Hi everyone. It's Jenny Phillips with The Good and the Beautiful, and I'm very excited to share with
you our new edition of Level 4 Language Arts. These are the first course books that came off the press
and I had to grab them so that I could show you some flip throughs and give you a quick look
at this course. Our Language Arts Levels One through Five at The Good and the Beautiful are
completely free. You can download all of these items. The level four course, Language Arts
course, comes with Spelling and Writing Level Four Workshops book which I'm super excited
to share with you, our Level Four Course Book, our Level Four World Biographies
reader, and our Level Four Personal Reader. All of these you can download completely free.
Language Arts is at the core and the heart of what we do at The Good and the Beautiful. We are
passionate about it and have even been told that our courses are life-changing to families
and just make homeschooling such a joyous and beautiful experience so i want to share with you.
First let's look at this Spelling and Writing Workshops. So we did extensive piloting
in this course and I'm going to flip through this as I talk to you about this so you can see this
Spelling and Writing Workshops book which correlates with the lessons. So you do a lesson
in your course book and then it will say to do a spelling or writing workshop. They do a spelling
workshop one day and a writing workshop the next day. Spelling and writing is what we really
wanted to make enjoyable and super effective for our children and we are super excited because our
piloting families that's the number one comment they had is how their writing and spelling
improved with their children. They said that their children absolutely blossomed through
this course and they would send me samples of what their children are writing and
saying you have no idea my child is not, was not, a writer. They absolutely hated writing.
They were just amazed, and one of our pilot families they said their child
did not like writing and when they were done they asked if they could sign up for a
creative writing course because they had loved it so much. So I am actually having my children,
I teach my children and a little co-op and
I'm having all the children in grades nine and under do this writing workshops book. Even
though they're beyond level four, because we feel like the foundation that it creates in
writing and in spelling is so important for the children. The joy that it gives
them. We have Learning from the Masters sections and Writing from the Heart sections which the
children absolutely love. As we teach them to write with their own personality and their own
experiences, they absolutely love it. I won't go more into how
we teach the writing because I could do a very long video on that. I'm really excited
about these writing workshops. We have a strong focus on writing, but it is at the level that
the child can do. It does not overwhelm them. That's one of the things that we look for in the
pilot family. If a lesson overwhelmed the children we would rewrite it until the children loved it,
until all the pilot families came back and said, "Yes, my child loved doing this. He totally got it."
It was a quite a laborious process, but we're really excited with the result. Let me give you a
quick flip through of the course book here and tell you how the lessons work. The lessons take
about two to seven minutes for the parent to do with a child and they will
do this little Parent/Teacher section here, which is either to work on the Challenging
Sentence Climb, which is in the back of your workshops book. These used to be flash cards,
challenging word flash cards, but we found with our pilot families that this was a very effective
way to do it. They have this Challenging Sentence Climb it gives you instructions here,
but basically they have these different ladders from different homes. This is a Canadian Home
and when they master this ladder then they get to color in this bird there,
which they read a little bit about. So we have these different homes from different
countries, this one is Belgium and we have South Africa and North America and
different ones. The kids think it's really fun and in here are so many difficult words to
pronounce that can't be sounded out very easily. This is really going to help the children
be exposed to a ton of words that they can practice. When children get into Level 4 they
still need help in increasing their reading skills. We don't do direct phonic instruction anymore,
that ends in level three, but they still need to improve their reading skills. If they're just
reading books on their own to themselves it's going to be hard for them to improve, because
they're going to skip over those hard words. So we have concentrated all of these hard words
in this fun way, so you're just going to try to climb the ladder and see how far they
can get in two to four minutes. Then you'll master the different ladders. That's about
in every other lesson that you'll open up and do that. It says work on the Challenging Word Climb
and then check the child's work and that's all the parent has to do. Then they're going to read about
this artist who painted national parks because that is what we're talking about. Then
as they're doing their exercises, they're studying some more of the art. Then it says to do their
spelling workshop, so they're going to open up their spelling workshop and work in here. We also
suggest that they do personal reading for at least 20 minutes a day from books from The Good and the
Beautiful book list, but that can be done anytime, even at night or you know before they go to bed,
or any time that you want. So the lessons take an average of 30 minutes and the parent portion
is between two and seven minutes. Here's the volcano, this was
a hit with our pilot families. There are also some sections, I'll just do a little
flip through here while I am looking for some sections where the child is going to read larger
sections to the parents. So Scotland, this is when they are reading the story of Eric Little
in their biography and he was from Scotland. They have a few recipes that they do.
There is some Scottish Shortbread that they do when they're studying Scotland,
and they do a Yogurt Cake. This one the families and kids absolutely loved and it's super easy.
They absolutely love it. So they do this Yogurt Cake but I'm going to flip through this way
and show you they do study Claude Monet, and the area where he lived.
Let me see if i can find some of these sections here where you're going to
read to the parent. This is where they're reading about these two African-American
sisters whose story has never been published before. We were super excited to publish it.
They were amazing tennis players. Here's an example of some sections where the
parent read with the child longer sections. This is about judging books and
learning how to discern which books are good and which ones are not. We are excited to
be giving this course to you. You can find all of these components on goodandbeautiful.com
for free and have a beautiful experience with your child with language arts and literature.