As a former kindergarten teacher, this program looks solid. We love Masterbooks. We have used their math for the past two years. Sophie did a great job!
I always enjoy seeing Sophie's sweet face. You are a wonderful teacher & mother. This looks like a great curriculum. I love that it includes Bible lessons.
Thank you for sharing! I’m going into my 2 year of homeschooling my children! It’ll be the first time I’m teaching a children to read. I’m very nervous. Now I’m trying to find the prefect curriculum for a child to learning to read. This year I did all Masterbooks for all my kids including the kindergarten. I’m trying to decide if foundation phonics will be a good fit or not. So thanks again. I welcome and tips you have!
Foundation Phonics is an easy intro into letters, letter sounds and cvc words. This approach worked well for my daughter. There are so many choices though!
It feels like less than TG&TB (from level K and up), but I think that is ok. With a shorter lesson I can spend more time on reading and sight words. Sophie seems to do better with sight words than phonics so far. I’m planning to stick with it.
I really am loving the look of this program. I'm trying to decide on curriculum for homeschooling my ASD 7 year old. He's an emerging reader, and much of this would be review, but I feel he needs more solid foundation than what the public school system has offered, so all gaps are filled. My question is he is very visual. And while I love Charlotte Maison reading aloud, some children with ADHD or autism have trouble focusing on oral reading... their minds tend to wander. I really would want my son to retain the info from the bible portion of this. I wish there were some visuals (like the burning bush...moses himself...etc) which you show on like a story board as you read aloud just to help keep their focus visually. I'm wondering if there is a resource for this elsewhere I could combine in with this part of the curriculum. I just see my son dazing off during the reading portion. Any advice? Thanks for your review. It is very helpful! I'm debating between this program and "All About Reading" because of the card system they have and the app and magnetic letters which he can manipulate with his hands. I just love how they've tied into the bible with this, but curious how I could supplement with more hands on and visual support?
I know what you mean about trying to maintain his attention. I do the program a little differently than it was designed for that reason. There is a coloring page for every lesson and I have Sophie color while I read. I ask a couple of questions after to make sure she was listening. The time it takes to read the Bible story and the time to color match up well, so after that we are ready for her reading portion and any additional worksheet activities, which we have to do together. All About Reading is supposed to be fantastic but for whatever reason it didn't work for my daughter. Abeka does have Bible story books with pictures, and I do like those, but the stories are much longer.
@@simplejoyfilledliving I really appreciate your reply. It's so hard deciding, and All About Reading is so expensive, I'm naturally worried we might have the same result and just waste the money. I'll probably still end up getting it but also buying this one as well, and somehow combining the bible portion into the all about reading somehow. I really love the genesis story of NOTHING teaching N, etc. So clever, and just beautiful!
Yes! This book has been the biggest game changer. I loved TG&TB level k primer. But then level k moved too fast. We moved to Foundations Phonics and never looked back.
