A homeschooling year recap and what’s ahead for next year – Hf #215

Finding Joy in Your Home

Jami Balmet

Religion & Spirituality, Homemaking, Living, Kids & Family, Christian, Mother, Healthy, Christianity, Joy, Homemaker, Wife

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🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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I am wrapping up this current homeschool year and starting to plan and collect resources for next year. So now is a great time to do a little recap of our homeschool curriculum we've used the past 2 years and what we will be using going into next year! I'll also share a little bit about the homeschool philosophy we have fallen in love with, how we do a morning basket time, and more! Listen to the Podcast: Thanks for listening in today! You can find all the links & resources mentioned in today’s episode down below. And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Right click here and save-as to download this episode to your computer. Links & Resources: Using Sonlight: The Sonlight curriculum we have: Core A (for grades K-2 and ages 5-7) For our family we have fallen in love with their book selection but don't need their Instructor's Guide. LISTEN: How to get started homeschooling (and the curriculum we are using this year)- Hf #92 LISTEN: Our homeschool plan for Kindergarten/First Grade – Hf#150 Sonlight books we've loved: James Harriot's Treasury for children Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion Adventures in Ancient Greece Dolphin Adventures Cappy Boppy The Boxcar Children #1 Johnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legand Usborn's Children Encyclopedia What we use for teaching reading: Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons (goes from K-2nd grade) Dash into Reading books - Amazing beginning reader books. They are so beautiful!! What we now use for Math (and LOVE!!) Master Books Level 1 (this is technically first grade math but it was perfect for Kindergarten) Morning basket time: Devotional we use: I Am: 40 reasons to Trust God Other books we've loved reading this year: Children's picture atlas - Usborn My first keyboard book - Usborn Rahl Dahl Book Set (we got ours at Costco for a killer price) The Dragon Master Series We are the gardeners by Joanna Gaine The Usborn Outdoor Activity Book What we are planning for next year (but this might change as I start to order stuff): Master Books Math level 1 Continue with 100 easy lessons book Next level in handwriting without tears Adding in a nature notebook Move into another devotional when we end that one Sponsors for today's episode: Get 500 high quality business cards starting at just $9.99: Vistaprint.com/HOME Get 40% off your organic feminine care products by going to mylola.com and use coupon code HOMEMAKING

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0:00.0	This is The Homemaking Foundation's podcast with Jamie Belmay, episode number 215.
0:06.2	Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools, inspiration, and encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home.
0:14.5	And now your host from youngwifesguide.com, Jamie Belmay.
0:19.9	Hey, ladies, welcome back to my podcast.
0:22.6	Today is a topic that I have been requested to do an episode on again and again.
0:29.6	So I'm going to start off by saying, I am not an expert in this topic, but to be honest, I'm not usually an expert in hardly anything
0:39.6	I talk about here on the podcast. So what you're going to hear today is my journey with homeschooling
0:44.8	the last couple of years. I have itty-bitty little kids. We've been doing kindergarten and kind of
0:50.9	first grade. So I have little kids, but we're going to be kind of talking about
0:55.1	philosophy behind homeschooling as well. So if you're interested in homeschooling, what it can look
1:00.2	like, but you don't have little kids. I think you'll still get some stuff out of this episode,
1:05.6	but you're not going to get curriculum choices out of this episode if you have older kids, although most of the publishers
1:13.7	I'm talking about of this curriculum make curriculum for older grades as well. So I kind of wanted
1:18.1	to give that caveat up front. I have not been homeschooling for 20 years or anything like that.
1:23.5	But Jason and I, I feel like do have a pretty good mix of backgrounds on this because I went to public school my entire life, kindergarten through 12th grade. And Jason was homeschooled, kindergarten through 12th grade. So it is kind of fun to get Jason's perspective to say, hey, how did you guys do this? When you were in fifth, sixth grade, what did your days look like?
1:45.4	What was it? What worked well for you? What did you hate? What do you think worked really well?
1:49.9	Jason is one of the smartest people I know. He is borderline on that, like, genius level.
1:55.9	And so I really appreciate that knowing that his mom did homeschooling extremely well for him. So I love
2:02.1	having that perspective from him. And then I also have my mother-in-law who homeschooled seven children.
2:07.4	She's still homeschooling the last two kindergarten through 12th grade. And we've had a lot of talks
2:13.1	of the mistakes she made, things she would do differently, things that she feel like has gone
2:17.8	well. And so that has always been a really big encouragement to me in my homeschooling journey
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