 Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I'm going to share with you my summer homeschooling update. So um yeah let's go ahead and get on into this thing you guys. So if you guys haven't seen like my summer plans and like all the stuff that I originally had planned for our homeschooling summer then go ahead and check out that video. I'm going to put it in my iCards and in the description box below so you guys can actually see what I planned and what actually happened this summer. So our summer you guys is cut pretty short because we are starting year-round homeschooling so our tentative start date is going to be July 18th but if anything happens I will push us back to July 25th to start our school year. So I'm really really excited for us to get like our soft start to our school year to really just begin like our learning experience for this homeschooling year. So um yeah so you guys I'm going to go ahead and first talk about like our biggest fail which was definitely our chapter book read aloud. So um we actually didn't read any chapter book read aloud. It was just so crazy like every single time it was time for us like pick up our chapter book read aloud they didn't happen and I'm going to tell you why they didn't happen. It was because we were making a lot of trips to the library this summer. You guys like Brielle has been devouring um like some books. She has really been like reading a lot this summer and I'm really proud of her and every single time we went to the library it was like a new picture book or some other books she was interested in um mainly picture books. So we've read a lot of picture books together so I have her uh reading log right here because I wanted to like record all the books that she read. So I'm going to go ahead and name off all the picture books we've read. These are books I definitely would recommend to you guys because they were really really good. So the first picture book we read was change things. We've read island born. I am every good thing. A story about ify. I will be fierce. Ambitious girl. The year we learned to fly. Eyes that kiss in the corners. Suley. Cannonball which is one that I own. You guys that book was so good. We read dear reader and we also read eyes that speak to the stars. So those are like all of the picture books that we checked out from the library that were so so good and so like inspiring. Like a lot of these picture books you guys like if I find them like on thrift books or on book outlet where I always shot for all of my books I definitely am going to grab some of these titles because they were all such like great and like empowering picture books. So I'm so happy that we did do a lot of reading. Even though it wasn't like in our chapter books we still did a lot of reading this summer. So I'm still proud of me and Brubri for just still reading. Now as far as books that Brielle read independently she did an awesome job. She read I think almost 10 chapter books. So I'm going to name off all of the chapter books that she read and again we utilized our library a lot this summer. So the first chapter book she read was when the world turned upside down she read more to the story a soft place to land a mall unbound. She read a royal guide to monster slaying. So those were the books she checked out from the library and she enjoyed. Now some of the books that she didn't finish off that she already had in her bookshelf at home was the Sophie Washington series. So she finished reading the last three books of that series. You guys this Sophie Washington series is definitely a great series especially if you have like a young girl between like the ages of like eight and I should I really would say eight to 12 because these were like really really fun readers and Brie really enjoyed these. She also finished off reading Amber Song which is a series that goes with Ainsley's bank bakeoff and Ashton's dream. So this is like the last book in that series and Brielle really really enjoyed this series right here. So right now from the library what Brielle is actually reading she is reading Omari Rising and we recently checked this one out from the library so she told me she wanted to continue with the series so this is the second part of Amala Unbound. So she told me she's really enjoying this one and then another book that she's seen that she's excited to dive in next is Zoey in Wonderland and she already told me she wants me to buy this one for her so oh my gosh like Brielle is going to kill the bank when it comes to like our book budget because she just wants all the books but we have been doing really really good like utilizing our library and I've been telling Brielle like we have to use our library more we have to like stick to our book budget so yeah. So Brie and us I guess we did pretty good when it came to like our reading things like that. Now as far as like what we did to continue on with like actual book work we actually was working on Saxon a lot this summer. We started off or we ended off our school year on lesson 64 and we are on lesson 80 right now so Brie did an awesome job this summer. We had to take a few lessons in here slower we had to do we had to break them up into two days because it was some new concepts that Brielle was understanding oh that was she was having like a hard time understanding but overall she's doing really really great with this program. We are on lesson 80 of 120 lessons and while I love Saxon so so so much like I love this curriculum it's definitely a solid curriculum. I'm finding it's a couple of concepts that Brie needs to work on and because we're so close to finishing this I'm not too sure you guys like I'm just going to go ahead and let you know I'm not too sure if I'm going to advance her into seven six just yet. I think I may use some of the supplemental practice that they have in the back for us to like practice some of these concepts that I'm seeing she's struggling with a little bit more before we move on to Saxon seven six. I look through Saxon seven six you guys and the rigor actually bumps up like quite a bit and it moves pretty fast compared to this Saxon six five so I want to prepare her as best as I can for Saxon seven six because I know that that's only one level before you get to Brie algebra so I really want her to be prepared and I really want her to have mastered and honed in on these skills so right now that is my goal for Saxon is that after she finishes this I think I'm going to make sure that she has solidified those concepts and if she hasn't we will just take this maybe slow before going into Saxon seven six so that is my goal as far