Workbooks

As most of you know over the years we have tried many a curriculum. What we have found is that we are not curriculum folk. Monkey is not even a workbook / work sheet kind of guy which I can appreciate. The Bean on the other hand is turning out to be quite the workbook lover.

She would pull the Monkey's old workbooks off the shelf and plop down to do them. Her own way of course never being one to follow the rules. She is getting to the age though where following the instructions is getting a little higher on her list. She is finding it gets better outcomes although not always as wonderfully creative. Just last night she went on about how ridiculous it was that numbers had to face a certain way because you know what number it is if it is backwards or forwards. She does have a point.

In my search for good workbooks, which I have been looking for for years, I came across Miquon for math and Explode the Code - Getting Ready for the Code for reading at the suggestion of a friend. I was skeptical but briefly browsed through it at my friends house and went home and made a Rainbow Resources order.

The order came and last night while the male folk plunked down for an action packed documentary BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs Disc 1 (which they have watched numerous times in the past decade and there is a story of this particular series in relation to my honeymoon that I will share later) the Bean and I went to her room to try out these new workbooks and THEY WERE GREAT! She loved them, I found them not overwhelming as I usually find workbooks - I am excited. So, minus the Bean stabbing a pencil through her jeans almost resulting in a hospital visit, we had a great impromptu night of homeschooling.