 Hi you guys! My name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys, I'm very excited about today's video because I'm going to be sharing with you all of my curriculum favorites for the year of 2021-2022. We have here in my homeschool about three more months of homeschooling as we're wrapping up this year. I just really wanted to go ahead and make this video to share with you all of our curriculum favorites, what we landed on this year, and what actually has made a drastic impact in our homeschool. So if any of you guys are new here to my channel, again my name is Brittany. I am a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 10, 3, and 2 and I'm in my second year of homeschooling. So you guys, I just want to share with you these curriculum favorites that I have. I do have a lot more favorites however in today's video. I just wanted to go ahead and pick like my top 10 curriculum favorites. It was really really hard for me to narrow this down, however I just did my best to narrow down these curriculums and these resources that I have been really enjoying this homeschooling year. So okay you guys, my first resource that I have been really enjoying in our homeschool has been these September and Co-cards. You guys, I have all three of them. I have the character matters in the Bible, the character matters in the home, and also the character matters in the world. So it comes in these three sets and they're on these really cute rings right here. And so far this year we have been working on the character matters in the Bible. And this has been such a great resource for me to use in our Bible, in our morning basket. I really feel like this has amplified our Bible time. I feel like it's always a character we can go back to a memory verse. I love these affirmations that you're going over with your kid and they're really understanding it. And I definitely have seen improvement in growth within not only my daughter's character but mine as well. I have definitely taken away a lot from these character matters cards and I'm so happy that I added them in our homeschool. And I can't wait for us to go over the other stacks, the ones in the world in the home, but we are taking our time and this has definitely been like a good resource in our homeschool. Okay you guys, now on to the curriculum. So this is not, these curriculum choices are not in any orders of like top favorite to least favorites. These are just all of my curriculum favorites. The first one that I'm going to mention is this right here, which is amazing Africa, which is a heritage pack from Amber O'Neill Johnson. She makes these really beautiful geography and great heritage packs on her website. This right here is actually a continent study that goes over the continent of Africa. You are learning about Africa through picture books. And there's three main picture books that goes along as the spine for like the reference books that you're going to be using. And then it's a lot of other picture books you are going to be reading as you go through each country. This right here is a 36 week lesson plan. However, you can do this either as fast or as slow as you would like to do it. It is intended for grades one through three. However, as I have went through the content of this material, I believe we are on week 24 right now. I honestly will say this geography study can be for anyone in elementary school, even in middle school, because you're learning so much in here. And I really feel like it just brings just this geography study to life as you are using picture books to learn about different contents within Africa. She has video links that goes along with it that you are listening and watching a tradition African dances. You are watching how they eat their daily routines. It's just really beautiful. And I really feel like this study has just been a great just a great addition to our home school. My daughter is never she never fights me when it's time for us to do our geography study. She's so excited. Sometimes I'm tired in the afternoon. I'm like, Okay, Brie, I don't want to do it today. And she's like, Mommy, please let's just do it. Let's just watch the video and read one of the books. So we have definitely been enjoying our geography study this year through amazing Africa. I would definitely recommend it and this pack you guys is very affordable. I believe this digital PDF out it's only $10. All of the books if you have a really good local library, you can check them out from the library. My local library was not as good. However, I'm finding that I can do something that's called like inner library loan. So some of the books towards the end that I didn't have I was able to get them shipped from other areas in Georgia to my local library. And I didn't know about that until recently. So I was able to get my hands on a few of the picture books that I didn't have but if you have and you are incorporated in a good library system, you will have no problem finding all of these beautiful books. Again, this is just it was just amazing. Okay, another highlight in the curriculum choice and favorite in our home school has been Fixit Grammar. I know I have not mentioned this and I forgot to mention Fixit Fixit Grammar in my mid year update but Fixit Grammar you guys it definitely was a great way for my daughter to be able to learn different elements in grammar. She was able to pick up those different parts of speech very very well as she went through Fixit Grammar. Fixit Grammar actually also helped with vocabulary within Fixit Grammar. They give the kids a sentence and then they have to identify the parts of speech, look up the vocabulary word, and then rewrite the sentence as they're making their short story. Fixit Grammar actually just recently updated all of their Fixit Grammar student notebooks and the whole program. It's even better now. I still have the old one and I still think it's tried and true. When I was really struggling in language arts trying to figure out what we were going to do for language arts when our language arts curriculum in the beginning of the year was no longer working for us. Fixit Grammar really just helped me in that time when I was looking for another language arts curriculum. I was letting my daughter do Fixit Grammar, then we were doing some composition writing on our own and it was beautiful and I definitely love having this in our home as a resource. I really feel like this Fixit Grammar it really saved us in that time where I was really at a low in our homeschooling year. Now this curriculum you guys is absolutely my daughter's favorite and this really has been a highlight for her and I'm so happy I found it. First and foremost I cannot believe I found this curriculum at the thrift store. This is actually the cheapest