9/12/2023 0 Comments Abeka geometry![]() ![]() I will send you an email with what I think might work for you and we can discuss those, ask questions, etc. But the best part? At the end, I will put together a custom curriculum recommendation based on my experience as a homeschooled kid, homeschool mom, and the results of your course. Sometimes, like me, we need to change the way we teach because even though it comes naturally to us, it just isn’t accomplishing our goal! It will also help you learn your children’s personalities and learning styles so that you can better tailor their education to them. If you are fighting your kids everyday and feel like you are losing the battle, have you considered that it might be the way you are teaching? The books you are using? The method you are using? I have put together a 5 day course that is designed to help you identify your homeschool vision and teaching style and see if those align or not. And the more I learn about myself, the more I learn about my vision for homeschooling and what I want out of it, the more I learn about my kids and how they learn… the better I am becoming at finding curriculum that works for all of us! (yes, it is possible!). I have bought curriculum (AOP life pacs are the SAME idea, total mistake) that was a recipe for disaster. But the idea here is that in the beginning I have had to do a bit of trial and error. Yup, that was a LOT of money, we still have the readers, the rest is sitting in a locker in my basement. One thing I have learned about homeschooling is that you have to be flexible, don’t get so caught up in what you want and expect. We literally didn’t make it a month into these books before I called it. Bad from day one and it never got better. I was frustrated every day because I had to push it, make it happen, it was just bad. I wanted a learning experience that was customized to my children, and my kinesthetic learner was dying inside when it was time for aBeka. I want it to be a living education, that is relatable to them, not random facts and repetitive information that they won’t remember. I want to teach my kids through stories and games and activities, I want to do projects and learn together as a family rather than in our own little dark corner of the school room. It is boring. I must have been a little keener that wanted to play school as a child (who am I kidding, I totally was!) but for my kids, I wasn’t even motivated to pull this stuff out.There is nothing in this that teaches to an auditory learner or a hands on learner. If I wanted to mimic school I could just send my kids to school. Now that I know more about learning styles and how we learn, there are simply better ways to teach. The day I packed those up was the happiest day of his life! Even one of those books was a lot for him, add in using all of them and he was beside himself. Each one had full pages of copywork and matching and writing and grammar. For language arts alone, my son had four separate books: Letters and Sounds, Language, Spelling and Poetry, and Writing with Phonics. “School Time” was met with tears and that was before we even started! The repetition and book after book format just took all the joy out of school for them. While it worked well for me, a classic traditional homeschooler in every sense, it didn’t work for my children, who learn best in a more Charlotte Mason/ Unschooling/ Eclectic learning environment. It is designed for traditional homeschoolers.Check out these four reasons A Beka didn’t work for our family. As I was reorganizing my school books and purging what just didn’t work for us (notice the AOP Lifepacs in there as well?) I thought I’d lay it all out for you guys. I just can’t bear to throw them away but there is no one to sell them to up here. I went and purchased all the curriculum sets, determined to give it another chance and now I have books that are filled in about 2-3 weeks in and otherwise completely blank. ![]() Once when we first started (I bought their entire preschool package) and again last year. My great aunt is actually a writer and has written numerous books for A Beka, so when I say I love this curriculum, it is coming from a deep sense of nostalgia, connections, and fond memories. ![]() It was fun, I loved workbooks and it just worked with me. I would sometimes work through multiple books in a year, I loved that curriculum with every fibre of my being. I loved having my very own books and usually got started THAT DAY, no matter what. I can smell the new book smell, I loved the bright colors and the pictures and the freshness of a new year. I remember when that HUGE box would come in the mail (I had 3 siblings being homeschooled at the same time), I was always the MOST excited to open it. Nearly the entire way through my homeschooling journey, I used A Beka curriculum. I was homeschooled nearly all the way through to grade 11 (I went to high school for second term of grade 10 through to graduation). ![]()
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