M.o.M. Review : My Father's World

A little late this week... but here we go!

I mentioned a while back finally taking the plunge and buying curriculum. We have been using My Father's World for 1st grade and Kindergarten for our two oldest. It has been going great. Let me just say that I love this curriculum. It's so well planned out, easy to use and takes a huge workload out of scheduling. Instead of having to spend the time making school plans, etc, we've been able to make more trips to the library and be involved in more sports/gym activities.

The kindergarten is perfect for our 4 1/2 year old. She knew a lot of her letters and numbers already, but didn't have everything mastered. So it's been great for her. Not to mention our kids have memorized some scripture, learned about Creation in depth, and have been excited every morning for school to start.

I love that while everything is planned already, I can still tailor it to our needs - not do some activities, or do things on a different schedule than suggested.

Isaac has been doing very well in first grade while being challenged in some areas. A lot of his weaknesses are being targeted this year and he's improving quite a bit. We started early this year, in mid-August, so we could go at a little more relaxed pace. I can't wait to see where Isaac is in a month from now given how well he's done so far!

I highly recommend buying the deluxe packages from MFW which I went back and forth over doing for a long time. I feel like it's been so much simpler to have everything we need that's suggested for the curriculum - although I'm sure that just using their Basic would be fine too, you'd have to do more work to pull your whole year together.

I bought an extra Kindergarten workbook for Nora. I knew she'd be completely unsatisfied doing something different from both big kids - and I was right. She doesn't retain the information as well as Giovanna but she enjoys the worksheets and projects just as much. She does quite well and even if I have to buy the same thing again for her next year I'm sure that she will do quite well next year.

I like that for both the Kindergarten and 1st grade they do a 100 chart, so that's something I can have our 3 kids sit down and do all together in the morning. We also all go over the Proverbs verse Isaac is working on memorizing.

We start our morning with Proverbs, then Math. After that I give Isaac his different workbook pages to do while I tackle different reading skills for the girls or their own worksheets. Then we go from there with the planned things for the day. I really like that I can do some of the same things with all the kids together.

All in all I highly recommend this curriculum for anyone who : Doesn't have the time for in depth scheduling or doesn't like or isn't good at the in depth planning, has more than one child, if you want a curriculum that is not just by a Christian publisher but everything is Biblically based, want something that incorporates a lot of fun hands on projects for all subjects, need something with lots of new creative suggestions for you.