[What math for a 4yo? MUS Primer? Singapore? Anything else?]

So far, Right Start A has been the most enjoyable for us, we also use math games on the computer. Ariel plays Millie's Math House at my mom's house and seems to enjoy it, and we did a couple of the Kumon workbooks, which worked well. T4L K was okay, but I found it annoying. Jumpstart World K was fun but I definitely wouldn't use it as a main curriculum.

[Fess up: What have you dropped so far this year?]

Im curious...what didnt you like about McRuffy and ETC? Those are the 2 Im looking at for DS

 

It's kind of hard to articulate, mostly it was just that the more I reviewed them, the more I realized they weren't for us.

 

ETC is just a workbook and DD doesn't like workbooks that much. We made it about 2/3 of the way through book 1. DD's weakness was primarily in segmenting and ETC did not teach her how to do that. She had a very difficult time doing the spelling sections, and it just wasn't worth the time and frustration on both our parts to keep going.

 

I never used McRuffy. I got the whole kit thinking it sounded great, but I didn't like all the little cards and pieces, and the workbook was too much coloring. Neither DD nor I liked the readers that came with it, they just seemed really contrived, as did the games.

 

JMHO

[Fess up: What have you dropped so far this year?]

We're on week 17.

 

Math - Dropped Spectrum K (actually finished it in 3 weeks), added T4L K. Dropped T4L K, added R&S grade 1. Dropped R&S, added RS A

 

Reading - Dropped McRuffy K, added ETC. Dropped ETC, added ABeCeDarian level A. We are actually nearly finished with level A, so we will be moving on to level B in December.

 

Handwriting - Dropped Handwriting Help for Kids. I thought it was going to be like HWT, and it was, sort of, but DD really didn't like it. Finished HWT K already. Now we're just using the handwriting in ABCD.

 

Barely hanging on - Progressive Recorder for Beginners. We've done all of 1 lesson in the 10 weeks we've had it.

 

Thinking about adding - Artistic Pursuits when we switch to MBTP and IEW poetry

 

I bought MBTP to alternate with FIAR - originally I had only planned to get through 1 volume of FIAR this year because that's what I was told to expect. We will have finished it by Thanksgiving. :blink:

 

Last year we did Calvert and just stuck it out. This year was my first year to put anything together. There has been a big learning curve (as you can tell)!