Memoria Press Kindergarten Review: What I Love, What I Would Change, & Everything in Between 

I think you’re right!! I need to do that! 🙃

Oh good! I was worried my tone might come across as overly negative or critical. Glad you liked it!! ❤️

Not at all! Have you done a video on how you handle teaching five very different aged kiddos? I do almost all MP, but the one con for me is the massive guilt I feel when I go off-script of the weekly manual. I need to find a way to let go.

I haven’t done a video but I definitely don’t do all the things for everything that we do. I’ve been asked for this video several times so it’s definitely on my radar! 😂 My cliffs note take away is figure out what they can do independently & make sure the curriculum they’re doing is the right level, even if it isn’t “grade level.” Especially for MP!

I think that would be excellent!! We have really been enjoying doing Core Knowledge a bit at a time. I love how everything is laid out for you topic wise & you don’t have to go on a hunt to figure out what to cover! 🤣

@@ddchomeschool that’s what I see us doing. My son loves the science especially. He loves having his own book to flip through. I know it’s extra work but if they love it then why not?

@@brookeally1346 Totally!

@@ddchomeschool one more question if you don’t mind. If my son is almost finished with teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons, do you think it would make sense to do the phonics portion? We are doing the enrichment for kindergarten and about to start Junior k.

@@brookeally1346 I have never done 100 Easy Lessons, so I can't speak to where that would come out level wise. However, I think MP may have an assessment on their site? I will say that the phonics is at a :challenging: K level. Like my 6 year old is just catching onto everything, and we are only on week 18 or so, eventhough we only have 2 weeks left of the enrichment curriculum.

Yes- read aloud books are sold separately from the “supplemental science and enrichment” www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/classical-core-curriculum/kindergarten-supplemental-science-enrichment-set/ Many of these books can be found either secondhand or at your local library. 💙

You’re welcome! Thank you for watching! ❤️

Oh I’m so glad!! Here’s a list of the supplemental books I got for the spring! ddchomeschool.com/2022/12/23/kindergarten-picture-books-for-spring-2023/ That’s a great idea, and I will definitely add that video to my list. Thank you so much for your input! 🤍

@@ddchomeschool Amazing! Thank you!

You’re so welcome!!

Yes, you absolutely can! I would start with purchasing the curriculum guide and then you can see everything you’ll need! The enrichment guide is separate, and I would definitely recommend getting it as well, but I’m 99% sure the grade specific curriculum guide lists all the materials you’ll need week by week. Also, definitely check out the MP group on Facebook, there’s a lot of second hand materials for sale there. 💜

I have not! I’ve done bookshark’s kindergarten program which also uses a leveled approach. I think many people in the MP group on Facebook have done AAR first though. I remember seeing it discussed in there.

I haven’t bought a whole package before, but I believe it’s only core things. So for example, I do know that for K the “enrichment” books are a separate thing. You can definitely email them or ask in the MP group on Facebook, those ladies are super knowledgeable! 💙

P.S. you won’t need every single thing all at once. For example, for reading you’ll only need the First Start Reading A books for a while before you need B. I try to order those things one or a few at a time rather than all at once. Hope this helps!!

The K package is very advanced for K, in my experience. Which is to say, if you’re starting off with phonemic awareness, I think it would be an excellent fit! See if you can find a sample of first start reading A- I think they have a sample on the MP website. My daughter struggled with phonemic awareness for a while so we ended up having to supplement for a lot of the time before finally getting back to it at the end of the year. If your daughter flies through it, you could absolutely accelerate the pace! I haven’t done Jr. K but you could easily use the enrichment science & ss books for both kids because they’re highly engaging picture books! I would look at the individual Jr. K materials and see what you think about your 3 year old’s readiness. 💜

Why did you go with charter version? Trying to figure out difference

The charter version is secular. There isn’t always a difference but for example if you’re doing grammar (not kinder) it gives sentences that contain Christian content/examples. The K copywork, for example, contains Biblical passages versus charter which is just famous quotations.

Charter version is meant for public school charters, so no Christian content! By changing the versions, MP is able to sell curriculum to homeschooling families that are part of a charter school. It’s a completely separate website than the Memoriapress.com Hope this helps!

charter.memoriapress.com

Not especially. This is probably endemic to “classical education” in general, not just MP in particular. However there are :some: titles. I found it easier to add in picture books recommended from other sources such as Here Wee Read or Stories of Color.

Saxon is our spine (we're doing first grade level because the K doesn't have any worksheets), but we also use math seeds as a supplement. Before I discovered the math seeds I was finding 1 off things on Teachers Pay Teachers.

here's the link to a video I recently did about the Math Seeds program, hopefully I am doing this correctly: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r-JY7KqtXbc.html

@@ddchomeschool what made you decide Saxon over rod and staff? This is my current dilemma

I haven’t tried R&S, so I can’t speak to the differences but what I like about Saxon is the scripted lessons and thorough explanations plus the option of using “Nicole The Math Lady” for older grades. We started out with Singapore K-4 with my older kids, but it was a difficult transition once they were older/harder for me to teach.

​@@ddchomeschool we also use Mathseeds and Saxon 1 😊. Currently using Logic of English, but it's going slowly (we have yearly testing, otherwise I wouldn't care). Looking at this and wondering if it would work better

Memoria Press is a classical Christian curriculum. However, they have secular versions of their materials available on their charter website. One example would be grammar. So the Christian version might say something about Jesus’s followers and the student has to underline the conjunction. The charter version would change the names to something different, so you’d never know it had been Christian. The Latin is similar, they just completely re-wrote their younger levels to make them secular. We haven’t started that yet but I will update with what I see. I’m not sure which item had angels BUT I did notice that the crafts book I have, which must not be charter, did have an Easter craft in it.

@@ddchomeschool thank you so much for answering me. 🥰

You’re so welcome! 💕