Homeschool Dad here! We are excited to read more missionary biographies this year too. As someone who did years of long-term mission work in the past, I think it is so important to present mission work as a legitimate opportunity for young people (whether that be foreign mission or bringing Christ's kingdom into their local community). There are so many books in that Heroes Then and Now series, that we're having a difficult time choosing which ones to use - but I guess that's a good problem to have :)

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

So fun to have a homeschool dad comment!

We homeschooled all of our children, who are now grown and out of the home...all except our 28 yr old autistic daughter, she will always be home..and we love it...she loves still reading about historical times and places...to the point, we are making our spare room a library/reading/craft/office area...so excited to add some of these books to our library ❤️❤️❤️

I've been so looking forward to this video!

Yay! These are some of my favorite videos! Your grace and honesty led me to the good and the beautiful. Its been hard work but my children's attitudes about school are truly turning into a positive!

Great suggestions! We love the ywam missionary books too! The Ology is also one we’ve enjoyed. The Boxcar Children series is a favorite in our house.

We’ve done the Ology several times. Really good.

The Ology is awesome and is a systematic theology book for kids. I did it with my high schoolers down to elementary. We snatched up the bird unit when it came out and did it for Spring. James Audubon book was great. And we also have enjoyed the YWAM missionary books. They are a favorite of 14 years of homeschooling. Love your videos. Found out about TGATB from you 🥰.

Thank you for the Christian Hero’s references!!

We loved the Eli Whitney book. We were just talking about it today ☺️

Thank you! Your morning basket examples have helped me so much!!

Always love seeing your supplemental materials and books! I have a lot of the same titles ready to go for the fall too 😊

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

Yay, thank you!

We love the Prince Warriors books! We usually read them during summer break

Love this video. My kids grade 1-7 loved the Mouse and the Motorcycle, and Charlotte's Web! Classics.

These are absolutely some of my favorite videos! Morning basket time gives me some of my most precious memories of homeschooling. I love hearing what others are doing in their basket as well

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad!

The Wingfeather Saga is on our list! I hear it’s great and I’m excited to dig in.

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

I have been waiting for this video! Always love new ideas ❤

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

More to come!

@krystlehammond1447

3 жыл бұрын

@@GraceandGrit yay!!

Thank you for making this video! I sure do appreciate it! 💕

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!!

The Green Ember Series. It’s so good! We are restarting them using the audio books (narration by Joel Clarkson) when we drive. Both my kids love them ages 10 & 14.

@amandazielinski3247

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! The Green Ember series 10 times over!

@amberleggio335

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Green Ember Series is a must for read aloud time!!!!!! Also the Wing Feather Saga is great too.

@stephaniepreston4335

3 жыл бұрын

This is what I was getting ready to suggest!

@KriziaNaegeleRouth

3 жыл бұрын

Agree on green ember and green feather saga! We did as audible during our road trips!! Everyone was super engaged!

We are doing the birds unit as well and cannot wait!

I am a new follower, and might have been binge watching your videos. I am loving all of these type videos and I love all the suggestions in the comments. I am nervous to start this process, because my daughter has dyslexia but we are going to work at her pace.

The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls is a fun read aloud series. I think it’s geared towards elementary age kids, but I enjoyed them just as much as my kids and couldn’t wait to find out what happened next.

We went through The Ology this year. Good stuff. We are currently reading The Green Ember with my 13 and 9 year olds. I was afraid they'd be aging out of it (I think it says 8-12 yrs), but they're right in the thick of it. Reminds me of a younger Lord of the Rings type series.

My kids and I loved Lady Cake Farm! Excellent choice! We just read A Loyal Foe. It has suspense through out so my kids didn't ever want me to stop reading. It is more difficult and plot is intricate and may be harder for under 10 to understand even as a read a loud. So great for teaching loyalty and honor in a story though. It is a Good and Beautiful Library book.

I have used The Ology for a few years with my kids (currently ages 9, 6, and 4). It's great at communicating complex ideas in simple ways.

Love the picks!

So many good ones, but I definitely want to grab the Christian Heroes Then and Now books! I grabbed Plant Hunters in my first order from TGATB, and I can’t wait to read it!

