Secular Homeschool Curriculum Plan 2020-21 | How I Change Build Your Library | American History

We have been using BYL for a few years now. This year, my kids will be doing level 1 & level 10. We enjoy this curriculum for the most part. Thank you for this video. I appreciate the ideas. And thank you for being a presence specifically for us secular homeschoolers. ♥️

I am teaching my 7y old twins that money does not grow on trees! They demand every day a new portion (of money), and make a plan for me, where to go to spend it :) - to Dollars stores, Goodwills etc).They plan what they want to buy, and what they want me to order for them online...I teach them about family budget - a micro introduction course to economy ! I teach them common sense!

Yay! Secular homeschooling! I appreciate all your suggestions for changing premade curriculum. My kids are also 10 & 13 so we end up piecing together our own studies using bookshark. Thanks for the ideas...😊

Wow! It's great to see another secular homeschool family. I really enjoyed seeing how you plan and go through preparing for your year. Thanks for sharing! I'm inspired!

We do a similar analysis as we walk thru the BYL plan. I love that she’s done the bulk of the research for me ahead of time, but allows for tweaking with her blank outline. Loved hearing your thought process!

I absolutely love the freedom of homeschooling ❤️

Thank you for this! I'm starting Level 0 with my 6 and 4 year old as we took this last year slowly with another curriculum, and I have been STRESSING the age/grade thing. It has taken a long while for me to be able to accept to do what works for us. I love home schooling for this reason, and your video has added to helping me relax. Thank you!

Hello former mentor teacher!! How fun to "run into" you like this!! I have a little one starting kinder this year, and I am exploring BYL as an option. Thank you for mentioning your kids handwriting struggles and how you adapted the curriculum. My little one has poor fine motor skills and it is such a battle to practice workbooks.

I'm ready to this year's curriculum plan video 🥰 Totally invested now!

I am planning on doing this curriculum for my daughter next year.

Great video, I was hoping to use BYL next year as a rough guide for topics to cover etc! Sounds like it will work for that:)

We do Poetry Teatime, too. I want my children to appreciate and enjoy poetry.

This fall will be our third year with BYL, on levels 2 and 0. I tweak a lot like you do, and add things in! I agree with you that Story of the World is extremely eurocentric with a heavy Christian worldview. Last year for level 1, we read SOTW, but also added in Curiosity Chronicles as an audiobook. This year, I plan to use CC as our main history, with the accompanying activity books, and maybe supplement with SOTW. We also skip the poetry (glad we're not the only ones!), and add in extra science and language arts. Sometimes I wonder why I purchased the curriculum with so much tweaking, but really, it's a great starting place.

Very helpful thank you

Yay!! Build Your Library is my favorite curriculum! ❤️ we’ve used it for 3 years now. We do modify the history portion, I’m not a fan of the book.

Also when you get these and download them and print them do you also bind them or could you put them just in a looseleaf workbook if you don’t have a binding machine

Hello I watch your other stations and now I am also doing homeschooling for my two twin boys and daughter of kindergarten age my boys are in the second grade if I did a curriculum like this would I still get the same level III or should I get the level below it? I feel like I’m all over the place in trying to figure out how to do this along side working full-time and still doing eBay LOL

Thank you! I wanted to ask if you know of any curriculums in spanish? We are bilingual and i don't know how to start. Thank you!

We love DWN😊

Can you point me in a Direction if their one company for all the curriculum that are needed ? I have a 6 year old in pre-K and 8 year old in 3rd grade .... doing virtual school but it’s not working out at all I want to do homeschooling but where do I start can you please help me