 Hey everybody, welcome to the Lot of White. I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be the first in a brand new series. The series is going to be called Homeschool Show and Tell and it's going to be hosted by Abby from Rooted in Rest and Myself. The best part about this brand new series is that it is going to be an open collaboration. That means we're welcoming all YouTubers to film and add to our playlist and join us. Our goal with the Homeschool Show and Tell series is to show off the beautiful uniqueness that is homeschooling and to show that everybody does it in a different way and that there is no one right way to do it. Each month there will be a specific topic and you will have from the second Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time until the last day of the month to get your video uploaded and added to that open playlist. This month's topic is planning and organization for your homeschool so you will have from the time you're watching this video until the last day of the month to add your video to this playlist. At the end of each month's video we will be announcing the topic for the following month so at the end of this video we will be going ahead and letting you know what next month's topic is. The only requirement for joining in on the collaboration is that you put the playlist link in your description box and then you mention that Abby from Rooted in Rest and Jessica from the Lot of White are hosting the homeschool show and tell series. We really hope that you join us whether you are collaborating with us or whether you are just watching all of those who do collaborate with us because like I said our goal really is to highlight the uniqueness that is homeschooling. Now without further ado I am going to show you how I plan and organize my homeschool. First things first if you are curious to see what curriculum that we will be using in the upcoming homeschool year which will be third grade for my daughter you can do that in this video right here where I show you everything that we're going to be using and if you would like a tour of our homeschool spaces which include the homeschool room and my office where I store all of our homeschool stuff as well as like our bookshelves and eventually in the near future our game shelves and our STEM center you will be able to find those right here in the tour videos. Now I will also go ahead and direct you to our routine for this year which is going to give you a little bit more of a glimpse into what my plans are for the homeschool year. What I discuss in that video is that we are going to be doing school five days and then taking a day off. Now that doesn't mean that it's going to be like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday off. What it means is we're going to do five days of book work school however that plays out and after we've done five days of school we're going to take a six day for what I'm calling enrichment. That means we'll take that day off for things like poetry, tea time and art and nature study and all of those things that sometimes fall through the cracks that are like the fun game days all of those really fun things. To ensure that I'm actually taking that six day off because let's be honest I would be tempted to kind of push right through it. I found this awesome portfolio on Amazon which I will link everything I show you in the description box down below and it has these little tab folders and there is five in here. So my plan is to just put the bare minimum schoolwork that I'm requesting that she do which is the daily fundamentals from Evan Moore in each of these. So that means that basically it'll be day one, day two, day three, day four, and then day five. When we do all five of these however that rolls out when they're done whether that takes us two weeks, three weeks, five days whatever I will then take the next day off the next school day off for enrichment. Hopefully this will help me stick to it because I'm thinking at least that once this is empty it'll kind of be like a visual reminder for me to say hey you need to take the next day off the school. So what I have in front of me is the portfolio that I'm going to be filling. My planner where I have a daily fundamental breakdown and it talks, shows me the different topics that we're going to be like discussing each week. I have her math and language tracker. This is from this cat house. I have one similar to this in my planner. This is just a little bit prettier for her so she can highlight as she does the lessons. I have all of the daily fundamentals printed and ready to be stuffed into her portfolio. Then I also have our Osborne Illustrated Grammar Punctuation and Math Dictionaries. You can see how I use these in a daily fundamental lesson up here you guys but this is what I use to like teach the lesson to her. So the first thing that I'm going to do is I am going to look at my daily fundamentals and see that for week one we're going to be doing nouns rounding to the nearest 10 in main idea. So like those are the topics that we are going to be learning about in our daily fundamentals for the next five days. So once I know what topics we're going to be learning about I quickly go to the grammar and punctuation book as well as the math book and I use post-it notes to find and mark those topics so it'll be super easy for me to say okay this is where I need to be. So once I find nouns I just go and mark that page with a post-it. It's super simple nothing fancy but this way it saves me time when we actually get ready to do the lesson. It'll already be marked and ready to go. So that's done and now I'm going to look up rounding and the math one and then the next thing that I do is go ahead and stuff her portfolio with the five days. So like I said it's super easy I just take day one and stick it in here and then day two and if at any time we are off track it's not it won't be a big deal. I'll just stick the next one it won't be that big of a deal and then the last thing I do for her portfolio is I stick her tracker in on whatever day she's on and she'll just move that as she completes it. So that is done. Now I'm going to take a minute to go over to my bookshelf and to my game shelf and look for books or games that also talk about the topics that we're going to be learning. So now it's round to the nearest ten or main idea. So for books I have this word fun book that has if you were a noun in it so we will read that. Then for games I have the tree house town which is a good and beautiful game it's parts of speech so this has common and proper nouns in it so I know that we can review that as well as adjectives and verbs too and then I don't have any books for rounding or any games for rounding so I'm going to go ahead and go through the right start books this is the math card games by them and I'm going to look for anything that they might have on rounding and it looks like they have a rounding war so I'm just going to go to that page and then check and see if there is any additional things needed because sometimes you need to make a copy of a piece of paper like something out of the appendix or you might need you know coins I'm just going to make sure that I don't need any of that and it doesn't look like I do so we are good to go. So this will all have been done on Sunday night hopefully or whenever the five days is up whether that's on Sunday or Monday or Tuesday whenever that sixth day is we'll spend that six day enjoying the day together and then that evening I'll sit down I'll stuff her portfolio and mark all of the pages and gather all of my games for the upcoming five days so that is how I'm hoping to keep our homeschool organized for the year I'm hoping to keep things somewhat planned because if you don't know I'm not a huge planner I don't really like to plan ahead other than to just kind of do the next thing or follow her lead which is something that was really really important in our homeschool mainly I plan from behind and I do that using one note so I'm actually going to go ahead and show you guys that now so what I do is I use one note to plan from behind and basically just type out a short little synopsis of what we did overall I don't necessarily type out the written work that we do because that's something that I'll actually have proof of and I scan those in later but I'll just type out for instance this week we did a little bit of shark week type stuff and we learned about sharks we did a Eugenie Clark unit study on the shark lady and then I list out all of the shows that we've watched and the games that we've played and I attach a picture collage of what our week looks like what's really great about this is it will end up turning into our portfolio at the end of the year that we use for evaluation so that is how I organize and plan for our homeschool I hope you got a few ideas or at least some inspiration if you have any questions please leave them down in the comments I'll be happy to answer them and I really hope that you guys join Abby and I as we continue on this homeschool show and tell series