rafiki Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I know it's not popular around here, but we love LLATL. I'm also loving BFSU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daffodil Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I'm happy with everything we've used, but my favorites are RightStart Math and Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmasmommy Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Horizons Math SOTW 1 Everything else has pretty much stunk. We had a rough 1st year trying to find what worked. I've been around here since we started but hadn't actually read TWTM until a few weeks ago. It rocked my world and I'm kicking myself for not reading it earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I've been really happy with: MCT All About Spelling My own history (Guest Hollow) Lingua Latina Intermediate Language Lessons (free version from Google books) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flobee76 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Math Mammoth Spell to Write and Read Song School Latin Queen Homeschool's: A Living History of our World Language Lessons Pictures in Cursive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaniceO Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Our favorites were: CLE Math CLE Learning to Read McRuffy Language Arts 3 (although we won't be moving on to 4) AAS Galore Park Junior Science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 We have enjoyed: RSO Earth & Space TruthQuest Ancients Winston Grammar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmasmommy Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 I've been really happy with: MCT All About Spelling My own history (Guest Hollow) Lingua Latina Intermediate Language Lessons (free version from Google books) How could I have forgotten science! We did yours, Otter's Science, and really enjoyed it. The kids were not fans of dissecting the brain and heart, but those were two of my favorite things! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 For fourth: GSWL. Loved it for his brother, loving it again. And we BOTH love it-even better. Right Startmath-on level E now. I'm actually also using it to tutor an eighth grader (level C, D, and E) who is really struggling in math. It teaches understanding, which is so critical. WWE-9 yo finishing level 2 now (really struggles with writing) but definite progress For eighth: Foerster's algebra. Finishing up the year playing with Gelfand's algebra now and it too is wonderful. Singapore O-level chemistry. Excellent, problem-focused approach singapore is known for. Write Shop.Thanks to SueinStPete for recommending this to me last year. Very good for weak teachers of writing (me) and reluctant learners (ds) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakblossoms Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 http://www.hometrainingtools.com/fizz-wizard-kit/p/KT-FIZZWIZ/ I got a couple of these little kits and they were well loved. Easy to use with a ps friend who likes science, too. Delta Nutshell kits SOTW 4. Getty Dubay Italics Oak Meadow Bob Books Teaching Textbooks was the big winner. This is our first year. We have always used MUS which we were happy with. But, the kids wanted to try TT. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Apples & Pears Spelling Dancing Bears Reading Fast Track (though...we've only just begun and I should withhold my review...but I've seen some drastic improvement by page 30. I could do without the talk about beer.:001_huh:) McGuffey Readers FLL 1/2 Miquon Math A long list of living books we've enjoyed together covering history/literature and science...and the library fines to prove it.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebecca M Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 We're completing our 1st year and have been happy with: 1. WWE2 - really helped the transition from PS for my reluctant writer 2. Singapore Math 3. LOF Fractions 4. MCT Town Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIS0320 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 McRuffy Color Math K Phonics Road 1 McGuffey Readers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 How could I have forgotten science! We did yours, Otter's Science, and really enjoyed it. The kids were not fans of dissecting the brain and heart, but those were two of my favorite things! :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 CLE math and WWE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs.m Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 CLE Math, Reading & LA Saxon 76 Math OPGTR (I'm going to get history and science down next year, by golly!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Key To Geometry, Key To Algebra. Second time around with Key To... as a sequel to Miquon, and again wonderfully effective. Artes Latinae. As above. Primary Language Lessons. Perfect if you feel like you could teach English well without a curriculum, but need someone to provide writing ideas or prompts. Dd's writing advanced in leaps and bounds this year because I had something to open up and go with every day. Cathedral Reader #1; Enid Blyton's 'Noddy' books. Both pretty seriously dated, but for some reason the only things that dd3 is willing to read by herself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 (edited) Earlier in the year I really liked Write Like Hemingway and Teaching Company's Masterpieces of Short Fiction But then I moved back into familiar territory and started doing Bible unit studies again, because I just felt lost and without a center. Subjects just were not flowing together. Everything felt so piecemeal and unimportant. Students of the Word and Bedell are my core curricula. When I do math, I again went back to familiar territory and went back to Saxon and Aufmann Math. I'm loving Step Up to Writing the past couple months and have been collecting quite a few books about using picture books as mentor texts for writing examples for older students. For literature The Literary Study Bible and The Bible and It's Influence have been helpful, but what what has been most useful is books about using picture books with older students that teach the literary elements. I love, love, love streaming Netflix. I worked really hard on my handwriting. I picked D'Nealian cursive which is sometimes called Modern Cursive. Cursive First and StartWrite have been the most helpful. I've been messing around with some Waldorf arts and crafts. Edited May 5, 2011 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simka2 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 I am really surprised by how much I like Rod and Staff grammar. I really prefer "secular" materials, but this is so easy to implement and rigorous. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miracleone Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 (edited) CLE Math, FLL3 and Rod and Staff (for review), WWE, Vocabulary cartoons and SOTW (though we are just halfway in vol. 2). We didn't much activities but will do it when there's more time. Edited May 5, 2011 by miracleone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Five More Minutes Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 I love thinking about this ... Five in a Row created some of the best memories for us. Singapore Math 1 made my daughter start to love math. Miquon Math helped my youngest join our math lessons and enjoy them enormously. First Language Lessons 1 isn't flashy, but it's gentle and steady and is doing the trick without much work at all. AAS has been fun and has helped my daughter gain the confidence she wanted to write words on her own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 I wanted to add that we also loved Phonics Road-awesome program IF you don't mind watching the dvds to prep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyto4 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 1. WWE is a favourite. Both boys have done it and love it. 2. AAS -- This has been the perfect spelling programme for my first grader. He is already halfway through Level 3 and is thriving. 3. SOTW with AG -- The boys love the audio CD, maps, review questions, and activities. And recently, they are even enjoying the narrations they do for it. 4. L'art de Lire -- Great French programme! 5. Our own Science -- I've done our own thing (reading, talking, writing, projects, some experiments), and it's worked beautifully. Their science binders are wonderful! 6. MCT Grammar and Sentence Island -- Fun times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Alfred Academy Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Stuff we've loved this year: RSO Earth and Space...GREAT experiments and easy to implement MM...*I* love it...my boys tolerate it TT...*Boys* love it...I tolerate it Timez Attack...LOVE!! It has taught my boys their multiplication facts better than I could have! AAS...ds7 really likes it and is retaining what he has learned. It's fun to read with him and have him point out the phonics rules to me! HWOT Cursive...boys LOVE it! MCT...my son loves and excels with conversation style teaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 We've enjoyed and will use again next year: Math Mammoth WWE FLL SOTW+AG AAS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Apples & Pears spelling GEMS MEP and Math Mammoth (I wish MEP's lessons didn't take so long. It's the only reason we haven't stuck with it.) SL's 1st and 2nd grade readers. Their progression is logical and appropriate for my child. Ariel likes Oak Meadow because the lessons are short and they have good stories and art ideas, and she finds it easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ritsumei Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 We were doing Kindergarten. 1. The Happy Phonics/OPGTR combo. Both leave something to be desired alone, however together they are wonderful! 2. Math Expressions. Very hands-on, great use of manipulatives, great set-up for later work in arithmetic & even algebra & geometry. 3. Nature Study. Not a curriculum, I know. But it worked so well for us. We went out and looked for "cool stuff." Very low-key. But it did great things for my son's powers of observation, and he knows a surprising lot about natural stuff for a kid his age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiztrezzLyn Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Let's see, my favorites have been: Phonics Road 1, moving into PR 2 (This has been wonderful, can't even begin to explain how much I love this program) ToG Y1, moving into ToG Y2 Nancy Larson Science 1, moving into 2 and continuing in Saxon, moving from 2 to 3 in a few weeks We've also been really happy with Classical Magic (music appreciation), my 3 year old even LOVES this and knows a lot of the music. We have had such a wonderful year and very much looking forward to continuing with the above next year (new school year for us starts in July) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnointedHsMom Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 We LOVE: Heart of Dakota All About Spelling All About Reading A.C.E. Math & English Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornerstone Classical Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 MFW ECC and I thought I'd never say this...but WOW...Spelling Power! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Wizards Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 We've had a pretty good year, but our top winners are: Math Mammoth RSO Chemistry ES Intro. to Science (for my Ker) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy to monkeys Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 -Abeka phonics for my Ker (I know. . .most people here hate Abeka, but it's gotten my two readers reading waaayyy about grade level easily. . .so I love it) -CLE math (love it love it love it) -last 2 units of CLE science 2 (they're on birding and using a field guide and ds really enjoyed them) -Reading lots of living books! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 -Abeka phonics for my Ker (I know. . .most people here hate Abeka, but it's gotten my two readers reading waaayyy about grade level easily. . .so I love it) I don't hate A Beka either! I think for the primary grades it's awesome. My boys learned to read very very well with their phonics program and I love their math program, too, for younger children. As we've gotten older, I find that A Beka has some problems, but for the youngers, it's great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie in MS Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Five in a Row. :001_wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiffanyl Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 (edited) We have had one of the best years in our 15yrs of homeschooling! We will be continuing everything next year... ~ Phonics Road 1 ~ Robinson curriculum ~ Saxon math (upper levels) ~ Five in a row ~ Cursive first Edited May 5, 2011 by tiffanyl editing to add cursive first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in VA Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 We've had a great year. I like most everything we are using. Perennial favorites: Omnibus