The Wormling series is fantastic. We read the whole series during the shut down as a family and all of my kids love it. I also second the wing feather series, I see someone commented on that below. We are just about to start the third book. Also fantastic!

So many hs channels recommended Adventures with Waffles for read alouds. We finished it yesterday and it was great. My kids loved it and I enjoyed reading it.

The Lifters by Dave Eggers was great for keeping the attention of all my kids and they were constantly begging to read more! Its quirky and odd but fun!

The Ology was sooo good. I read to my kindergartener this year and she picked up so much truth from it!

I grabbed The Ology a few months back and have it set for morning basket this year. It’s been recommended so many times that I had to buy it. I love that they have options in the front on how to go deeper for each age range.

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

How fun to both be using it this year!❤️

We did the Good Pictures Bad Pictures book this year and I plan to revisit it every couple years at least. We had great discussion about it. This year my boys enjoyed reading Ella Enchanted and Mr. Lemoncellos Library. We are on the second of the series and they always beg me to keep going.

Our absolute favorite audio book The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy, if you need an audio. My kids loved this, laugh out loud funny. Historical read a loud, Carry on Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Letham was wonderful, Walk the World's Rim, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, and The Sign of the Beaver. Have a beautiful school year, and thank you for the videos. :)

Thank you for showing this. We just finished My Side of the Mountain and both my children were enamored with it.

@amygrant4915

3 жыл бұрын

We love My side of the mountain. My 7 year old wanted to try what he did! Momma had to put a stop to it!

@lamerisr

3 жыл бұрын

My three loved this series!!!

For sure the Wilderking Trilogy. It has the story of David and Goliath kind of mixed in but set in a swampy Deep South setting. It’s hilarious and our kids of all ages loved it both boys and girls! We love the Ology too ❤️

I have the Christian Missionaries set to read this year. I’m encouraged that your kids enjoy them as it will be our first year reading them. Fun read aloud is the Wild Robot & The Wild Robot Escapes. Definitely an easy, fun read. Talks a lot about birds especially in the 1st one so may go well when you do your birds science unit :)

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

Great tip thankyou!

Bunnicula series or the Poppy series are great!

We're reading The Green Ember right now and it's pretty good! Even my 4 year old can stay with the plot line but it's written in a very Lord of the Rings-esque style. ❤ 🤓

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

My boys love those books!

The Wild Robot is so fun!

The penderwick series and the green ember series. So fun. Oh also you should read watership down.

Great choices! A just for fun book series we have been enjoying as a family is The Vanderbeekers. Its about a family of 7 living in Harlem, New York. The siblings are always banding together to help others and at times it goes well and others it doesn't and they learn great lessons in the process. I feel it has high moral and is very sound lessons. The ages of the siblings range from 11-2 in the first book and the newest they were 14-5. These books will make you laugh, warm your heart, make you cry, and show you how a strong family bond can face anything! We take a long time to read these because we don't want to story to end! I hope you guys enjoy them as much as we have.

My kids loved the “railway children” and the secret series by Enid blyton..another favorite was the first penderwick book (haven’t gotten to the rest of them yet) and Tom Sawyer and huckleberry Finn (abridged)..we’re currently reading “the moffats” and the kids are really enjoying it..(boys ages 5, 9, 11 and 13)

There are also some Bible study type books from the same author of The Ology called Old Story New and Long Story Short.

Great book suggestions! I love your earrings. Where are they from?

The 21 Balloons would be fun during your Geology unit. It’s loosely based on a true volcanic eruption, but exaggerated to make it silly and fun.

We all love Five Little Peppers (wholesome, charming, whimsical, funny). We also love The Railway Children and Five Children and It.

We read The Green Ember series this year and loved them! I'm not sure if you have heard of it yet.

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

YES! my boys loved the first. We actually just got my son the rest of the series for his bday next week!

So, im new to your channel, I’ve watched quite a few videos. But I’m curious, how many hours a day do you spend on homeschooling? I feel like I read aloud a decent amount but, even though you’re rotating through books, the amount of books you have blow me out of the water!

“Alice’s Farm” by Mayrose Wood, “Echo” by Pam Munoz Ryan are favorites here

Journey through the Bible by Veritas press is supposed to be amazing as well!

