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Hi Sarah here from The Johnson Crew today I'm going to be sharing the curriculum that we've picked out for my upcoming second grader for the 2021 to 2022 school year so if that interests you stay tuned if you're new to homeschooling you probably discovered that there are a ton of curriculum options out there and I really struggle with curriculum fomo so about every year we we end up changing some things and trying new curriculums not because we didn't like what we used before but because I just want to see if this thing might be a better fit

So we've got some new ones this year but for math we're keeping with the same program we've used for years we love it and I don't know that will ever change it but it's matthew c so my second grader is going to be using the beta book this year which is about multiple digit addition and subtraction now this is a video based program so you can either get the dvds or stream it online and you just watch a short video teaching you a new concept each week

And then do a couple of pages out of the workbook and then move on to the next concept when you feel like your child has mastered that one so pretty easy straightforward we love it for language arts this year we're going to be using the bju press curriculum they have a video based curriculum which I am all about the video based stuff makes my homeschooling a lot easier a lot simpler since I've got four kids so even though there is more of a cost to this it helps me to be less stressed out to use these things

So feels like money well spent I did like things about the program she used last year but I didn't like that the spelling list that she was using were super random words and the bju press curriculum does use same sound spelling list so if that's something that you really like just know that they use that which I think is great and along with these video based courses they send you all the workbooks that go along with that so it's not like I'm having to print out stuff every day or every week to go along with this

So it's already all ready to rock which I love she's also going to be using bju press for science this year which is also a video based curriculum along with workbooks and then they'll have some hands-on activities and projects throughout the year the second grade science program through bju focuses on scientific occupations living things environments fossils parts of the earth and how they interact natural resources light and shadows for social studies she's going to be using the ron paul curriculum and this is also a video based curriculum this streams online

And the videos are typically between 10 and 15 minutes long and the second grade social studies class focuses on how the student impacts society and how each person can make it better so the focus is on being a good citizen and the child's place within their family their community their state their country the world they'll also cover some topics about how our economy works and some map skills so I think that's going to be pretty cool and for bible we're going to do this subject all together as a family

And we're going to be using veritas press we chose the genesis to joshua course and this is also video based it streams online and we also got the cd that has memory songs on it and flash cards that go along with the material and a map that shows what the world looked like in bible times and what it looks like now which is really cool and then our extracurriculars which we're going to do with all the kids together are music and spanish so for spanish we're going to be using the homeschool spanish academy which is actually a live taught class online

So you have a native speaking teacher talking to you which is really cool and for music we're going to continue doing a music class online through lumilearn with mrs middaugh and she teaches you different songs and about different composers and some music theory so we've really enjoyed that so far so I will leave the links to all of those curriculums down below so you can check those out in more detail if you want to um I'll certainly give an update as we get into using those later this year

And then I've also got videos for the curriculum that we're using for our fourth grader this year and our kindergartner so if you have kids that age you can check those videos out next as well so hopefully that was helpful to you thanks for joining me today please introduce yourself in the comments below I love this homeschooling community that we have here on youtube if you haven't subscribed yet go ahead and hit that button now so you can join us here every week until next time thanks you