amsunshine Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 MEP math nmoira: I always appreciate your posts and especially your book selections! What is it about MEP math that you love, or that you haven't found elsewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiveOaksAcademy Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 WWE - this is really good stuff. We are in year 2 and I love it...it is easy to just get done and the results are great!! Singapore math TOG Apologia early science - we are doing Astronomy and it is great!! I've tried many different science curriculums for years, and this is our favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Persephone Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I See Sam books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bassoon Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Tapestry of Grace - I really wish I had found it when my eldest was in 6th grade; and second, I really wish I had started it when I wanted to, but was too chicken to start it!!! AAS. Really helped my struggling speller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGin Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I have two: Essentials in Writing, though I couldn't have found it much sooner as it's new in the last couple of years, and Vocabu-lit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 CLE Math Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bensmom Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 What is MCT? What do you love about AAS? We are finishing third grade and I have found many things that work well for us, but I have yet to *love* anything...I am a bit of a curriculum junkie though....always looking for new ways to make learning exciting, ya know? I like: Sonlight readers...and my Sonlight markable map :) Winter Promise hands-on learning Typing Instructor for beginning typing Nancy Larson Science for open and go, hands-on lessons Bob Jones on dvd for making English "fun" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveBaby Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 The Phonics Road to Spelling and Reading and/or The Writing Road to Reading. I really, really wish I had heard of the Spalding method in a form other than Spell to Write to Read when I first started homeschooling. It would have saved me a lot of time/trouble and reteaching with my struggling readers. Math Mammoth/Teaching Textbooks Creek Edge Press Task Cards - these weren't around until this last year, but wow!, they are amazing. We are loving the Life Science cards and are going to work through the Geography & Middle Ages cards next year. These are perfect for my independent learner and free up some of my time for my struggling reader! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeinfl Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 MUS for highschool math, and IEW!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besroma Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 MEP math and MCT language arts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbhrbooth Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Best curriculum I wish I had found earlier. . . Tapestry of Grace. We've cycled through all four years and will start our second loop in the fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschool mom Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Heart of Dakota! At an Intro to Homeschooling conference a few years ago, the homeschool co-op leader told us "If you are unorganized, buy organization in your curriculum." HOD is very well organized.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 (edited) Climbing to Good English, especially the handwritten letter, and handwritten composition lessons, and the reference handbooks in the back of the 5-8 workbooks. Writing Road to Reading's HANDWRITING instructions. I recently felt pressured into making another short and unsuccessful attempt at a font that has a computer version and in just days it was right back to Spalding. McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, Word List and audios, especially the Word List. There is NEVER a word in ANY lesson that is not first TAUGHT in the word list. So the readers can be effectively used for copy work and dictation, like no other resource I have ever seen. Draw Write Now 7 and 8, and The Core geography Augsburg Drawing crayon "paintings" and Stockmar Beeswax crayons Rod and Staff's Timeline with Great Adventure Bible Timeline. They are the same scale and I taped GABT directly under R&S. One of my students actually gaped at the timeline, because it made so much sense to her. Unfortunately the GABT timeline is two sided so you have to buy two copies to display the whole thing at once. I'm in the midst of trying other new things and have to wait longer to comment. I have other things I am very content with, but...am not married to. It's VERY early yet, BUT...the $1.00 red Scholastic Literature guides... :-0 I REALLY think are a keeper. It's the reading comprehension strategies included in each lesson, that over lap again and again, throughout all 19 guides that has really caught my attention. The guides are cheap enough, that I can just use that one lesson feature and skip the rest of the guides without feeling guilty. I see someone else's post about Professor B and I wonder what I will think about it a year from now. Edited May 25, 2012 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Spelling Power. Kiddo is writing without being asked to because he doesn't have to constantly ask me how something is spelled. Ahhhhhhhhh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer in FL Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Shurley English Should have switched years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmomjacquie Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Aas Bju math Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolamum Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Winter Promise Sonlight Sequential Spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 We've really enjoyed Mapping the World with Art this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugsMama Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 For us it was All About Spelling, Phonics Pathways and Saxton k-3 math. We LOVE them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandty Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Spelling Power! It took a couple of years to find the perfect spelling program for my struggling speller and I found it a few months ago. Already seeing a difference and he doesn't complain about using it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rene' Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 The Robinson Curriculum. This past year has been our absolute best! I was aware of it years and years ago but I didn't understand what it really was about. I wish I had looked into it when I first heard about it. Included in that is Saxon math, which is what Dr. Robinson recommends to use as part of the curriculum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girl Power Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 For me, it's the vintage language arts books. Primary Language Lessons for my youngers and Primary Lessons in Language and Composition (free on google books) for my older. After years of trying to implement the latest and greatest, I forgot the power of the basics, dictation and narration. I also use their dictation for spelling, singling out one pattern or rule in their writing. The latter book also has wonderful daily writing lessons. Like everyone, writing is the area I second guess the most, but relaxing and just having them write something everyday is how I've seen the most growth this year. An example of a daily writing lesson from PLLC: Write a letter from the following outline: Miss Edith Campbell, having gone with her parents to the Catskills Mountains, NY, tp spend the summer, writes her friend . . . to tell her of the following matters: Her journey The height of the mountains The streams running down the mountain side The walks and the drives A wish that her friend were with her Writing like this gives us the opportunity to hone in on such writing skills like using descriptive words, strong verbs, really anything. It's so enjoyable and I love the quaintness of the verbiage. So bottom line for me, trying to do more with less :001_smile: B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcelmer Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 TOG Spell to Write and Read (at last! My son can spell!) Apologia YE series Shurley English (yes it is a lot of time w/ teacher, BUT, I wish we had done the writing portion from day 1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almondbutterandjelly Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Maps Charts Graphs BJU Heritage Studies Evan Moor Literature Pockets All software by Critical Thinking Company Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Hisglory Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 MFW Kindergarten (I have used this with only one child and wished I'd known about it for the other two, such an enjoyable year.) Phonetic Zoo Times Tales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefragile7393 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Math Lessons For A Living Education. I wish so much I had started my son off in this instead of Singapore Earlybird...I am glad I found it as a good replacement! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Building Up Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Sonlight History and Science Handwriting Without Tears All About Spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kengjw Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Nancy Larson Science!! This is the first year we actually finished science and we have been homeschooling for 4 years going into 5. It is the first subject being finished this year and the kids and I still remember so many of the things we learnt from it. Today, my 6 year old son told me, "mom, look at that moth. I saw the feathery antennae and the plump body. That is how I know it's a moth." He also started to use the word "exoskeleton" correctly. We have all enjoyed science this year thanks to Nancy Larson :0) Julia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovaline Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 CLE Math!! It is the only thing I am absolutely sure about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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