The Good and The Beautiful - the ULTIMATE review

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Today I am review multiple parts of The Good and The Beautiful Curriculum, from kindergarten to highschool and in between, with both math and language arts. Here are my honest thoughts.

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Hi! I'm Chantel and I live with my family over on the Canadian prairies. We love to snuggle up with good books all winter long so you'll see lots of books here along with our homeschool stuff.

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00:00 - what we've been using
02:40 - a kindergarten rant
05:15 - pros
07:45 - cons
14:30 - where we're going from here

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We have the High School 1 and we haven’t even touched it. My son really dislikes the books he has read from them in the past. He said that it is all too perfect and nothing like real life.

HomeSweetHomeschoolLife
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Thank you so much for your honesty! I am staring homeschool for the first time with my kindergarten next school year. I looked at The Good and the Beautiful and thought the same things in the kinder math! It’s good to hear a confirmation!

amberwoods
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I share the exact same feelings and thoughts too about this curriculum! Math with Confidence has been such a blessing for my 5th and K kids. You learn new concepts through manipulatives or card games so it’s really hands on. The practice and repetition have been at a much better pace too.

GinaRLacy
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Yeeessss ! My 6 yr old in 1st grade could not do the K LA ....way to challenging for beginning kindergartener imo but now as a first grader he's flying through it.

kristyauringer
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I have looked at TGATB multiple times, and we have tried sample/free pages on and off, but I've never stuck with it. I feel strongly that the curricula we use is based in scientific or otherwise research-based standards for teaching subject matter and skills, and TGATB feels like someone just randomly throwing information onto a page without any sort of thoughtful scaffolding or foreknowledge of how children (or any people?) learn. I know I sounds super negative, but I've been homeschooling for so many years now, and I've tried so many (bad) curricula, I'm done using things that aren't amazing!

m.appleton
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We just started preschool TGAB. We’re only on day 4. We’re taking it slow and doing lots of review through play on the “off days”. We are only doing 2-3 lessons a week from the course then review on our own. This is helpful!

kristenbrett
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I have used the preschool language arts, and it is what you are talking about: each letter, sound by sound, etc.. then there's a kindergarten prep bridging to the kindergarten language arts books. I have always printed it, each time we have used it (purchased the pdf). I find the preschool moves very quickly for letters and sounds, but it will definitely depend on the child. Our 4 year old really wants to keep doing more, but can't, because it keeps adding letters faster than she can keep up. So it's one we have to supplement or start 'late', once kids can very quickly pick up letter names, sounds, etc. It's not my favourite for our family learning style, but we have it so I do use it among other things.

Ahomeontheprairies
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I agree with so much of this. The math worked really well for my youngest for a while (it was the old math) but once they changed it and she got higher it just didn’t work as well. My oldest did well with the grammar in the high school levels but both were so uninspired by them, which I didn’t expect because I thought it looked so pretty. My youngest hated it and she now hates reading because of the books she read through our years there. And yes, what you said about the Mormonism is so true and that’s why I didn’t really think about it when we were still Mormon. I wish I could go back and not do it with her because even though I give her great books now, she has yet to regain her love of reading.
I liked some of the science and history but I found that they went back and forth between too easy/ simplistic and really advanced with words they would never remember in the same lesson. We don’t use any of it anymore. I may use the Us constitution unit again with my youngest when she is older because we did all enjoy that and they both liked the book that came with it, but we won’t use any more of their stuff. I also noticed a lot more Mormon stuff in it that most wouldn’t notice because they are either still Mormon and think Christianity is the same or they’ve never been Mormon and it’s subtle.

CandlewickLibrary
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We decided to ditch TGTB LA this year for so many of the reasons you mentioned here. My kids really like to go a bit more in depth for geography and art. It was a great place to start as new homeschoolers, but we have just outgrown TGTB.

JemimahD
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That is such a great point. I’ve been struggling with the preschool/kindergarten curriculum and haven’t been able to figure out why it’s bothering me. This is it. They claim to follow a Charlotte Mason approach yet the language arts starts out very advanced for children that technically shouldn’t be starting school until age 6. It absolutely makes no sense.

Eliza_sun
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Agreed! My 5 yr old is doing Math K & the Kinder Prep together instead of LA K.

bringingupbairds
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I appreciate your kindergarten rant. I tried the pre-k curriculum with my 4 year old this year because she was begging to do school like her siblings. It introduced 5 letters in 5 days and it was so overwhelming that we stopped. It definitely felt like it expected the child to know all their letters already and this was just review. We switched to Gather Round's letters and numbers which has a much gentler approach and that's been working for us wonderfully.

jenjansen
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One of my biggest homeschool regrets is using TGTB LA our first year for K and 1st. I still feel like im playing catch up with one of my students because it was so hard to find a reading/phonics curriculum to systematically teach him to read. If i could do it all over i would have done All About Reading and All About Spelling from the beginning and then worked in other elements of LA

jenniferbennett
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Please do a video on the 100 easy lessons book! I want to try that next before kinder prep.

kristenbrett
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When something just doesn’t work it’s always good to follow your kids and see what works for them. It has always worked well for us but we did it from 3rd grade forward so not the “learn to read” years. We are also closer to school at home which I can say for sure this is vs your family has loved bookschooling or more unschooling style and I could def see that being a hard transition.

wereadalot
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I had gotten the booster card only for my daughter in second grade and I give those credit for getting my daughter to read chapter books. She's now an avid reader and is reading the Hobbit in 3rd grade. This year she wanted to do the whole language arts from them, she's almost done with the 3rd grade curriculum and has really strived with it. She does not like their math at all though. That was not a good fit.
For my 5 year old I felt like the k level was too much on the page for him and not a good fit from the samples I printed. I got the kinder prep for my 4 and 5 year old and that's been good for both of them so far.
Moral of the story, it's a win for my daughter, she loves the books from them and she loves the curriculum. But not so sure it will be a good fit for my boys. However I think the booster cards with the share readers are fantastic and I'll probably do that part with them.

Abelfam
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Something I notice after switching to Easy Peasy homeschool is that I really think the 120 lessons hurts TGTB. Easy Peasy has 180 lessons and there is no need to rush or cram so much in.

renaecarpenter
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Hi Chantel, I was scrolling through my YT home page and your video showed up! Thought you looked familiar ^_^ Looks like you're doing awesome ♡ Great video, thanks!

MrsKendraJoy
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I don't know if anyone on the last video mentioned the Where'd you learn that website. They have 100% digital resources that are printer friendly and for all age levels.

tiffanymeyer
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I agree about the books. The kids are almost perfect in those books. That bothered me. Also, there was not much excitement to the stories. There never seemed to be a problem to solve. I was reading one of the third grade readers with my 3rd grader. The kids in the book were so GOOD…I can’t explain it. All they thought about was helping other people. That’s a worthy goal, but there has not been anything to overcome. My boys are bored silly with the readers. I dropped TGTB LA and will be using something else. I go back to TGTB all the time, because I want the simplicity of the all in one. But, the readers get us every time. My boys need adventure and fun. TGTB readers are not that.

audreymcnair