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The Good and The Beautiful Level 2 Curriculum Unboxing & Overview | Homeschool Curriculum Choices
Sep 1, 2025
The Good and The Beautiful Level 2 Curriculum Unboxing & Overview | Homeschool Curriculum Choices The Good and The Beautiful: Preschool Review: https://youtu.be/bln7DsSWUeA Kindergarten Prep Review: https://youtu.be/cKJmCyNn2xo Kindergarten Overview/Unboxing: https://youtu.be/7JQzIKNrSNg Kindergarten Review: https://youtu.be/_u4uQ0__Hto Level 1 Overview/Unboxing: https://youtu.be/huFR-4hBDbI Level 1 Review: https://youtu.be/jo6Xb6j2eEc Resources and Mnaipulatives: Base Ten Blocks: https://amzn.to/47n4rhJ Melissa and Doug Wooden Learning Clock: https://amzn.to/41wBw7j Solar System Display: https://amzn.to/4n8u8ak Realistic Looking Fake Money: https://amzn.to/3HLBSAd Homeschool Necessities: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3RQ226HC1R008?ref_=wl_share Homeschool Blog: themomresource.com The Good and The Beautiful: https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/pages/shopping
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Hey friends, welcome. Today we're going
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to be getting into some homeschool
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things. I'm going to be sharing what we
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are using for our curriculum this year
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and doing an initial unboxing review and
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overview of the good and the beautiful
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level two curriculum. We're going to be
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going into what that looks like for both
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language arts and math and then sharing
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with you guys what we have planned for
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the upcoming school year. That way if
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you two are considering the good and the
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beautiful or maybe you have already
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chosen this curriculum, you can get a
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look at what that looks like. And I also
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have reviews and unboxings of all of the
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previous levels of the Good and the
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Beautiful. So preschool, pre
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kindergarten, kindergarten, first grade,
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a couple of different reviews. I always
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like to do an initial unboxing and an
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initial overview. And then as we get
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further into the curriculum, we do this
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again and then I share uh more thorough
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reviews. So, go ahead and see what it's
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looking like for us this year. We love
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the Get in the Beautiful. I always
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purchase the physical copy except for
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one year. And after going through the
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work of trying to get everything printed
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and binded and all of that, I just
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decided that I would rather have had the
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physical copy, especially in the sense
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that I like that it comes with the
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manipulatives for the math box as well
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as some of their story readers. So,
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we'll get into all of that, but let's
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start here with a level two language
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arts course book. It covers phonics,
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writing, reading, grammar, and
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punctuation, spelling, literature,
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geography, and art. This one is purple.
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It's still the spiral bound. The math is
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not. So, we're going to see which one we
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prefer. With the spiral, I feel like it
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sometimes comes apart. But then I'm
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noticing with the binded one that it's
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preferated. So, I'm hoping that the
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pages for that one don't fall out. And
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then we also have the handwriting. So,
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as always in the beginning, it tells you
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what you're going to be needing
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throughout the course so that anything
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that you need to get before you dive in
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and get started, you can do that ahead
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of time. So, for this one here, it's
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nothing out of the ordinary. Things to
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always have on hand with just like glue,
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tape, crayons, colored pencils, papers,
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pencils, scissors. Um, they also say
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whiteboard or dry erase markers. So,
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that might not be something that
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everyone has on hand. So, they do say
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that that's something that you may want
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to have on hand. And then just personal
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reading books at your child's reading
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level. even though they recommend that
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when you're doing readalouds, you read
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books that are a level above your
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child's reading level. So, for unit one,
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it does have a couple of extra things
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that you might need such as like a
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recording device or a timing device,
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word processing program, two quarters,
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cotton ball, index card, sticker, spoon,
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tracing paper, watercolor paper, and
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paints, paint brushes, and tissue. So,
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few odd walls there. For unit two, it
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has pretty much the same thing with the
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addition of a spoon, a butter knife, and
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a fork. Have that at home. And then for
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unit three, it also adds two small
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rewards. A poster board or access to
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Google Slides, access to Google Maps, a
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small plastic sheet, and white paint.
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So, that's pretty much everything you
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need for this entire curriculum. And
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then anything extra that you decide that
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you may want to add in as well, which we
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typically add on some like hands-on
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manipulative like fake money for math.
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For this one, we have um like a solar
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system kit. We're going to be using
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wooden like letters and things to spell
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out words to help us with spelling.
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Curriculum also does come with how-to
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videos. It comes with instructional
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videos for the student. It comes with a
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homeschool app and a letter house app
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for spelling, reading booster games,
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video books, all of this that go along
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with the curriculum. So, that's really
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neat. So, if you have a tablet, it will
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be helpful with this curriculum. These
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are the suggested coordinated readings
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or readers, which is the nature readers.
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So, it says my first nature reader, my
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second one, and my third. We have the
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first one with first grade kindergarten.
