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The Good and The Beautiful Curriculum Review: Level 1 Language Arts, Math & Handwriting
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Feb 28, 2025
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you can do this curriculum even if you
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are not a pro at homeschooling like if
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you are just starting out this is going
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to be it for you the language arts
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curriculum here it covers phonics
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writing reading grammar and punctuation
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spelling literature geography really
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really beautiful I love how beautiful it
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is does have like the spiral learning
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method where you learn something and
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then you learn something else and then a
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couple lessons later you might spiral
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and come back to what you learned you
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know last week so if you're not doing
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the good and the beautiful but you are
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coning having those struggle fights try
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the good and the Beautiful for
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homeschool because being a mama of two
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and having a baby girl that's only 7
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months and we came home with the newborn
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we needed something that was going to be
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easy for us to do hi guys welcome to
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Motherhood and homemaking my name is
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heaven and today we're going to get into
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the good and the Beautiful level one
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curriculum we have been using this
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curriculum for I want to say about 5
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months now we began using this in
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October and here we are in mid-February
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and we are almost complete we are on
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track to be complete with the full first
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grader level one curriculum both
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language arts and math and handwriting
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by April 4th that's going to be our last
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day of homeschool for this school year
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so I'm going to go ahead and just give a
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full review we are almost just a little
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bit through unit three so there are
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three units inside of each curriculum
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with 40 lessons in each unit so since we
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are almost done like wrapping it up I
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figured this would be the perfect time
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for me to give a review of this so I did
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a full review of the unboxing everything
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went fully in depth of what the
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curriculum itself covers so this is just
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going to be me briefly showing you guys
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we have our course book here that has
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all 120 lessons inside of it and then we
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also have the reading booster B cards we
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have the nature Reader book and then we
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also have the handwriting curriculum so
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handwriting is just a level one spiral
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bound notebook and then we have math
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math is really large spiral bound as
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well with all three units and then it
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also includes the math box with it that
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has everything inside of there that you
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need and then last we've been working on
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the science curriculum for quite some
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time and we've actually been
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supplementing with like science
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experiments and things like that as well
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as a couple other science books but this
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one is actually really really cute and I
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think we're actually going to really
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dive deep into this over the summer
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because we are going to take a break I'm
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thinking we'll probably break in April
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and then we'll start back up I want to
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say maybe August in the past I've not
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done that we've taken like a few weeks
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off two to 3 weeks and delve right back
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in but I feel like we both really need
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this break because we've been going for
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a few years strong without manyi breaks
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we normally don't do like summer breaks
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but I think we need a short break maybe
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we'll start back up in July um just so I
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can really get a grasp for things now
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that I have a second child we're going
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to have to start incorporating a few
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things for her to do as well I I know
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we'll see I say that every year and we
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just kind of don't but we have the
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science for little hearts and hands big
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book of science stories and then we also
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have this here that comes with it which
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is the parent guide it tells you how to
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teach the lessons as well as any videos
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that you need to reference it also comes
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with these beautiful stories inside of
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it that are absolutely
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adorable it also comes with like movies
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and things so this is a really great
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science lesson and they have so many
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they also have heal they have um safety
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all of the things and so I really want
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to dive into a few more extracurriculars
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over the summer so that's why we're
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going to slow down a little bit with the
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math and the language arts just so that
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we can dive more into extracurricular
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activities and things like that so now
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let's go ahead and get into my review
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this is a really easy to follow
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curriculum my son is 5 years old and we
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are in level one or the first grade
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curriculum if you want to think in terms
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of like Traditional School grade system
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he would be in first grade but well they
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wouldn't allow him to be because he's
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five but technically we're doing level
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one first grade curriculum and he's
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going to be finished with this before he
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turns 6 years old so he's been able to
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follow along with this the language arts
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curriculum here it covers phonics
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writing reading grammar and punctuation
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spelling literature geography and art
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there's a ton of phonics there's a ton
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of reading grammar and punctuation in
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literature then there's a little bit bit
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of geography sprinkled throughout there
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there's a little art in there and then
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there's a little spelling in there as
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well and then writing now what what I
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forgot to show you guys is that it also
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comes with um booster cards so you get
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the booster books and the booster cards
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the booster cards are really helpful
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that goes more into depth for the
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reading and it also goes more into depth
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for like a little bit of the grammar and
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fation but mostly good for reading when
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it comes to spelling now each unit has
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own list of spelling words there's a
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list of spelling words that you want to
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have mastered before you begin this
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curriculum and then you get a new list
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every unit so there's three units and
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then you get about 10 spelling words or
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so the spelling words are kind of easy
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they get a little bit gradually
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difficult but the spelling words that
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they're focusing on are like side word
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spelling words so this is because Tech
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typically you know you would be able to
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spell out a word by just sounding it out
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and it does you know have options and
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chances for your child to do that as
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well
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but these spelling words are ones that
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are a little bit difficult to spell like
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done and none and more and move and let
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me see I have a list of them because
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sometimes throughout the day we just go
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through them and I'm trying to give you
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guys an idea of like what those spelling
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words are so R look love was you're from
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done none more move many any school some
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does go there little girl set things
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like that so the ones that for my son
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for instance like the word typically
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from when you sound it out you would
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think it's F Ru M but it's not F Ru M
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it's f r o m so that's what I mean when
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I say like site words that necessarily
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don't sound like how they are spelled so
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there's that does have like the spiral
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learning method where you learn
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something and then you learn something
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else and then a couple lessons later you
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might spiral and come back to what you
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learned you know last week
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um I'm still not 100% sure if that's my
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favorite way of going about it because I
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really like mastering one thing before
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moving on to the next that's just the
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way that I learn things everyone learns
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different my son has been pretty okay
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with it luckily he can learn something
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and then next week when we revisit again
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he's able to remember what we did but I
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really feel like it's we might want to I
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I want to try the other method of
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learning and see how he does with math
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mastering one thing before we move on to
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another thing because that's how we
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would do things and he was Head Start
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Like Preschool like we started
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homeschooling when he was 2 and a half
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years old so we would just like Master
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things that we were learning through
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Monas story curriculum Monas story
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learning before moving on to another
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thing you know and so I don't quite know
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he's been doing well with it but I'm
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still not for sure that's my favorite
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way of like the learning everyone is
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different this one doesn't include a
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whole lot of handson learning so if you
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like are into like Hands-On manipul
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puzzles and things like that it comes
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with like a little math box but that's
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about it there are a few things that you
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still need to purchase like art supplies
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we purchase some more money supplies we
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fake money and things like that we
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purchase like math linking cubes things
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like that math Stakes there are some
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things within the good and the Beautiful
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curriculum that you're going to want to
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purchase extra to really enhance your
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child's learning but also there's not a
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ton of hands on like let's step out from
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the book for a minute and just do some
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learning there's not a lot of that so if
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your kid thrives with Hands-On learning
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then you're going to want to like
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supplement and purchase some extra
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things it's really really beautiful I
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love how beautiful it is I feel like I
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can trust that in doing these here
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lessons he's going to know the things
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that he should know at his great level I
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don't feel like I'm going to be guessing
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like um is he behind are we missing out
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on something I don't get that feel from
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this character I feel like he's learning
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everything that he needs to know and
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then they also introduce things that
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he's going to need to know for the next
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level up so for instance there's be some
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things in here that he's learning that's
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really from second grade learning but he
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doesn't necessarily need to master it
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but it's introducing it to him so that
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once he begins second grade then he will
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have already been introduced to it so I
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do love that as well the art in it
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although I personally think that a lot
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of
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it it's a lot I think that I would
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prefer for it to be in a separate
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curriculum are all by itself as opposed
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to it being like sprinkled through in
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there um I've never that's just my
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preference my son um he does okay with
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it
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but um I think it just should be a
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separate I want to say the thing that I
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love most about the good and the
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Beautiful curriculum is that you can do
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this curriculum even if you are not a
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pro at homeschooling like if you are
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just starting out this is going to be it
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for you if you're a little one kind of
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dreads doing homeschool this is also
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going to be the one for you because
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we've done other curriculums where my
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son did not want to do it but we're
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doing the and a beautiful they have like
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little games in there they also have
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like the videos I love that about it but
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there are things in the curriculum
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itself that for one because it's not so
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difficult to digest and each lesson is
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about on average three pages long he
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doesn't feel super overwhelmed and he
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actually likes it some days he say he
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loves doing homeschool he's looking
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forward to it some days he request that
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we just do more pages because that means
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a shorter school year but he actually
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does really well we don't have to have
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those fights so if you're not doing good
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and the beautiful but you are constantly
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having those struggle fights try the
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good and the Beautiful for homeschool we
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had those struggle fights when we were
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doing Horizon curriculum because the
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curriculum itself was a little bit like
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longer of a day had more sentence
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practice and things like that but this
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one is very easy to digest not just for
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him but for me as well because being a
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mama of two and having a baby girl
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that's only 7 months and we came home
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with a newborn we needed something that
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was going to be easy for us to do I love
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that it comes with like those booster
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games it comes with two apps one app is
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good for spelling practice the other one
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is just good for everything that's
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covered and taught in here they have
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read alouds bedtime stories they have
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like Christian music songs and things
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like that they have physical education
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videos to follow along with they have a
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little games that help you practice your
