I currently homeschool my son who is in 5th grade using abeka curriculum. He does well with all of the subjects, sometimes history is a little difficult, but it has been acceptable. His problem is spelling. While he is doing fine in all the subjects he is continually struggling in spelling...
We used Abeka from K-12. In my experience Abeka used Phonics past the grade that you stated and from K-2 students learned to read and from 3rd grade on, they read to learn. Abeka has a really good reading program with lots of Phonics reinforcement. Learning to read was really painless for my kids and they learned how to read easily and still LOVE to read. My vote, Abeka!
I have been using Rod & Staff since 2nd grade. I am getting ready for ds to be in 6th grade and I want to go to either Abeka or BJU for middle school/high school. I can't get my hands on good samples of either. Can you help compare/constrast them for me?
For example if your child will be 4 by say september you'd use K4 or "early kindergarten" or if your child would be 5 by say September then you go with K5 or Kindergarten. did that help? Our church school uses abeka and the K4 program is like a pre-k or early kinder program and K5 is actual kindergarten.
I have had the hardest time deciding what phonics program to go with...Abeka vs. some of the less known curriculums such as frontline phonics or rocket phonics. Since I was tired of beating my head against the wall I decided to just go with the A Beka because it is more popular. (great...