 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 with me as I plan and prep for my upcoming homeschool week. I love doing this planning on my Sundays just because I feel like our week flows a lot better when I am prepared and the kids are just ready to learn. So you guys I'm going to flip you guys around and we're going to plan for my upcoming homeschool week. Okay you guys I am about to go ahead and start planning for my upcoming homeschool week and I figured I might as well go ahead and start off with my easiest who is Leia who is my four year old. We right now are primarily doing a gentle and classical preschool. So this right here has a schedule for me all ready to go as far as my planning goes. So I really don't have to plan much for this once we start a new unit and I have all of her preschool morning binders set up and all of our memory statement cards. It's really nothing else for me to do for Leia other than be consistent with this program. So this is pretty much all ready to go for me. The only thing that I do have to look over right here for Leia is my preschool math at home and I just have to look over here the activities that we're going to do to make sure that I have any additional supplies that I need. So for Leia the only thing we're going to be doing this week right here is we are going to be playing store with pennies. So I already made my labels and I have them downstairs in my basket. I just have to find some pennies and we are ready to go to play store with pennies. So she is pretty much still learning one to one correspondence and that's the last activity before we get into chapter three of preschool math at home. So I really love this program. It's so easy for me to implement. All I have to do is just read this baby and I'm all ready to go as far as Leia. What you see me print off earlier for Leia has been these scissor skills because something I've been really working on with my four-year-old has been her working on her scissor skills. So I found these on totschooling.net. These free printables that I just print so she can learn her scissor skills. They have so many different kinds. Like look at this one right here with the balloon she gets the color. So hopefully she enjoys all of these. I think this is like my second time printing off this set for her. I just went ahead and like I saved it on my computer for her. So this is some things that Leia is going to be working on this week. I also went ahead and I printed off some of these free printables from totschooling.net as well that has the numbers on it. So hopefully we can kind of like work on these skills where she's learning how to write the number four and she's coloring and she's finding the number. These sheets right here are very similar to her preschool morning work but after I finish all of her school like Leia always wants something else. So hopefully she will be satisfied by doing some of these like totschooling.net printable sheets that I printed off for her. Something else for Leia I really don't have to plan is her handwriting without tears book. You guys this book is so cute. I'm going to show you the pages she did last week. So we've really been enjoying this one. We are working on I think the letter E is next as far as her capital letters but so far Leia does know how to write her name right now. So she's doing so so so well with handwriting without tears and again we have explode or get ready for the code not explode the code yet because she's still pretty gay. So we've really been enjoying this one right here and it's nothing really I have to do to plan out Leia. So other than just making sure I have like extra coloring pages for her Leia my four-year-old she is like ready to go. So now let's focus on Brielle who is my 10-year-old. She is in the fifth grade right now. She I definitely have to make sure I plan and prep for her week. So I have my planner right here you guys and I'm going to go ahead and show you how our last few weeks looks and my plan of attack for this upcoming homeschool week. Okay you guys this right here is actually my school nest planner and I really have been enjoying using this planner. She does have a school nest minimalist planner and it doesn't have as many pages as it is in this one but I really really enjoy all the extra pages and the goodies that she has in it. So I'm going to briefly show you guys some of the pages that are already set up in my planner and right here is my yearly overview in the planner. I have all of our curriculum that we're going to be using this year. What I did was I just printed off this on printer paper. I was just kind of being bougie. I wanted my planner to look all cute this year. So this is all of the curriculum that we're going to be using so far for this upcoming homeschool year. I went ahead and I put it in here. This is our fields trip page right here for all of our field trips. This right here these pages are all book list pages. Hopefully I can fill these up a lot as far as like the books we're going to be reading. This is like the curriculum progress pages that she has in here where you're able to track the progress you made within your curriculum and then this is how your first week starts off. So what I did was since we had a soft start to our homeschooling year in July I went ahead and I typed up what we actually did for that week because I didn't want to waste a whole month in my planner. This is an undated planner so I just typed it up and I pasted it right here for our soft start and what we did because our first official day was on August the first. So I have it right here what we did. This page right here goes over like some weekly goals that I have for us for the upcoming week and mainly these are like really weekly goals for me and then this page right here you guys is my absolute favorite in my planner which is the reflections page. I'm going to go ahead and zoom you guys in so you can kind of see like how I was able to set up my weekly reflections page and I put pictures of the girls their first day of school. I wrote right here Brielle Love putting stickers on her school nest notebook on the first day of school. I highlighted Brielle's Amawoodsy painting and then this is Leia's first day of pre-k so I really really enjoyed this weekly reflections page and hopefully I can be consistent with it because I want to remember these things. I know I'm always going to know what lesson we did and what day we did it but I don't think I'm going to remember exactly week for week details like what things we got up to and hopefully I can continue to document this and I can have