 Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel you guys in today's video i'm going to take you along as i'm planning my first week back in my second semester i'm a little bit nervous you guys we have taken a two week break in my home school i really was trying to take another week but all of my kids they are definitely ready for some more normalcy in our home school um we took off from December 20th until January 5th was like our full on uh Christmas or holiday break which was about two weeks i was thinking about taking another week off you guys and doing three and then that's starting the day after Martin Luther King day but my oldest she said she's ready to start my younger ones i can tell they are ready for some like type of normalcy and like our schedule we've been like all over the place we really just let it loose this holiday season so i'm excited for us to like get you know started back up and you know gear up for our second semester so i have my planner here you guys and i'm going to flip you guys around and i'm going to take you along with me as i plan out our second semester now i have gotten so many comments from you guys wanting to see how my planner looks mid-year so before i get into the planning i'm going to you know show you guys how my planner is looking now that it's halfway completed like some of the things that i uh added in here because a lot of you guys really have been enjoying using your school nest planners too one thing i will say is i regret not getting the bigger planner and for next year i'm definitely getting the bigger planner because i definitely want more spots for me to be able to like write out different notes and things like that throughout the week so um i'm definitely not getting the minimalist planner i need the big bad boy especially that you know i'm going to be officially doing all three of my kiddos so this one's been good this year but um i really wish i got the bigger one so i'm going to go ahead you guys and flip you around and we're going to go ahead and plan out my first week of my second semester okay you guys here is my school nest planner and i'm just going to go ahead and give you guys a quick uh b-roll of some flip through of how my planner looks and here we go okay you guys that is a quick snippet of my planner so now i'm going to go ahead and show you the overcap recap of my goals that i have for this week and how i'm planning to attack everything so i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to go start off with my younger two and go ahead and show you guys the planning and how i'm prepping for them and then i'll go into my uh sixth grader because we are making a few curriculum changes if you guys see my mid-year update i did make a mid-year science curriculum change and i do have some uh plans for my oldest and i'm going to share them with you guys when i get there but first let's start off with the easy ones and we will go into my kindergarten and my preschooler so you guys first things first i like to share with i'm going to share with you guys some things that i do in the morning for my younger two so um this is like our morning work what i do with them while my oldest is upstairs working with math i've been utilizing that time working with penmanship so this is for my newly four-year-old we are going to come back in and using this book for her beginner strokes um as you guys can see she used this book when she was three so i need to get some alcohol wipes and i'll wipe it off but i'm going to really focus on these two pages with her beginner strokes and prepping her for her handwriting without tears book so this is what i'm going to be working with with handwriting in the morning with my uh three-year-old for her morning work and for my um five-year-old this is her blackline masters for her numbers from kindergarten math with confidence this is actually a copy of her old um handwriting without tear book with her capital practice review so she can practice all her letters every single day on the dry erase sleeve and the letter we're going to start off with is k um is what we're going to um really hone in on because i believe it's k z and j are the only letter she's kind of still struggling with fluency so um after this we will be hitting into the lowercase letters with her so this is um they're like morning uh handwriting sheets that they were going for my younger two that i keep downstairs for them now as far as like some morning fun things that i do with my younger kiddos this is the opportunity that i always grab some activities from my shelf so this week i'm keeping it really simple for like their fun morning activities we're going to do some coloring so i picked up these lol dial coloring books from uh the dollar tree you guys they're definitely are into lol dial so we're going to work on some coloring to get those you know hand muscles going again for uh my younger two i have the paint with waters you guys if you find these at the dollar tree please get them they're so much fun they're so easy all you need is a paint brush a little thing of water and they keep them busy for a while so we're going to do our paint with water this week and then we're also going to do our uh pasting and cutting skills this week so these are all things i'm going to go ahead and keep downstairs so um i have a variety of activities for us to do in the morning time and i'm not scrambling so i think this is plenty um like morning starters for my younger two and these are just some ideas for you guys if you do have younger ones now for my younger two as well i didn't get an opportunity to go to a library you guys to get a whole bunch of books so what i did was i just looked on my bookshelf to see if i can find like any wintery theme book so i