 Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys if you are new here I'm Brittany I am a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 10, 4 and 2 and you guys today I'm going to share with you my homeschool summer day in a life. You guys we have been really enjoying like these summers these like lay back days and I really have been enjoying this relaxed approach to homeschooling and to home learning. So for the most part in the morning you guys it's just our typical routine that we do throughout the school year. I get breakfast together for me and for the kiddos and also for my husband too. He's still working from home you guys so I'm still blessed to still have him here with me. He comes upstairs every now and then to help me out with the kiddos as much as he can too. But I have Brielle in the kitchen you guys with me a lot. She has really been enjoying like cooking and it's just so crazy how her skills have grown with her being in the kitchen with me for over a year. But since we are having these more relaxed days I'm finding myself making like real big breakfasts for us just so we can really enjoy like our morning in our Bible time together and our bellies definitely stay full longer throughout the day because we are making like bigger breakfasts and stuff like that. So yeah so this is just what we do getting ready for breakfast in our Bible time. So you guys during Bible time I do a lot of our scripture memory work with my younger daughters and I also do Brielle's devotion. We do poetry and we also do our character matters cards. So we really enjoy like our morning Bible time together. I kept a lot of these clips in here because I just wanted to show you guys how chaotic my Bible time still gets. My younger ones they kind of like come and go throughout the Bible time and I just let them because at the end of the day you guys my younger ones they are four and two and anytime that I can get them to listen I just do my best and I try to keep on going. This is just like how my mornings go and how they flow especially with younger ones but you will be surprised how much they do listen. They do enjoy all the songs and all the things that we are doing with a gentle and classical preschool. A little bit of like mess to clean right here from breakfast. While the girls are playing or Brielle's really entertaining my younger two I'm just going to go ahead and clean it up real quick. Typically Bruvry helps me out a lot but I like when she's playing with them because it really like distracts them while I'm able to do a couple of things. So I'm going to clean off the table and I am also going to go ahead and check um Bruvry's math. She already did her math early this morning. She actually was up before me doing her math because she kind of likes to get it over with so I'm going to check and see if there's any problems we need to go over and then we are going to kind of like proceed with our summer homeschooling day. Like before I put all of the Bible stuff away back on the car I kind of want to show you in detail what I just did with the kiddos. So this right here is a gentle and classical preschool and um here I'm going to show you the front. Yeah so this is a gentle and classical preschool and for this unit we are talking about the letter C. So this right here is the big thoughts for uh little people where we talked about C is for crying it hurts when you fall has a memory verse and these are like the pictures you asked the kiddos about what's going on in the picture. Um here is all of those um cards that I was singing with the kids how can I glorify God. This is their nursery rhyme for the week. This is their uh little math that they're supposed to be doing and this is our memory verse um that you heard us singing hide me under the shadows of your wings. We also have been going over some personal information with Leia so she's learning her country and the state she lives in and this right here is the manners card I give more than I take. This is the poetry book I read out of for the little ones and then I also read a story out of our tiny truth illustrated bible. So this week our book we're supposed to be reading a few times this week is if you give a mouse a cookie for the letter C. So that is everything for their gentle and classical preschool. I also have preschool math at home in her preschool morning binder. I'm going to try to do a couple of activities with Leia today so you can kind of see the rest of the program but for the rest of it I have done pretty much everything on here except for like the art and the music. It's the only things that I don't do on here but um yeah they really have been enjoying this one. Sorry about the background noise again. Now Brielle we read the three minute devotional for girls and then we also did our character matters card right here uh where we uh talked about love and then she read her um poem from singa song of seasons. I hope you guys can hear me and it's not too loud in the background but um yeah this is everything we did for bible before I put it away just in case you guys have any questions. I actually just finished lesson 79 in sax then so the only part I have to do with her right now is the mental math. She did really really good with this lesson practice. She only missed one two three and she really didn't miss this. She just didn't remember to solve this one so she really only missed four problems so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go over those problems with her make sure she understands them and then she is done for today. So in fact all she does is the lesson practice and then she does evens or odds for her uh mixed practice so she's doing really really well with this and um yeah she's doing great so I'm gonna go ahead and uh get this done with her because I know math is not her favorite part of the day so um she can work on some vocabulary for today. Math for a while get her some more milk. I have um I got the book so I can uh watch you okay so go ahead and get started. I can um not watch