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site words and everything they have all
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that stuff just not for math but just
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for the language arts so I love that it
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teaches you like how to actually for
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math too because it has days of the week
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it has months of the year how to spill
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the number words and everything so yeah
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for both of them you have all of that
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stuff that you can access um either
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through their YouTube channel their
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letter TOS app or their home school app
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has you know extra things that you can
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do so sometimes if I feel like my son
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didn't do so well with like a certain
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lesson for the day and I think he needs
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a little more practice once we're done
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with home school for the day I will send
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him to his room with his tablet and have
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him just play around inside of the app
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and play with some of those learning
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games and he'll you know be able to get
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a little more practice after we finish
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with school it's also great for if
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you're on the go like in the car or if
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you are like taking an airplane trip or
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if you're leaving and traveling where
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you don't necessarily want to take a
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full curriculum but you want to make
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sure that your child is still learning
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something you can pull out that app and
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they'll have a little bit of learning so
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I love that all of that is included the
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other thing is that this curriculum is
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super super duper affordable especially
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compared to everything out there for one
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you can print the full curriculum for
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free just print it out and there you go
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you can just print it out for free you
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can do the booster books and cards on
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your phone or on your tablet on like a
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reading Kindle and things like that all
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of that um but even if you wanted to
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purchase the physical set it's also
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really inexpensive I think I paid 120 I
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can't really remember but there are
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curriculums that cost way more even the
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horizons costed I think way more like
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maybe $200 something dollar for Horizons
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for the level one or kindergarten
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curriculum a Becca is way expensive 5 to
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800 bucks and then like the sunlight and
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trust me this one is Affordable compared
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to everything else out there and it does
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your child well so yeah I love all that
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good stuff about this book really I like
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the language r a lot but I love the math
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curriculum my son loves math but I feel
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like this curriculum is just it it does
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so well the way that they teach it like
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it's just it's beautifully taught and he
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always grabs grasps these math lessons
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really really well um again everything
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is beautiful and then I love it to come
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with the Box andw writing curriculum it
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is okay now for level one it has a lot
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of like
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um letter practice steel so this is
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really good at making sure your child is
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going to really really master that
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letter practice and it has opportunity
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for them to drop pictures things that
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they like so the handwriting curriculum
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is also really good overall since we've
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chosen the good and the Beautiful for
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first grade curriculum I'm happy that we
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did it was literally like what we needed
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it was perfect for exactly what we
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needed especially where we are currently
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in life so that my son can keep up and
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get things done and it doesn't have to
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be like a fight and he can I don't have
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to feel like he's missing out on
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anything the good and the Beautiful did
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as well as it always does so I really
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love that we did their their preschool
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we did their pre kindergarten we did
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their Kindergarten now we're doing first
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grade so love the good and the Beautiful
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my little things that I would say like I
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didn't really like a ton is this like
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it's falling it's kind of like I feel
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like it's kind of like falling apart now
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again it's an affordable curriculum but
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yeah like the spiral method is just not
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it I think maybe grade three second I
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hope I wish I hope second grade but I
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know for sure but by third grade they
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switch in goodness you do not have to
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deal with these because the the pages
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are just too huge like the book is just
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too huge for it to be spiral bom like
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when we printed out the kindergarten
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curriculum and took it into the print
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shop to be printed they told me like you
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have to split this up into two booklets
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because it's just way too big so we had
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to split up this into like two books
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when we went to get it printed but
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somehow they managed to get this all in
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one little booklet and because of that
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it kind of begins to have some wear and
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tear and fall apart you have to be very
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careful like look at this thank goodness
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we are almost through because this thing
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don't have a whole lot of life left in
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it so not really going so well this is
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the style we would prefer this is the
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style that last this is the style to go
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with is which just way easier to work
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when you get can't do this with this
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with the spiral bom like you just it's
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just no unless you want it to fall apart
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so that's my take on that I'm not a fan
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of it now let's talk about these Reader
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Books because I like I love that they
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really tie into them in the books the
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stories are super super duper cute um my
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son loves a lot of the stories in here
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they're really beautiful easy to follow
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books um I love that they
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included really good stuff I think these
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ones are
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like okay good and the Beautiful they
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they have a certain type of theme and if
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you are doing the good and the Beautiful
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You know that theme that I'm referring
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to and so you will see that throughout
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their books and their curriculum and
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everything like that it's good stuff all
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sweet good beautiful stuff so you know
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there's that it's a really good
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curriculum um I love it would we use the
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good and new beautiful again absolutely
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now I know in the past when I've done
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these review videos and I asked myself
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would we be using these again I it the
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answer was normally like I don't know we
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might try something else but the truth
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is yes we're going to be using it again
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majority because of the price point and
