SnowWhite Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: WinterPromise LA1 God Made Music 1 WinterPromise Animals and Their Worlds Pentime Handwriting About Three Workbooks Losers: Modern Curriculum Press Math (we're switching to BJU) I Can Do All Things Art (this might have been good if we had the DVDs). Promising to be a winner after two weeks: WinterPromise I'm Ready to Learn Preschool R&S ABC preschool workbooks Jury is out: Galloping the Globe... I think ds will love it, but I'm not sure I'm up to the constant library trips and figuring out our schedule. Good thing I'm only using it as a supplement! Have in my closet and can't wait to start: WinterPromise American Story 1 World Around Me science from WP Bob Jones University Math 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest teresacooks Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 winners: Lively Latin, MUS, FLL3, SOTW, Kitchen Chemistry Losers: nobody really loved Spelling Workout,Rosetta Stone French,Michael Clay Thompson grammar island (this was disapointing because I thought it was sooo beautiful. It still is, it just wasn't enough explanation for my kid) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: Student of the Word Singapore Math Books on tape from the library Language Lessons For the Elementary Child Handwriting Without Tears Mighty Works Of God: Self-Government Losers: Balancing The Sword Real Science 4 Kids: Pre-level 1 Chemistry Apologia: Exploring God's Creation with Botany:glare: best intentions, Geo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Testimony Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: Singapore Math 4A &B Story of the World Volume 4 Ambleside Online Random-McNally Beginner Geography for 1st and 2nd grade 50 Famous Stories A Beka Readers Losers: Adventures in Phonics Singapore 1B First Favorites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deece in MN Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 New Winners: Vocabulary Vine Life of Fred Sonlight Core 5 VideoText Algebra Poetry Primer All About Spelling OK: Sonlight Science 6 Fallacy Detective (kids like it, still not my fav. for logic, but it is ok as a base to start from) Grammar Ace No real losers. We dropped some things for a bit, but have picked them back up and are doing ok. We did start with Trisms and dropped that for SL 5. My dc like a little more structure than Trisms offers, but I still love the idea behind the program. Continued Favorites: Analytical Grammar IEW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweed Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Favorites: SOTW 3 FLL 3 Artistic Pursuits Rand McNally Geography & Map Activities Losers: Memoria Press D'Aulaires' Greek Myths Workbook R&S Health R&S Social Studies R&S Patterns of Nature The losers are perfectly acceptable programs, but we really didn't have the time to do them justice nor did the children enjoy them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewday Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Is this the one with readers called: Fun in the Sun, Scamp and Tramp, Soft and White, At the Farm, Sounds of the Sea, (and I think there's one more!)? We use these readers and LOVE them!!! They've been out of print for awhile (which is why I usually don't mention them), but I'm not sure if Children's Books ever got the rights to start printing them again or not. I never had the whole program - just the readers. YES! Oh you should get the program if you can (or need). It is so good.:) Children's Books has had quite a time of it with this curriculum and getting the rights to it. Last I heard (several months back) they were printing them again. I bought 2 sets after my first dd went through it 5 years ago. I planned to copy the worksheets if the program went out of print altogether (having asked them about it first). It's so well put together and builds such a strong foundation in reading!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jejily Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 ... Losers: Balancing The Sword Real Science 4 Kids: Pre-level 1 Chemistry Apologia: Exploring God's Creation with Botany:glare: ... I've been considering this curriculum, based on so many rave reviews. But, I'd really be interested in knowing why it didn't work for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoyinWI Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: Rainbow Science Natural Speller Video Text Algebra Solid programs but didn't fit our family: CLE LA TOG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brindee Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 DS, Grade 8 Winners TT Algebra 1 Rod & Staff English ("English is my favorite class now!") Typing Instructor Deluxe Neutral All American History Apologia Biology Hey Andrew Teach Me Some Greek! DD, Grade 5 Winners Christian Kids Explore Chemistry ("I LOVE this