you I can hear you so go ahead and I get started while pouring my milk. Okay you guys I kept this clip in my video for two reasons not to embarrass my daughter but to show you guys that your kiddos are not going to enjoy all subjects and for me and my household it's math. Math is definitely the subject that I know we have to work on and we just take our time and we just uh hit on little tidbits each and every day and I try my best to show up for my daughter when it comes to math to really try to encourage her and to let her know that she is progressing and that she is doing a really really good job. I don't want to see her fall through the cracks when it comes to this subject so I just work diligently with her and whatever tactics that I need to uh do we just do them and we just take it one step at a time. We've been continuing doing Saxon throughout the summer and I'm so happy we have because seeing her progression and her growth in math has been amazing. Okay great good job on math give me five. All right great job great job. You want to close it up? Okay go ahead you can close it all up. Okay you're done. Good job good job. Okay go ahead you can take it upstairs. Okay you guys Brie Brie is done and I think I might try to work a little bit more with Leia today. This right here is her preschool morning binder that goes with the gentle and classical preschool where we go over like the weather days of the week months of the year she does her shapes and then she also does like her letter of the week that we have been doing which is C. This is her preschool math at home and right now we are at the end of um chapter two so we are right here we are working on um five we're working on counting with dot stickers and I already have like my dot stickers in here ready to go for her as we're counting to 10 and then this is like her beginning phonics that we have been working on from this elemental phonics by JDA and we've been working just on these two letter blends so I have her magnets because she kind of likes doing it this way instead of doing it from the paper and she's almost mastered this and we can go on to our next two letter blend so she's been doing much much better with this and this program is so simple to do with her um but like I said I don't know if I'm going to get her to I don't know if I'm going to be able to get her to do this with me but this is typically what we do with Leia along with her gentle and classical preschool about three times a week and then she's pretty much done she just plays around and you know be a kid because she's only four so like like you want to come do some school with mommy okay you want to do school come on let's do some school you want to try okay hey what is the weather like today oh it's actually sunny outside so you can go ahead and circle the sunny good job so Leia what season is it remember it's summer mommy it's normally it's rainbow yes but mama it's summer good job it's summer it's sunday and it's monday it's tuesday and it's wednesday it's thursday and it's friday and then it's saturday days of the week today it's thursday can you circle thursday for mommy thursday yeah it is thursday and guess what month it is it is july can you find july for mommy this dry no this one right here is july july july great job july mommy good which one do you want to do you want to do circle or you want to do the letter c letter c you're gonna make the c and down good job it's just one curve that's how we make c what sound does c say good job you want to do your letters or you want to do your counting which one you want to do you want to do letters okay come sit down you can have a banana here give it to me i'll open it up for you okay you guys like that is really the extent of learning when it comes to my younger to their attention span is really short but you will be amazed at how much they retain just by you working with them for little bursts of time so leia wasn't really feeling doing like her preschool math at home so i just don't push it and if ever i have an organic opportunity to work on her counting one to ten whether it be like with her toys or things like that i will do it throughout the day but other than that like i really keep it low key and she has learned so much by this like hands-on math all of these like hands-on learning that i'm doing with her um so uh yeah and then as you guys seem working with alana she typically works with alana on some uh simple phonics simple letter sounds um while i'm working with leia so i can kind of kill two birds at one stone so like ruby is a big help so thank you ruby so yeah so she's a big help so right now we're going to what you want to say you want to say hi say hi yeah they see a fishy so right now i'm going to do like a little bit of reading with the kiddos and then we're going to go outside have some fun and that's pretty much sums up like our uh home school day because i really keep it simple it's summertime you guys and i still want the kiddos to have like a lot of fun so yeah okay you guys we went to the library the other day and we picked out some books so i'm going to show you guys what books we picked out and then i'm gonna have ruby show you her books she picked out but i picked out this book called dear reader a love letter to libraries brielle picked out this book which is eyes that speak to the stars this is like um another book that goes with the eyes that kiss the corner because she really really enjoyed that one i have a blaze colors with all my tomas this is actually um one that we're going to be using for our artist unit that's coming up and when i seen it i was like okay i definitely have to get this one i have red shoes for my younger two i have tomatoes for nila tomatoes for nila i checked out i have mary had a little glam and i have fancy nancy this is a baby bear baby bear what do you see and animals should definitely not wear clothing so this is everything that's in my book basket so we're going to read a couple of picture books with the kiddos and then i'm going to