this nice planner to be able to look back on as the years go on. So this page right here you guys oh let me zoom you back out. So this page you guys right here is has like our schedule and things like that as far as like our weekly schedule. What I did was as we were going through our normal rhythm and flow I just wrote down what we actually did. If you guys already seen my video that I posted before you would kind of already know what our homeschooling schedule and our rhythm is and here goes like my paper that I have like my homeschool schedule my Monday through Thursday schedule is when we kind of like hit it hard in our homeschool and then our Fridays is like our enrichment Fridays where we're doing all of our music art history all those type of things on Fridays library trips all the things. So I love this little printable and this I typically keep on my wall but I took it down for this video so if you want like more details of our specific homeschool schedule then you can definitely watch my homeschooling schedule video that I will have posted before this video. So yeah here is pretty much where I write down everything that we do each week and I reverse plan so at the beginning of the week the only thing I have is my subjects and my dates across the top. This column right here is for Leia and as we do each thing I go ahead and I fill out my planner. So this right here has the daily detail pages where you're able to put like details or different things you don't want to forget. I didn't utilize this page in my first week but in my second week of homeschool I did. So here goes my second week's reflections you guys. Brielle actually finished handwriting without tears her old book from last year so I definitely highlighted that and we started IEW last week you guys. It was so much fun. So I have that right here and Brielle definitely has been enjoying our read aloud right now which has been the lemonade war and I highlighted Leia's handwriting without tears books. If you guys can see Leia didn't really want to be in the picture so she covered her face with a blanket right there and that was so cute. So again this is how my next week looks. I have everything that we actually did and I wrote down some details right here as far as like our daily details and now we are actually going to go ahead and start off on week three and this is how it looks playing. It has our week three goals. I have my weekly reflections. What I did this time was I actually typed out my weekly plan and what I want us to accomplish. We are not here yet as far as doing every last thing on this list but this is just my overall goal that I want us to be at as far as doing all the subjects all the things. We're still taking it easy and slowly but surely getting into our rhythm. So this right here is my page and all I'm going to do is fill out the dates as far as the dates across the subjects and then this column right here is for Leia. Okay you guys and just like that I have my planner all set up for the week. I have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I have the dates across. I have my subjects right here so I have math, reading, writing, history, literature, art, and music. So I'm all ready to go as I go throughout the week and fill in out everything that we did and again this week is going to look off nice and full at the end of the week but this is how my planner looks at the start of the week. So now that this is all done I can kind of put this aside and then the next thing I do is I go through each one of Brielle's subjects that I know we're going to be doing each day. Now as far as like all these subjects right here these independent subjects that she does the grammar, vocabulary, and spelling I do not have to plan those. I use all open and go curriculum for those so that's kind of like all planned out for me. We just kind of go on to the next week so this part right here I can kind of skip off. Now the first thing I typically do when it comes to planning is I go over Brielle's math. I make sure she doesn't have a math test that week and I just kind of want to look over the concepts that she's going to be studying. So right here you guys I have her test schedule for Saxon Math and right now we are on I believe lesson 97 so I know this week she's going to have a test on Friday. So what I do is I just make sure I have one of these test forms so here I'm going to put it down oh here let me zoom you guys back out. So I make sure I have one of these test forms for her math in her clipboard so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and put it on her clipboard and as you guys can see I kind of already have some extra practice supplemental things I want Brielle to work on on her clipboard this week as well. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this test sheet or this test template and I'm going to put it right here so you can remind Brielle that she's going to have a test this week with Saxon. So again what I do is I kind of look over where we're at in Saxon. I kind of want to like see what she's going to be studying if it's anything that I think might be challenging for her anything I want to plan ahead as far as it we do utilize Nicole the math lady so honestly I don't really have to teach the lessons but I do want to refresh myself when it comes time to review so she's starting off Monday on lesson 97 so she's going to be studying ratios this week what else she's doing this week she's going to be doing negative numbers and she's probably going to do really well with this because they kind of introduced this already in Saxon so she's probably going to be perfectly fine with this lesson and then she's going to be doing adding and subtracting whole numbers and decimals this week she's going to be simplifying decimals and then on Friday she's going to have a test so this week actually works out perfectly so I have her test on her clipboard and Saxon math is all you know planned out for me as far as me just kind of like knowing what to expect next so that's pretty much it for this I'm going to go ahead and put my test schedule right here at the top so I can remember this and math is all planned out and again I kind of just like to look over it and see what lesson she's going to do just to make sure if it's any type of like things I want to pull out as far as manipulatives I can and you guys I think I'm going to go ahead and put this uh manipulative thing on her desk because she's going to be doing decimals so I'm going to make sure I leave this out this week so as we're reviewing decimals we can go ahead and use this uh