Starting homeschool for 1 subject, just for now... so excited, I LOVE Saxon!

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jen: i did Saxon in high school! how come you're doing it?

at 06:47PM 10/09/09

jenjohnston: Alex is having a little trouble in math and, honestly, I don't like how they're teaching it at his school. I like Saxon's repetition and how they build on concepts. It just seems to make it stick in the brain better. I used Saxon when I homeschooled Mark for 4th and 5th grades. The budget cuts have put our schools in Hawaii on furlough days, so their school days have been cut to 4 days a week plus some longer breaks. So I'm going back to the kindergarten book and doing review with Alex. I plan to get the 1st grade book after we finish this one.

at 06:52PM 10/09/09

jen: good idea! you're a good mom to be attentive to his education!

at 06:56PM 10/09/09

graciehammer: Your amazing Jenn!!!!

at 07:39PM 10/09/09

kristin: I used saxon at my school forever! We have a new program now. It's interesting how they teach different concepts!

at 08:40PM 10/09/09

faithmommy: Math is harder for Ethan too...there is this website- time4learning.com that helps kids with all subjects, but appeals to audio/visual type learners..I'm thinking of trying that with Ethan. Let me know your progress!

at 09:37PM 10/09/09

jenjohnston: @kristin - did you use the saxon for kindergarten? you'd know it pretty well then! we did it today and Alex loooooved it! I think he just likes the fact that we're doing school at home and I'm his teacher. He wanted to keep going when our lesson was done!

@beth - I'll have to check that out! I think math is one of those subjects that is best learned when it's taught according to their learning style. okay, that was a lame sentence, but you get what I mean.

at 10:06PM 10/09/09

hboj: Would recommend it to anyone! Awesome curriculum!

at 10:48PM 10/09/09

afarmer: where did you get that book? I need to start doing some stuff with Kayla

at 11:52AM 10/11/09

jenjohnston: Amy, I ordered it from someone on ebay, it was much cheaper than amazon or any other place I saw it, by about $20 or more.

at 12:49PM 10/11/09

kristin: Yes, I've used Saxon for kindergarten for about 9 years. I felt like I supplemented a lot with it toward the end of the year, though. It does spiral nicely.

at 12:55PM 10/11/09

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Starting homeschool for 1 subject, just for now... so excited, I LOVE Saxon!
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