I will use Switched on Schoolhouse by Alpha Omega. This curriculum is computer based & allows me to take a step back from being "the bad guy." I really feel that this will benefit my relationship with Taylor, yet keep her apart of our homeschool. This will also give her more responsibility for her academics. The computer grades the work, the computer tells her what needs to be redone, the computer plans the week out & I can add or alter whereever necessary & still blame the computer. Switched on Schoolhouse will guide her in:
Bible: fundamental beliefs of Christianity & Bible History
History & Geography: History of the Western Hemesphere *American History
Language Arts: Literature, Poetry, & Reports
Math
Science: Life Cycles - Balance in Nature
The history & science is very similar to what I will be doing with Tyler using different curriculum - so she will still have the opportunity to be apart of "the fun stuff." She really enjoys TOG, so I can still have her do some of that work too if need be or desired.
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I bought SOS for science this year to see how this concept would work for my two DDs. They loved it! However, the learned nothing. They played the games and such. But, they couldn't get any of the answers correct. I originally set it so they could have as many tries as possible for the lessons, but they would just guess away. Then I set it so they only had three tries. They would still guess. But, they never really learned (or cared) why they got it wrong. Then when it came time for quizzes or tests, they failed. I reset the software so they could take it again - failed again. Same result the third time. They were too caught up in getting to the games that they weren't processing the information they were reading, and they weren't learning what they needed to learn from the questions in the units to adequately get the information for the tests. I have a very good friend who uses this for her two oldest with wonderful results. She switched to it for much the same reason you are. I hope that you have the same results that she did and not have to go through what I did. We have abandoned it for now. I will be using Apologia starting in March, and I will find the parts of lessons in SOS that correspond and use those as filler activities.
Blessings.
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