claire up north Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 HITS: Sonlight core 6 Sonlight science 5 Logic Countdown Reading Detective (Beginning) -- very challenging for my kiddos, but taught them a lot MISSES: First Book of the Recorder (Usborne) - honestly, I think I'm going to give up on music! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beezus Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 Hits: Split the Deck (from the Stack the Deck writing program) Wordsmith Vocabulary from Classical Roots Artistic Pursuits Fizz, Bubble & Flash: Element Explorations and Atom Adventures Misses: Writing Strands Sadlier Oxford vocabulary workshop - not necessarily horrible, but we liked Vocab from Classical Roots better because the words in each list were related, which helped with retention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmen_and_Company Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Storm, 6th grade dd Hits: History Odyssey level II, year II Analytical Grammar NEM volume 1 & Chalkdust pre-algebra Oak Meadow Science Genki Japanese Drawing lessons from library art books * DVDs Lukewarm: IEW History Based Writing Lessons Latin Book One Misses: Teaching Textbook Algebra--boring & prefers mastery based programs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Testimony Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Hits: Always Story of the World Ambleside Online Singapore Math for older son Building Thinking Skills Mindbenders Writing Tales I and II Misses: Exploring Creation through Botany (the others are better) too technical:confused: Lyrical Science, but yet it help my son on the IOWAs so I don't know:confused: Not a lot of misses really! We thoroughly enjoyed our school year. My boys and I are struggling to find some misses. And to be honest even what is on the miss list is questionable. I guess since we've been doing Ambleside Online things got less "school-in-the-box" and more reading books and narrating. I wanted to junk Building Thinking Skills. My older son can't handle that. I was going to not do Latin next year. My older son wants to do Henle. Are we crazy? What's wrong with us? :party: Homeschooling is fun!! Blessings, Karen http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/testimony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crosseyedparent Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Singapore Primary Math continues to be a winner at our house. NEM is not as high ranking. Apologia's high school courses are so good that even a Chemistry-phobic mom can "guide" her daughter successfully through Chemistry. We love TOG for History but not so much for writing. IEW has worked for us there this year. Easy Grammar is not a favorite with one but the other likes it. SWR is getting tedious. That's all I can think of right now!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funschooler5 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 (edited) HITS: Workboxes (Biggest hit of the year for me!) Mind Benders Memorize in Minutes: Times Tables (I had my doubts, but it worked for both of my older kids, and just took a few minutes a day!) TeacherFileBox.com (SO great for supplementing specific skills) HWT (My son has SPD and this has helped his handwriting SO much) History At Our House Key To Decimals, Fractions, & Geometry Life of Fred Fractions MISSES: Prentice Hall Science Explorers (too textbooky for us...still searching for that perfect science program) Singapore Math (loved it the first few years, but it just isn't working for my kids anymore) Write Source (I want to love this, but it's really hard for me to figure out how to implement this program for some reason) Edited June 2, 2009 by funschooler5 Forgot a couple of things :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MinivanMom Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Hits: Sonlight Core 1 (just the history and read-alouds) Singapore Math Nallenart French (L'art de Dire & L'art de Lire 1) Drawing with Children Misses: Sonlight 2-Int Readers - The books were just too easy and dd7 finished them in about two weeks. This is probably my fault. I should have bought where I knew her reading level was rather than listening to the naysayers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessieC Posted May 6, 2011 Share Posted May 6, 2011 Hits: Five in a Row (just love FIAR--it brings us joy) Explode the Code (dd loves doing the workbook pages--I limit her to two a day and combine them with the Progressive Phonics free downloadable readers) Scholastic "Word Ladders" Misses Phonics Pathways (just not pulling us in) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnMomof7 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 HITS! All About Reading Pre-1 (DD 5 begs for this) All About Spelling Level 2 (DD 8 - spelling just keeps getting better!) Sonlight, Core K (A) (still in progress - started in January and had to interrupt for Canada studies but loved by all) Rod and Staff 2 (love that we can do this orally, has helped SO much with writing sentences) I feel the love, DD tolerates Math Mammoth (DD 8 is feeling the love here for some reason) General WTM LA skills - copywork, narration etc. - I feel the love, DD tolerates Bible - NIrV with notebooking pages, DD feels the love if we narrate orally, not so much if I make her write ;) Timeline Working Out OK Prima Latina Math U See Canada, My Country and supplementary books/songs etc. Total FAIL Apologia Astronomy - I am tempted to say never again, this is our second failed attempt I THINK We'll Feel the LOVE NOEO Chem I - just started More notebooking! Memory work - I think I am getting the hang of this! LOVE BUT DOESN'T GET DONE Artistic Pursuits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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