can ensure i'm doing their read aloud so i found some cute ones so we're going to read the snowy day uh froggy gets dressed the snow dancer this is the mitten this is goodbye autumn hello winter some of their favorites they love this is uh celebration of sisters this is a us born book is so cute they love this book if you give a cat a cupcake you know the whole series if you give a mouse a cookie they love that whole series so i just pulled out this one of course my younger one she definitely still loves pete the cat and this is our math picture book for my um kindergarten or for the week which is how tall i was able to go ahead and pick up all of the math picture books that i'm going to need for this uh six-week term so that's all i was able to check out from the library but hopefully we'll go to the library and i'll have some more books for next week but i think this is enough books to kick start them off for our first week back to home school okay you guys the first subject i have to semi plan is kindergarten math with confidence uh we are starting off um week 21 which is going over length one thing i really enjoy about the kindergarten math with confidence is it has like a a list right here of all the things that i need so the only thing i have to do these are actually my paper clips from my desk so what i'm going to do is just put some in a baggie for this exercise i needed a ruler so i stole my oldest order's ruler so hopefully she doesn't mind so i have a ruler and then it also called for some uh centimeter cubes and i had these ones right here from uh brielle when i used them with her and um i just need to pull out some for her when we're doing our measurement so i have the centimeters cube so i just need to add these few things inside of my math box for my daughter i think all of the other um number cards that i need like the um index cards for the numbers i already have these made out so i don't really have to worry about that so we're going over uh length this is crazy she's already at this point we're doing this um this exercise looks so cute all about me look we gotta measure her foot in her hand i can't wait to do that one so this looks like it's going to be a fun week for her um kindergarten math with confidence and it looks like after that we're going into weight and capacity so uh those are the few supplies that i need it so i'm just going to add those to uh my math box and i think i'm going to go ahead and um put them in a baggie so i can just have them all on her desk so that one was really simple so uh we are all ready to go with kindergarten math with confidence okay you guys the next subject for leia is phonics so i'm going to continue to use explode the code this week especially since she um you know we haven't been doing phonics for two weeks so i think what i'm going to do is when we start off our phonics instruction uh maybe we will just come in and do a few review pages for her as far as her cvc word practice i have her all of her green words that she already has mastered i think what i'm going to do is we're just going to go over all of them uh for maybe the first couple of days i have in my little basket my mom got me these baskets for christmas for my home school aren't they cute so i uh pulled out some of the few the next few bob books that she can read so um we can do some practice as far as her reading fluency with her bob books i found this little uh viewfinder at the dollar tree you guys for when she's reading her words so hopefully she'll like these it came in a pack of like 10 so i have that for her and we're going to start off the week with explode the code and once i see she's like you know her muscles got warmed up we're going to go ahead and start back in our all about reading i believe we are going into lesson eight yeah let's see yeah so we're in lesson eight it's nothing really i need to do as far as all about reading because it's already prepped we use our um the app with the letter tiles on it so all i have to do is press lesson eight and we're good to go the only thing i'm going to go ahead and do is i'm going to uh look in my binder right here and i'm just going to go ahead and pull out the lesson eight um what is this called i think this is like the activity pages i'm going to go ahead and pull it out and put it inside of my um i'm going to put it inside of my all about reading books so i can have it and you guys i'm so happy i did prep it so i already have like the little fluency cards for us um as far as her work flippers already ready to go and prep so that's really really good i did that already i mean i know it's a lot of prep work but it's so worth it in the end so um i think she's really going to enjoy this activity so i have the activity pages i have her uh fluency page in here as well and hopefully she will enjoy using her new um little viewfinder that i got from the Dollar Tree so i'm going to put this big binder with my activity um book back on my shelf and i'm just going to put in her basket um her activity pad so that's all ready to go so um i'm so happy i did do that prepping now i didn't prep the whole all about reading i only prepped half of it because that was my goal to finish half of this this year so if i see we're doing it more i'll probably prep more so that is everything as far as Leia's uh reading her phonics um all of the work that i'm going to be doing with her this week and of course her handwriting so she's all good to go um now as far as my preschooler you guys uh we have started jda's math and i already have the page number where we're at for her so she just loves this little book you guys um we just do however many pages she wants to do now this was the pdf file i think the book looks a little bit different so for my newly