Word to the newbies who might be starting their homeschool journey with a visual learner... too many worksheets/workbooks will make you both GO CRAZY! When I first started our journey, I thought like school should be the way I teach the boys( cuz it worked so well up until then...NOT but I didn't know how else to teach them) with lessons then a butt load of worksheets. It didn't help that most of my new homeschooling friends had kiddos that COULD do worksheets all day long and learn from them. My experience was the youngest who can do as many worksheets as I give him had no problem. The oldest well he made me think he was doing them all, I was giving him a ton of them that it was hard me to remember which ones I gave him! I am happily grading worksheets and returning them to him to go over the ones he got wrong. What is the point in moving on if he doesn't get it right? That is when I realized that we were missing some worksheets, ABOUT HALF of the ones I had assigned or handed back to him in the past 6 months was missing. OK so yes my ADD tends to have me all organized and on top of things at first, until I get the routine down then I think hey I don't need no stinking check list anymore...... WRONG!
FAST FORWARD TO PRESENT TIME..
In our house, it is a mix of online math and workbook type math learning. This holds especially true with our high school math lessons.... this past year for the 9th grade math. My 9th grader did a mix of subjects for math last year, he started with personal finance, then to accounting through a couple of free resources online, and finished by starting pre-algebra (which he doesn't care for). We found an online site that is pretty close to the way Time4learning teaches lessons, they cost more but since Time4learning only goes up to 8th grade it was something I felt like we needed. Since he learned so much from that style of funny yet engaging lessons. He does still do some worksheets but they are only to make sure that he gets the new math concept days after the initial lesson.
So are are a online, worksheet lesson or BOTH kind of family?
