Favorite products?

Question

We are nearing the end of our homeschooling experience because the children are grown. I have a list of favorite products. What are yours?

We loved--

Saxon math

Key to Math series

Hewitt unit studies-

Training Wheels

Across America

A Bee Sees

Prairie Primer

Abeka Health Safety Manners K-3

Abeka Social Studies K-3

Italic Handwriting

100 Easy Lessons

The Body Book

Rummy Roots

Pathway Readers-- all of them

The Millers series--

Wisdom and the Millers

Prudence and the Millers

Missionary Stories and the Millers (favorite)

Pearables Home-Ec books

Doorposts-- all of them but especially

Polished Cornerstones

Tons of other things.

What are your favorite products?

Answer 1

K'nex, sidewalk chalk, and a good ammount of colored string with a peg board saved my life durring the first year of Algebra, and 10th grade Geometry. I loved using the K'nex to build models to illustrate geometry concepts and proofs. We did a game once where we labled several bins with the different types of quadralaterals, and I used the K'nex to build models of as many of a certain type as I could think of and put it in the appropriate box. Did something similar with triangles to illustrate how only certain angle combinations can make up a triangle. The chalk and string was great when learning about Pi, and all the formulas for finding area, circomfrence, radii, arcs, and everything else having to do with circles. The chalk was great for Algebra too because I could graph things really big on the driveway, and I really do learn best when I'm out moving about. I learned about slope by turning the driveway into one huge piece of graphing paper once and playinig a game where a few friends and I were points on the grid. It was a bit complicated, but it was similar to an advanced math version of Simon Says. I used the string and peg board to really get a grasp of slope and linear equations as well.

Answer 2

We've used A Beka since the beginning.  The only thing we've changed was the handwriting/penmanship books. We use BJU handwriting.  It's much simpler than traditional script.  I don't see the sense in making a child learn complicated penmanship if they're not going to use it when they're older. I don't know of anyone who grew up to write the way they were taught in school! The BJU system doesn't take nearly the amount of practice to master, and the time saved could be better spent elsewhere.