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Summer Homeschool Curriculum Choices: Featuring The Good and The Beautiful Safety Science Unit
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Jul 14, 2025
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As a homeschool family, one of the
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things we have to consider when summer
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comes around are probably one of three
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things. The first is whether or not you
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are going to homeschool year round.
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Taking no breaks and homeschooling
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completely through the summer. The
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second option is taking a complete break
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in the summertime and kind of mimicking
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what the public or traditional school
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system does when they break in the
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months of June, July, and return to
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school at the end of August, beginning
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of September. And then the third is one
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of the more common routes that
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homeschool families go where you just
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take like a loose break or a relaxed
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break where you're not doing like
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completely nothing during the summer
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time but you are instead just having a
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more relaxed schedule and leaving some
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room open for some summer activities
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this year. That's a wrap my family is
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going to be going and I'm going to be
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sharing with you guys what our summer
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homeschool plans are and some of our
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summer curriculum choices. If you are
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ahead and get into today's video. So
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again, those three are typically the
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three most common routes that homeschool
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families do. I know that there are
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exceptions. I know that there's also
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deschooling, unschooling. Some people
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put their children into like day camps
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and things like that. But those three
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that I named which to continue
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homeschooling year round or to
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homeschool lightly or with a less more
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relaxed schedule or just completely take
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a break in the summertime are typically
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what we choose to do when homeschooling.
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So in the past years we just
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homeschooled straight through without
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taking any breaks. But even after I
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brought home my newborn, we still jump
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right back into homeschool. So, it's
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been a while since we've had a break. I
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think that this summer we are warranted
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for one. And I think that we could
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definitely use one. So, instead of
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taking like a full-on break and doing
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nothing in the summertime, we are just
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going to have a loose schedule. So, here
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are some of the workbooks that we got
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this time around. At the end of our
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school year, we did take a test so that
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I can see where his skill progress is.
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and then anything that I felt like he
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could refine are kind of what we're
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going to be focusing on this summer as
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well as some extracurriculars and some
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reading and spelling practice. So, in a
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traditional school setting when you get
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that end of the year report card, you
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could have like an A in math, an A in
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history, a B in science, a C and reading
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and spelling. And so even though you
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have like that C where maybe you didn't
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do as good as you possibly could, you're
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still going to be passed and moved on to
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the next grade because you still have
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A's in the other subjects. And it's just
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a, you know, an overall grade point
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average of how you did. And the beauty
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of homeschool is that you can make sure
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that your child is thriving in all the
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subjects by really focusing on their
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strengths and their weaknesses. if you
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know like that they have really great
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math skills, then maybe you can focus
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more so on the skills that they're not
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so great at. And so that's what I love
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about homeschool is that we can make
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sure that our children have A's all the
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way across the board and not be in such
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a rush to move them up to the next grade
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level, even if there are some things
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that they can get a little bit more
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practice on. My son, he just turned six
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in April and he at that time was
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finishing up level one of the good and
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the beautiful curriculum. We completely
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finished that at the end of May. We did
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the reading and language arts, which
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also includes some geography and
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spelling. We also did the math and the
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handwriting. We didn't do their science
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curriculum, which is the little hearts
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and hands, but we do have it and we'll
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probably do a bit of that in the
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summertime. missed it. We did a lot of
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hands-on science projects on our own as
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well as some DK science and things like
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that. We also explored the Horizon's
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health curriculum, but at the end of the
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year, once it was time for him to take
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his test, he did exceptionally well with
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majority of the subject. He got a 91%.
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The thing that I realized he could use a
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lot more practice on was his spelling.
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He could get a little bit more practice
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in reading. I feel like reading is one
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of those things that we should just do
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like all year round. So reading is just
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fundamental and beneficial for us even
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as adults. We're always going to be
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practicing and refining our reading
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skills, but spelling is one of the
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things that I felt like he could use a
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little bit more practice on as well as
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his counting money. So a couple of books
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that I got for him just for that. We
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have the school zone ages 6 through 8,
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levels 1 through two time, money, and
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fractions book. It has like 30 or 31
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lessons inside of this booklet. It's
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really small. It's not too much.