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And then we had the second one with
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first grade, I believe. And so we're
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doing the third nature reader now for
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second grade. They're super super cute.
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And then they also have the Africa
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readers as well. Here's the integrated
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letter tiles app. Um, and then it tells
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you everything about the course
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preparation. It even has like a sample
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schedule. In a public school year, it's
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about 36 weeks, not including holidays
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and breaks. But if you do this with
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holidays and breaks included four to 5
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days a week, you complete this in 30
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weeks. We typically do 5 days a week,
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and we typically finish ours up in about
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five to six months every time. So easy.
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Um, but yeah, it goes more into not just
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the course, but the good and the
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beautiful as a whole. Here does have an
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answer key. It is broken up into units.
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So there are three units with 40 lessons
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in each unit for a total of 120 lessons.
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It has a lot of poetry here is what I'm
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noticing for sure with this one. Lots of
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poetry letter sounds, sentence practice.
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Definitely has a little bit just a
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little bit of Christian um aspect in it.
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Not a lot. You would definitely want to
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supplement with your own devotion if you
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would like to. We always do for Bible
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study practice and things like that.
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More syllable practice, some review of
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what was already learned. More spelling
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practice, adjectives, root words,
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synonyms, antonyms, geography, things
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that a sentence must have, phonograms,
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homophones, hetronyms, plural nouns,
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messages in books, oral narration.
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Um, more poetry, verbs, subject, short
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stories, decoding, natural disasters,
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American folklore, and
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spelling rules, irregular plural noun,
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as well as possessive nouns. There's a
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lot a lot a lot in here. So, grammar,
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usage, and punctuation, as I mentioned,
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art, geography, literature, and writing,
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phonics, reading, spelling,
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it's all in here. Um, so yeah, so far
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really beautiful. It also breaks down
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what each of the cards
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covers and includes as well. These are
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the booster cards. I'll show you.
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These are the reading booster C cards.
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till you get A with kindergarten, B with
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first grade, and C with second grade.
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These are the things that help them to
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learn how to read. I love them. You can
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always keep them on hand. So, it has the
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master before you begin section per
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usual, which just has words, vowel,
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shorts, and long sounds, and the long
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sounds of Y like I and E as in baby. So
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they just want to make sure that your
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child can read these site words without
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hesitation. And then also in the
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beginning of the curriculum itself, it
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wants your child to be able to read this
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paragraph or short story in 2 minutes or
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less. Those are some things that you
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could practice before you get started.
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And then it dives right in. It has some
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spelling review from the lower level
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courses as well as six new spelling
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words for unit one and then you'll get
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new spelling words for each one. The
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first one is super easy. It does tell
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you here that in this curriculum is
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definitely a lot of focus on poetry in
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this curriculum and it tells you that in
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the beginning and explains why it's so
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much throughout here. I'm noticing each
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lesson is per usual only about two
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sometimes three pages long and the
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beginning is very very short like one or
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two pages but as you get further into it
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it
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let's see I don't know they're still
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looking pretty short so what I am
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noticing is that the page itself has a
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bit more indepth reading but yeah either
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one to two or two to three pages and
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then there's the reviews. Some very
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beautiful illustrations throughout per
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usual. That's one thing we love about
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the good and the beautiful. It's just an
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initial unboxing and review and it's
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pretty similar to all of the ones in the
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past except for the new things being
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taught. Um, the booster reading cards
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have a lot more poetry in them, but
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other than that, they look pretty much
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the same. And then here is the third
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nature reader. The nature reader has 22
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stories in them. And then these all go
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with the booster cards and the
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curriculum as well. I do notice that the
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stories for this are definitely a bit
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longer than the ones inside of the first
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and second nature readers. And then
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instead of having the individual
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booklets to read along for the booster
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books with the curriculum itself, the
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booster books are gone and now there is
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just two chapter books which is really
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great. We have Wesley and the Wolves by
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Jenny Phillips and Molly and the Falcon
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by Maggie Taylor. So, first you would
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start with Wesley and the Wolves, I
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believe. Yeah. And they again go with
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the curriculum. So for instance, this
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one is practicing the Q sound. Level
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lesson one in the curriculum is also
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practicing the Q sound as well as the
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second booster C card. Also practicing
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the Q sound. So we like to start off
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with our booster cards, do our
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curriculum, and then end it with a
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chapter or a book that coincides with
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it. So, whole um color on the pictures,
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just plain illustrations,
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but
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it's good. It says, "In this timeless
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tale, Wesley is a cheerful, good-hearted
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boy, but he likes to tease when his
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teasing brings serious consequences. The
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villagers no longer trust him. So, how
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can he gain their trust again?" Wesley
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wants to solve this problem, even if it
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takes hard work. He also wants to solve
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mysteries about two items he found, a
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key and a hidden door in a mountain.
