 Hi you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel. You guys it is curriculum week for me here on my youtube channel and I'm so excited to share with you guys my 2024 2025 homeschool curricula picks for my rise in seventh grader first grader and pre-kinder kiddos here in my homeschool. So you guys I am going to start off this curricula week sharing with you guys what I'm going to be using for my pre-kinder daughter and then I will share with you guys my first grader and end off the week with my seventh graders homeschooling curricula picks. I really took a lot of time and energy and thought and picking out all of my kiddos picks for this upcoming homeschool year so I'm really really excited for all the things we're going to get up to and you guys let me stop rambling and we're going to go ahead and get on into this thing. So first things first I really kept it simple when it came to handwriting I am sticking with the same thing I have done in my homeschool from day one which has been handwriting without tears. I really really love handwriting without tears because the systematic approach that they take in teaching correct letter formation. So my rise in pre-kinder kiddo she's going to be in the purple book right now we're working through the first book which is the green book and I really really love it you guys. We're going to go ahead and utilize our handwriting without tears chalkboard. This is like gold in our homeschool and teaching all of my daughters like their correct letter formation with the chalk and the sponge and then we translate it on to paper. So I really loved handwriting without tears their program it's simple and I really like the big pages on these so handwriting without tears. Now as far as some other things for fine motor skills we're going to continue using our kumon cutting book so my kiddo can get better as far as her cutting skills. Right now she is four and halfway through the homeschooling year she will be five so somewhere in there she probably will go ahead and have mastered these scissors skills but she's a lefty and I really love these kumon pasting and cutting skills books because you can literally just pull out the pages you want to use for your kiddos and this has been so much fun especially as like little morning starters in our homeschool so cutting skills from kumon. Now as far as math goes it should be no surprise we are sticking with uh kindergarten math with confidence for uh my rising uh pre-kinder daughter right now she has already completed preschool math at home and by the time you are watching this video we have already started uh kindergarten math with confidence. You guys I love this program I love the games I love the mental and conceptual math knowledge that the kiddos gain through using this program I will let you know this program is not easy or gentle I really feel like it dives deep in the conceptual knowledge with numbers do not be fooled by the student workbook and thinking that this curricula is easy and it lacks rigor I definitely will say all of the meat in the curriculum is in the teacher's guide it is by doing the games and the mental math exercises so I really love this program this is my second time using it and the cool thing about it is is that all the prep work that I already did for this program I don't have to do it anymore since I already have the math box and everything already ready to go literally we're just diving into this and I'm so excited to this program yet again I really just I loved kindergarten math with confidence so here we go my second round with this one and I'm really really excited now as far as phonics goes we are going to be continuing using elemental phonics I really love elemental phonics because it's just simple the kiddos start off with the blend ladders and then after the blend ladders they work on simple cvc words this is a daily lesson and I love how simple it is especially for younger kiddos who do want to see at the table when it comes to like phonetic instructions and learning how to read my youngest daughter she really was beginning to teach herself how to read so I really had to step in to make sure she was learning things correctly so I just really love elemental phonics for its gentle approach so we're going to go ahead and continue using elemental phonics level one at the end of this school year we will be halfway completed with this one so we're just going to pick this baby back up where we're at it ends off with the kiddos reading phonetic sentences so I'm really really excited about that so that is where we're going to be at as far as her phonics instructions when she completes level one I have elemental phonics level two here so I'm going to determine whether I'm going to do level two and or if I believe she will be ready to go ahead and start all about reading level one now all about reading level one you guys it literally just jumps in it's like the kiddos go straight into reading and because she is younger I do enjoy using elemental phonics because of its more gentler approach when it comes to teaching the kiddos like cvc words phonetic sentences elemental phonics definitely goes a lot slower so if I find she's ready for all about reading we're going to dive into this level one and we're going to see where it takes her especially towards the second half of our homeschooling year now I do have the first set of bob books you guys I really really enjoyed these bob books they're so cute right now she's working on the first book we literally just picked it up the other week and I couldn't believe she was beginning to read the first bob book so we're going to continue to work through this box this upcoming homeschool year and I'm just going to kind of take it and see where she goes with it so that is as far as like her phonics instructions what I have planned for her this upcoming homeschool year now as far as her core I'm really excited about this you guys because this is a program that I did last year and I'm excited to bring it back into our homeschool which is a gentle and classical primer we did gentle and classical preschool for my younger two kiddos last homeschooling year and this homeschooling year I definitely will say I miss this and I'm happy I waited to start the gentle and classical primer because she would not have been ready to do this program this school year so I'm really happy I waited and we're going to have so much fun with this now I definitely will say this book does or this level of gentle and classical primer it focuses a lot on like fairy tales folk tales they're going to be working on like manners and some scripture memory work it's really really cute but what I did do for this program is I am going to be swapping out some of the like fairy tale and folk tale literature so this is the fairy tales and folk tales a book that is recommended which is the classical fairy tales however I'm going to be mixing in this book right here which is called crown this is a magical folk and fairy tales so I'm really really happy about adding in this book and it just has like different I guess adaptations of fairy tales and you guys I really enjoy the representation within this book the illustrations are beautiful so I'm definitely going to be like adding in some literature some like I guess African American fairy tales and folk tales within this curricula for my younger kiddo and I'm really excited about that we're also going to be reading Peter Rabbit which is a classic too with the gentle and classical primer now because this homeschooling year I definitely will say we for as far as like reading and literature we primarily just went to library and I was just picking out like random things but this upcoming homeschool year I really wanted to make sure and ensure I was reading books to my younger two and I wanted to make sure that um I kind of was following some type of a schedule I wanted something to be laid out as far as the literature reading where we're going to be doing so you guys as far as literature for both of my younger two kiddos we're going to be doing melanated tales and pretty much this melanated tales is from the heritage mom blog and we're pretty much going to be reading again more like fairy tales and folk tales stories we're going to be using the black mother goose we're going to be reading Nelson Mandela's African folk tales and then the last book we're going to be using is her stories which is again African American folk tales fairy tales and true tales so as you guys can tell this homeschooling year I'm definitely focusing on like those fairy tales and folk tales like all of those type of stories I want to make sure my kiddos they know and that's really the fun part about this age is really reading to them so that's really my primary focus and that's why I have so much literature that I do want to read to both of my younger two kiddos because my rising first grader will be joining my prekinder in melanated tales and gentle and classical primer this homeschooling year now I do also have the Kenny Garten morning binder and also the preschooling morning binder that I can use in my dry erase sheets as far as like their morning folder calendar time letter formation different things like that I do have this I guess to my access if I want to pull these out and put them in some dry erase sleeves as far as like morning working things like that I have utilized these this homeschooling year not as much as I thought I was going to but I did pull them out every now and then especially when we had like concepts that match within like their math or phonics curricula so I do have that on hand just in case I do want to use it so you guys these are my prekenders homeschool curricula picks for the 2024 2025 homeschooling year if you guys want to see anything in detail please let me know I will make flip-throughs of any pieces of curricula you want to see or know more about just let me know I'm so excited for this kiddo she definitely is going to have a seat at the table and hopefully she's not crying anymore because she doesn't have enough one-on-one time with mommy as always thank you so much for watching I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one bye