Excellent and helpful review of Malerie’s 1st grace curriculum-thank you! My oldest will be starting 1st grade, and we will continue with LOE Foundations C (also love this curriculum!). I’m seeing now that Foundations C May likely take the whole year…good to know because I was planning to do C&D for 1st grade. For Math, I was on the fence whether to switch to Saxon or stick with Math with Confidence; listening to your review confirmed that MWC is the better fit for us! Appreciate all the hard work you put into your videos! :)
How proud she was when you brought up the book she read without any help- loved that! My middle daughter is finishing up 1st grade right now, too, and we also use LOE and are wrapping up C. We ALWAYS split the lessons for C, they're so much longer and go way more in depth than A or even most of B called for. Love, love LOE. We aren't using D next year but I still totally recommend it to people shopping around for phonics curricula.
My daughter was having trouble remembering her math facts. I bought Math War Addition (Amazon), and she loved it. The facts started to stick, and she is able to move pretty quickly now. We use BJU math as well, which is awesome.
Ok so I JUST stated following you and within a day you started putting out more review from what I just saw. Praise God truly because He knew I had a few questions. I had questions about Saxon. I think I remember you going from Horizons 5 and I thought your baby tested out of Grade six and went to Saxon Pre-Algebra. Did you just go to Saxon 6? My other question is, is there any reason you guys aren’t in IEW and Fix It Grammar? It seems to cover the need for writing challenge. Just curious.
Thank you for being here! My middle daughter has been using Horizons since grade 4. I just tested her to see where she would fall for Saxon and tested into their pre algebra. Spoiler that’s what she’s been using for a few weeks now. My oldest has done Saxon since 4th grade. I’ve gotten so many mixed reviews about IEW. We really like the scripture readings for Writing Strands. It has laid a solid foundation for them. Stay tuned for what we’ll be using next. 😉
@@LifeofTillmans I absolutely will! We love your channel. I’ll look into them as well. I have been so apprehensive about Masterbooks since we started off with them and my daughter got SOOO behind in 1st grade. We started 1st grade over with All about Reading, Spelling and Apologia Math. But switched to Horizons recently which we are loving.
@@MorrisandApril Thank you! ❤ Yes, I get the apprehension. We used MasterBooks LLFLE for a couple of years and I decided it just wasn’t enough. Other things from them have served us well for the time we needed it.
I did not like the 180 days of social studies either. You are right; it is not worth the time. The info is so shallow and "dumbed down" that it doesn't even teach the child anything useful.
So glad I came across this video for my upcoming 1st grader!
I hope it was helpful! ❤️
Excellent and helpful review of Malerie’s 1st grace curriculum-thank you! My oldest will be starting 1st grade, and we will continue with LOE Foundations C (also love this curriculum!). I’m seeing now that Foundations C May likely take the whole year…good to know because I was planning to do C&D for 1st grade. For Math, I was on the fence whether to switch to Saxon or stick with Math with Confidence; listening to your review confirmed that MWC is the better fit for us!
Appreciate all the hard work you put into your videos! :)
Thank you! I’m glad this was helpful! So far we’re loving what we’re using this year. 🙌🏽
How proud she was when you brought up the book she read without any help- loved that! My middle daughter is finishing up 1st grade right now, too, and we also use LOE and are wrapping up C. We ALWAYS split the lessons for C, they're so much longer and go way more in depth than A or even most of B called for. Love, love LOE. We aren't using D next year but I still totally recommend it to people shopping around for phonics curricula.
She was so excited! That reminder was so needed. We love it also! Thanks for watching! ❤️
My daughter was having trouble remembering her math facts. I bought Math War Addition (Amazon), and she loved it. The facts started to stick, and she is able to move pretty quickly now.
We use BJU math as well, which is awesome.
Thank you for the recommendation!
Ok so I JUST stated following you and within a day you started putting out more review from what I just saw. Praise God truly because He knew I had a few questions. I had questions about Saxon. I think I remember you going from Horizons 5 and I thought your baby tested out of Grade six and went to Saxon Pre-Algebra. Did you just go to Saxon 6? My other question is, is there any reason you guys aren’t in IEW and Fix It Grammar? It seems to cover the need for writing challenge. Just curious.
Thank you for being here! My middle daughter has been using Horizons since grade 4. I just tested her to see where she would fall for Saxon and tested into their pre algebra. Spoiler that’s what she’s been using for a few weeks now. My oldest has done Saxon since 4th grade.
I’ve gotten so many mixed reviews about IEW. We really like the scripture readings for Writing Strands. It has laid a solid foundation for them. Stay tuned for what we’ll be using next. 😉
@@LifeofTillmans I absolutely will! We love your channel. I’ll look into them as well. I have been so apprehensive about Masterbooks since we started off with them and my daughter got SOOO behind in 1st grade. We started 1st grade over with All about Reading, Spelling and Apologia Math. But switched to Horizons recently which we are loving.
@@MorrisandApril Thank you! ❤ Yes, I get the apprehension. We used MasterBooks LLFLE for a couple of years and I decided it just wasn’t enough. Other things from them have served us well for the time we needed it.
I did not like the 180 days of social studies either. You are right; it is not worth the time. The info is so shallow and "dumbed down" that it doesn't even teach the child anything useful.
Good to know I’m not the only one.
Agreed. We've even found a couple of errors in the upper grade levels.
Same....👎🏾