manipulative this uh little place value frame it's so cool we use this a lot so far so I think I'm going to go ahead and just put this out on her desk for her as far as math and this can kind of remind me too that we're going to be doing decimals so that's it for uh planning out math so let's go ahead and do the next subject so you guys um I'm not using an all-in-one curriculum this year all of my uh subjects are like broken up as far as vocabulary spelling uh what is it grammar vocabulary spelling writing and literature those are all separate for me um I know a lot of people like using all-in-one curriculums where that's all put and built in together but I'm finding I have been really enjoying having each part separated because we're able to specifically pick the literature studies we want to do uh it's really kind of fun so far who knows I might go back to all-in-one curriculums uh you know at one point or another but I have really been enjoying separating out our curriculum so we are doing a literature guide on the lemonade war and this right here is my uh brave writers week so right now we are finishing up week two of the brave writer and the main things that we're going to be doing is her copy work for brave writer and we're talking about slang which is so fun I read the activity for this week and Brielle's going to get an opportunity to uh write a dialogue with slang in it so hopefully she enjoys it um when we do this exercise this week for lemonade war so that's pretty much it as far as brave writer this week that I looked up is that we're going to be going over is slang we already went over uh these other parts of the passage as far as figuring out if this uh story is written in first person point of view uh we talked a lot about a quotation marks as far as grammar so that's pretty much where we are at as far as the lemonade war literature guide and I really have been enjoying brave writer you guys it's been so much fun doing this type of literature study so uh that's pretty much it for literature I already again highlighted uh the activity we're going to be doing and this right here for literature is ready to go now you guys we started IEW and it's been so so so much fun you guys Brielle beg me to start IEW um we started off our homeschooling year you guys doing our gather around unit study we only did that gather around unit study you guys for two weeks and Brielle was ready to move on and you know as a homeschooling parent you know I do respect that I think she was just really excited to start off her full load and she did enjoy doing the unit when we did do it uh and as you know needless to say we are doing what Brielle wants to do and we are doing IEW she had so much fun doing IEW last week um I'm not too sure what week we're going to be on you guys as you are watching this video but um this right here was her first keyword outline and she was able to use her fun erasable highlighters that I gave her and here goes her first keyword outline she did um she really had fun doing it she really enjoyed watching Andrew Andrew Poodlewas uh video lessons and I think she really enjoys this uh being so independent so what all I have to do for this you guys is I want to reuse this curriculum at some point so what I do is I make copies of my source text uh for Brielle so she knows not to use the originals uh but the copy so I already made my copy this week for our source text so we are going to be on week two and it looks like her keyword outline is going to be on scorpions this week so I went ahead and I made a copy so this is my original and then this right here is the copy that Brielle is going to be using for her keyword outline so I'm all ready to go as far as IEW again this is just something that I don't have to think about this is another uh curriculum that I'm outsourcing along with math using the cold the math lady and it's been going really really well so um I already made my copies and this is ready to go for Brubri now as far as you guys for this week our enrichment is going to be art and I just want to make sure we didn't have anything special we are on week three of the live art lesson and Brielle is going to learn about cubism so um it's nothing special we need I believe this is just going to be a cubism picture she's going to recreate uh using color pencils we do have oil pastels so it wasn't nothing special I had to get for this art lesson but I just want to just double check look at it make sure I'm all ready to go as far as her art that we're going to be doing on Friday I definitely know being prepared helps us actually accomplish things so this is art um this you guys book I really have been enjoying it's called come look with me and this right here is discovering african-american art for children and it's just a picture study book you guys I really have been enjoying going over picture study with Brielle and she really has been enjoying this book of course this book was a recommendation from amber from the heritage mom blog and I love this study how it already has the questions the history and the painting and it's all on this page just nice and clean and we actually studied this painting last week during our art study and Brielle really really enjoyed it so um they have a whole bunch of other art studies in here uh in this collection that I do want to eventually collect and here goes some of the other ones so this is what we're going to be using this week for our art study come look with me discovering african-american art for children okay you guys now it is time for me to plan history now as far as planning history you guys goes it's nothing really much I have to do I'm just going to give you like a little sneak peek into how heart and soul does look on the inside as far as like the planning and things like that goes right now you guys we are actually on week three so this is the poem link we're going to be using this is the chapter we're on on 40 acres in the mule we're on chapter five and six and we're going to be reading the escape of anna judge let me go on my bookshelf and grab that one so here goes the escape of anna judge this is the picture book we're going to be reading this week and hopefully brielle enjoys uh reading this one we're going to take our time sometimes we do this in like one sitting and sometimes we don't so it just depends so this is going to be the picture book our 40 acres in a mule and it doesn't call for us to read the main book heart and soul for this week so um these are just going to be the main two ones we're going to be using for heart and soul and again brielle um brielle does utilize