piece of curriculum that I own and it is a curriculum that once we started it it just worked so well for my daughter which is Rotten Staff building with diligence the Christian English series and you guys this old school Mennonite traditional English curriculum this grammar and composition has been exactly what my daughter needs. Inside of Rotten Staff they have these oral drills that they give the child or that you will give your child after you read the lesson they have like a written and mixed practice after you go over the lesson. These grammar lessons you guys are very short very quick very concise. The teacher's guide that goes along with this I don't have it here with me is downstairs but the teacher's guide it really holds your hand if you are new to homeschooling. It just really lets you know the concept that your kid is going to be learning it gives you the oral review it really helps you teach the kids the grammar concepts. I love how thorough Rotten Staff is. I love how the concepts they just slowly build and add upon each other. This grammar curriculum or English curriculum is mastery so you will go through each of the curriculums you will do your each part of speech separately in one chapter. So one chapter is like subjects and predicates and second chapter is kinds of sentences then you'll go to nouns verbs verbs using verbs correctly and then you'll go into pronouns adjectives so each chapter is a different part of speech however it just slowly builds upon each other and I have definitely seen fruit from this curriculum. My daughter she is very very she's getting very strong in her grammar. I am noticing it not only through her practicing this but in her writing when I have her write in other areas in our homeschool I'm noticing how it has improved by her doing Rotten Staff and Rotten Staff it's it's old school it's black and white but it's straight to the point it's simple it's fast we get through these Rotten Staff lessons in like 20 minutes you guys it's been amazing and this has definitely been a curriculum favorite just across the board. Now you guys a new curriculum favorite I'm talking about this one right here you guys it's still very new and I cannot wait to give you guys a more thorough review however we are going in a month right now using this curriculum and it has changed our homeschool it has allowed my homeschool to be tier free and I can't believe I'm saying this but yes I have had not had any tears in a while I'm gonna knock on wood because hopefully that does not change but you guys Saxon math has saved the day in my homeschool um we use Saxon math we just started Saxon math in January we use Saxon math with Nicole the math lady and it's just been a beautiful fit uh my daughter she is understanding math concepts in a way I have not seen before and you guys I know Saxon it's boring it's black and white it's dry it doesn't have any frills or it's not fancy but you guys it's solid it's thorough it's getting a job done my daughter is able to do her math lessons within 45 minutes um she actually does the uh fax practice she does the um lesson practice and then we do the odds or evens on the mixed practice and it's been about 45 minutes it's been amazing and I'm just hoping that this will just stick with us through the rest of our homeschooling journey I know I'm asking for a lot but you guys it's been amazing and my daughter told me the other day that she loves Saxon math and I have never heard her tell me she loves a math curriculum math is just not her favorite subject I feel like when it comes to introducing the concepts of math my daughter she's kind of hesitant she struggles a little bit to grasp them but once she has it and understands it she is flying and Saxon is giving her that instruction that she needs it's helping me as a parent to teach her because I love just the thoroughness of the instruction so if she does watch Nicole the math lady and she doesn't understand something I can go back in and it's easy for me to reteach that concept however that has not happened yet she comes from watching Nicole the math lady and she's teaching me something new so um we have thoroughly been enjoying Saxon and and this has definitely been a highlight so far as far as my curriculum favorites now my last curriculum favorite I wasn't gonna add this on here because it's still new as well but you guys I have been really enjoying this 180 days of spelling and word study I really loved it it's combining spelling and word study together uh so I'm getting my spelling and my vocabulary the words in here uh they are a little bit more challenging than the words in the evan more building spelling however you guys I love both of those spelling curriculums I had to choose one for this video and honestly my choice will be spelling 180 days of spelling and word study I really like how they're having the kids each day doing something different with the spelling they have them using a word bank to be able to fill out and pick which word will go which which meaning so they have to figure out the definition of the word they have them using the spelling words and sentences they have them doing analogies and that's one thing I really love my daughter doing these like analogies where she may not know the definition of these words however she has a word bank and she has to figure out which word will go with these analogies and I really feel like she's becoming very strong in that as well I just like that it's just giving me spelling vocabulary all in one it's simplifying our days and my daughter she definitely needed some more vocabulary practice um and as we have been going through this spelling vocabulary it's been beautiful I have been noticing just in her speech she's been saying like more vocabulary words she's been learning and this is definitely uh it's a keeper again it's black and white it's traditional old school curriculum it's nothing fancy no frills but my daughter loves it and I kind of am seeing a trend with my daughter what what works for her um my daughter she was public school for uh Kenny Garten through half of second grade so my daughter is used to the traditional form of uh education and you guys I was trying to just pull out and do like all these different fancy frilly type of things and my daughter she's just very black and white she wants to get her work done and then she wants to go on and do things creative uh outside of her formal academics and that's just what I'm giving her and that's what she enjoys so you guys I really hope you enjoyed today's video I really hope you enjoy seeing all of my curriculum favorites these are just a few I have so many more um and yeah so you guys thank you so much for watching today's video I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye