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Curriculum Fails for 2022-2023 homeschool year

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Well I’m not really sure I can call them fails, but more of they just didn’t work out for my kiddos.

Minecraft Math with Fun-school Journals

This one simply didn’t work out do to how long I had to divide game time in order for each kiddo to have a turn. Then while the others waited I tried to work on something else.

Unfortunately, my main focus was when they could have their game time. So this just was more of a distraction then anything else. Maybe it would work if you only have one kiddo instead of four.

Wild Math

While I loved the concept and thought it would be wonderful to try. It was hard to implement especially to four kiddos with various forms of learning disabilities and ADHD. It just wasn’t a good fit for them.

The Good and The Beautiful Math

Beautiful and well structured. We used it for the first half of the year before it was get way to advanced for their ability. I was going to just drop them a level and then start again this coming year. It unfortunately didn’t go as planned. So I had to try something different…

Grammar Galaxy

While it was a hit and works for my eldest, it fell flat with my other three. They loved the story, but the work was too confusing for them.

I hated to have to change and find something so late in the year, but I rather have them understand what they are doing then having them confused. So off researching I went…

Plain and not so plain

It should be called plain and simple! Lightly structured and easy to use. There was only two down falls I can say with this curriculum.

One is that it’s a loop curriculum that doesn’t focus on one thing before mastery. Which is fine if your kiddos learn better that way. Unfortunately, mine don’t so…

The other issue is as it progresses through especially in the upper grades, if you don’t know your language arts or math terminology it’s going to give you a headache 😅 No, seriously you just need to make sure you brush up with a YouTube video or something in order to help your kiddos understand the material.

Overall it was great in a pinch, but we will be changing for the upcoming year.

Curriculum wins will be coming up in a future post. So stay tuned…

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Curriculum Nightmare!

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Curriculum nightmare! Have you ever looked at how much curriculum is out there? It’s even harder to sift through to find a secular curriculum.

Thought I had everything figured out 😂 Wrong! Have to make a few changes since certain curriculum doesn’t coincide with the main curriculum I will be teaching 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ Certain curriculum picks were either to advanced or I had already covered it this year. So it’s been back to the drawing board 😩

I’m still sticking with BYL(Build Your Library) and some Fun-schooling Journals (some additional outdoor and extra curricular curriculum). I’m not going to do the TGTB(The Good and The Beautiful) for math or language arts (at least not right now) 😩 What I will be doing is adding TL(Torchlight) and Beowulf Grammar (not completely sure on the Beowulf Grammar or use something else) to expand on their language arts for spelling and grammar. So far I’m excited with my picks and so are the kiddos!

As for math, I’m still planning on getting WM(Wild Math) for their outdoor curriculum. Then the kiddos told me they would like to continue with EP Math(Easy Peasy All in One Homeschool) 🙄 I on the other hand, is thinking of using IXL Math for when the weather is not cooperating. So I’m undecided there so far 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

Scooter, step-mom asked is if my teacher brain ever stops for a moment 🤣 Apparently it’s a side effect of homeschooling that my brain doesn’t shut down so.

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Curriculum so NOT working…

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How I originally started teaching my kiddos was very eclectic. A lot of Unit Studies and child lead curriculum. For the 2021-2022 school year I went the more traditional route. Which you can read about in an earlier post. It worked for the first several months, but now unfortunately has run out of steam.

We are going to change things up and start fresh.

We have decided to go with Wild Math, Fun-schooling Journals(Core Journals, Math, Language Arts and and an elective journal) and Build Your Library (BYL) along with History Quest and R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey (RSO) for our new learning material.

It’s goes along line of how I first started homeschooling them. Which is more of a Charlotte Mason/Unschooling Secular way of homeschooling I used, which was more hands-on and I myself even enjoyed it. I don’t know why I decided to change it! WHAT WAS I THINKING?!

The beginning of 2021-2022 school year I decided to go a traditional route using Easy Peasy All-In-One Homeschool as our main curriculum along with other workbooks I thought they might learn a little more with. I was right, but also wrong at the same time.

The reason for this big change is… My kiddos have recently told me the curriculum is too boring and too easy. It’s basically not a good fit. Especially if they they’re not getting any benefits from it.

So I’m doing a major overhaul of our curriculum and will be reverting back to how I started since they enjoyed(so did I) and seemed to learn better and even more that way.