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Kids will love following Wesley's story
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while learning new reading skills along
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the way. So, that's what this one is
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about. And then after you finish that
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one, you move on to Molly and the
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Falcon. And then it picks up from
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whatever you left off on here, it picks
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up on in here as far as like the um
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lesson that you're on. So, this one
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picks up with letter sounds UI, and U,
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E. So, this one, when Molly and her dad
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find an injured falcon, they can never
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guess the new experiences that are about
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to unfold. With the help of new friends,
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Molly learns about birds of prey and
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dedicates herself to nurturing the
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falcon back to health. When she and her
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friends find themselves in a dangerous
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situation, their survival skills are put
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to the test. Parents and children alike
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will love reading and learning side by
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side, and it is delightful and
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inspiring. tell. So, Mali and the
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Falcon, that is the two books that go
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along with the curriculum. Now, for
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math, there is also 120 lessons split
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into three units just the same. We
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always like to just kind of do them side
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by side so that we can finish them up
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about the same time. Also breaks it
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down, lets you know everything that
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you're going to be needing, the supplies
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that you're going to be needing as well.
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And here are some of the concepts that's
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going to be taught in the math level
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two. Adding and subtracting two-digit
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numbers. Addition strategies. Calendars.
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Counting and writing money amounts.
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Counting backwards. Counting coins and
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bills. Dividing in half. Doubles
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addition and subtraction. Dozen and
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half. Doesn't estimating equivalent
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coins. Greater than, less than, equal.
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Identify A.M. and P.M. Identifying rate
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numbers to a th00and. Identify noon and
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midnight. Identify odd and even numbers.
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Logic. Measure inches. Number lines.
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Number order. One more or one less.
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Ordinal positions. Patterns. Place value
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to a thousand. Regrouping. Rounding to
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the nearest 10. Skip counting by twos,
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threes, fives, tens, 25s, and 50s.
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Spelling number words up to 15. Story
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problem. Subtraction strategies. Tally
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marks. Telling times up to 5 minutes.
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Time conversions. Time expressions. Zero
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as a placeholder. extra supplies needed
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for unit one is a bowl and some
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scissors. So, we purchased the place
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value uh tin blocks because I think that
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it might be helpful to have with this
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curriculum
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because lesson one dive straight into
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place of value. The lessons are about
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three pages so
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pages but the second page front and back
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kind of. So, three pages basically is
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what I'm noticing for pretty much all
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the way straight through. So, not too
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time consuming. We typically could
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finish up a math lesson within 25 to 30
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minutes. Another thing that we also like
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to keep on hand is our wooden clock
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because it's also helpful. It does
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include like little cardboard clocks,
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but my son, he thoroughly enjoys using
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like a large like wooden clock. So,
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we've gotten that one. We have some play
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money and we have the um 10 blocks. So,
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those are some of the things that we're
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going to be using to go along with our
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math curriculum. But, it also does
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include this here box, which I actually
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have not opened up yet to even see
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what's inside of here. So, let's check
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this out.
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It has a clock with movable arms, two
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fraction dies, one 10-sided dies, four
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aircraft manipulas, a set of coins, a
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set of play money, and 10 star
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manipulatives is what's in here. But
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yeah, everything is just cardboard. So,
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this is the clock, which is very easy to
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pull out if you really just need to pull
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it out. You don't have to lug around a
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large one. We just like to have that
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type of stuff. Like I said, you don't
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need it. And then the money is also
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really like small as you can see.
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Doesn't have any
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faces on there either. Just a dollar
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sign in the middle. Um, these are so
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tiny that we have to keep them away from
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baby girl who is a year old. These are
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like choking hazards. But there's that
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and
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cardboard money.
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Then these are tiles and the fraction
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dice. And even the dyes is really small.
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So everything is here. You can
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definitely use this. The curriculum is
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very affordable, especially compared to
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other curriculum on the market. believe
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it was $180 for all of this for the
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math, the language arts and the
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handwriting came out to $180
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and it comes with um and that's with the
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nature reader and handwriting as
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mentioned. So, like I said, it's pretty
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affordable. I think that the math was
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like $60 and the language was like $80.
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I'm going to list the actual price
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because I could be getting this wrong.
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with the handwriting might have been
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like $15. Then the nature reader might
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be $13.
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But um so yeah, I know that these this
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here doesn't have like the utmost
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quality manipulatives inside of it, but
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for the price point, I'm going to throw
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this away because this is also very
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dangerous for baby girl. That's why I
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left it out because I need to throw it
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away immediately. But the price point
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matches the curriculum, the
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beautifulness of it, the quality. I
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never feel like my child is behind or
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missing out on anything. I feel like he
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gets what he needs and it's not
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neckbreaking and difficult. We don't
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have to fight and argue over it. Fact is
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by grade four it becomes more
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independent. They expect that by level
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four your child is doing pretty much
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independent work and you're kind of just
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overseeing it. So, there is some
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motivation for you if you're a
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homeschool mom and you're like, "Oh,
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this is hard." Or if you haven't started
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homeschooling yet and you're wondering,
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"Can you do this?" I highly recommend
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the Good and the Beautiful curriculum
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because it's very easy to follow,
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especially for firsttime homeschoolers.
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And then you can always transition to
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something else if you want to or once
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you have more time on your hands. I am a
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mom of two. I have a one-year-old baby
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girl and therefore my time is not what
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it used to be. Um, so I love the good
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and the beautiful for that. That it's
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grab and go. You can take it anywhere
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with you. We are traveling to Florida
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next month or actually at the end of
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this month. We are going to be packing
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this curriculum up in the car and taking
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it with us to Florida. So, I love that
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about this curriculum. It's completely
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free to print this this curriculum. You
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can print it for free, the language
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rights and the math and use it that way.
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You don't have to purchase it at all if
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you don't want to. You can literally
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print all of this out for free at home.
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You can use the readers on like a Kindle
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or a tablet that way, whatever, you
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know. So, I love that as well about the
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good and the beautiful. It's very
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affordable as well. But yes, if you I
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literally lost my train of thought. What
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I was going to say is that if you like,
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how can I do this? It's going to be
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hard.
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Pick your heart. It is a little hard to
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begin with, but I've always noticed that
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towards the end of this curriculum, my
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son doesn't need to depend on me as much
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as he does in the beginning because he
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has pretty much almost mastered all of
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the stuff in here almost. So like things
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start to get easier. He gets into his
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flow. It gets easier for all of us. The
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lessons are short as well. You can
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double up if you need to. And then
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again, just that thought of, hey, for
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five years, like the preschool and
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kindergarten and then first through
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third grade. um for 5 years.
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Yes, you have to be homeschooling your
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child, like standing over their shoulder
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for just one to two hours a day or as
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little or as much as you want to. For
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us, it's typically about an hour and a
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half at this point now, but it used to
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only be 30 minutes and down to an hour.
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So, you know, it goes up. Um, but once
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you get past those 5 years, it does get
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a little bit less dependent or it it's
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said to I'm I know I'm not there yet,
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but I'm already starting to notice that
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it's easier today than it was when we
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were doing preschool and kindergarten.
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So, it gets easier is what I'm trying to
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say. Um, we are also doing the science
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for little hands and heart curriculum
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that goes up to grade three. It's a
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beautiful curriculum. I talked a lot
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about that curriculum in all of my past
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um good and the beautiful curriculum
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reviews. So, you can definitely check
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those out if you want to see more of
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that. But here is the handwriting for
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level two. They used to have these small
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like half booklets for like the
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kindergarten and preschool handwriting
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and everything, which was handwriting
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for little, but I love that now they're
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full on curriculums, full on workbooks.
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It does have like the number practice in
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here as well. So, let's talk about
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everything in here. We already actually
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did the first page. So it's 40 point
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font, writing letters and numbers,
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writing short words, tracing words and
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sentences and spelling and numbers
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drawing some poems. Spelling the colors
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and the numbers,
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lots of picture and art practice.
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And then at the end of it, you get a
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congratulation certificate of
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completion.
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This one has about 103 pages. Yeah, 103
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pages. So, yeah, it's pretty honestly
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simple and straightforward this
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curriculum. Not colorful or anything.
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You add your own color, you know, plenty
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of areas to color. But this is what
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we're doing for level two. I will go
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more in depth than this as we go through
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the curriculum, give you guys an update
21:52
of how things are going, how I feel
21:54
about the curriculum once we've dived
21:56
into it. But just for an unboxing, get
21:58
an overview and an idea of what we're
22:01
going to be doing. This is it. We are
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still going to be going through our
22:04
safety curriculum because we didn't
22:05
complete it. So, I talked about the good
22:08
and the beautiful safety, health and
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safety curriculum, which is very
22:11
beautiful. I love that curriculum. Check
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that out as well. I will link that video
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down below for you guys, as well as the
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video where I talk more about the
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science for the little hearts and hands.
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That's everything that we're going to be
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doing to start along with our Daily
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Grace Company devotions. So, let me know
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what you guys are doing with homeschool
22:31
this year. I hope that you guys found
22:33
this video to be helpful and that you
22:35
enjoyed it. If you are a homeschool
22:38
parent, I would love for you to
22:39
subscribe. But also, I'm always sharing
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homemaking content, cleaning, days in
22:44
the life, grocery haul, shopping costs,
22:47
home organization, homemaking,
22:48
motherhood, all of the things. So, I
22:50
would love to have you over here. But I
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hope that you guys enjoyed this video
22:53
that's going to be offered today. And
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I'll see you guys in the next one.