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The Good and The Beautiful Kindergarten Curriculum Review: Language Arts, Math, and Handwriting
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Jan 31, 2025
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sharing my review of the good and the
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Beautiful kindergarten care culum math
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and language arts as well as handwriting
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this is going to be a brief overview of
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what the curriculum was like for me my
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own personal experience and of course my
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own personal um you know review of it my
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son is 4 years old so that just gives
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you an idea of like where he currently
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was like in like his stage of learning
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skill and development one thing I really
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loved is that it pretty much came with
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everything you need for the most part
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the only additional items that I needed
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to purchase for this curriculum was like
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a few arts and craft things like a craft
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knife glue scissors crayons um markers
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you know things like that nothing too
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extra and a whiteboard they want you to
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have a whiteboard but you can use like a
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personal size whiteboard that just your
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child can use or you can use you know
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the one you put on the wall we have both
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so a whiteboard was needed as well um
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chalk here and there and sticky notes
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but at the beginning of the curriculum
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you can just look it'll tell you
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everything you need so it doesn't sneak
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up on you and then it'll remind you at
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the beginning of each unit everything
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that you needed the curriculum itself is
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free math and language arts is
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completely free if you want to download
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it for use I personally thought that it
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was much easier less time consuming for
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me to purchase the curriculum I did end
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up printing half the curriculum before I
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realized should have just bought it
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because I had to get the books binded of
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course and then I also needed the
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booster books and the booster cards and
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I didn't like the quality like the print
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quality of just printing off the books
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and cards you know you obviously you can
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work with it but it wasn't the best and
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trying to figure out how to assemble
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those booklets just wasn't the best for
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me so I ended up having to buy them and
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after purchasing the books and boo
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booster cards separately I literally
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should have just got the whole
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curriculum together you save money when
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you buy the booster books and the
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booster carts with the actual language
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or curriculum itself as opposed to if
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you bought a separate so because I did
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everything like separate it ended up
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being more expensive for me so unless
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you're going to print everything and not
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purchase anything off the website you
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save more money getting it all together
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so that was my mistake the math also
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comes with the math box so the same
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thing if you decide to print the math
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you don't get that box that it comes
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with I guess you don't need those items
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if you already have certain items like
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it's just like counting sticks wooden
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number blocks and little wooden cars it
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didn't come with money which inside the
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curriculum you do need coins and it told
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me that it was in the box but it wasn't
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maybe the newer versions include that
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but my set didn't use that so I had to
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go around the house and find as many
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coins as I can and add them to the box
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so we probably did have the items around
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like a wooden car wooden C sticks number
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um like wooden number blocks with like
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plus equal signs and the numbers we had
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that stuff around so we didn't
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necessarily need the box but if you
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don't have it then it's better to just
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purchase the curriculum off the website
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so that you get that stuff or don't have
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to go out and buy that stuff handwriting
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curriculum was pretty straightforward
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just 100 lessons and you can do a page a
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day and finish it up within like 3
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months or so or 3 and a half months the
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math and language arts also has about
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120 lessons each so everything kind of
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lines up to where you can finish all
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three at the same time overall I do love
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the curriculum I love it everything that
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he was supposed to learn he did learn
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even at four years old doing that
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kindergarten curriculum we did do the
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kindergarten like the prek curriculum
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before we started and I think that that
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is very essential as well as those
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booster I think that they are very
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essential as well there are some things
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that they tell you you must have
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mastered before you even begin the
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curriculum at one point within the
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language RS curriculum we did have to SL
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down a little bit and we had to
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supplement with hooked on phic and
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Elemental finic for him to really really
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grasp reading certain words a lot easier
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because he would hesitate a lot with
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reading but again he's for so maybe that
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wouldn't be the case for an older child
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or maybe it would I don't know but
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adding that supplemental work into do it
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made it a lot easier for him some of the
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things that were difficult for him in
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the beginning of the curriculum now that
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we're towards the end they are much much
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easier for instance the booster books
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that it comes with they follow along the
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curriculum so whatever lesson or concept
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you are learning at the moment the
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booster cards and the booster books
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follows along that so if you just
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finished learning the ending ing or if
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you just finished learning letter
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blending then the booster cards would be
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going over letter blending before you
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start the lesson and then the booster
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books would have stories with letter
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blending in it to read after the lesson
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so everything kind of just goes together
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and what I really love the most is that
