HI Everyone - We are Eclectic homeschoolers who use some classical materials and light homeschool in the summer so we can take random breaks during the year as life calls for them.
I’m looking for some input on a soon to be 1st grader who works with numbers well. He has been using miquon (which we love) and is also finishing up Beast academy 2a. Yes, it’s weird we use two math curriculums, it works for us... I’m wondering about stopping beast academy, I started having reservations with it as it seemed really common core like, but he initially loved it and likes to read the books. He recently started complaining it’s too hard, the star problems intimidate him a bit as he knows they are harder, but he can do the math. I also think that with the classical model of learning it’s not at the right stage for him and that’s why he’s not liking it?
If we just did miquon he’d fly through the books. My oldest (12 now) started Saxon 5/4 in second grade and loves the spiral approach, but they are different kids. She also used beast some, but it was for fun as she was above the level when we found it. For my son, I was hoping that we could use beast instead of Saxon, as our main thing after we finished Miquon.
I’m looking for any ideas on another curriculum (not online) or thoughts on Beast (am i giving up too soon) or do I stick with Saxon with a spatial thinker? I did try Life of Fred with him before beast and he doesn’t like the story line (he wants Fred to live with his family). My other thought is to use Shiller Math and try beast again later...
I’ve already held him back some in math as he was ready to move out of Montessori manipulatives early on as I am not trying to push him. We had to do the same with writing as he really wanted to write, but then he would get super upset when a letter didn’t look perfect. (Lots of finger writing in quinoa helped.)