Does this ever happen to you?

[WendyK]

You buy a book and start using it. It seems to be the right level. It is sometimes difficult to pick the right level, but you feel like you have gotten it right. It is challenging your child the way you want it to. Then all of a sudden after a month you realize the book is too darn easy. Like your kid's brain grew bigger in a month. LOL

I waste more books this way. I don't understand how or why this happens.

Does this happen to you?

[patchfire]

Haha, yep. I've started buying things over what I think dd can do... that way I get more mileage out of it. I looked at the books we picked for history & science this year in July and had a momentary "What if I've got too many? What if these couple are too difficult?" Yeah, I shouldn't have worried. Now I'm concerned that I'm not challenging her enough. THe books didn't change; she did!

[Kfamily]

Yes!

Dd did this in French-thankfully I had a program for older dd and planned to adapt it for younger but now my younger dd just uses the same book so I didn't loose with this one. She did this in Latin too and now I'm still working on that one. Or how about the Language Lessons notebook I worked on all summer for her....

:lol::D

[Aurelia]

Definitely. Pretty much everything I get now is upwardly adjustable because of this. Or, I'll get something for the following year, thinking, "Oh, I can use this in the future because it looks too difficult at the moment!" and have to pull it out two months later because the stuff I got for THIS year is too easy now. :svengo:(Like last year, I got FIAR because I thought we could use it for a couple of years. Um...nope.)

[MissKNG]

I bought Horizons Preschool in March thinking it would be nice and challenging for dd come September. Well, in about May, I looked through the scope and sequence (again) and quickly figured out that it was way too easy. They spend TWO WEEKS on a triangle, for example! I do use it for the Bible study, memory verse and crafts/art - so it wasn't a total loss. But, in March, I just thought "since she's going into PreK, she must need PreK stuff to do." DUH!!!

[Truscifi]

I know how you feel. I bought a science curriculum for ds in April to use starting this August. He found the books and read them both and did the activities and all the internet links over the summer. :glare: Ah well, at least he likes school, lol.

[melmichigan]

Yep! Just ordered a new Reader program today. My DD finished this years, twice in the last 7 weeks. Plus all the stuff I added from Amazon, and her regular library books. :lol: I thought a years program might make it half a year, was I wrong. Something happened while she was sleeping...

[psychgal]

Shurley English--not a full year program. They go over a concept every day for a week before introducing something new. She'd go nuts at that pace. Plus we had to skip the first two months of it. Not feeling I'm getting my money's worth--good thing I bought it used at least (and the next one already).