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it also has the games in the app that
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you can let your child do outside of
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actual homeschool hours so if you know
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that there's something that your kid
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wants or needs practice with then you
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can allow them to do those tablet games
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the interactive game
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are great to have on hand so that you're
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not searching for interactive things
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within YouTube because then you don't
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even have to mess around with YouTube at
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all which is great because YouTube is
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something completely different so I like
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that he had those games to keep him busy
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give him some extra practice and things
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like that there were three units for
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Math and three units for language arts
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handwriting I can't remember if it had
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two or three units each unit had an
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assessment at end of it a reading
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assessment that was
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timed as well as you know an assessment
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over everything like all of the concepts
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that were covered for reading language
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arts and math so I loved the assessments
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basically it gives you peace of mind of
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where your child is if they are on
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tasked for where they should be for the
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curriculum if they are ahead if they are
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behind for instance a reading assessment
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for the end of unit 3 might say your
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child should be able to read this
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paragraph Within 1 and A2 to 2 and 1/2
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minutes with no more than four mistakes
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so if your child is reading it closer to
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like 1 minute or closer to the one and
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A2 they may be a little bit Advanced if
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they're reading it over the 2 and 1/2
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they might be a little bit behind but if
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they're right between 1 and A2 and 2 and
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a half then they're right where they
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should be so that gives you an idea of
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where they are expected to be and it
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lets you know on your end as the homes
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School parent or teacher what you need
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to do everything is in one book so they
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had some GI graphy some poetry some Arts
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literature reading spelling all wrapped
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up inside of one curriculum so that you
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didn't have a bunch of different
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booklets for you know all of those
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different topics and then some of the
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geography lessons were in the app some
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of the spelling lessons were in the app
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and things like that so that it was a
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little more interactive they also had
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little activities which some people are
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not F of some people think that the good
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and the Beautiful activities are like
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fluff things that slow you down if you
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don't want to do that you can just not
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to it sometimes depending on the type of
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date we're having we would skip it and
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sometimes you know if I felt like he
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needs something a little more fun we
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would actually do it the lessons were
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not very long like they were short
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enough that if you didn't want to do the
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activity you could just do the lesson
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and then do your own activity afterwards
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because they were short enough to where
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you still had time left in the day to
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you know do some interactive and
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Hands-On Life Application skills and
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activities in physical education with
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your kid on your own which you know I
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recommend that we should do anyway just
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come up with fun activities that would
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we would incorporate with the lessons
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and sometimes they would have nothing to
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do with the lessons they're just meant
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to be fun learning activities starting
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off we did one language arts and one
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math lesson and then we got to the point
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where we could do two language arts two
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math lessons some days we wouldn't touch
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math at all we would only do two
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language arts and then some days we
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would just do two math you can split it
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up however you want to split it up but
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with there being 120 lessons you can
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still finish that up in about 6 months
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of a school year so it gives you some
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flexibility to where if for whatever
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reason you needed to take some time off
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for Christmas break spring break
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Thanksgiving or if life just happens you
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wouldn't quite exactly fall behind you
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don't have to feel like they're lacking
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anything because at the end of it my son
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was very much more dance than he was
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when he started he can now read short
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books recognize so many more words site
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words and sounding things out and
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Concepts um it's really amazing to see
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how far he has come within six months so
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I'm really proud of him took a lot of
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time off especially during like my first
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trimester of pregnancy pretty sure we
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almost took my entire first trimester
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off and we still have finished right
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around Springtime so that's really great
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and my son really liked the math care
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gum I don't know exactly how much I like
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it I'm still trying to decide how I like
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the math he got all the concepts he's
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doing really really well with it there
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were a lot of Concepts money telling
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time addition subtraction division
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counting by twos counting by 10 counting
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by fives even versus odd two dimensional
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shapes three dimensional shapes
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measurements like inches and ctim weight
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which one is heavier
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less plus more so many different
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concepts which I love that because there
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are so many Concepts nothing is focused
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on for a very large amount of time so
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maybe these Concepts you will still
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continue to focus on in first grade
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curriculum and then some of them even
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though I feel like he's mastered it I'm
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pretty much just hoping he doesn't
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forget it so as long as it's continued
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throughout first grade then I don't feel
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like he's going to be like forgetting it
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books they tell you to purchase like
