Since we will be welcoming our new daughter in the next few weeks, I have been working hard making the final decisions on what to keep and what to change for next year. So here is what we will be doing for 6th grade: Saxon math w/ DIVE cds (he is between the 5/4 and 6/5 levels so not sure which way we'll go level-wise) BJU OR CLE bible (opinions? BJU seems to have more coverage over the whole bible while CLE seems more in depth but less books covered.... hard to decide.) Winston Grammar Winning with Writing Soaring with Spelling and Vocab Exploration Education science Notgrass America the Beautiful God and the History of Art A few of these we are keeping, but some of the others we are changing, so any advice/opinions will be appreciated.
Looks like you have everything covered I haven't used any of them so I have no advice for you. Congratulations on your upcoming child!
Looks like everthing is covered. Is www and sws new to you? I'm not a fan of them. we did gwg and www and I bought sws which I couldn't bring myself to start. They were dry boring and we had no retention.
We used the whole series this year, and for whatever reason DS likes it. He has done fine on the tests, so I think he is retaining most of it. We are switching to Winston Grammar though, bc they do labeling instead of diagramming, which we both struggle with. LOL The writing seems to be fine, though we had done virtually no writing before this so we are taking it slow - only did the first book this year instead of both. We will be doing the 2nd book this coming year. ETA: DS-10 seems to prefer workbooks over hands-on stuff for most subjects... I don't know if that is just how he learns best or if he is just being lazy, but either way he seems to take it in so whatever floats his boat. LOL
I think what caught my attention was it seemed that they didn't have to think much. It was very cookie cutter? It felt it was easy to fake for Rylee esp. Just keep your eyes on things to make sure he is really getting it. my kids like workbooks too.. they like simple get it done kind of things... I have learned to really pay attention to if the are getting it or not no matter what it is they are learning. I often ask random sneaky questions and take mental notes.
I have been going back and forth between SWS and Spellwell, but so far have just decided to stay with what we have been doing. Perhaps I'll do an overall year spelling test and see where he is with that first.