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everything that you get for the price
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but also because of how very easy it is
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to use there are still some things that
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I feel like okay that's a challenge we
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need to slow down take it back and
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reiterate and make sure that we really
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dive in so I don't feel like it's just
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so so easy to we it's not a challenge
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for him because he still has a few
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challenging moments that we have to
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really dial into so there's that but
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it's not so much that is overwhelming
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for me as a mama who who's only been
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homeschooling for 3 years or for him um
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you know as a 5-year-old so he's a
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toddler and we can normally be done with
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homeschool within 90 minutes and that's
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that's still a long time that includes
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like our devotions and our Bible studies
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the handwriting the art portion and then
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math and reading the booster cards and
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the curriculum all of that we can
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normally get it done within about 60 to
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90 minutes um so that tells you like
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it's not the easiest for him but that's
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because so we do both M we do all each
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subject every single day I know some
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people would do like math on Mondays and
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then language arts on Tuesdays we just
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do all of them every single day we start
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off with our Bible study our devotions
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and then we go into handwriting and then
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we go into the reading practice and then
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language arts we read a book we do math
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you know all that all every single day
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but if you wanted to split it up you
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definitely could it can make your days a
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little bit shorter but in a full day a
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full 12-hour day a 90 minute lesson for
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home school is not it's really not much
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or at least for us and we are pretty
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busy around here so there's there's that
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but um yeah overall I love the
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curriculum and yeah go buy it and go try
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it I would highly recommend it this is
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the curriculum I always recommend to
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families when they say they are just
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starting out with home school because
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they get the option to get get the
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sample download or just download the
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whole curriculum and maybe just print
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out a few lessons from unit one or the
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whole thing just to see what their kid
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loves or likes about the curriculum or
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if they like it at all and then if they
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do they can just go out and purchase the
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whole thing I have successfully
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converted so far about three masam to
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the good and the Beautiful curriculum
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because I love it and I highly recommend
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it especially for new homes School
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parents our goal is to later on move up
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to ABCA which is so so expensive I think
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we're going to start exploring ABCA once
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we get into um middle school or so maybe
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see if we like it so that we know for
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sure if we're going to stick with that
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in home school I'm hoping that I mean
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for high school I'm hoping that once we
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get to high school we will have five a
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curriculum that we don't want to switch
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back and forth with even now we switch
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back and forth from The Horizon's
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curriculum to the good and the Beautiful
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with Hooked on Phonics with um Elemental
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phonics different things we're switching
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back and forth through but when it comes
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to high school I'm really wanting to
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stick with the same curriculum for four
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years straight so in middle school I'm
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thinking if we go ahead and just give a
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Becca a try that'll let us know okay
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which do we want to stick with do we
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like a Becca we've done it for three
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straight years do we want to go back to
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the good and the Beautiful we're still
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going to be trying things out but as far
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as Elementary goes we're going to stick
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with the good and the Beautiful is what
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I'm thinking and then in the summertime
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we'll do extracurriculars maybe explor
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other little bible curriculums like
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there's a good one called what is it
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called I can't it's in my card I'm going
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to look at it really quick the gentle
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plus classical press they have like a
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primer bundle that is adorable and I
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really wanted to give that one a try um
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it's a full Bright Beautiful curriculum
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that I really wanted to give a try this
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summer um it goes more into Bible study
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so we want to go over the safety
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curricul
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100% And we want to go over the health
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curriculum 100% so these are full
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curriculums so I really want to focus in
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on that um this summer when we're taking
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our break between April and July because
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trying to do all of those three
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curriculums in addition to our math our
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science and reading and language arts
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it's going to be a lot and summer is
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also typically the time when we're going
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more places we're getting out and about
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and we're doing more things so I don't
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want to overwhelm us but those are still
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things that key things that needs to
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know safety Health you know he's getting
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older we're going to focus on that in
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the summer time so of course I'm going
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to come back and tell you guys our
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actual summer plans show you guys what
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curriculums we decided to go with and
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everything give you guys a general
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unboxing but as far as getting the
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beautiful I want to say we've pretty
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much wrapped up this here chapter almost
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we're going to be down within another
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month and a half and I wanted to share
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with you guys how I felt about the
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curiculum um it's it's a very solid
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curriculum not a ton of biblical
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reference and things like that if you
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really want to do some biblical
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teachings with your kids you're going to
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need to supplement so that's what we do
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but overall it's a great curriculum I do
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highly recommend it and I hope that this
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video maybe have helped you if you want
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to see a full curriculum rundown
21:12
everything that's included an unboxing
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and everything I will link that video up
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in the corner for you guys as well as
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down below so that you guys can check it
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out but that's going to be all for
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today's good in the beautiful level one
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curriculum review I hope that you guys
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enjoyed it and if you are new here I
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haven't gotten a chance to fully
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because that is the solid foundation of
21:55
where I get all of my inspiration from
21:57
where I learn all my homemaking and
21:59
everything like that it's just straight
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