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something that will help him to be able
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to focus more so on mostly like I said
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the money aspects but I think that even
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him being able to practice more telling
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times like he can tell you what time it
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says on a clock or show you you know the
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different times and everything but one
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of the things that he could use a little
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bit of practice on is telling like what
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is the quarter past an hour for instance
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this one says that it's a quart 2 or 15
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minutes after 2 or you can say half hour
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pass or half hour too. Those are the
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things that he could use a more a bit
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more practice on and it does have that
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here in this book. So, I'm really glad
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that we have that in here. But also in
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the beginning, it has some counting
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money to show how much the different
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toys cost and the different foods cost.
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We already started, as you can see, did
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a little bit of practice with it here
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where he's counting the money and adding
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on the additional coins. That is what we
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are pretty much going to be doing this
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summer. It's 30 lessons. So, if we were
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doing one every single day, he would
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finish this up in less than two months.
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But also, if we were to skip a few days
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in the summertime for some other type of
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summer activity or extracurricular
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activity or to just go out and play,
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that would be completely okay because
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again, there's like three months in the
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summer here up north where I live. And
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so we'll have some room and some space
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in our schedule for that reason. So this
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is a good one. And then we also have the
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spectrum spelling book. This is for
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level one. This one is correlated to the
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current state standards. And it has
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letter recognition, short and long
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vowel, site words, dictionary, and
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answer key inside of this booklet. I
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think this is the one with 31 lessons.
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Yeah. And then the other one has 30
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lessons. This has way more spelling
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words than what the good and the
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beautiful curriculum required of him to
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have mastered before moving on to level
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two. So, it's perfect that he will not
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only refine his current spelling
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requirements, but also be a bit more
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prepared going into the level two good
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and the beautiful curriculum. So, for
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instance, lesson eight says, "Name each
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picture. Write the letter for the ending
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sound and circle the word." So, it
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starts off focusing on those letter
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sounds, making sure that they're able to
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basically put together those sounds to
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be able to spell a word, not just off
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memorization, but then as you get later
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on into the book, it tells you to
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recognize the spelling of a word. Circle
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the correct word of the picture or the
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object on the page, tracing and
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handwriting. It tells you to write a
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time when you went to the park and use
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at least two words from the box. So,
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sentence practice, lots of that. So
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basically seeing those words over and
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over again, practicing writing them,
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recognizing them, you know, spelling
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them and things like that. And then here
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it tells you to write the missing
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spelling words. This is lesson 23. So
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for instance, there are spelling words
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over here. And then you would trace
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those spelling words. Write those
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spelling words and then use them over
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here to fill in the blanks in the
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paragraph for the sentences. So it has
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this, this, then chop them. Check that.
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Those are the spelling words for lesson
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23 here. He would trace them and write
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them and then they're going to be used
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in context on lesson 23 where it says
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blank is how my dad makes soup. He would
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write this. He will blank vegetables
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blank. He will boil. So he will chop
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vegetables then he will boil. So pretty
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much how it's going. So yeah, lots of
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practice in 31 lessons. I think this
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would be really really great for him. So
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that's spectrum spelling. And then one
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of the extracurriculars that we ordered
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from the Good and the Beautiful is this
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safety curriculum. It's beautiful. It
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really is. It is for grades 3 through 8
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and it's one of their science unit
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studies. But I think that safety is
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something that you decide when your
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child learns it. I think that it's never
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too soon to teach safety, especially
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with little ones and especially if
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you're like out and about. It's really
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important that they have that
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foundation. So, even though it says
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grades three through like the journal
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says 3 through six, the actual lesson
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book is 3 through eight, but I went
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through it and it's something that my
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six-year-old would be able to
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comprehend.
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So, as you can see, it has like
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beautiful games inside of it, for
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instance. Um, still appealing for a
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first grader. Has like this kitchen
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safety poster that you can put up on
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your fridge or in your kitchen. It also
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has a wonderful chocolatecovered bananas
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and strawberries recipe in here. So,
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lots of fun different things for them to
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be able to do alongside this curriculum
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here. But just in the table of contents,
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it has what is safety, fire safety,
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water safety, electricity safety,
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natural disaster safety, God gave me a
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body, so body awareness, safety at home,
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kitchen safety, technology, media and
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peer pressure, and gun safety. So
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lessons nine and 10 which is the
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technology media peer pressure and gun
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safety those are the things that I would
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think are more so towards the higher
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grade levels but again it won't hurt to
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to talk about it and teach it because
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even our little ones age six can face
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that peer pressure and media like things
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on the television like sometimes my son
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will be watching something on TV and
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when like the television show changes or
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the cartoon that he was watching changes
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or a commercial comes up he will tell us
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like if that happens because he knows
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like we have to be careful the things we
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can't always control what's on
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television. So that's something that
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we're cautious about. But yeah, it has
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that vocabulary in here, fire escape
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plans, all types of different things. It
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talks about strangers,
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um how you should use technology,
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especially for using it to solve
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problems or to learn things. Has safety
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videos that you can also access once you
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purchase the curriculum. You can access
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it in the app. They also have them on
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YouTube. Like the what is safety video
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is completely free on YouTube. So, I
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love that they also have like videos and
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pictures and all types of different
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things that you can use to go along with
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the actual curriculum. So, I actually
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just love the good and the beautiful and
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the way that they go about teaching. And
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then inside of the journal is basically
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different activities that goes along
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with the lessons because the safety
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lesson book you don't actually write in
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that book but inside of the journal you
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can. So color the safety scene after
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watching what is safety. This is just a
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unit introduction
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and that's all you would do for lesson
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one. Lesson two you would create a fire
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escape plan. Talks about what it is. It
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helps you to figure out how to best
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create one and you guys can map it out
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here together. It has additional floors.
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It has bath, safety, pool, lake over
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here. What is safe, what is not safe,
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you know, some fun little activities and
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whatnot for them to be able to do. Those
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are the main three things we're focusing
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on when it comes to workbook and
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curriculum. For our daily devotions, we
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have the Daily Grace Company Truth for
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Kids devotion. And this one is just
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scripture for every circumstance. So it
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has the different topics in here. So
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anger, sharing, jealousy,
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ungratefulness, disobedience, fighting,
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unkindness, fear, left out, worry,
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sadness, confused, unfair, prayer,
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forgiveness, patience, courage, serving,
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self-control in the gospel. So basically
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all of the things in here that your
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little one might you know experience and
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how you can go and talk about that with
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them those feelings and where you can
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find scriptures about that in the Bible.
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So I think that this is a great
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devotional to have. We typically have
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like our daily devotionals like for like
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the calendar days of the year, but this
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is the one that's a little bit different
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that I think it'll be fun for us to go
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through together so that he will learn
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how to also himself handle his emotions
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and experiences in life knowing that you
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can just go to God's word whenever
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you're unsure, whenever you need to seek
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guidance. You can seek it in prayer and
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in God's word. So this is actually, you
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know, teaching him how to get that skill
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and get that dependency on God early in
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life so that as we grow and as we get
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older, you know, he'll learn more and
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more about it. But I think that this is
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a great way to start them off. And then
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we also have a scripture workbook from
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the Daily Grace Company. So this one is
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perfect for handwriting practice.
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Basically, it gives you a verse and a
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topic. So compassion is the topic here.
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It gives you a verse. This one is Luke 6
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27. And over here he would write his
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name and then rewrite the verse. So this
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is great for um scripture memorization.