her school nest notebook where she does uh do a lot of like no booking in here and this is her first no booking that she did when we read or we did our first a week of heritage mom heart and soul we read the book brick by brick and she learned about the white house so this was a really cool no booking page that she used in her history notebook so uh this is all planned out for me i have our picture book ready to go i'm going to put on her cart so i can make sure i have this ready to go but history is all planned and i'm done with that one so you guys this is a heavy history year for us because i haven't really focused on history uh my first couple of years in homeschooling uh we did a lot of geography and science so this year's heavy history so we're also utilizing early american history the intermediate edition for a beautiful feat and right now you guys we are actually on lesson number four so we're right here on lesson number four we're going to be finishing up this book uh the people of the breaking day um we're at the end of this one and then once we finish this book we are going to go into the viking so let me grab the vikings book so this right here you guys is the vikings book that we're actually going to be reading and starting off after we finish people the breaking day i typically do four beautiful feat lessons a week and then i do one heart and soul lesson a week so um i have all of my books ready to go i'm going to make sure i have these put on a beryl's homeschooling cart and um the only thing that we're going to be doing as far as beautiful feat i did see right here in lesson number four she's supposed to be writing like a little report on the wampanong tribe and hopefully i pronounced that right and uh she needs to do like a little summary of it but you guys like listen i asked beryl to write a few sentences about the wampanons when we first studied it and uh here it is this is what she wrote so she already wrote like a little summary so i don't know oh and we printed off some pictures uh from the notebooking pages that uh beautiful feat provides so you guys like i don't think i'm going to make her do another summary because i told her to write one sentence and this is what she did so uh i don't think i am going to make her do the report we'll probably just read it go over the discussion questions and then uh do the next assignment and again with the eastern chickmunk uh we learned about the eastern chickmunk and i told beryl to write me one paragraph about it and look what this girl wrote she wrote a four paragraph essay on the eastern chickmunk uh so needless to say beryl definitely loves writing so um i don't think i'm going to make her do another writing assignment on the wampanong since she already did it we're kind of just going to go on and then we will move to the vikings but so far i really have been enjoying beautiful feat the literature and the notebooking pages um one adjustment that i am oh here goes the notebooking pages for beautiful feat um that we add into our journal but one thing about beautiful feat i will say is that i am going to be replacing this child's first american history book with this dk encyclopedia i was speaking with one of my homeschooling friends uh hey girl you know who i'm talking about and she definitely made the suggestion for me to think about replacing this book right here the children's first american um history book with this dk encyclopedia and i'm so happy i took her advice i definitely love uh using this encyclopedia instead of that book and i love how this book is laid out a little bit better so when we get to the different things like right now this is uh the first americans we can go ahead and read these chapters right here and take our time and read each section within our dk encyclopedia so um i definitely like the layout of this encyclopedia a lot better and i'm just going to go ahead and make adjustments on my own so this is what i'm going to be using instead of the beautiful feat's recommendation and so far using this replacement has been so good so um history i'm ready to go i have my uh notebooking sheets and uh yeah so this is all planned out for me as well so the last thing that i do each and every day is i will go ahead and write like a little note for brielle of her little checklist and what she's going to be doing for that week and uh that is pretty much the last thing that i do uh she really enjoys coming in and seeing like her list and this definitely has been helping her out with independence she sees her checklist and she can go ahead and do it especially when it comes to like her independent work um as you guys can see brit only really needs me um to kind of grade her work she is pretty much a hands off except for history and science and bible so i really enjoy uh this year especially me giving brielle like ownership and really preparing her as she is getting up during her great so i don't have a specific agenda i got this book from the dollar tree and brielle used stickers to decorate it and this is just her little checklist and i really like how it's simple as cheap it was a buck and we're able to get those checklists and uh get her prepared for accountability so i really have been enjoying just writing out what she has to do and this is the last thing that i have to do and i typically do this every single night i will write out uh what i want her to do if it's any leftover assignments and things like that so i really have been enjoying doing this little uh checklist for brie and she's been enjoying it as well okay you guys i really hope you enjoy sitting down with me chit chatting as i planned out my upcoming home school week as you guys can see i really just use sundays just to kind of see what we're going to be going over that week as far as our lessons making sure i have all of like our supplies that we need and um i kind of just have a plan uh but i'm not really writing anything down in my planner until we actually do it so um i kind of like doing it that way because it's like i'm not just free willy kind of like going with the flow i know what i want to accomplish and i just write down what we actually accomplished and um i kind of just like being prepared and kind of knowing what's coming ahead so um i really hope you enjoyed today's video just seeing how i plan and everything like that i really hope it was inspiring to you especially if you haven't seen anyone do it in this particular way that i do it so you guys thank you so much for watching today's video i hope you enjoy and as always i look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye