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But the idea here is that in the beginning I have had to do a bit of trial and error. Yup, that was a LOT of money, we still have the readers, the rest is sitting in a locker in my basement. One thing I have learned about homeschooling is that you have to be flexible, don’t get so caught up in what you want and expect. We literally didn’t make it a month into these books before I called it. Bad from day one and it never got better.
I was frustrated every day because I had to push it, make it happen, it was just bad.
I wanted a learning experience that was customized to my children, and my kinesthetic learner was dying inside when it was time for aBeka. I want it to be a living education, that is relatable to them, not random facts and repetitive information that they won’t remember. I want to teach my kids through stories and games and activities, I want to do projects and learn together as a family rather than in our own little dark corner of the school room.
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Each one had full pages of copywork and matching and writing and grammar. For language arts alone, my son had four separate books: Letters and Sounds, Language, Spelling and Poetry, and Writing with Phonics. “School Time” was met with tears and that was before we even started! The repetition and book after book format just took all the joy out of school for them. While it worked well for me, a classic traditional homeschooler in every sense, it didn’t work for my children, who learn best in a more Charlotte Mason/ Unschooling/ Eclectic learning environment. It is designed for traditional homeschoolers.Check out these four reasons A Beka didn’t work for our family. As I was reorganizing my school books and purging what just didn’t work for us (notice the AOP Lifepacs in there as well?) I thought I’d lay it all out for you guys. I just can’t bear to throw them away but there is no one to sell them to up here. I went and purchased all the curriculum sets, determined to give it another chance and now I have books that are filled in about 2-3 weeks in and otherwise completely blank. Once when we first started (I bought their entire preschool package) and again last year. My great aunt is actually a writer and has written numerous books for A Beka, so when I say I love this curriculum, it is coming from a deep sense of nostalgia, connections, and fond memories. It was fun, I loved workbooks and it just worked with me. I would sometimes work through multiple books in a year, I loved that curriculum with every fibre of my being. I loved having my very own books and usually got started THAT DAY, no matter what. I can smell the new book smell, I loved the bright colors and the pictures and the freshness of a new year. I remember when that HUGE box would come in the mail (I had 3 siblings being homeschooled at the same time), I was always the MOST excited to open it. Nearly the entire way through my homeschooling journey, I used A Beka curriculum. I was homeschooled nearly all the way through to grade 11 (I went to high school for second term of grade 10 through to graduation).
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