Please give me indepth informations about ABEKa curriculum?

Question

this is about home schooling, i want to know if ABEKA is advanced than ACE and ALPHA OMEGA materials, for a 4 year old. Also how about the cost?

Answer 1

Abeka is an accelerated curriculum. More advanced than the others you mentioned.

For a K4 program you would spend around $300 if you didn't waste money on teacher's manuals and curriculum. You would want to get some of the visuals and cards just because they are useful.

I am not fond of Abeka early programs.  Part of the K4 program is more suited for a 6yo-7yo or even a bit later in my opinion.  But I love Moore's ideas on better late than early. The Abeka products themselves are great.  But they are extremely accelerated. The Health Safety, Manners is the best k-3 Health program on the market.  The Science and SS k-3 are also the very best on the market for youngsters in my opinion.  But the push early reading and writing, which stinks.

Answer 2

Abeka overall is about 1/2 year to a full year ahead of public school grade level. I have found that in teaching reading, their skills are too much too soon for most kids and the rules jump around with not a lot of explanation. Math is just drill without much application and mathematical thinking. Over the years, I've come to the conclusion that Abeka is very good at teaching memorization and regurgitating information, but lacks in teaching higher level thinking skills of drawing conclusions and analysis of information. I do like their history and science at most of the grade levels.

ACE seems to be the least rigorous academically. I'm not sure if they are below public school grade leveling, but they seem to have a pace that many kids can handle. I'm not sure I would go with the packet approach for a 4 year old, however,

Alpha Omega does use a packet approach, but has more direct instruction at the kindergarten level. Their language arts/reading curriculum appears to be solid in the presentation of phonetic rules and developing reading skills.

If you have a 4 year old who is ready for reading, you may want to check out the Primary Phonics series published by Educators Publishing Service.

I also really like Christian Liberty Press materials.

Answer 3

I'm not sure what you want to know.  We used ABEKA for one year but we really didn't care for it.  It's quite strong in Math and LA, but it was the style that my kids didn't like.  We now use Sonlight.  It's a Christian curriculum but that aspect is not overwhelming.  It's especially good if excellent literature is important to you.  It's fairy expensive, but all of the schedules and legwork are done for you.  Here's a link to their site:

http://www.sonlight.com/

I hope this helps you.  All the best.

Answer 4

Here is a link with reviews of many, many curriculums.  Hope it proves useful.

Be well.

Answer 5

I've used "A Beka Book" on myself and it is extremely well done. Here is their website: http://www.abeka.com