 Hi you guys, my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel you guys in today's video I'm gonna take you along with me as I prep and I organize all of my curriculum and my homeschool supplies for the upcoming homeschool year 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 two four and Ten and I am entering my third year of homeschool you guys So I am so so so excited about this upcoming school year However, I really need to get this homeschool room in order So you guys I went back to school shopping at Dollar Tree Walmart and Target And I shared with you guys in a recent video all of my school supplies that I purchased for our upcoming homeschool year So if you want to check that out and see like all of the things that I have and I purchased You can definitely check out that video But right now I am just going to take the time to like unpack all of my school supplies Organize them and get everything all ready to go So here goes a brief shot of actually all of my homeschool supplies that I got and all of the things that we just Really pick up and gravitate towards in our homeschool my daughter you guys She loves like these like thin markers and she loves these color of the world crayons and color pencils I definitely had to stock up on those from our older daughter Brielle and all of the crayons are definitely for my toddlers They still are in the crayon phase and we definitely go through a lot. So I typically use these Cheapy dollar 25 bins that I pick up from Target to organize all of my homeschool supplies These bins are perfect because they fit on top of my homeschool closet like perfectly and I can keep all of my supplies hidden in a way from tiny hands That can like get into them So I really like this system of these small containers and how they fit on the top of my homeschooling closet So I'm just sectioning them off for color pencils glue markers So I can easily find what I'm looking for when we do need to like replenish our main school supplies Okay, you guys a start of a homeschool year is not a start without a library book haul So I have art in how it works a blaze colors the story of the painter Alma Thomas I have Jess happening. I also have Henry Oswald Tanner His boyhood dreams come true. I have Gordon Parks how a photographer captures black and white America I have a Jake makes a world. This one looks awesome. You guys I'm really excited about this one right here I also have a splash of color So these are all of the artist picture books that I picked up from our library And I hope real loves reading these picture books as we are going over our artist unit Now this picture book right here is actually for our history curriculum that we're going to be doing And you guys I love this book so much. We already read it But I'm going to read you guys a quick passage from this picture book And it says under a haze hot summer sun Many hands work together as one the president of a new country needs a new home So many hands work together as one Black hands white hands freehand slave hands slave hands dig saw and brick stone Land the foundation for the president's home Rented as property slave hands labor as diggers of stones soyers and brick layers You guys I'm so excited about this book. It sounds amazing. And I love picture books to bring history alive So you guys I have a thrift book haul and I had to grab some more of these history picture books And I'm so excited about all of these. I love picture books And I feel like when you have an upper elementary kid, don't stop reading picture books I feel like that's the worst thing to do because they really Are great for history, especially beginner history. We are starting American history And I really want to approach this subject in a great way for my daughter I want this to be memorable and I know by using a lot of picture books and literature It's definitely going to bring history alive for her So you guys now I am actually working on Brielle's home school card And at this point in the video, I kind of started to get overwhelmed because I didn't really know How I wanted to organize her card. I do have two cards that I use One card that you're seeing with the baskets. That is the card that I use like for my Morning stuff and my morning supplies So I was trying to figure out like how I was going to separate out Brielle's curriculum versus like our bible curriculum and like my preschool curriculum and things like that I think I did a good job with how I organized her card But I did have to take a break in between here because I kind of was like getting overwhelmed with how to like Put everything together So like I said before we are starting off our homeschool year a little bit different We are starting off our homeschool year doing a unit study Um, Brielle is really interested in like artists novelist things like that and I definitely wanted to spend That extra time doing this interest-led learning instead of it being something on the back burner I definitely wanted to put it in the forefront in our homeschool So you guys this is Brielle's new bible as you guys are seeing and I'm starting to kind of put some of the stuff on our Morning card. I have our hymn study and I have some of the things that I'm separating out on our morning card Both of these cards They actually live downstairs because for the most part you guys we do all of Brielle's Independent or she does all of her independent work upstairs in our homeschool room and downstairs is where we do like all of our Other type of work. So um, that's typically how it's going right now I do want to get to the point where um, all of the girls will be able to like be in the homeschool room Uh, 24 seven or as we are doing our homeschool, but I know They really work in a thrive better when we are downstairs like with all of their toys So that is pretty much how we use our homeschool room We use it when it's just me and Brielle working together And then when we're doing her other subjects, we're downstairs So um, these cards definitely come in handy for storing all the things that we need So a lot of you guys asked in my last video how I set up Brielle's portfolio for the beginning of the year And since the binder is empty right now, I'm going to show you everything that I have in her portfolio to get started So I have an attendance record. I have a 2020 school calendar I have my georgia uh department of education A declaration of intent and then I have a reading log and then I house the curriculum that we're going to be using and The things that I store in here is primarily like test quizzes artwork Things that I feel that I definitely want to uh, hold on to show like progress and her making growth within her curriculum So I have a fix a grammar Iew I have our early american