This is my review of T's 2nd grade year:

He is doing Bob Jones Bible on DVD. Neither of us is impressed. I think because he knows the Bible stories inside out and it seems repetitive to him. I am debating cutting this out, but I want something to replace it. So for now we'll continue with it.

He is using Abeka math, for which I always give a huge thumbs up. It is so thorough and I love the spiral approach. This means they don't work on one concept over and over until they get it, then move on to a new concept without every seeing the first concept again. They actually get plenty of review of an "old" concept while continuing to learn new ones. Some people don't like this but it works for our family very well. His math is divided into themes. We are still on the first theme which is "pond". It's really cute because the story problems are about ducks or frogs, etc. We did a graph this morning and it told us the number of 3 types of animals living in the pond. He will go through 5 more themes by the time the year is out.

We are using Abeka for phonics and reading. We are actually about 1/2 a year behind because of our struggles last year with reading. I love the Abeka readers and he does too! He is reading Fun With Pets right now. The phonics worksheets are good too, plus he is learning about rhyming and reviewing opposites. We are not doing any spelling because I think we need to get a good handle on reading before tackling that.

He uses Bob Jones DVD for history and we really like it. He will do this until Christmas and then switch over to their science. Each is designed for half a year. Although we like it, I probably won't use it again. T responds better to hands-on teaching in these 2 subjects. I am considering using MFW  (My Father's world) next year for T and K together. I love the idea of teaching 2 children at once, at least for Bible, History and Science.

T is also doing Abeka Art on Fridays. He enjoys that and the books are really fun! Oh and he does Abeka handwriting everyday. But his favorite time of the school day is when he can "sneak" outside and work on his fort he has been building for a couple of months. It's hard to get him to come back in for boring schoolwork (his words, not mine!)

K is doing Abeka K4 program and loving it! We are moving super fast through the numbers part. It teaches basic counting 1-10 and she can already count much farther than that. I skip all the lessons but she still does the worksheets. She loves worksheets, so she doesn't really see how "babyish" this is for her. We are moving normal pace through the phonics part. We are working on the sounds of the short vowels and she is doing very well remembering them. She begs for more! Hubby and I decided if she completes K4 by Christmas, then we'll order the kindergarten for her. She'll be 5 in December and sometimes I wonder if we should have just started with the kindergarten. Oh well! She also works on the Rod and Staff preschool books each day on her own. She's only allowed to do 4 pages per day because otherwise she would do a book per day! She also does Abeka art on Fridays and I have to limit her or she'd do a project per day.

So we're plugging along rather nicely and enjoying the journey. We have a busy time starting next week and going through November so there will be some stops and starts. But that's okay. The children enjoy the stops and I enjoy the starts.