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It's also great for teaching wonderful
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characteristics to our children and
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perfect for handwriting practice being
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able to practice writing their letters,
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spacing out their words properly, and
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writing paragraphs and making it
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meaningful. Has a bunch of different
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ones in here. Some are short, some are a
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little bit longer. This one here is
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about obedience. So that is pretty much
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mostly what we are focusing on. Then
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another thing that we like to do is redo
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our booster books and cards from the
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previous um school year. So we did this
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last year with kindergarten with the
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good and the beautiful. You get these
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rooting reading booster cards. We did
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reading booster A and we did reading
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booster B along with the correlating
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booster B books. And when we did booster
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books A and booster cards A, basically
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in the summertime, we went through it
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again. First time we went through it, we
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were learning it and then the second
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time we went through it, we were pretty
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much studying it and reiterating it. So
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we'll do it again. So on most of them,
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we just didn't put the stickers on there
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because again, we were going through
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learning it and then we'll go through it
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again, master it, and then put our
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stickers on there. So he could pretty
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much just read like one or two of these
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cards per day. It has about was it 50 I
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believe in here. 56 cards. So yeah, one
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or two a day and read the correlating
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book every single day. And again that is
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something that would have taken more
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than 10 minutes. So we could do that. We
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could go through our nature reader book
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again where he would just read one story
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a day. These stories are short to where
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it only takes them about 2 minutes to
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read each story. So, aside from that,
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we're also going to be using the Good
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and the Beautiful's reading summer plan
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chart. So, whenever you do the Good and
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the Beautiful reading plan if you sign
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up for it early enough, not during the
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season, you get a free booklet and a
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free chart with stickers inside of it.
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So, we did. The book that we have is
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Flip and Flop. Looks like a chapter
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book, but it's only like one or two
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lines per page. easy for him to be able
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to read through. It then we could put on
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the chart here that we read read it on
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our reading log. Has stickers. It also
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comes with a really adorable bookmark.
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Then one of the chapter books we're
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going to be doing this summer is Nate
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the Great. Has 61 pages inside of it. So
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he could do like two pages a day maybe.
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So, of course, like I said, we're going
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to be doing a lot of reading this summer
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in addition to our safety curriculum,
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spelling, math, time, money, and
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fraction books. And then as far as like
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our group reading where we'll just sit
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down together, we're going to be
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focusing on slow down 50 Mindful Moments
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in Nature. I absolutely love this book.
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Highly recommend it. So, I'm going to
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link it down below. It has just
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beautiful, beautiful illustrations in
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here. So beautiful. So, we'll be
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focusing on reading out. I would love
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for us to read all 50 of the stories in
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here. And it's just just this just
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really just nature illustrated so
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beautifully where you can learn about
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it, talk about it. Just finished his
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church summer camp last week. So it was
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a very very busy week for us where he
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did church camp all week long and he was
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there for 3 hours a day learning about
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God and participating in different
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activities. They learned some songs that
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they were able to perform on Sunday. We
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also went to a family dinner at the end
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of it. It was a really great experience,
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not just for him to be able to make new
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friends and learn about God, but also
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for us to be able to meet some of the
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families that we don't meet in our
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service because there are there's
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typically two services on Sundays, a
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9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. service. So, we
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were able to meet some of the families
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that goes to the 9:00 a.m. service. We
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go to the 11:00 a.m. service. It's
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really just a great experience. And then
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he also has swim class every single
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week. We do that year round. So, he
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still has that going on for him. I mean,
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we've been doing just like playdates and
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going out and getting things done in the
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garden and all types of fun things. So,
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lots of room in our schedule to still be
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able to do all that fun summer stuff.
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So, that's currently where we are in our
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summer homeschooling and what our summer
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plans are at the moment. We are going to
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begin the Good Beautiful level two at
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the end of August is what the plan is.
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And so we still have a good two months
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or so before we do that and we'll get
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the curriculum and I'll share that with
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you guys once we get it. Um, but I don't
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know. Let me know what you guys are
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doing in your homeschool this summer. I
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would love to hear about it. Do you
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homeschool year round? Do you take a
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complete break off or do you do what
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we're doing and just have a more relaxed
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homeschool schedule for your little
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ones? Let me know down below in the
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comments. And thank you for watching
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this video. I hope that you enjoyed it.
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I will see you guys in the next one.
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Happy homeschooling.
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