A Beka Book?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:17 pm
Well I'm now considering using A Beka Book for social studies and science. My biggest problem with this is that the social studies program is heavily dominated by American History etc. and we're in Australia However, it's one of the programs recommended by the school we're considering going through, so I daresay other parents find it suitable.
My question about it is: How easy is it to implement. I don't mean to imply that I'm lazy, but I'm very new to all this so it looks a bit big and scary (lol) and I am planning to homeschool all 3 children. It will be cheaper for us if the younger children are able to use the same program (use the same teacher's text etc.) but if having three children at different ages doing different levels in the programs is going to be a big headache, I'd like to know now, before I commit to it. Make sense?
I know unit approaches is a good way around this, but in our state we have to inform the education department of our detailed curriculum and the resources we plan to use in advance, and it will be much simpler legal-wise if we can use a purchased curriculum, especially if it's one that's 'approved' by our school - we don't have a homeschoolers' legal defense service here, but the school will do that for us.
My question about it is: How easy is it to implement. I don't mean to imply that I'm lazy, but I'm very new to all this so it looks a bit big and scary (lol) and I am planning to homeschool all 3 children. It will be cheaper for us if the younger children are able to use the same program (use the same teacher's text etc.) but if having three children at different ages doing different levels in the programs is going to be a big headache, I'd like to know now, before I commit to it. Make sense?
I know unit approaches is a good way around this, but in our state we have to inform the education department of our detailed curriculum and the resources we plan to use in advance, and it will be much simpler legal-wise if we can use a purchased curriculum, especially if it's one that's 'approved' by our school - we don't have a homeschoolers' legal defense service here, but the school will do that for us.