If I had to choose which curriculum was my favorite, I would say Abeka hands down. I love the teachers, I love the spiral approach to the curriculum, I love everything about it. Last year, our kids really loved it. The start of this year, they really loved it. Sadly, at this point they are not loving it. The material is going too fast for them to keep up. They need more hands on work. They need more one on one. Because of that, we have been watching the Abeka videos for classes like Bible, Phonics, Combination Practice, and Activity Time (which includes things like History, Science, Health/Safety/Manners, Music, and Art). When it comes to the workbooks that go with the classes, only one of our children is still doing them. For our other kids they are all doing different work until we start our new curriculum in August.
One of our kids is using the ACE PACE curriculum, another is doing Schoolaid Math and English , and Pathway Reading. one is finishing up the Abeka books, and our other two are working on various worksheets based on their level that covers everything from science, history, math, reading comprehension, and phonics.
I am looking forward to when we start our new curriculum and everyone doing the same curriculum rather than all different.
Part of our school days starting in the fall will incorporate a lot of class learning mixed with learning how to play games with one another (things like Connect Four, Guess Who, and other simple games they can learn to play so they will be able to eventually play on their own with each other), life skills - learning how to set a table, sew on their own buttons, cooking, and other things like that.
Life is going to be changing in a big way for our family soon. We are working to finish fixing up our house so we can sell and leave the urban life. We will be buying land and starting our own homestead. Our dream is to have enough land that our kids who can not live fully independently will be able to have their own little tiny house on our property, if they want to, when they grow up. They will still come to the main house for meals (for safety) but they will have their own fridge, sink, bathroom, bedroom, and small living room where they can enjoy time on their own when they want and can learn how to take care of their own place.
Two of our girls just turned 21 and while they are not ready at this point to live in their own tiny house, one day they might be, and we want to make sure we can do that for them.
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