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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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Gearing Up for the New Homeschool Year

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Lawd, I’ve been dragging my feet in getting ready for this coming homeschool year. I’m fully ready now! I’ve made lots of switches trying to find things that will enrich and brighten these kiddos minds and encourage their curiosity of learning.

Our main curriculum we will be using BYL(Build Your Library) for literature, geography, science, poetry, music, art and writing. For language arts we will be using Grammar Galaxy. Also I will be combining TL(Torchlight) with BYL to expand on their writing, spelling and vocabulary. Math we will be using TGTB(The Good and The Beautiful) and alternate with WM(Wild Math) which is an outdoor based curriculum. Now for history we will continue with History Quest. We also have Fun-Schooling Journals for extra language arts, math, life skills and cooking to help break up the monotony of school. Which I believe played a part last homeschool year as to why it was so bad. Thankfully we can put that behind us and learn from it.

Super excited to dive into this year’s curriculum! To start out we are going to be learning about the world around us which has such amazing books. I can’t wait for them to arrive 😁 Anyways this will give us a good start with BYL before dive further in to different levels of BYL with a combination of TL in a few months. So I will post more as books arrive 😃 Unfortunately I need to get my butt in gear and start printing the rest 🤣