HOMESCHOOL Curriculum I Can't Wait to Use! // Plans for Next Year // 2023-2024

What am I MOST excited to use for our homeschool plans next year?

Well… I’m glad you asked!

I’m sharing the subject and curriculum I am most looking forward to next school year (hint: It’s been part of the plan for a while now!), and a whole group of secular homeschoolers on YouTube are sharing their top pick as well. Check out the playlist here:

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📣 Mentioned in this video:

— Build Your Library

— Build Your Library Lit-Bites!

— A Literary Education, written by Emily Cook (author or Build Your Library curriculum)

— Blossom & Root’s River of Voices

— History Quest: United States

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— Pandia Press: History Quest, History Odyssey, and Real Science Odyssey!

— Home Science Tools: My favorite place for science materials!

— Thriftbooks (this link: spend $30 and get a FREE book credit!)

— Better World Books (this link: $5 off order of $30 or more)

— Book of the Month (this link: Only $5 for your first month, normally $16.99)

— Pango Books (app for buying/selling used books)
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Your support means so much! Thank you!

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🎥 Related videos of mine you may find helpful:

— HISTORY QUEST United States // Secular Inclusive American History // Curriculum Review, Flip Through

— 2023 HOMESCHOOL RESOLUTIONS // Homeschool Show & Tell

— RAISING READERS // Cultivate a Love of Reading in your Home at ANY Age!

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#homeschoolcurriculum #secularhomeschool #homeschoolhistory

[heathercox]

I'm so happy to find someone else who uses Build Your Library! We started using it this year and I really like it. This year was Level 1, next year we will be doing Level 2. I didn't use it all either. I only used the history, the read alouds, and some of the art this year. Next year, I may incorporate the Science portion. We are not nature people, so that is why I didn't follow the science this year. Although, as we got further in the weeks, I noticed the science section started concentrating on more of the animals or insects of nature, so I started to rethink the science section of the level. I like that you can tweak it to what you like to learn about and what you don't.

[brookeally]

I love BYLs booklist! Although my teenager was never homeschooled, I’m testing the waters with him using a lit bite and we are going through it together and we are having a great time. Also I’m going through Emily’s history book by book website and reading books to give myself a better history lesson than I was taught and so far wow! Love it ❤

[Homeschoolology]

We are totally friends! LOL. Thanks for sharing about BYL Level 8. I was still undecided about what we were going to do for science this year, and I was kind of already thinking it would be fun to tie it in to our history. I'm thinking BYL Level 8 will be very helpful with what I am wanting.

[mamamatheson]

I’d love to see a lit bite review if you try one out.

[schultesweeties]

Loved hearing more about BYL and how you do history!

[WhimsicalFamilyLife]

I keep looking at BYL! I'm using her Harry Potter studies and appreciate those. We'll see what the future holds! We are continuing on with History Quest next year.

[meganrose]

Sounds like an awesome year planned. We also love literature based curriculum and use a Bookshark in our family. We will also be diving into year 2 of American history next year. 😊

[maggiepanning]

Did you ever do BYL L4? If you did, where did you place it in the order? I’m also curious, do you do the copywork, narration and dictation portions of BYL? If you do, do you have a video of how you do them or would you please make one?

I am most excited to start using Nomad Press books for science next year!

[heidig]

Thanks for sharing! We’re big fans of BYL and have used levels 1, 2 and prehistory so far. I was thinking of jumping to 5 next year (my daughter will be in the 4th grade) because I really want to cover US history, but some of the books seem a bit advanced. I’m still debating doing BYL 3 for fourth grade and BYL 5 for fifth grade. I’m curious if you could go back and do it again would you do just BYL 3 this year and then jump to BYL5 or just skip BYL 3 and 4 and jump to BYL5. Thanks!

[jemasidi]

I like the idea of literature-based curricula, but I have a hard time letting go of teaching standard concepts that may be overlooked, and that they may need later if they take dual enrollment courses or high school courses through FLVS (our state's virtual school). Does BYL teach literary concepts with standard terminology and things like literary outlines and literary analysis? For the history, my kids love history, and we really enjoyed Blossom and Root's Early American history this year, but I'm worried about the rest of social studies slipping through the cracks, like Economics, Politics, Civics, etc. Do you fill in the gaps with any supplements, or do you just trust the process and find they learn these concepts and proper terminology along the way?

[CalmintheChaosHomeschool]

You are so much like me with the mish mashing of curriculum and then taking forever to do the curriculum 😂