What is your favorite?

[mommy25]

I know this has probably been posted before but I wanted to ask you guys to list your favorite homeschooling materials that you have used for at least one year and have completed it from start to finish. It could be individual subjects or an entire curriculum.

Thanks :001_smile:

[PollyOR]

Rod & Staff English and Rod & Staff Math. Not exactly my children's favorite. ;)

[matroyshka]

Singapore Math
Editor in Chief
Science & Math Detective
Word Roots
Math Mosaics (http://www.mindwareonline.com/MWEstore/ProductDetails/ProductDetails.aspx?pid={bd2e5713-d792-45b6-ab1b-065bf9b72dc9})
Sequential Spelling
Getty-Dubay Penmanship
Map Skills (http://www.amazon.com/Map-Skills-Grades/dp/0880128402/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1226256343&sr=1-1)

[Narrow Gate Academy]

Phonics Pathways
Singapore Math
Classical Writing
TruthQuest History

[angela in ohio]

Rod & Staff English - 5th year using

IEW for writing - 5th year using TWSS

BJU Reading - 3rd year using

Pentime for handwriting - 3rd year using

Scott Foresman Exploring Mathematics or BJU (I like them both very much) Mathematics (up to grade 8 book) - have used each for several years

Horizons Phonics - 2nd year using

[Stacy in NJ]

I'm including things I've used for several years: Singapore Math from 2A through 6B, FLL all levels (so far), all four volumes of SOTW, levels B through E of Spelling Mastery (SRA), all levels of HWOT, levels C through E of Connecting Math Concepts (SRA), and Reasoning and Writing levels B through D.

[elegantlion]

Joining the chorus for Singapore Math.

[Trivium Academy]

Head to Toe Science by Jim Wiese for human body study
Donald Silver activity books, Michael Gravois activity books
Tapestry of Grace
Primary Language Lessons by Margot Davidson
Artistic Pursuits K-3, Book 1 and Book 2
The Harp & Laurel Wreath by Laura Berquist for poetry memorization (2nd year)

[Melissa B]

Saxon Math (K-3)
Singapore Primary Math
Hooked On Phonics
First Language Lessons (1/2)

[kalanamak]

Joining the chorus for Singapore Math.
Singapore math
Plaid Phonics
ZB handwriting

Zeman's Gilgamesh...we've re-re-re-reread it for 2 years now.

I've only used Phonic Pathways for half a year, but can't see stopping now.

[hsmamainva]

Sonlight

Teaching Textbooks

Handwriting Without Tears

[Lorna]

Story of the World
Galore Park French
Singapore Maths from 2B TO NEM 2
Michel Thomas French (all courses)
The Elements by Ellen McHenry (currently enjoying Carbon Chemistry)
How....Works science series by DK / Readers Digest
Galore Park English
Lightning Literature Medieval Literature
Callirobics (for handwriting)

There are others we have used and found fine but these ones we have loved.

[MIch elle]

R&S English 4-7
Christian Light Education Math 5 -7 (used R&S 1-4)
CLE Reading 4-8 w/ workbooks; 1-3 w/o workbooks
IEW History Based Writing Lessons
SOTW series w/AG
A Child's History of Art (painting, sculture, architecture)
Latina Christiana w/o dvd's
Burgess Book for Children series (birds, seashore & animals)
CLP Nature reader series
R&S Poems for Memorization
Wee Sing Cd's (for littles)
Egermeirer's Story Bible
TWTM
Charlotte Mason Companion
Hey Andrew Teach Me Some Greek 1 & 2 with reader & cd
Abraham Lincoln's World
Schlessinger Media dvd's in history & science - library

[MicheleinMN]

Ambleside Online - Year 1 (several times) and Year 4

American Language Series Readers: Fun in the Sun, Scamp and Tramp, Soft and White, etc. (5 times with #6 using them now)

Horizons math for K, 1st, and 2nd so far with dd using 3rd now.
(K with dd and ds)
(1st and 2nd with dd only so far, ds is using 1st right now.)

BJU pre-algebra with dd (when she was 11/12) and ds (when he was 12/13)

and

Triangle Arithmetic (old math program) - ds used 3rd grade last year and is doing 4th grade this year.

Michele

[Chris in VA]

Saxon Math k-3
Omnibus 1 and 2
Spielvogel Western Civ(all)
Barron's World History the Easy Way 1
Progeny Press Poetry guide
Rod and Staff grammar, grade 2
Sotw 1 and 2 (starting 3) with the AG's
Spelling Workout A, B, C
Adventures in Phonics C
Phonics Pathways
Leading Little Ones to God devotional
Teaching 50 Great short stories.

[sweetbaby]

Explorer's bible Study (Quest)
Rod and Staff English

[laughing lioness]

AlphaPhonics
Explode the Code
Story of the World -books and tapes (not the activity guides)
IEW
Right Start Math
Latina Christiana
Famous Men series
Apologia
English for the Thoughtful Child
Foundations
Our Mother Tongue
Genevieve Foster books
Holling C. Holling books
Laura Ingalls Wilder boks

[Jenny in Atl]

Galore Park (latin, science, history, study skills, etc)
Classical Writing
Singapore
Sonlight
Prentice Hall science (for middle school)

[Bee]

Sonlight (used multiple years)
Key to Fractions and Key to Decimals (plan to re-use with child #2)
Mosdos Press (plan to re-use with child #2)
SOTW (used 5 years now)
FLL (used with both children)
BJUP Grammar and Writing (used 4 years now and plan to re-use and continue)
Science in a Nutshell kits (used 1 year,plan to re-use)
Explode the Code (used with both children)
Pathway readers grades 1&2 (used with both children)

[Pongo]

Shurley English (level 1-6th)
Singapore Math (EB-NEM 1)
Bob Jones Math (level K-5th)
Tapestry of Grace (Y1-3)
Total Language Plus
IEW( 6 years)

[Zelda]

I know this has probably been posted before but I wanted to ask you guys to list your favorite homeschooling materials that you have used for at least one year and have completed it from start to finish. It could be individual subjects or an entire curriculum.

Thanks :001_smile:

FLL 1/2
FLL 3
SOTW 1
Saxon 1
Spelling Workout C
Classical Writing Aesop A

[ABQmom]

Rod and Staff english, and MUS for math.

[GVA]

Sonlight for history/lit
IEW
Christian Light Math
Christian Light Reading
BJUP Science (used three years, trying Sonlight Science now)

[coffeefreak]

Five in a Row (I'm on my 2nd go round with dd #2)
Bob Books
Galloping the Globe
Horizons Math
A Beka's K4 program
A Beka's A Handbook for Reading
Artistic Pursuits

[strider]

Rod & Staff grammar
SOTW--by FAR our favorite
MUS

[one l michele]

This is our 2nd year homeschooling on our own (we cyberschooled using Calvert previously). Our tried and true, that we haven't had a second thought about continuing.

Sonlight readers, history, and read alouds. We have all the readers (1st, 2nd regular, 2nd intermediate, 2nd advanced). We did Core C last year and are doing Core 1 this year, I already have Core 2 for next year.

Dandylion Logic - have completed Lollipop Logic and Logic Safari thus far. Ds is currently working on Primarily Logic, we'll use Logic Countdown next year.

My World Science, Unfortunately discontinued - We've completed these units: Sound & Light, Electricity and Magnetism, Sonoran Desert, Rocks & Minerals, Tropical Rainforest, and are currently doing Forces & Motion. I have all materials to do the entire program.

Horizon Math - We've used levels K-3rd combined thus far.

Abkea Health & Safety - I've already bought this for next year as well.

[CynthiaOK]

Singapore math
World Views of the Western World
Runkle's World Physical Geography
Hewitt's Conceptual Physics
Mystery of History
Rainbow Science

[Jenn Robinson]

FLL 1/2
SOTW 1 & 2
OPG
Sonlight K & 1
FIAR vol 1-3
BJU Bible K & 1

[Paula in PA]

RightStart Math
R.E.A.L. Science
SOTW
FLL 1 & 2
HWOT
OPGTR
Minimus

[mom2mea]

100 EZ Lessons
AlphaPhonics
Sonlight (history and readalouds)
Math U See

[sleepy]

Henle Latin
Galore Park's Latin Prep
Singapore Primary Math
Spelling Power
Lial's Introductory Algebra
Classical Writing

[TCoppock]

My favorites include:
Saxon Math and SOTW

I also LOVE Latin for Children. However, we have not made it a full year yet.

[angela&4boys]

Our faves in no particular order:


SOTW (via Biblioplan)
CLP Nature Readers (my boys' top pick)
Apologia
Math U See
Copywork & Narration (inspired by The Charlotte Mason Companion)
Notebooking pages (from notebookingpages.com)
ETC
Wow! I like seeing this list. I don't feel so non-commital. Now if I could just find a writing and grammar program we were happy with.... :)

[mcconnellboys]

I would have to say Singapore, SOTW, and the WTM way of doing science.

[Blessedfamily]

I'm in the Singapore Math chorus too.

[chaik76]

Singapore Math
Parts of Sonlight

[prairiegirl]

RightStart Math
FLL 3
CW Aesop A
ETC
SOTW--the series
RS4K--Chemistry Pre-level
Leading Little Ones to God
MP's Christian Studies Vol. 1
Minimus

[birchbark]

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Handwriting Without Tears
Quarter Mile Math
Let's Read and Find Out Science books
Magic School Bus Science books
Usborne's What Shall I Draw
Loved FLL 1, not so sure about the 2nd half

[LadyAberlin]

I haven't used them for a whole year, but we have completed them. We loved MUS Primer and Alphabet Island Level 1, Living Learning books Level 1. We are doing Living Learning books level 2 right now and we aren't as fond of it as we were level 1. HWT Prek was a hit and we will begin HWT K soon. We have enjoyed reading several of the Zeezok publishing Opal Wheeler's composer biographies. We are almost finished with our first Watch Me Draw book and we really like that and will move on to the next in the series.

[attachedto4]

Sonlight
MUS, but only for my oldest so it depends on personality and learning style
ETC

There are other things I love and have pretty firm plans to stick with, but they didn't meet your used for one year criteria (one is Writing With Ease).

[buddhabelly]

Right Start Math (B,C,D now doing E)
Artistic Pursuits
Real Science 4 Kids (Biology, Physics, Chemistry - Level 1)
Growing with Grammar 3 (now we're doing 5)
Story of the World 1, 2, 3 w/ Activity Guides
Latin for Children A, B, and now we're on C
Minimus Latin (but it doesn't take an entire year)
Classical Writing Aesop

[Closeacademy]

For my VSL/bouncy child who took her time learning to read and just wants to get to the logical point of the matter:

Spell to Write and Read--teaching her the phonograms w/pictures I drew but not doing all the spelling work

Story of the World with coloring pages from the Activity Guide

For my learn through stories and old textbooks Victorian spirited child:

Rod and Staff Reading--using all the books but I worked through unit 1 phonics before we picked up the reader, reading workbook and worksheets.

For everyone:

Singapore Math

The math gnome stories from this site to introduce new topics and ideas for working with manipulatives--http://ebeth.typepad.com/serendipity/gnomes_and_gnumbers_a_mathematical_tale/

[Shari]

Tapestry of Grace -- 5th year of use and still loving it

Weaver Interlock -- an oop PreK-K program that was absorbed by AOP/Horizons. This is an all time favorite that I refuse to sell -- it has been stored away in our curriculum closet for almost 6 years.

[Lizzie in Ma]

Truthquest History with Mystery of History
CLE reading, math and language arts
Apologia Elementary science

[Another Lynn]

Ambleside Online - Year 1

American Language Series Readers: Fun in the Sun, Scamp and Tramp, Soft and White, etc. (5 times with #6 using them now)

Michele

:iagree:

I tweak AO yr. 1 - but I love the reading selections for this year. And I love the American Language Series Readers too - they are great!

ETC
FLL1/2, FLL3 (I didn't fully appreciate FLL1/2 until we started using FLL3)
MUS
HWOT

Others we don't use all the time, but have used longer than one year:
Draw Write Now
Leading Little Ones to God
Artistic Pursuits


Hmm... seems like I'm forgetting something important. I'll have to come back and edit after I've had coffee :D.

[TerriKY]

Singapore Math
Classical Writing Aesop, Homer, Poetry Beginning and Intermediate, working on and loving Diogenese
Apologia HS Biology and Chemistry
VideoText Algebra
Foerster's Algebra 2 and Trig
Latina Christiana
Drawing With Children
TOG modified
Omnibus I modified
Holling C. Holling books

[ThelmaLou]

R&S English
Horizons Math
Veritas History
Modern Curriculum Press Maps, Charts and Graphs
Getty Dubay Italics
Phonetic Zoo

[WTMindy]

SOTW, hands down has been all of our favorites. We used all 4 years and are now re-reading certain chapters as they go along with TOG.

[mommy25]

Bump

[JeannineW]

ETC
MathUSee
Wordly Wise

[Pylegang]

From start to finish, we've used:

Sing Spell, Read, Write K and 1
Saxon K and 1
Horizons Math K, 1 and 2
Spelling Workout A and B
Considering God's Creation (Science)
First Language Lessons 1 and 2

[Donna T.]

MathUSee (used Primer, Alpha, Beta and now on Gamma - no plans to ever change this as our main math curriculum)
Handwriting Without Tears
Phonics Pathways
Explode the Code
My Father's World First Grade
Sonlight Cores - K, 1, & 2 - using 2 now. It's the best core so far!
Sonlight readers packages
Sonlight Discover & Do Science DVDs
Queen Homeschool Supply's Language Lessons series (on our 2nd book now)
English from the Roots Up
Story of the World 2 with Activity Guide 2 (used vol. 1 and now on vol. 2 - I liked 1 ok, but am really enjoying 2)
A Child's History of the World by Hillyer
Egermeier's Bible Story Book



We haven't used Spelling Power for a year yet, but it's one of my favorite products. I also really like Noeo Science but we just recently started it, so that doesn't count!

[laurad1125]

Saxon 1, 2, 3 (NOT 54 and up)
HWT PK, K, 1, 2
Spelling Power
CLE Readers 1, 2, 3 (without workbooks)
Explode the code A, B, C, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Phonics Pathways

[Paintedlady]

Math-U-See

[newlifemom]

I have used it almost to a 'T' the way it was written for 4 plus years. With this year's science I can say I am 97% + following it. I.love.it! SWB is my hero. :blush::D



ETA: Oh my, I was rew this thread and just saw that I did not put the name of my cirriculum. Oops. It's TWTM.

[Laura Corin]

English Prep 1 and 2, Junior English 1 (still have one chapter to go on that one), Latin Prep 1 and 2 (still working on 3), all from Galore Park.
SOTW 1, 2, 3 (books only - haven't used the AG)
Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia of World History (haven't used the 20th Century sections yet)
Singapore Maths Earlybird to 4B.
Real Science 4 Kids Chemistry Level 1 (but not the Biology or Physics).
Recorder From the Beginning 1 and 2 (still working on 3) by Pitt
Handwriting Without Tears Printing and Cursive

Laura

[Nancy in SoCal]

Phonics Pathways (used w/ success 4x)
ETC
FLL
Singapore Math (have used for 6 years and 3 children)
IEW's Poetry Memorization (have used for 3 years)
SOTW (have used this for 6 years straight!)

[nukeswife]

Saxon math (k-3) we're doing 5/4 now and so far so good
SOTW (we're on vol. 3 now)

[Sparkle]

WinterPromise American Story 1 & 2 and Animal Worlds (tweaked)
Voyages in English (old versions)
Alpha Phonics
Little Stories for Little Folks
Explode the Code
CLP Nature Readers
R&S Patterns of Nature
SpellWell
Happy Handwriting/Cheerful Cursive
Practical Arithmetic
Mastering Mathematics
Sonlight readers

[Cornerstone Classical]

OPGTR
Saxon 1-3
FLL 1/2
ETC
Noeo Bio 1

[Titus.Two.Five]

list your favorite homeschooling materials that you have used for at least one year and have completed it from start to finish.

Explode the Code: A, B, C, 1, 2, and 3
Abeka Math K-3
Little Visits with God (devotional)
AO literature selections for years 0, 1, and 2

[BizyPenguin]

CLE Language Arts
CLE Math

Love these!!

[Jean in La]

~Explode the Code A, B, C
~Saxon math
~Easy Grammar
~Daily Grams
~Abeka Science
~Sonlight history & literature

[GretaLynne]

list your favorite homeschooling materials that you have used for at least one year and have completed it from start to finish.

I think RightStart is one of the few things we've used that fits that description. We've used levels A and B and are currently in C (hoping to finish up soon and start on D).

My dd also enjoyed the first few Elson Readers, but then started to feel they were baby-ish (though we did use them for more than a year, and I really liked them).

Right now, we are very much enjoying Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding and Galore Park's Latin Prep 1. I expect we will complete these, they are both fantastic resources.

ETA: Almost forgot SOTW! We are doing volume one with our co-op right now, and loving it. I'm sure we will finish not only the book, but probably the entire series.

[jenadina]

RightStart Math is our number 1.

We used Phonics Pathways and Reading Pathways and I will absolutely use them again with any future children.

Italic Handwriting is another one we've used more than a year and I like it (my son, on the other hand, emphatically does NOT)

We're in our 2nd year of homeschooling, so these are the only things we've used more than a year. However, several of the things we're using this year (1st grade) are keepers as well:
Writing With Ease will be used at least through level 3, maybe level 4.
Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding
Artistic Pursuits
History Odyssey (but not the projects)