book! I want to be a Chemist now!") R&S English ("I GET this now!" said with a big grin :D ) Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Spectrum Geography Visual Link Spanish "Getting Started in Signing" for ASL Piano Lessons (Got a new teacher that she loves, and on her own went from practicing 30 minutes a day to practicing 1 hour a day! Gotta love that! :D ) Neutral All American History TT Pre Algebra The only Loser we had was English From the Roots Up because we just couldn't get around to getting going with it. I'm sure it's a good program, I just needed something more laid out to keep me on track. In the past a big Loser, though I wanted to like it, was Saxon Math. It just never fit our family. Also A Beka Math we LOVED through 2nd grade, liked in 3rd grade and disliked after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle T Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: SOTW Jump In! writing Key to Fractions Apples and Pears spelling Okay, not great: special ed text for science special ed text for math Losers: any sort of hands-on activity for any subject lapbooks guitar lessons art classes Michelle T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie in AR Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: ABeCeDarian (levels B and C, and the spelling patterns book that accompanies C) Classical Writing (Aesop, Homer, and Diogenes) Singapore Math; NEM Henle Latin (for 7th graders) Latin Prep (for 5th grader) Singapore Interactive Science (for 7th graders) I want to say TOG but we were a little lax with it this year; we're going to do better next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeinfl Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners Bible Study Guide student pages(definitely using this again next year, my son has learned and retained so much) SOTW 1-definitely using next level Tatras -will continue using next year Let's Read, A Linguistic Approach-will probably finish this summer Rod and Staff Math 1 -will go on to next level Megawords-will definitely continue with next levels for non-spelling son:) Just okay Sequential Spelling Abeka science and history (first grade) Living Learning Books This is our ninth year and every year I get better at choosing things that will work for us and actually finishing what we started unless it's sheer torture, but so far, so good. :tongue_smilie: Fun! Dee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: Daily memory pages (reviewing poetry, math facts, Latin, grammar) Phonics Pathways (it's working great for the 4th time) FLL3 IEW's Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization Singapore Math (although it's getting hard for me!!) Logic Maths (from Singapore) Did the Job: SOTW1/History Odyssey Combo Latin for Children B Noeo Chemistry II Miquon No real losers this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewday Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 LOSERS Literature: SL6 historical fiction readers for the ancients (*I* liked these, but apparently these were too young in reading level, or too much ancients for our boys, and many did not get read) This is what I'm using for literature next year to correspond with SOTW2. I'm not planning to use all the books though. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Dawn, I'm sure SL6 books will work great with your younger aged children. : ) My boys are at that picky teenage stage. (lol) -- Lori Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Hey Michelle! Glad Jump In has been working for you! I know you were really torn about using it or not. : ) Warmest regards, Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Laurie Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: Sonlight core 6 Sonlight grade 2 readers- there is something about a schedule for my ds7, he'll read it happily if the schedule says to. :D MUS ETC GtG SL Core K and Core 1 read alouds Losers: FLL- it drives me NUTS, ds got very impatient with it too SL LA- it is just not logical or clear Rosetta Stone Spanish- He wasn't learning anything Just so-so: Horizons math. They can do it themselves, so it frees me up, but I don't think they were really learning anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosaicmind Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: DS/13 Saxon 8/7 Apologia General Science Jensen's Grammar DS/8 Horizons Math 2 Explode the Code 4,5,&6 Sonlight Core C Spelling Workout B DS/6 Horizons Math K Explode the Code A,B,&C Sonlight Core C Reason for Handwriting Losers/or didn't work for us: Wordly Wise 3000 book 4 Introductory Logic (must be my son, because oldest loved it) Sonlight Science K (not enought meat for my boys) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila in OK Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: - Sonlight Core 2 (esp. for 4th grader; not so much for 1st grader) - Math U See - Learning Language Arts Through