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www.teachingtextbooks.com has a great teaching style for math. Everything is done on cd rom (lectures, questions, grading) and these cds make teaching hands free. They do it all and the way it is explained is phenomenal. However, we found that the grades are not categorized as they should be. 4th grade would probably need 6th grade or above. Even then, you wouldn't be learning everything you needed to (in comparison to state standards in Florida). I do love the teaching style, just wish they had the grade levels equivalent with most standards. Looks like we'll be going back to Bob Jones Math this year. Handwriting Without Tears- we are still loving it! It has been such a blessing for our family and I could not recommend it enough. If you have a struggling writer, one who cries at the mere thought of picking up their pencil, this may be your solution. I would love to hear about a hands on History curriculum if anyone has used/heard of one! |
Took a leap from our usual BJU Science in search of something even more hands on for our visual learner. We ultimately decided to go with Apologia Science by Jeannie Fullbright in hopes it would offer us a that new level. One week into it I'm yelling "hooray" from the rooftops. Love, love,loving it. From first glance I was a bit nervous as the whole purpose is to immerse your student deeply into a specific subject. This isn't the light touch on this and that offered by most schools. I hoped it would not be too much for her to ingest. Her strong point has never been memorization of large words. The curriculum was SO in depth. Worries flooded my brain that it may be too much for her. I was so wrong! The explanations of the lessons are A+ and the wholesome science experiments back it up. Apologia would work well in group settings. It proves to be such an affordable book as well because there are not student books you need to purchase. www.creationsensation.com is a great site where you can purchase complete sets of all the materials you will need for experiments in each book. They even bag them by lesson! They really do include everything except the kitchen sink! So instead of the reading, worksheets, testing method we were accustomed to in science. We now learn a few pages and then notebook what we have learned (notebook pages can be printed for free at the Jeannie Fullbright site). Each book comes with a link and password. Throughout the book if it mentions a specific scientist or place (just an example) it will refer you to this site where they already have an info sheet and pictures waiting for you on the topic so that you may delve deeper. There are many choices for Aplogia including, Botany, Zoology I, Zoology II, Zoology, III, Astronomy, etc. I am seeing that my daughter is retaining so much more than she ever has in Science before. Better yet, she's not memorizing. She is UNDERSTANDING. Comments
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