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they tell you that it's optional it's
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like the my first reader my first nature
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reader my first Africa reader it's
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optional but I think that they're
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necessary my son enjoyed reading those a
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lot better than reading the individual
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books we're now going back and reading
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the individual books now that we're done
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he read through them with the curriculum
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and they were a little difficult for him
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to grasp but the actual nature Reader
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book was easier but now that we're done
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he can can now go through those booster
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books again and read them a lot faster
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one night he read me eight books at once
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when he used to struggle to get through
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one book during the curriculum So
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eventually he did grasp it but I say use
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those booster books over and over and
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over again because reading is just
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something that you get better at with
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repetition for sure the curriculum
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itself was a really great curriculum I
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was very happy with the curriculum I
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don't have anything negative to say
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about it I still wish that there was a
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little bit more
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like Christian Concepts in it of course
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you are going to supplement with that if
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that is something you're looking for to
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teach your little one I feel like they
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should write their name at the top of
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every single page and lesson but that
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was nowhere inside of the language arts
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or math curriculum it was only in the
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handwriting booklet in just every few
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pages or so not on every page so I think
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that they need to incorporate name
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writing on every page of like maybe math
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and language arts
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my personal opinion I think it's
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important we write our name at the top
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of everything they also had some life
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skills stuff where you had to remember
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phone numbers you had to remember your
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address and that was great overall I
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really still loved it it's a beautiful
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curriculum very easy to follow even my
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four-year-old to catch on to and master
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and enjoy it we never felt like it was a
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hassle or anything like that we enjoyed
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the curriculum we are going to continue
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using the good and the Beautiful
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curriculum because I think that they
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teach him the concepts he needs to know
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plus so much more without making it too
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hard and that is the best part that's
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what we look for we want them to learn
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everything that they can learn maybe
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even a lot more but we still want it to
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be very easy to follow and interactive
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and that is what the good and the
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Beautiful does well for the summer we
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are definitely going to switch over to
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the horizons curriculum we're going to
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go through the kindergarten curriculum
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for the horizons as review which is
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reading and finic math and health and
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it's a huge
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set but we're going to do that that's
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what we're going to be working on for
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the remainder of this year we're going
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to start in May and we're going to work
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on that all the way through December
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January we will begin the the good and
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the Beautiful first grade curriculum and
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we plan to finish that up by June of
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next year maybe sooner than June but as
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long as we are finished with that by
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next summer I'll be fine I always do
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these reviews only because he's so young
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it can be a bit early to be finishing up
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a kindergarten curriculum five could be
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a bit early to be starting first grade I
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don't know so I just always want to make
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sure that he is actually really grasping
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these things because it could be easier
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for an older child to catch on to these
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Concepts and even though he is catching
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on to them I mean exceedingly well I
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just want to be sure that you know it's
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something is going to stick for him I
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don't want the first grade curriculum to
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be difficult for him I want to make sure
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that once we begin first grade it's
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going to be easy for him to you know
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jump into not very difficult because he
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didn't spend a lot of time in the
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kindergarten or because he was young you
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know things like that if you've seen any
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of my other Vlogs you've seen some of
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the walkthrough videos of us doing the
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lessons with the good and the Beautiful
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we've been doing it for months now but
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I'm still going to show you some of the
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stuff that we were actually doing in the
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book list so you guys can just see what
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it looks like and of course if you are
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going through the good and the Beautiful
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curriculum with me especially
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kindergarten first grade you know young
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early Learners give this video a thumbs
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up we can do this together you know
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that's something we have in comment and
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comment below your favorite thing about
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the good and the Beautiful curriculum
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itself that is the Simply Good and
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beautiful math level K Cris book and
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then
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the
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manipulated that it comes with now this
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is the second half of the language arts
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literature level cave course book that I
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printed out um and I had to print it out
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in two books because they only had
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binding big enough to split it in half
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this way but it covered phonics writing
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reading grammar and punctuation spelling
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literature geography and art and just
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like the math it gives you an idea of
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the things that you need to do before
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each unit so lessons 1 through 40 was
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unit one so here our second book we
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started at unit 40 for unit 2 it tells
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you the spelling words and things that
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you'll be working on with the letter
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towels app so you would need the letter
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towels app and the good and the