Did you ever read the book “The Secret Zoo”? We have that on our list and it’s supposed to be somewhat suspenseful. It’s part of a series too. We are doing our first year of sonlight With my kids so I’m excited to introduce missionary stories to them. I put on torchlight series with Jim Elliot and my son fell in love so he picked out our first one on Jim Elliot and then we will read the ones with our sonlight package. We are using an older version so I’m going to buy a few of the new books that were on the list including “The Ology”.. You inspired me with literature based learning and I am so happy I can marry sonlight and TGATB together this year to see how it works for us. The Wingfeather saga is supposed to be a Christian fantasy series like lord of the rings type also.

@annieschrader3657

3 жыл бұрын

We have done the entire Secret Zoo series and my kids loved it!!!

Approximately how many read alouds do you realistically get through in the run of a school year? Trying to plan ahead and get some kinda of an idea ….thanks for all your videos!!

Hey Ashlee! I'm not sure if anyone else has commented with either of these suggestions, but apologies if they have! Anyway, a book that I've listened to and really enjoyed was Charlotte's Web by EB White (I seem to have missed out on reading it in my childhood so am glad I've caught up with it even though I'm 43!☺) I found a version on Audible that was narrated by the author and it was great! The other series I am working my way through is the Little House in the Big Woods series, though maybe your boys might find the first one a bit girly! There was a TV series called Little House on the Prairie shown early Sunday afternoon when I was growing up which I really enjoyed - think it was interspersed with The Waltons! - and I read the first book when I was about 12/13. I haven't got to the others in the series yet, but perhaps you've read through them all already! I hope you are feeling a bit better and less tired. Expect you're all looking forward to some time away in the camper though I hope too that you and your husband also manage a trip away very soon. Did you get your money back from the other place? 🤞 Take care and thank you for all your videos! xx

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ we love all these books!! Great choices! Have you done the MB Quick Answers to Social Issues? It’s book two of the first one you did last year. It’s fantastic!! Those and the answers for kids/teens books are books you can revisit again again! Love it! So many have already recommended great living books that I would recommend too but some I didn’t see yet are Number the Stars, A long walk to water, Night by Elie Wiesel, Casey Sabella Titanic Warning: Could this Disaster have been Prevented? Corrie Ten Boom The Hiding Place, The Chocolate Soldier: Heroism: The Lost Chord of Christianity (A Deeper Christian Classic) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Winnie-the-Pooh: Classic Edition and Peter Rabbit, Hatchet series, The Lord Of The Rings, The Pilgrim's Progress, Where the Red Fern Grows, Sterling North Rascal, Patricia M. St. John Star of Light.

The Wilderking Trilogy was amazing. Funny, but riddled with deep, thought-provoking truth. Also, the Wingfeather Saga is so, so, so good.

The War that Saved My Life Biography of a Grizzly Owls in the Family Faith Hope and Ivy June All the Corrie Ten Boom Because of Winn Dixie Hidden All the Ramona books A long walk to water

Great for God is also available on Hoopla!

i have 3 kiddos and 2 of which i am homeschooling. my girls are going into 2nd grade and kindergarten. I am really interested in reading the Christian Heroes: Then and Now books. What age did you start reading those to your kids? I would like to start reading those but didnt know if maybe my kids are too young. Also, do you use these books to go along with any of your history curriculum or are they separate read alouds? Do you just read them and move on or do you discuss more in detail about the things you read about. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I asked my son and he said 1) my side of the mountain 2) white fang 3) call of the wild 4) Bambi

Do you have a video for your 2021-2022 homeschool choices for the main subjects?

So two questions…. How many minutes do you a lot for these read alouds? My morning time seems to always be an hour to an hour and a half bc our Bible study takes so long some days. But I want to make read alouds (like the yWAM) more of a priority. So to get through the 4 books you showed, do you think 10 minutes a day? Or more? And then #2… Are there any YWAM stories that were your absolute favorites? Which ones are MUST reads to hook somebody? I’m going to assign some of these to my kids for individual reading also. 😊

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, we are downstairs on average 90 minutes together, sometimes longer!

@OurHOMEschoolPlan

3 жыл бұрын

@@GraceandGrit but that includes your science/history also? So Bible science and history is only 90 minutes? Or 90 minutes is just your “morning basket?”

