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Curriculum's and Abeka
When I started homeschooling the idea of spending as much as
$500 or more per child each year was simply overwhelming.
That was about what we made a week and we had three children at
the time. I decided I’d do it myself.
After two years of worrying whether or not my daughter was
performing up to level, creating tests and writing lesson plans
I’d had enough. I decided to try a complete curriculum
package of some sort. I chose A Beka’s full year
curriculum. My brother had used A Beka as a child in a private
Christian school and I remembered he really liked the books. So
we tried it the first year that we had two homeschooling, and I
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The thing I really like
about ABeka is the way the entire school day is integrated. If you
learn about Noah’s ark in Bible then you will add animals in Math class,
you read about animals in reading, write about them in penmanship learn
about their habitat in science. By the end of the day my kids feel as if
everything was relevant. This has continued on to one level or another
throughout elementary school. My oldest will be in fifth grade this year
and she continues to look forward to the next year’s reading books. Each
lesson, each year build upon each other.
And for a homeschooling
mom the design of the curriculum is an absolute dream. Not only are
lesson plans in Abeka clearly laid out but they give you the approximate
amount of time that will be needed for each assignment which makes
homeschooling multiple grades even easier.
The reading is broken
to three levels so a homeschool parent can easily adjust to accommodate
the needs of their child. It is not at all a “cookie-cutter”
solution but rather a program that is easily customizable.
Finally, the curriculum
offers valuable homeschool helps for parents working with multiple
grades, as most homeschoolers do. It shows you how to schedule
teaching around times when another student is working on seatwork. They
lay out a plan for a 3 student household that allows the homeschooling
mom or dad a clear plan to homeschool three children and only spend
about 6 hours homeschooling. That was never possible for me when I was
trying to do it myself.
Complete Curriculums
aren’t for everyone, but for those who do desire the whole curriculum
package, personally I find that
ABeka is very homeschool
family friendly.
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