domestic_engineer Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 If you child does not like or does not need a great deal of repetition to learn things, what curriculum do you enjoy using? We enjoy Rightstart Math and MCT, but what else is out there? I'm curious for any subject, any grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisha Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Beast Academy for Math (grades 3-5) Trail Guide World & US for Geography (more of an atlas scavenger hunt) Everything else I've had to tweak-meaning cross out a lot of questions. So, I'm curious to know what else there is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Ellen McHenry science units BFSU Lots and lots of library books instead of curriculum 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 AOPS and Life of Fred for pre-Algebra and up 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domestic_engineer Posted March 29, 2016 Author Share Posted March 29, 2016 I love the brevity of everyone's answers; it's so appropriate for the topic! :D 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinyhappypeople Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Moving Beyond the Page 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janeway Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Singapore Math (I use the US Edition) does not have repetition really. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targhee Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 Beast Academy/AoPS GSWL (followed by Latin Prep) MBtP SOTW (unless you do review questions, and narrations, and quizzes/tests, and activities - we just listen to the audiobook and do the map work) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 The Galore Park books assume bright and engaged students who pick things up quickly. The English books, for example, touch lightly on grammar and spelling, but assume that either the kids will absorb a lot through reading, or the teacher will add in extra drill. This is a sample of one of the English books for 7yo: http://www.galorepark.co.uk/getmedia/cce89f36-c313-4da4-805b-cb44b124abfa/Junior-English-Book-1-sample-pages.aspx 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Day Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 FLL and WWE have been just the ticket for my bright-but-impatient eldest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 FLL and WWE have been just the ticket for my bright-but-impatient eldest. Did you have to tweak FLL, though? My dc are fairly patient about repetition of things they know, but a fair number of those FLL lessons we skipped after a "do you remember the definition of a ____?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targhee Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 FLL and WWE have been just the ticket for my bright-but-impatient eldest. For my kids these were incredibly repetitive - slow and repetitive. I know this is subjective, but my kids were ready to poke their eyes out any time I brought out WWE. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deerforest Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 For my kids these were incredibly repetitive - slow and repetitive. I know this is subjective, but my kids were ready to poke their eyes out any time I brought out WWE. Same here. Honestly, we found that to be true with most curricula developed specifically for homeschoolers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justasque Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Miquon Singapore McDougal Littell (Math 1, 2, 3, Pre-Algebra, Algebra I) Jacobs Geometry Hakim - HIstory of US (Nice teacher guides, nice audio) Spelling Workout (if a child is a reasonably natural speller) Explode the Code (for kids who are workbook-y) Prentice Hall Science Explorer Ellen McHenry's science TOPS science Quality modern non-fiction from the library; typically we chose a variety of books at different levels on the same or similar topics, to read and discuss. Quality fiction - classics and more modern works - from the library, as books or audio, to read together or to ones' self, or to listen to in the car, with discussion arising naturally through the process. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cake and Pi Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Add to the above Mystery Science. My kid who doesn't want/need much repetition actually likes FLL2 (and 1 before) because of the verbal nature of the lesson. I tweak it a lot though, so that he's not saying the same definitions over and over and over. That condenses the program quite a bit, so we will have finished 1 and 2 in about 6 months. Haven't seen level 3 yet, so not sure how that will go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Day Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 Yes, they are repetitive but they take very little time so they've been good in 2 ways. He hasn't had time to drift off to another inner world...........but he has had to develop some tolerance and self-discipline. A bit of this and a bit of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domestic_engineer Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 Yes, they are repetitive but they take very little time so they've been good in 2 ways. He hasn't had time to drift off to another inner world...........but he has had to develop some tolerance and self-discipline. A bit of this and a bit of that! So --- how long does a FLL lesson take you? I tried it briefly at the very beginning and never stuck with it because the repetition was enough to make ME poke my eyes out. Additionally, I see from your siggy that you do AAS; do you do all the review built in there too? Does the repetition set up battles between you and DC? (I think it would for our family.) If so, how do you deal with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Day Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 FLL1 takes 1-5 minutes for us. FLL3 takes 10 minutes. We do AAS with all the repetition, yes. It takes another 10 minutes regardless of level. We do that 3 times a week, year round and are steadily getting ahead of ourselves. As to the battles, I am really strict with behaviour in school time. I always qualify it with "concentrate right now and school takes very little time. Then we can go to the beach, meet with your pals etc etc etc.....". The consequence of lack of concentration is having to do more work on their own in the evening. So, you see my plan? Use lack of desire for repetition in your own favour. Ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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