Literature (after a rough start, ended up liking it) - Handwriting without Tears (this is an old favorite!) Losers: - whatever I tried for science this year--sigh. - How to Teach Art to Children--I like this, but couldn't work it in :/ I think that's about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: Hooked on Phonics Horizons Math Hey Andrew Greek Level 1 Losers: Saxon Math 1 Alpha Omega Lifepacs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: LP (really anything from GP), Lively Latin, NEM1 (even though we are struggling to finish), GWG, and history extras (Susan Strauss Art's bks, Oxford & GP), Lightning Lit Middle Ages (challenging), and CW Homer A Losers: HO Acients & Middle Ages (both levels 1 & 2) just skipped around to much for us. SL 6 readers.. dd12 found many of them too easy or too boring. :bored: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbjmeyer Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 winners: real science 4 kids chemistry road and staff english 6 mindbenders Truthquest AHYS 3 and SOTW 4 losers: I started the year with Switched-On Schoolhouse 5th grade; it was not a good investment! We switched back to the above list after 2 months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest momsfamily4 Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Winners: DD, age 10 R & S English ( We just love this program!!!) Math U See ( Been with this from the beginning!!!) Apples Spelling ( Has been a real answer to prayer!!!) DS, Age 6 Reading Made Easy Math U See Loosers DD, Age 10 Spelling Power ( I KNOW! I KNOW! This is very popular but it didn't work with DD.) Mystery of History ( We tried and just was not a good fit for our family.) DS, age 6 Phonics Pathways ( Love this program. Used it with DD but was not a good fit with DS.) Thanks for starting this thread. I have enjoyed reading the responses. Brenda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabrina Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 winners: IEW, Saxon (always!), Rod & Staff losers: Shurley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabrina Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 What is Apples Spelling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 I learned a lot about my #2 student this year ;) Winners: BJU math Singapore CWP StartWrite SOTW audio FIAR - in a co-op R&S spelling 3 Losers: Horizons math RS math MUS Beta Singapore math teacher and student book HWT Getty-Dubay italic FLL 1&2 R&S spelling 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna T. Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Losers: The Mystery of History (relegated to supplemental material) Biblioplan (I like BP but dropped it when I stopped MOH - I was mainly using it to make MOH more interesting) Growing with Grammar Sonlight Science 3 (I really, really like SL science and have used other levels successfully but this became tedious and my son was begging for chemistry rather than so much biology. He loves to read so this was relegated to free reading rather than "school".) Winners: WinterPromise's Animals and their Worlds (we didn't really use this the WP way because my son was very independent with the material. He loved it though.) Handwriting Without Tears (been using this long-term, love it) MathUSee (ditto) KISS Grammar (this is new for us and I love it - it's just what I think grammar should be) Ambleside Online (exactly what I was looking for!) Sonlight Readers and Read Alouds (these are always a hit) Adventures in Atoms and Molecules (we have had alot of fun with this) Phonics Pathways English from the Roots Up I am most happy about finding AO and KISS Grammar. Both of these have made my life significantly easier, and my son has responded very favorably to both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrsjones Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Winners: rightstart math fll hwot sotw so-so: noeo chemistry 1 ~ ds enjoyed it for the most part, but their schedule was so sssllllooooowwww. Every book just seemed so much more drawn out than it needed to be. I ended up ditching their schedule and making up my own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Winners:Losers: Developing Critical Thinking Through Science Would you tell me what you didn't like? I have looked at it briefly and it seemed interesting... Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anewday Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Dawn, I'm sure SL6 books will work great with your younger aged children. : ) My boys are at that picky teenage stage. (lol) -- Lori It'll be a big change for us - my dd has done Rod and Staff Bible/Reading since grade 1. So not only are we shifting into literature now, it's all from one era and she'll be doing much more narration. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmamainva Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Would you tell me what you didn't like? I have looked at it briefly and it seemed interesting...Thanks It probably would've been fine with younger students, but my boys were bored to tears. It was very scripted .. sort of the way Saxon Math is. And the questions were wayyy too simple for my boys (3rd & 8th grade, btw). So even though the grades listed on the curriculum matched, it just wasn't a good fit. It probably would've worked well in 1st or 2nd grade...no higher than 3rd grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paula j Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 For ds' 7th grade year Winners Sonlight core 4, excellent books in this core. Wordly Wise Spelling Workout Key to Percents Civil War Lapbook from live and learn press Great Civil War projects You Can Build Yourself and other books in this series Losers Saxon 7/6, especially the Dive cd sonlight LA 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Heather Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 WINNERS: Lively Latin IEW history-based lessons Horizons Math Singapore Math Fifty Famous Stories Retold LOSERS: Spelling Workout LC1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kRenee Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Winners every year: Singapore math Singapore Word problems Horizons math (heavily edited) Shurley Grammar (heavily edited) IEW writing For this year: Figuratively Speaking-intro to lit terms Elements: Intro to Chemistry by McHenry Across the Centuries - medieval history text Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BizyPenguin Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Winners: *CLE math *CLE Lang Arts *Star-Spangled State book and workbook *free Reading instead of a reading program Pretty Good: *ABeka Science *Bob Jones Writing Losers: *Jump In (Good program, just not a good fit for my ds) *Bob Jones Reading (what a drag...esp the workbook pages. Blah!!) *Hold That Thought Devotional & History Notebooking CD-Roms (Great stuff, just didn't fit it in...Will try using again in the fall) *How to Teach Art to Children (Good program, just couldn't seem to fit it in often) Planning to try Writing Strands over the summer just to satisfy my curiosity. If we don't like it, we'll stick with Bob Jones Writing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Winners: RightStart Math Real Science 4 Kids--Chemistry Pre-Level 1 Vocabu-Lit FLL OPGTR A Reason for Handwriting--Cursive Losers: WRTR HWOT--cursive KISS Grammar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mesa Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Winners: Apologia Astronomy Math u See (Gamma) Horizons math 2&3 SOTW Time 4 Learning FLashmaster So so: Abeka Language Losers: Shurley English 2 Alpha Omega Lifepacks Math and Language (3rd grade) Abeka Spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia in WA Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 OK I will play too! DD12 Winners: Galore Park's Spanish, French, Greek and Latin - these have helped us along in our language study further than anything else I have done. Basic College Math - DD was excited in the beginning. Then we got to Chapter 6 and she floundered. She is back to liking it and doing well. Lightning Lit 7- she really enjoys this. CW Poetry - love it now that I finally got the hang of it Losers: None DS9 Winners: Latin Prep 1: He is doing this orally as all the writing was slowing him down. NEM1: He is finally getting to the challenging stuff. CW Poetry - love it now that I finally got the hang of it Loser: All About Spelling - he did not enjoy the tiles and the repetition OK: things DD12 and DS9 do together Right Start Geometry - just not enough time for it, but what we did do was pretty good. History Odyssey Ancients - I liked that it was all planned out. The kids surprisingly did enjoy the KFE and all the outlining. I wanted more depth and less jumping around. Ecce Romani - supposed to be done once a week but we run out of time and Friday is usually our catch up day. DS9 only: Reading Detective - He needs to read more fiction (prefers purely no-fiction) and this is wetting his appetite. DS7 Winners: First Language Lessons Losers: LLB Recorder - my ears can't take his practicing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyR Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 First Grade Winners: SOTW MUS Alpha/Beta Phonics Pathways OK: First Language Lessons Loser: All About Spelling (ds was an early reader so it would have been better for K or Pre-K) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIch elle Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Winners both grades: R&S English Christian Light Education reading A Child's History of Art Discovery Education (United Streaming) SOTW 3 & 4 Abraham Lincoln's World Maps, Charts, Graphs workbooks Winners gr. 8 First Year Latin, Henle A History of Us series on