73349 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 (edited) I was happy with most of my choices for this year. We did dump Sing a Song of Seasons not far in: DS hated the singing voice on the CD, kind of a sticking point since I can't sight-sing. However, we stuck with Spanish for Children Primer A, crawling through the first sixteen lessons in forty weeks. Now I am so, so glad to be done with that (and wish I'd bought from the beginning the program I've found for next year). I'm hoping DS will start to like Spanish after two years of... not. (La Clase Divertida was not for us either.) What about you? Is there something you or your DC will rejoice in being free of? Edited June 12, 2016 by whitehawk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 I was never so glad to see a book leave the house as when we gave away Saxon math 8/7, after using it as beginning homeschoolers simply because I did not know any better. But burning - no; every curriculum can find a home where it is appreciated. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 We stuck with Song School Spanish for 18 weeks. My kid hated it. He picked up Duolingo instead. SSS got donated to our library to go with their SSL. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthylPie Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Argh! I just bought SFC! So what did you buy to replace it? I chunked veritas history....just not a fit for my younger boys 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetpea3829 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Getting ready to ditch MUS for DD as she has hit a wall with it and I've never liked it to begin with. Also, I really like AAS, but we are on level 6 this upcoming year and....I'm not feeling it, lol. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) Song School Spanish. Went with Madrigals Magic Key to Spanish and Quizlet. Not really for young kids. Edited June 13, 2016 by StartingOver 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 Argh! I just bought SFC! So what did you buy to replace it? Descubre el Español, level C, from Santillana. It looks much more like what I was hoping for when I ordered SFC. Some people do like SFC, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luuknam Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Celery finished Toe by Toe (phonics) last week, and the thought of ceremoniously burning it did cross my mind. He started it in July 2013, worked until we hit a wall (when the words were getting way too hard for a 1st grader, as in, he didn't have a clue what most of the words meant), and then picked it up again this school year sort of starting it over, and now we're finally done. It's a book you write in (well, put a whole lot of checkmarks in), and it's been used so much that it's starting to come close to falling apart, so it's not something to sell/give away, but I'm not sure I want to actually toss/burn it - I do still have a younger kid. Younger kid doesn't seem to have as many challenges as older kid does though, so I'm not sure I even need a phonics program for him - he reads way above grade level and seems to have a decent grasp of phonics (his cornea got scratched half a year ago and he read the word 'ophthalmology' just fine when we were at the hospital for the follow-up, so I think we're good). Burning it probably just weirds me out a little, like it might cause the learning to go up in smoke with it, lol. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emba Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Math Mammoth - actually, as soon as we finished up the year's work, I did ceremoniously burn the stack of workbook pages. It was a terrible fit for DD. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) We disliked SFC A, too. It didn't give us enough practice and threw too much at us at once. But, it has some good grammar in there. Dd could have used it for review after high school Spanish 1. Didn't burn it. Want to burn 100 Easy Lessons, but last kid insists I can't. I used it with all 5 and it has fallen apart. It certainly took more than 100 lessons and most weren't easy. I just wanted to burn it to celebrate, but I didn't. I have only hated MegaWords and the A Child's Geography book that I used as part of earth science. Edited June 13, 2016 by RootAnn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Rosetta Stone Spanish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolamum Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 We had a LA curriculum that was like that this year. We dropped it after the first 10 weeks because seriously if I'd found one more error in it.. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetpea3829 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 I still have my LLATL levels.... The temptation is real.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 My DS would have gladly burned Saxon 7/6 if it hadn't belonged to a friend and we were just borrowing it. Apologia swimming creatures on our very 1st day of hs'ing went on the toss pile after the very 1st lesson (it sounds soooooo different when read aloud than when reading it in your head on the screen!), but it has too high of a resale value to burn lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemongoose Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 The Latin road...i love the phonics road. Hated the Latin road. Fortunately, I borrowed it, so I got to return it to its owner rather than burn it 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdventuresinHomeschooling Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Nothing to burn. We were pretty successful with our choices this year and tend to drop the ones that are not good fits. The only thing that really flopped here was FLL and swimming lessons at the Y. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaquitita Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 My kids would probably burn climbing to good Englsh if I let them. Lol. I wish it worked for them because I like it, it's easy to use. Some days I want to stop driving myself crazy trying to piecemeal together a perfect-for-us CM LA plan and just use CtGE again. At least it got done and I knew everything was covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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