Life of Fred DIVE science VP lit choices Analytical Grammar Classical Writing New this year - wonderful: Veritas Press online classes Veritas Press self-paced course Heather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jer2911mom Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 - OPGTR - RightStart A - Memoria Press K recitation, art appreciation, music appreciation, poetry, and read-alouds - Heart of Dakota's LHFHG math activities, Thorton Burgess read-alouds, Rhymes in Motion, Memory Verse CD, and art activities - Beginning Geography by Evan-Moor - Nora Gayos readers - Merrill Readers - Explode the Code Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Twain Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 My favorites: BFSU for science Horizons math Rod and Staff English Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie in MS Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 We have had one of the best years in our 15yrs of homeschooling!We will be continuing everything next year... ~ Phonics Road 1 ~ Robinson curriculum ~ Saxon math (upper levels) ~ Five in a row Tiffany, I find it interesting that your youngest is 7 and you are gonna do FIAR next year. My dd is nearing 6 yo and we have no plans to stop with FIAR anytime soon. Seems the common trend here is to move on after K. I just see so much in there that is so rich that I want to keep using it for dd, and she loves it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooketopia Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 (edited) FLL & WWE...I had resisted these until I came up to needing to make a decision and a friend was getting rid of hers, so I took them. My daughter is doing wonderfully with these programs! (I didn't want to be a WTM "blind follower"...that's why I resisted at first.) SOTW Activity Guide is probably the most favorite book in my house. I have to hide it so DD won't read ahead and ruin the surprise of what we're going to do next. Real Science 4 Kids (Pre-Level) has been working very well for us, despite me not really liking it. I'm going to try REAL Science Odyssey next year, just because I think I'm going to like it better. Usborne Art Treasury. My 4yo can usually now be found at the table, having hauled out all the materials to re-create whatever project we did in the past week. My girls have loved the art projects. Technically, Saxon Math 1, ZB Handwriting & Spelling Workout are working for us...but no one is very excited about them. I keep pushing ahead with Saxon because I think it's great, and my DD seems to finally be getting on-board with it. She didn't struggle with it, but she doesn't like to re-visit topics that she deems "learned." Her retention is relatively OK, but it's math...you need to practice it and get. it. down. cold. She doesn't really like that, and I understand it completely because I was the same way when I was younger...but I needed that extra practice, so I'm going to do for her what wasn't done for me! :) "It's for your own good, my sweet girl!" ZB Handwriting...it's penmanship practice and it gets the job done. DD hates penmanship, so this just works as well as anything else. Spelling Workout...I may research other options, as I just have a feeling that this isn't the best possible option for us...something seems to be "missing." Edited May 5, 2011 by MrsBrooke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 I can't imagine having school without OPGTR- keeps me sane CLE LA - magically corresponds with OPGTR Abeka Math- just right for ds Elemental and RSO Science- keeps science fun TOG History Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Elementary Greek (we're on our 2nd year with this) Mystery of History Apologia General Science All three of these were for my middle dd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyoflearning Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Wow, these were so great that I had to start taking notes! We started some things in August and switched to others after Christmas Our favorites: Heart of Dakota-LHFHG- A great way to give a good overview of History before delving into TOG. I also love their Lit. I love that it's open and go. Rightstart A- Recently started and so far we enjoy it. Happy Handwriting! A great program that is not heard about often enough. It has tremendously improved my four year olds handwriting allowing her to learn to write letters correctly in a way that would not be too frustrating. It also has some phonics and sign language for each letter. How to report on Books K: We talk about the exercise on the page and I check as many of the books as I can that are listed from the library each week and my daughter seems to love the selections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Things both ds and I love: Delta Nutshell Kits- did a bunch of earth science ones Lively Latin Singapore Math, especially the IP and CWP books HWT Cursive SOTW Things I like that he doesn't so much but they are working great for him :) WWE Poem memorization on our own Things that have been fine, but we might switch next year. FLL SWO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissKNG Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 We are very forunate that everything in my signature was a hit! Namely: Singapore Primary Math Noeo Chemistry BJU Bible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorningGlory Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 CLE Math. It has been the solution to my younger son's math problems. He HAS to have review. And more review. And even more review. I am so glad that I learned about this program on this board! We also love BJU's middle school sciences. Jetta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie in Oh Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 CLE Math, LA, and Reading have been a huge hit here. Two of my kids have done CLE Social Studies, Grade 4 World Geography and Grade 6 Latin American Geography and Culture. These are AMAZING courses and they have learned tons. You should hear my dd 11 talk about Bolivia and Peru like she's been there. I wouldn't use their whole SS series, but these courses are keepers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyM25 Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 We are in our first year of K and we didnt use anything that I love (it worked but it wasnt loved). We are changing everything for next year and I hope I can post on here about the things we loved for the year! Its nice to see what is working for others! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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