Sunday, August 13, 2006 -
Review: Considering God's Creation

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I was impressed by several things in this program. The price was right (cheap for what you get, in fact), you can do this with multiple grade levels (although it can get frustrating for the older ones to have to wait for the younger ones to finish up), and the information is really interesting.

I did find that some lessons seemed to take forever to get through, simply because they were so jam-packed with stuff to do/read/write, and sometimes I felt more like I was lecturing than teaching. I started typing up certain components of the lessons and printing them off (vocabulary words, main points, and the review questions at the end). This may have back-fired, though, in that kids tend to remember more when they have to write it out themselves.

I taught this to 3 kids, and they all had differing opinions on it. The oldest hated it. She was at the upper grade levels, 6 and 7. The middle one loved it- she's a cutting and gluing kid- and the youngest would've liked it better if his sisters wouldn't have been there!

To save money, I bought only one student book and copied it. Don't do this. It was a pain to do, and these pages are hard on ink (lots of black striping in the pages, and filled-in black pictures... doesn't copy real well anyhow). You will save yourself a LOT of aggravation by just splurging on the extra student books!!! I have 2 more children to hs, and I will probably use this again when they're in maybe grades 2 and 4.

One final thought- this program can realistically be stretched into 2 or even 3 years. We did 2 years, and then went on to something else, even though there was still one unit not done. We did Science about 2 days a week, and Social Studies 2 days, and one day of neither. This worked well for the younger ones.

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Sunday, September 17, 2006 - thanks

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In June, I was interested in "Considering God's Creation", so I looked it up on homeschoolreviews.com and bought it based on your review!! We've enjoyed it very much, it is indeed a great value! Thanks for writing your review of it!
Kathleen

Edited by kateyz on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 7:50 PM

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Monday, September 18, 2006 - You're welcome!

Posted by JeninNB

It's always nice to know that something has helped someone! Let me know how it goes as you get further into it!

-jen

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