go ahead and let them have some fun in the water so uh yeah do you check that from the library i got oh my rising which is the book that goes with them all in bounds yeah because you finished a model unbound and then what else do you have i got zoey in wonderland zoey in wonderland let me see can i see it i want and we have zoey in wonderland so this one looks like it's going to be such a good uh story so um i'm excited for her to read this one and i'm happy our library had this hopefully you can kind of see it with the glare so yeah and as you guys can see the kids are still playing so i'm not too sure how much they're going to actually listen but i'm going to sit here and do some uh reading with brie brie so yeah that's your girl you guys this was such a cute book uh about a little girl in the library and she couldn't find any books that represented her so what she did was she began to create stories of her own and she added her stories to the books of the library uh this was so this was so cute this is definitely one that speaks to brie brie because if you guys are not new here to this channel you know how much brie all loves um creative writing so this was a great find that i found at the library and this was a newer published one um that they had so uh yeah i really enjoyed this one right here with ever you guys this summer we didn't have any big trips or any big vacations plant we really just had to be content with this relaxed summer at home we really have been adventuring through picture books and through stories and we have just been taking it easy and if you guys are in a season like me where a family a big family vacation or anything like that is not really on the tables for you this summer just really try your best to enjoy what you have enjoy going to the park and enjoy going to the pool at your local community that's just really what i have been doing we've been taking plenty of trips to the library and just adventuring in our own community i know not all of our summers are going to look like this where we're not able to go on a big vacation but one thing i will say i know my kiddos they're going to remember these summer days they're going to remember the time that i spent with them and the books that we've read and all the things that we did and explored and um i need to be content with knowing that i'm doing the best i can in this season that we're in and um i hope they have really really good memories of their summer uh just at home with um um okay you guys i have my two younger ones taking a nap briel she is practicing the piano and um i think i'm gonna go ahead and end our homeschool day in a life uh right here um but for the most part other than this um in afternoons my kids they have like technology time and um we're just like really laid back you guys i really have been enjoying like these laid back summers um as much as i want to be like hustle and bustle and exploring and doing things like that it's something special about these uh relaxed days just at home um and it's really nostalgic because it's reminded me a lot of my summers uh growing up so um yeah um i hope you guys enjoy watching our day in a life a couple of things before i in this video i made a video recently talking about like all the changes that i'm going to be making as far as like my homeschool some of my curriculum choices and in that video i received so many questions about um iow and also about um beautiful feet if i'm still going to be doing these two i'm definitely going to be doing both of these curriculums this homeschooling year as far as everything else that i didn't show i'm really not too sure you guys i'm really like taking this homeschooling year like quarter by quarter and i definitely will update you guys along the way as we are like flowing into like our quarters we're going to be doing like a six week on one week off school year and right now our tentative start date is going to be i have it right here on my calendar we are planning to start our school year on july the 18th so i have a couple more weeks and um we're going to be starting back up pretty pretty soon i have everything ready it's a couple more books that i need to check out for the library for us um as we're starting off our um first quarter and i need to go back to school shopping i think i'm going to take you guys along with me when i go back to school shopping for like all of our school supplies but other than that i have everything i'll prepare on uh burrell's homeschool cart and we're like ready to go so um yeah another thing to you guys thank you so much for 7000 subscribers as like i'm sitting here about to start editing this video i've seen that i just reached 7000 subscribers now i want to thank everybody so much for um supporting my small youtube channel for subscribing um i really hope you will stick along with me as i'm showing and i'm sharing all of the ups and downs in my like homeschooling journey um on my channel you guys i just want to let you know that i do post every wednesday and i'm going to consistently post every wednesday i upload wednesday at 11 am and i'm going to try my best to continuously uh post on wednesdays at 11 am for my uh upload time and you will see a few changes on my channel because i definitely want to bring you guys more inside of my homeschool i want to film more dana lives more videos like this so you can kind of just like really see um how my homeschooling days go i'm going to try to post at least one day in a life each month or each quarter so i can really have something to look back at as well so when i do make like my homeschooling update videos you kind of will have like a video to like uh compare that quarter two as well and that's like one of my goals let me guys or let me know you guys if you do want to see like more dana lives more like um behind the scenes type of videos uh other than like my regular sit-down videos so i know that was a lot but i hope you guys enjoyed this video and as always i look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye