 hi you guys my name is britney and welcome back to my youtube channel you guys there are going to be some big changes in my home school i cannot wait to share them with you guys so go ahead and stay tuned for today's video so if any of you guys are new here to my channel again my name is britney i am a homeschooling mom to three girls i have a ten three and a two-year-old right now and i'm in my second year of homeschooling so you guys i'm going to talk about some big changes that i'm going to be making in my homeschool this year and i really hope that these changes that i'm making can be helpful to you guys just listening and watching and all those things so the top question that i always get when it comes to homeschooling from you guys is always how do i schedule my homeschool how do i fit it all in especially having two very young toddlers who are very busy um i try not to hide it on my channel especially in my day in the lives while i show um our daily flow how hectic and can be with my two toddlers you guys i love my babies to death but they are very very busy and i pull out all the ropes during our homeschool days i mean i pull out the play dough and i pull out all of our blocks and magnetals you guys i'm not even ashamed to show it especially here on my channel i do utilize my tv during homeschool time to get things done so um with that all being said i just wanted to talk about the changes that we are going to be making within our homeschool schedule so i have our homeschool schedule our updated homeschool schedule right here that we are going to be using and i'm just going to go over some big changes we are going to be making with our schedule so first things first you guys we are going to start off our days by doing math and i know you're like oh my gosh brit are you really going to do this but yes i am going to start off my days by doing math in the month of december we really had a lighter low we were only doing math and a little bit of language arch review and you guys waking up in the morning getting that math done first thing was really really uh rejuvenating at least for me and i know my daughter she was able to really take a deep breath when we were done with math first thing in the morning um she told me she just was so happy that that was over with so um my husband actually doesn't start working guys until nine o'clock he works from home still i'm so fortunate so you guys since my girls they wake up between seven thirty and eight i really try my best to utilize that hour that i have with my husband to get some things done get some things started get breakfast ready and during that time now i'm going to start utilizing it by getting my oldest order braille's math out the way and done so with that being said we are going to start off our homeschool days in the morning doing math my daughter's going to go downstairs she's going to grab a granola bar i'm going to make my coffee we're going to utilize that time while my husband can watch my two younger ones and we're going to get our hardest subject out the day over with so when i get my daughter set up with math and she's working on her independent practice then we will go ahead and go into our breakfast and bible time if you guys ever watch my day in a life i always show me having my daughters eat and breakfast while i do bible especially with my younger ones i feel like i'm able to get them to listen a lot better when they when they're feeding themselves and their mouths are full if i should say so so um that's just a really good time for me to do bible with them is during breakfast um typically after bible is when i will go scarf something down before the next subject with my daughter so we are going to go straight into bible now you guys the biggest change that we are going to be doing in our homeschool is that i am officially adding in my preschoolers in our homeschooling day if you guys uh i wonder if you guys or if you guys have not already seen um the video that i made on my channel about the preschool curriculum picks that i have chose especially for my oldest for my middle daughter who is leia she's three she will be four in march so she's primarily going to be doing these uh i guess this specified preschool time however my youngest alana who is two she is very enthusiastic and she loves uh just tagging along uh in our preschool so i'm so excited to officially add them in the schedule before when i was doing preschool with them you guys it was very sporadic i was just doing it whenever uh i had the extra time but now i'm going to make it to be a part of my day i really want them to be included and i noticed that when i fill up their little cups before i head back to my oldest daughter priel i feel like they're more cooperative with me throughout the day because they know that they got that special time with me so uh yeah if you guys again want to see those curriculum picks that i picked out for them i will have the video um linked in my icard and in my description box below so you guys can check that out as well another thing after so pretty much while we're i'm doing preschool with my two youngest toddlers my daughter who is in fourth grade she will be doing her independent work so bria will be doing her spelling vocabulary um she will be finishing up math if she got any problems wrong so anything she can do independent that's what she will do during that time while i'm doing preschool the only days we will not do preschool is on wednesdays because my middle daughter leah does have speech therapy um during that time so i will reserve that time instead of doing preschool it will be for me to do speech therapy virtually with her and then usually during that time again bria is doing something independent and we are distracting alana as best as we can during a speech therapy time so after that we will go into our language arts and after language arts is all done you guys we will go into lunch where we will listen to our read aloud we have been listening to our read alouds through uh audible and it's just been amazing it's been alleviating me of my voice reading all day long because i read with my toddlers and it just has really been helping us out so while we're sitting at the table eating lunch we will do our read aloud i will put my two toddlers down for a nap and then me and my daughter we will come upstairs and we will either do science or history and then our day is done you guys with this new schedule we have already started we have been finishing our home to school days around one o'clock which has been amazing uh before this schedule i was putting all of my daughter's core work in the afternoon and we wasn't getting done with our school days you guys until like 2 30 sometimes three o'clock and i don't want that for us i really want her to be able to utilize that free time and that free space to be able to do things that she loves and she enjoys so i'm really happy that we are done with our home school day at one o'clock with her official studies now after one o'clock while my two younger ones are still sleeping you guys i'm so lucky they still sleep for about two hours um my daughter she will do some free play she likes to do her creative writing during that time as well something else that my oldest daughter she does while my two younger ones are taking a nap she does do her piano practice and after she gets all those things done she has the opportunity to do like ipad time um and then something else that she does is we will either go outside like once all the kids are all up we'll go outside and then we'll go into our evening routine so this is our new home school schedule and i'm so happy that um i just took that leap of faith to just uh go back to our original schedule that we did in our first year of homeschooling and you guys so far it's been working out beautifully in our home so you guys the second biggest change that i'm making in my home school is i actually have a homeschool planner now you guys school nest actually reached out to me and they sent me this beautiful planner and i'm so happy that they sent me this planner to be able to now officially plan out my homeschooling days in my homeschooling quarters you guys before i had this planner i'm not gonna lie i was just only planning our homeschool like week by week i really wasn't taking enough in account our full quarter of our homeschool days and i'm really happy to be able to have this planner now you guys uh just because it's allowing me to be able to mark out and carve out that time to really be able to figure out what exactly we are going to be doing for our full quarter now you guys i do have mostly open and go curriculum if you guys know what i'm using for our homeschool if not i will link a video down below so you can watch like my mid-year curriculum review because i feel like that's like my most updated uh curriculum choices that i am using right now um but as you guys see in those videos most of my curriculum is open and go i really don't have to think about it however those like special activities no special little things you want to add in and sprinkle in to uh bring in that homeschool magic i really feel like uh i have been lacking because i have been failing to like look ahead and really plan beyond just the week and i really feel like this planner is really going to help me you guys my favorite part about this planner is two things the first thing that i love and i'm going to give you guys like a flip through of the planner as well is i love this curriculum progress that they have i mean it really gives you an idea of where you are in your curriculum if you're at the halfway mark or if you're not um i really feel like this is really going to help me stay on track and um as far as like our goals and where we want to be at the end of the school year i love how like the weeks are set up um in this i love how not only does it have like for your weekly goals and notes it also has a portion where you can do like a bullet journal for your reflections i feel like so much i'm so much caught up into like did we get our lesson done did we get this done versus what did we do uh that homeschooling week what are the things that uh we really can reflect back on and be happy that we accomplish uh just beyond a lesson completed in a page of a curriculum but like what's something or a skill that i feel like my daughter mastered that week what's something that i want to look back and cherish that we did that week and i really love the weekly reflection page that they have in here another thing that i love about this um homeschooling planner by schoolness is that it's affordable this planner is only twenty dollars i'm going to link it down below you guys but i'm so happy to begin the process of actually like planning out our days and i like that i have a separate planner outside from my regular planner that i use for my uh daily life my daily home life i love now that everything is going to be separate i have something for homeschool and then i have something for me for you know our home life and all the other things so yes again thank you schoolness for reaching out to me and for sending me this beautiful planner i cannot wait to put it into some really good use so you guys the last big change that i'm making in my homeschool is that this year is going to be a no curriculum by year for me now um i don't want to put any pressure on any of you guys uh because of the decision that i have made but i'm just sharing this with you guys to hold myself accountable for this particular thing is that if you guys are not new here to my channel i have a curriculum problem and i know i have a curriculum problem and i definitely want to be more consistent this homeschooling year and i really want to uh not focus so much on the curriculum aspect this year but focus on other things in our homeschool and in our homeschool life so i put myself to the challenge you guys and i went ahead and i purchased all of my daughter's fifth grade curriculum and i also have all of my middle daughter's pre-k curriculum already selected i already have it on the shelf if you can see some of it back there you kind of see some sneak peeks of uh all the curriculum that i have already purchased and i did that for one specific recent you guys i don't want to be worrying so much about curriculum and researching what's going to work what's not going to work i really want to focus in on other things and other aspects my daughter's specific interest this homeschooling year and i really feel like a weight has been lifted off of me knowing that i already made all of those choices i know the things that are working for my daughter and i'm just going to stick with them and i'm so happy to finally be at this point where i feel like i finally found my right pair of shoes i should say when it comes to curriculum i found our fit and i'm just going to stick with it and i really feel like by me challenging myself to a no curriculum by year it's really going to allow me to think outside the box within our homeschool and do things outside of a formal curriculum and really allow me to be creative so i'm going to have you guys hold me to it to this year my only exception to the know-by curriculum rule is if any of my daughters either go through the curriculum too fast or we need to level up that is the only time where i am able to purchase new curriculum so i'm really hoping i can stick to this goal of mine that i have for this upcoming year and uh yeah so you guys i really hope you enjoyed today's video i really hope you enjoy hearing the big changes that we are making in our homeschool i really hope uh hearing my schedule and the things that i'm going to be implementing this homeschool year will help you guys out if you want to see our schedule to the test don't worry i am going to be filming a day in a life coming up soon probably within the next couple of weeks so you can really see how we are going to be implementing our new schedule so you guys as always thank you so much for watching my channel thank you again you guys for helping me reach 5k subscribers if i haven't mentioned that already i cannot believe i have five thousand of you guys watching me now thank you again for helping me reach that goal as always you guys please don't forget to comment like and subscribe and i look forward to seeing everyone in my next one bye