as math but she did really really good this summer and I'm so happy that we like kept on going. Now something else Brielle worked on this summer was her vocabulary. You guys this school nest vocabulary notebook is so cute and Brielle really has retained a lot of her vocabulary by using this school nest notebook and we are going to continue this vocabulary style throughout the school year so I'm really really excited about us doing vocabulary like in this non-traditional way. She definitely has been retaining it these flashcards that she uses from Sullivan learning have been really really great in showing her the part of speech the pronunciation the root words so she's really really honing in on that vocabulary skill that she needed to work on so I'm so happy about that. Now as far as my toddlers go you guys like they're just being toddlers but I really wanted to do a lot more units in this plan preschool with them so far we have we will have completed two units so we did the nursery rhyme unit we completed that one and right now I have a few more lessons for us to complete the clothing unit that we have been doing which has been so much fun. You guys like I completely like I love this plan preschool curriculum so so so much but I will say it's teacher intensive because you have to get like all the activities the supplies and things like that. You definitely have to be prepared when using this curriculum um but it's definitely worth it because my daughter has retained a lot. Now going into our school year I already know like this may get shelved a little bit just because we are going to primarily focus on a gentle and a classical preschool which is going to be Leia's core my four-year-olds core when it comes to like her pre-k curriculum however I did pick out a couple of units that we're going to be doing in this plan preschool pretty much in the spring time we're going to do the weather unit we're going to do and we're also going to do the I think I tagged it right here we're going to do the water unit as well because Brielle is going to be doing in her science curriculum this upcoming school year she's going to be studying space and water and weather um it's going to be a fun way for me to like connect both of the kids when it comes to science and it's really going to mainstream it for me so I'm really excited to utilize the activities in here once Brielle gets to that in her science curriculum so um that's just my tentative plan right now I really don't know what's going to happen but um I do thoroughly love this and I enjoy this program I definitely will recommend this one because we had so much fun this summer doing um plan preschool now you guys I wanted to share with you some of the books that I have read and what I have gotten up to this summer you guys I really have been trying my best to take care of myself this summer um I know I am preparing for a marathon this is going I'm going into my third year of homeschooling you guys so it's like I already know what to expect I already know that uh I am gonna get burnt out I already know all of those things so this summer like I have been really trying hard to like fill this mama cup up so I've been like just doing a lot of pleasure reading so I have read two of the Bridgerton series and if you guys follow me on Instagram you see like all the times that I post to these books that I've read and I have really been enjoying this series reading this historical fiction and um I have the rest of the series are ready to go on like my bookshelf and I want to definitely make sure that I spend that time to take care of myself throughout the school year so um I'm going to challenge myself to pick up some of my just pleasure reads so uh yeah I really enjoyed these two this summer I also have been doing a reread of rhythms of renewal this book you guys is amazing I love this book so um I'm definitely trying my best to finish this one off but I'm still taking my time on this one it's a great read and the main book that I'm reading right now has been A Place to Belong by Amber O'Neil Johnston celebrating the diversity and kinship in the home and beyond this book you guys has been so amazing for me to read and I have been getting very emotional reading this book um I would recommend this to any homeschooling family like just pick up this book read it you will not regret it but um this has definitely been a great read a lot of the things that she talked about in this book I'm going to try my best to implement those things uh just in my life in my home school in my family just all of the things because she really drops a lot of you know good nuggets in this book so um this has been a great great read so I'm gonna be so sad when I'm done with this book so I'm taking my time but it's been great so you guys um some of the other fails that I feel like this summer we failed on is um we didn't do any field trips like I wanted us to go to the zoo and you know go to the aquarium and do like some fun type of things but you guys I'm not gonna lie we have really been enjoying just being at the house um my daughter she's been enjoying like hanging out with her cousin they've been going to the pool and you guys we have just been so late back and I think that's probably best because that's probably just what we needed just this like slow pace Brielle has been continuously writing doing creative writing she finished another one of her stories and um she's been drawing a lot on her ipad or procreate you guys she's been getting really really good on procreate so she's been doing that she's been doing like a lot of just free drawing so Brielle has really been like thriving in this like late back environment that uh we're in right now so um you guys that really it has been our summer like uh I still will call it a success even though I didn't like hit on all the things that I wanted to hit on uh but I still feel like we really really enjoyed ourselves at least I enjoyed myself I asked Brielle how she enjoyed herself and she definitely said um yes so you guys um I hope you enjoyed today's video I hope you all are still like having a great summer you're enjoying like your family your friendships all the things um as you guys are going to see on my channel I am going to start putting out like my get ready for home school videos my home school prep get it all done type of videos so I hope you guys enjoy uh watching that playlist as I drop some of those videos out as I'm preparing to start my school years so um yeah so you guys thank you so much for watching today's video I hope you enjoy and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye