I wish I had found you a couple years ago when I tried Teaching Textbooks with my older kids! I didn't stick with it because I saw all these negative reviews about it having gaps and not challenging the student enough. I wish I had stuck with it. But I have a second chance now and am going back to it with my younger kids!
I just read David Englemans book about the brain and then watched the PBS documentary he did and it was fascinating! It touched on pruning during this adolescent period and it was so interesting. Love that you talk about that here. 💕💕
Thank you so much for this! I'm a new homeschooling mama (I just started a couple of weeks ago) to a 12 year old boy with ASD and ADHD. I plan on putting him on teaching textbooks in August. My son is 3 years behind in math and as of right now can not multiply or divide (and struggles with fractions, decimals, place value, etc). I plan on taking these next few months going over these concepts with him using manipulatives in order to catch him up. Here's my question: when using teaching textbooks, can you print his work that he is doing to put in his portfolio, or is there an option to print his grades? Like you, I'm in Florida and was wondering how you show progress for math if you are using teaching textbooks? I also want to say thank you to you. It was your videos that gave me the courage to homeschool. Your videos are very helpful!
My girls have been using Abeka for years, both at private school and homeschool, and haven’t had any issues. Trying to decide now if we want to go with TT or Saxon for middle school. I’ve heard that since Abeka is a little advanced, going to TT might be a step back, but we all like the idea of the TT format. Do you have thoughts on this?
With structure being SUPER important for middle schoolers, are you a fan of homeschooling middle schoolers since homeschooling can have a “ more flexible “ or loose schedule as opposed to public?
I want to add that I am a fan of loose schedules and letting the child decide what subjects he wants to do first, ect… (we also have to build our days around therapies and randomly placed doctor appointments) but within the flexibility there is expectations and structure. That is what keeps us on track and able to get our work done even when we are out and about.
It's important to remember that every child within each family is an individual - within the same house there will be different styles of learning all the way through.
Does the program allow the child to progress if it can't spell numbers? We ended up stopping math seeds because my son couldn't spell - but could do math well above that level.
