processor that you like to use I like to use google documents because it's completely free it reminds me a lot of microsoft word and what I do is I take my screenshot and I just drag it on to my new word document and that is how I save all of the pictures that I want to add in my planner and I simply print them out at my glue and washi tape you guys my next question that I have is I have been binge watching your content this week so I'm so glad I found you I have three kids 11 five and three in the same grade just yours I like to know what resources you plan to use what methods you are planning for study hall time with your sixth grader since this is something now I would love to work with mine as well over the years so for right now as far as our study hall period for my sixth grader the main thing that I'm working on right now is note taking skills so because we did IEW structure and style last year for my sixth grader we are following a similar model as far as taking notes and writing and citing sources and writing them in her own words so that is the main thing that we're working on right now I really wanted her to get used to doing some type of note taking skills as far as like Cornell notes and we've really been focusing on that and that is the only skill I have been working on right now but for my study hall period again it's really going to be helping my daughter learn how to do note taking skills and study skills because as she is getting further and further in her academics I do want her to have the confidence in being able to consume information and be able to write notes on her own because I definitely know because she is on a college path here in our home school I definitely want her to be able to have that skill mastered as she is entering high school because I do plan for her to do dual enrollment classes so right now that is our only focus in our study hall period but I definitely know we can use it for a variety of different things but right now we are working on note taking skills and in her oak metals curriculum she's working on citing sources right now so that's really really cool and I really have been helping her do that um she's been citing her uh sources right now in mla format however I do want to teach her how to do other formats in citing sources as well so you guys my uh next question is um I love this video and I admire the dedication and the progress in your home school kudos thank you so much and it says any chance can you elaborate on the use for your science notebooks so you guys I am going to flip you guys around I'm going to give you a sneak peek inside of our old school next science notebooks and I may even give you a sneak peek of our history science notebooks so you can kind of see some of the inspiration and ideas that I get when I am doing like some type of interactive notebook for my kiddos okay you guys here is our school nest notebooks from last year this is the history one we used in the science one and I'm going to briefly show you guys um some of the pages that my daughter did last year this is her chart that she charted the weather um when we was going over our weather unit she really really enjoyed that um so honestly when it comes to notebooking in their science journals to really be honest um I kind of just go with the flow so if the curriculum told us to look up vocabulary words I may look up vocabulary words and have my kiddos find pictures that they enjoy so this year of course we were studying space um so that is kind of like how this notebook started as far as science goes um any types of prompts that my curriculum does tell me to do that's typically what I would do and if I find like any free interactive notebooking pages that I like on teachers pay teachers that's definitely like an opportunity that I will use to like add in different notebooking pages within our like science notebook um this page right here um was when we went over like the layers of the earth and most of these templates like I say I do find on teachers pay teachers whatever we are studying so this one was my daughter's absolute favorite was when she had an opportunity to write out little facts and information about each of the planets and she really really loved doing this simple um activity when it came to science and I really loved it because I was able to see how fluid she was when it came to like her more structured writing since she was working on IEW at the time um here is like a space exploration timeline when we got to that and layers of the atmosphere once we got into more of the earth so this is just examples of how her school next science notebook looked and again I typically pick off interactive things from teachers pay teachers and a lot of free resources is on there especially when it comes to interactive notebooks here is history and it kind of looks the same in starting off um typically what I do is like this uh book this was a picture book that we were reading I would typically find a passage or a copy work passage that I really felt that stood out in that book and I might have my daughter write it out and we may add some pictures um other times I may have her like write a timeline um right here she redid the poetry and she wrote the copy work of I2 in America um I think she also in here um right here this is a picture or a little map that she made when we went over the middle passage and she wrote about it right here the triangular trait so um it just really depends like right here she just wrote a quote on Booker T Washington so to really be honest um each of the pages when it comes to the notebooking it just really depends on whether I want her to write a summary whether we're going to do a copy work passage uh whether we're going to write a quote we're going to you know find pictures about that person uh I just really leave our notebooking really really open and fluid and I really allow um my daughter to really have fun and she really really enjoys notebooking so that is how I utilize my science and my history notebooks and these are the ones from last year don't worry you guys in my update video um my daughter gave me the permission to share with you guys her notebooking that she has done for this year so far as well so you guys thank you so much for watching today's video I really hope that I have answered all of you guys's most commonly asked comments and questions if you guys have any more questions for me please leave them down below in the comment section and I definitely will make more videos like this if you have enjoyed them I really enjoyed creating this video and I really feel like this is my apology to all of you guys for not getting back to all of your guys's questions I'm here on my channel so as always you guys thank you so much for watching and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye