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In this week's video, I'll take you on a virtual tour of our homeschooling setup for this year. As a homeschooling mom of Kindergarten, 2nd grade, and 4th grade kids, I've tested a variety of resources and materials over the years.

So, if you're a fellow homeschooling parent looking for inspiration, you're in the right place! We've made a few tweaks to how we are doing school this year. Now that I have three school-aged kids, we are shifting to more of a family school focus with a few individual subjects, instead of primarily individual studies.

Here is what we are focusing on this year:

Family Subject Resources

• Science: Science in the Beginning

• Picture Study

• Addition Facts That Stick

• Subtraction Facts that Stick

• Language Study

• History - Story of the World

• Picture books from the library on a variety of subjects

Individual Study

• Busy town Eye Found It Game

• Spot It

• All About Reading

• Rightstart Math

• Minimalist Math Curriculum Research Parent/ Right start

• Hoffman Academy (Get 10% off with code LEARN)

• Good and the Beautiful books/reading for 4th grade

• The Great Illustrated Classics

Organizational Resources

• Backpacks with pencil and planner

• Hooks for backpacks

• Notebooking pencils

• Pencil sharpener

• Kids watches

• How to stitch a notebook

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