Good Pictures Bad Pictures looks good too. Have you done the Maturation Unit from TGATB? If so, what ages would you recommend it for?

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

yes! We loved it and I actually made a whole video on the "experience". Its under TGATB playlist! Recommend for sure!

@Judys7isHeaven

3 жыл бұрын

What a great list of books! I haven’t done group learning with my your crew in a few years. Looking to add it back. I have some great ideas now! You said you did the Answers book with your kids before. Is it the Ultimate Answers Pack, which has 4 Answers books and Flood of Evidence? Also, did you do a video on how you used them before?

My kids are really enjoying Mr Poppers Penguins. The book is so much better than the movie.

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

We loved that book! agree movie is so much better!

How many Science units do you typically complete in a year? We are about to finish up Arthropods (1 lesson left) and will be heading into Mammals. Birds is first on my list for this Fall, but just curious! :) As always, THANK YOU for sharing!

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

About 4!

Do you have any suggestions for a read-aloud series that are good for 2nd-4th grade? These biography readers say 10 & up. Mine are 7,8.

For your morning basket, do you read one book through before you start a different one or mix them all up? I'm never really sure what to do.

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

No, a few pages each. Take a watch through some of my videos!

How do you rotate all of it?!

Black Beauty, Understood Betsy, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables

So how do you break down the read alouds? Do you read a little bit from various different books every day? Or one day do one type of book and the next another? I am trying to figure out how to break down my read alouds into a more manageable way.

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

I alternate days between books! And read our Bible stuff daily!

How long do you read out loud ? I’ve never done a morning basket and I really want to start this year. Do your kids sit quietly while you read?

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

Our entire morning time is usually around 90 min to 2 hours.

How much time per day do you typically spend doing read-alouds? This was an area I totally failed at this past year (1st homeschooling year with 4 of my 6 kids homeschooling). We read individually and it took so much time teaching my younger one to read & others doing their individual work that they didn’t want to sit and listen together hardly ever. I need help implementing this. 😩

@judifreeland4600

3 жыл бұрын

What about during breakfast? lunch? Or snack? I find I have a captive audience 😂😂 10 minutes consistently is a good place to start & get it in!

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

We spend about 90 min to 2 hours around our table. When my kids were little the majority of read aloud time was during lunch and at bedtime!

I have a question about the missionary books. Do you choose them for any reason? As an example, do the dates line with the history you are studying? I would like to start reading these to my children just not sure which one to start with. Thanks! You are an inspiration!

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

No rhyme or reason

@CallMyDoula

3 жыл бұрын

You can find a chronological list of the series online, then you can create a timeline with it for History/Bible.

You said you read these in the morning but for the history and science ones, do you read those during that teaching time?

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

yes! We alternate days, ie:Tuesday missionary story, Wednesday history read aloud etc

do you read science read aloud books on science days, then historical on history day? or do you go through a book completely then switch to the next subject?

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

We alternate books on days

Do you always buy the additional book packs for tgatb science units? Just wondering if I should purchase the additional books.

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

We do, we enjoy them!

@DK-tq3fy

3 жыл бұрын

I've been reading the Nature reader from the Arthropods unit to my 9 year old just to have cuddle time and help with comprehension. My 12 year old is in on it now. I am a bit surprised how much two boys love it but they can't wait until we read again.

How?! How did you get so much reading done when they were younger?! I have now a 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and prek., but this past school year we went through 4 chapter books, 1 blood from Masterbooks, and maybe 7 picture books. I want to be able to read that much to my kids, but they just won't sit and behave for long. Once they are done with copy writing, they start messing with each other and I have to get onto them more than I can get any reading done.

@ysk1729

3 жыл бұрын

Get them when their mouths are full!!! 🤪. Take advantage of breakfast and lunch.

@carinthiamontana7069

3 жыл бұрын

I have the same age span. We do audio books in the car and at night in bed.

@GraceandGrit

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t read as much then!

@britnygoodwin9207

3 жыл бұрын

Audiobooks have been a life saver in our house. I use the opportunity to play with my kids with some quiet activities like coloring or puzzles. That way we can play together while also listening to the book. Audiobooks are also great for car rides and you can find some at the library too.

The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson

The vanderbeekers of 141st street

The Wizard of Oz was so cute and such a fun read aloud! The movie is awful compared to it.