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Beautiful Homes school app story
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sequence tracing writing all of that
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good stuff it also has like chapter
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stories which was really fun to go
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through with him basically a lot of
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reading and some spelling of course the
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activities that they throw in there that
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you can do that's optional again when
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you start a new unit it tells you
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everything that you would need so a
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little bit more than what you would eat
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for the math the spelling words that
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you'll be working on everything that
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you'll be going over for instance
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punctuation fluency literature
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preciation comparing contrast stories
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and characters respectful conversation
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rhyming reading unfamiliar words
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capitalization rules poetry and
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memorization arts and geography parts of
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a book nouns verbs plurals categories
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antonyms oral
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narration um and then these are some of
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the spelling word Concepts so the th
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sound the sh sound the CH sound the e
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sound and these are the booster cards
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that you are going to be working through
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so site word practice reading words with
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phonograms um reading words with
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inflectional endings like Ed and ing
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suff suffixes and preix prefixes um so
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it gives you everything in here that
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basically you're going to need these are
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the nature readers that are optional to
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purchase I highly recommend that get
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them because I like them more than the
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Boer books which looked like this this
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is book 10 were pretty
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small easy to follow but for whatever
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reason we enjoyed the nature Reader
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Books a bit more
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which looked like a large I guess
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chapter book kind of but I think it's
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the size of it that made us like a bit
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more as well as the texture of the pages
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easier to turn the pages one line on
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each page made it a lot easier to read
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through the pictures are bigger as
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opposed to multiple lines on one tiny
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page one line on a larger page was
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easier for him to follow than many lines
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on a smaller page if that makes sense
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and then the page were kind of like
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silky smooth which made it difficult to
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turn versus the rougher texture of this
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one so that's how I felt about the
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nature readers and the booster books by
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the end of the unit needed to read this
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size paragraph so not too big a few site
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words in there and he needed to read it
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within under 2 and 1/2 minutes so 1 and
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a/2 to 2 and 1/2 minutes and he read it
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in just about almost 2 minutes and he
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missed one word and they couldn't miss
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any more than four words to be on track
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was like I said a pretty good curriculum
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overall we did at some point supplement
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with elemental phics levels one and two
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which helps him get those sounds just
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because the pages are bigger that was
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his thing
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this is the booster card that you would
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go through it tells you how to use the
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booster cards and some things to master
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before starting the course which was
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short vowels the alphabet Beginning
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Sounds and
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letter blending of two letters so
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like stuff like that which is what was
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also
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covered in this Elemental PHX except
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bigger um and one lesson just had five
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sounds on it so this was larger and much
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easier for him to grasp and catch on to
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than this size that was a little more
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bunched up and I don't know I guess it
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looked a little more intimidating than
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this one page I did love the pyramid
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reading 50 reading cards versus 120
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lessons so that is not bad at all it's
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not too much of a hassle and too much
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extra practice that you have to really
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do so that is what you know that looks
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like one thing that I must say I really
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dislike about this handwriting course is
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that we always have the problem where
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the covers break or come off or
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something it's pretty flimsy and also
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pretty small but um it was some pretty
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basic stuff so it had three sections of
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like coloring drawing pictures tracing
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letters numbers as well I mean it was
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pretty easy to you know follow along and
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do and I think it is something that you
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definitely want to have but I just don't
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like I don't like the size of it it's
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just too small in my opinion but you
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know all right you guys that sums up my
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personal experience and review I guess
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you can say my thoughts of the good in
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the beautiful curriculum review language
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arts math and handwriting overall I
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loved the curriculum and I will be using
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it again of course with any curriculum
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there are going to be a few things that
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you are not very fond of or a few
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changes that you want but I still love
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the curriculum overall as a whole and my
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son is doing great with it so as long as
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he is thriving with it we will continue
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to use it and if we ever have to
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supplement I am okay with supplementing
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where needed so those are my thoughts
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let me know what you guys think of the
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good and the Beautiful curriculum I hope
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that you guys enjoyed this video and
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found it to be helpful if you are
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considering purchasing that curriculum
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just give you an idea of what to expect
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how many lessons how long it takes to
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complete how easy it is to grasp and you
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know catch on with I hope it was helpful
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for you in that way and again if you are
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well as a homeschool mama and a Disney
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things so join the family I would love
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to have you here but that is going to be
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all for today's video thank you so much
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for watching that'll be all until next
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time bye
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