history beautiful feet. I have our heart and soul history We're going to be doing in here as well. I have heaven and earth, which is our science curriculum We're not going to do everything in this science curriculum But uh, we are going to do some I have our artist unit living art living harmonies Which is our music curriculum exploring nature and wordly wise So that is everything that I have inside of my portfolio ready to go to start storing all of her work So this right here is alaya and alana's gentle and classical preschool And what I'm doing is I'm changing out her morning binder for her morning work So I have to make sure I get the right letters and the right uh things to add to her binder So this week we are going to be working or this unit We're going to be working on the letter o And um, I just have to make sure that I find um the letter o and I put it all back into like her dry erase sleeves They have this section on the dry erase sleeves. That's called build it So with the o we can build it with play-doh and I can do like a lot of fun sensory things with that part of the Sheet, but I typically don't do it. I really need to do better at making sure I do like those hands-on parts with this morning folder but for the most part we just use dry erase sheets and These are going to be the things we're going to be working on in her gentle and classical preschool The book we're supposed to be reading this unit. It's actually almoone And here goes a glimpse of all of the stuff we're going to be doing It typically takes me about two weeks to complete a unit with my uh preschoolers I definitely want to make sure they retain All of the information that we're going to be learning the memory statements and things like that And I really have been enjoying a gentle and classical preschool All right, you guys now it is time for me to go ahead and organize My section where I keep like all of our extra school supplies in the top part of my drawer Um, and yeah, this little desk area definitely needed some help. So I definitely had to make sure I got this section together This is where I keep like my oversupply of like pencils and I keep all of my pens Um, I also keep my stapler. I keep some of our expo Dry erase markers like all of like the extra things that I know we're going to use Consistently I keep them in this top drawer So, uh, yeah, I definitely want to make sure it is looking good and it's ready to go Especially as we are going to be grabbing some of the things that we need like firsthand So, um, I'm so happy that this top part of this drawer has been organized It's so crazy how like these little things that you do that organizes Really makes a difference when you're like coming into your space And I'm so happy like I took the time to just organize this top drawer Now you guys the rest of the drawers at the bottom, they still need some help but At least this one is good. So, um, thumbs up for this one right here So you guys I went ahead and I uh pulled out all of the school nest about uh notebooks that we are going to be using Of pretty soon. I think the only one we're not going to be using is the science notebook So I need to put that one away So now I am going to go ahead and organize all of our Main school supplies for the kiddos I do have like some old crayons that I typically don't throw away what I do with my old crayons, especially ones that briel used I save them for my toddlers Because they're going to destroy them anyway. Um, I save these for when we're doing like Fun art projects melting crayons and doing crazy stuff like that. That's what I save all of my old crayons for So you guys don't throw out your crayons when they break or they get bad save them because You definitely can find fun ways to do art projects and things like that with them But this basket is just primarily like our go-to basket with all of our markers and things like that Um, I typically don't let my younger ones use the markers unless I give them They mainly use crayons color pencils because they lost their marker privilege I'm gonna pop a picture in so you can see why they lost their marker privileges But hopefully they'll gain them back This right here is the color of the worlds for brie when we're doing a specific thing She can come in here and then this is briel's personal pencil box Um, I like to keep all of her special items and things like that in here So hopefully she's excited when she sees me or she sees that I organized her pencil box And I add a like all of her new erasers and her fun school supplies in them as well Okay, you guys I am all done and my home school room is looking nice and good And ready to start our upcoming home school year You guys I don't know about you, but a fresh clean space always motivates me And it just makes me feel ready to go So you guys I'm gonna quickly show you um briel's card and how I have her first day of school sign I cannot wait to take that picture. I always look forward to taking those every year But how I organize her foul fold is on each section I have math and then the next section I have like her el a which is like her vocabulary Her history notebook. I also have her Fixed grammar and wordly wise is all in her second foul fold And then in the last foul fold you guys I have like all of our art study that we're going to be doing I have our living art lessons our living harmony lessons exploring nature with children I have our art encyclopedia So I have like all of the enrichment things that we're going to be doing in this last magazine foul on her top rack And hopefully this organization system will really really help us out and keep us organized this upcoming home school year Everything is looking so good and ready to go So you guys on this middle car I have our read aloud that we're going to be doing first off, which is the lemonade war I have our gather around artist unit and my teacher guide I have briel's dictionary and I also have another one of our Encyclopedias, which is the black history timeline encyclopedia as well That we pull out for references at the bottom I have like all of briel's like art supplies you guys I cannot wait to see like all of the art that she's going to make this upcoming home school year I am kind of nervous you guys. I'm not going to lie because I'm definitely doing something different This interest let learning. It's definitely put me out of my comfort zone But I know when I look back at this time that me and brie spent together I know I'm going to be so happy that I you know, I was brave And I took this risk to really just focus on all the things she is interested in Why home school if not for that? So you guys, um, I'm going to go ahead and close you out I hope you all have a great upcoming home school year. We got this Bye you guys