four-year-old i'm just going to let her do as many pages as she wants to but we are going to kick start back her uh preschool math at home and right now we are on i think this is chapter four and we are about to start or i'm going to introduce her now to the 10 frame so i can put my five frame away because she has that master um and go ahead and get her started i think what i'm going to do for her is i'm just going to use our uh linking blocks for her for her kindergarten math with confidence uh in the wintertime i found some cute little snowflakes and christmas trees that i use with them and i think if i can find some cute valentine's day manipulatives i will use that once it comes to like february but for now i'm just going to use my regular linking blocks with her um preschool math at home so that is her uh math as far as her little phonics uh basket my mom got these baskets um i'm just going to review her letter sounds here are the cbc words we're practicing with her and i went ahead and i just took out her favorite color of her linking blocks right here so when i set up her desk at the end literally i can just stack all these things up and she's ready to go and i think that's all i'm going to do with alana my four-year-old uh this week along with like her morning starters okay you guys um now that i have my uh younger two all finished this is like all the goals for the week i do have messy art friday i didn't figure out like what art project i want to do on friday but hopefully i can find a wintery themed project on pinterest and they'll have fun doing that so that's something i need to add to my checklist for a messy art friday but that's everything they're going to do our first week back at school um so they're all good to go now let's go to my sixth grader you guys so brielle has finished math you see zeta and i'm so proud of her um so i already have math you see pre algebra ready for her to go i still have it in a shrink wrap you guys because i'm like so excited about this but before we head into math you see pre algebra she has been off of math for about two weeks um i kind of don't want to just like throw into the you know the ocean i want to give her like some breathing room to kind of get her skills back up especially since she's starting a new semester so what we're going to do is our first week back we are going to just do our supplemental math which is our oak metals math six now i'm going to be completely honest with you guys um brielle can actually take the final for this um oak metals math six i'm just using this as a review and um i guess like a review and supplement and preparation for her standardized test at the end of the year so um that's exactly how we're going to use it so since we're just kick starting back school what i'm going to do is i'm just going to go ahead and let her start off the week doing um oak metal and like i said this is just going to be a review get her feedback you know start at what um so this is what she's going to be doing as far as math this week we may do lessons 19 and 20 because again like i said this is just all review for her and i just want her to you know get kick started back and give her a gentle start when it comes to that so that is what brie's going to do for math and you know that's what i wrote down right here so that is all ready to go now as far as her english block i'm keeping it really really simple so of course we're going to do fix it grammar we're coming in at um week 16 so this is about the halfway point for fix it grammar she's just going to come in and do her one sentence a day and most of this is just review she typically reads this on her own and then she kind of goes throughout the week so i have this all ready for her as far as fix it grammar we're going to be doing her oak metals uh english six now for the lesson 18 it's just a vocabulary review for this whole week so what i'm going to do is all the vocabulary words that she's done so far i'm going to give her like a oral test and we'll work on that so um this oral review i might split up the words into two days it's going to be really simple for her as far as her vocabulary review in english so i'm happy she's coming in oak metals english with a lighter week as well so that's really cool as far as that goes so since it is a lighter week for her in oak metal what we're going to do is we are going to do iew this week as well so it's definitely not too much she's not writing really much in any of her other subjects so in iew right now we are coming in it at unit three week four it says that this week we can take two weeks on this assignment if we want to right here but she'll be able to write this three paragraph assignment in one week so this is going to be um iew that we're going to do this week along with her english since english is so simple so that's her lineup with that as far as her ancient civilizations we are starting a new unit so on week 18 she's learning about islam we finished up when we finished up our um oak metal week 17 we finished it up talking about christianity so now we're just finishing off talking about different types of religion so uh this week is really really simple um she has an opportunity to uh we're going to read about the islam and the text she has an art project for this week and she has to write a one page research paper um this week as well but what i think since we're just coming into oak metal i think i'm going to take two weeks on this lesson 18 i find some weeks i like spending two weeks on them and it all equals out because some of the weeks are lighter some of them are heavier so since this is a heavier week i mean these are all questions that they want her to answer in paragraph form so question three and four they want her to write a