audio IEW U.S History Based Writing Lessons, v1 Prentice Hall Science Explorers Winners gr. 5 Christian Light Math 5 IEW SWI A McGraw Hill National Geo. Science 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildiris Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Winners grade 5: 1.Scholastic Junior News 2.SOTW vol. 4 3.Singapore Math 4.My Pals Are Here--Especially the Critical Thinking Skills Workbook 5.Great Books 6.How to Write a Story from IEW 7.Books on CD from the library--Listening to stories together has improved DD's understanding of story and given us many hours of good discussion. One of her observations, "Why do so many children's, stories no matter the setting, have a missing parent?" Things were going to change: 1.Shurley--DD finds this too boring and repetitive. 2.Kendall Hunt Patterns of Change--I like the it, but it needs to be modified for home school use. 3.Saxon Math Wildiris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all4ramseys@msn.com Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 6th Grader Winners: MUS Pre-Algebra Sonlight 6 Losers: Classical Writing (just absolutley not for us) - switching to IEW K'er Winners: Phonics Pathways MUS Primer (a bit too easy, however) Losers: ETC (he just didn't like it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merylvdm Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Always a winner Sonlight - all cores!! This year's winners Word Power Made Easy (scheduled in SL 530) - my dd (12th grade) says it is the best vocab book ever (and she has used Vocab from Classical Roots and Wordly Wise and liked them too) Musictheory.net - free online music theory exercises (used by 9th grader) Teaching Textbooks Algebra 2 (9th grader) Losers SOS Health - 9th grader - some of the things they said were ridiculous! Someone needs to write a decent Health Curriculum - this is the 2nd one we've tried and hated Abeka English Lang for 9th grade - only piece of curriculum I've ever allowed a kid to abandon ... Meryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alenee Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 DD6, DD9 Winners: SWR MUS MOH Apologia Astronomy Prima Latina Shurley English Phonics Pathways/Reading Pathways Loser: FLL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kangato3 Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Lots of winners this year! (Grades 6, 4, 1) Winners: TOG Yr 2 Redesigned Writing Aids (finally made TOG writing doable for me) Easy Grammar/Daily Grams All About Spelling (for 1st grade) BJUP Math English From the Roots Up God's Design series on Earth/Space (jazzed up with picture books and lapbooks) Themes to Remember Phonics of Drawing Karate class (not a curriculum, but a sport that all 3 dc can participate in at the same time. Woohoo!) OK: (these get the job done, they're just not glowing favorites) Spelling Workout MCP Maps, Charts, Graphs No losers this year - I'm getting better at fine tuning our curriculum! Louise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 4.My Pals Are Here--Especially the Critical Thinking Skills WorkbookIs this My Pals Are Here science? If yes, quick question: I've only seen the critical thinking books for levels 4 and 5. Are there more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Winners: 8th grade Teaching Textbooks Algebra 2 Omnibus 2 Apologia Physical Science Total Health Analytical Grammar 3rd grade-we skipped around between: FLL 3-took with us in the car for the down time between classes Just Write-Quick 5 minute lesson for crazy days Writing Tales-for days with more time Reading comprehensions guides from Veritas Press Saxon math 3 was okay but we added some homemade worksheets to add a more hands on approach instead of the typical problems. ie she would measure a room or a table instead of a line on the paper. Videos from United Streaming were a hit to break up a boring day or to add clarity to a missunderstood subject. Losers: Noeo looked great but was hard to keep up with a bunch of books. I am discovering that I often love the appeal of this style but get tired of having to track down a bunch of resources...even if we own them. This was definitely much more my fault than the curriculum's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlockOfSillies Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 I have it on my list to consider for history next year (5th, 1st, K) and I want to hear from people who DIDN'T succeed with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 and Orbiting with Logic. 5th grade losers: TWTm style biology-I'm not organized enough and we had too little time this year. First grade winners: SOTW 1, Right start math, All About Spelling (huge huge winner!) and increasing read alouds. First grade losers: None! Was a pretty good year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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