paragraph or a few sentences and then right here this is a they want her to do like some type of community outreach uh project this week as well so i definitely want to give her two weeks with this lesson 18 so that's the why we're going to do iow so she'll probably write the paper next week so um that's all bria's going to be doing as far as history and um english as far as her um oak metal goes now the new book she's going to be reading is a hundred and or a thousand and one inventions and awesome facts of um or from muslim civilizations is the book she's going to be reading since she's going over islam and this is just such a cool reference book so um this is what we're going to be reading together this week which is awesome so that is all she has for history which again i'm really really happy we're kind of coming in at like a lighter week with her so that is her math english and history all planned out now we're going to go into um science and health what i'm going to be doing for her as well now for science you guys we did make a mid-year curriculum change for science and we are doing apologia's exploring creation with chemistry and physics now if you guys seen my um earlier video that i made at the beginning of this year i had all intentions to donate this curricula but i never actually got a chance to and when our science wasn't working i was like you know what i can just pull this out of my closet and we can cover science and i'm going to be completely honest with you guys i am i'm really happy with this apologia chemistry and physics um i see the hype of apologia and it's been going really well and brielle can do this independently and she's been enjoying it so um the only thing about this so far is that i think i'm going to go ahead and get the lab kit because right now i have like a small list of things that i need for our experiments this week we're on lesson two which is about week four of this curricula so um in order for me to complete this curriculum by the end of the um so we're right here so in order for me to complete this curricula by the end of the semester i definitely need to do science uh at least monday through friday for her because i seen a lot of people were able to really fast track this science because it's only um 28 you know weeks but what we're going to do is we're probably the first uh like probably the first six to 12 weeks of our school my goal is for us to do um science monday through thursday so then we're able to cover instead of doing two days of science a week we'll do a four so we're able to cover two lessons um especially since we really didn't do science that well so i'm hoping we can finish this curricula by the end of the semester that's just my goal but you know we'll see but so far it's been going well so this is our science right here now one thing i am adding in for uh brie is we are going to go ahead and start health this i had all intentions you guys on doing this unit over the summer time but summer happened um i don't know if you guys have noticed but brielle got her braces over the summer and it was it was chaotic so i didn't really didn't get a chance to do this unit that i wanted to do over the summer so it's fine we're just going to be doing science and health we're going to have heavier science than history is so that's kind of how it's going to go this semester so we're going to start off with this book it's so amazing and um it has 22 lessons in this book so um hopefully we can at least come at it two to three times a week and we'll have it completed in our first six-week term but i'm really not in a rush we're going to just take our time so as long as we get to this at least twice a week i'll be happy and if we finish this book i'm going to go into the second book in the series which is it's perfectly normal and we will work on this one as well so these are our two books we're going to be using this semester for health that is science and health now another new thing that we're adding in for brielle is we're going to start off a new bible study with her so not consumed you guys i've been hearing so much about not consumed uh just in general on uh youtube i want to give it a try so uh these are two of the units that i got on sale they had so many sales over the holiday time so i'm going to let brie choose whichever bible study she wants to do either fruit of the tongue or making lemonade which is trusting god through life struggles and fruit of the tongue is a biblical a biblical study on the power of god's word so these are our two um new bible studies that we're going to do i believe both of these studies they take anywhere between three and four weeks i'm not at any rush we're going to just take our time but i definitely knew what i was doing for her she definitely is ready for a bump in our biblical study so we're going to be doing this along with our hem study and that's how simple i'm keeping our morning bible time with my oldest uh this second semester um i'm cutting out all the fluff and we're just getting to the meat so that is like my plan for our second semester you guys um thank you guys so much for watching today's video i really hope you enjoy coming along with me as i planned out my first week of my second semester you guys we're going to cross our fingers please wish me some luck send some prayers up for me as i'm starting off my second semester i have like the butterflies in my stomach i'm a little bit nervous but hopefully we can kind of get back into our routine and you know it'll be a smooth transition for us here in our household i really hope that you guys are all having smooth transitions as you're you know dusting off the books and kick starting your homeschool as well so 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