My year of reviewing for Schoolhouse Reviews is at an end. I feel sad about this. I am waiting, hoping to be chosen to do this again next year, but I won't know until the end of the week. I have so enjoyed being part of the crews. Nice group of people to work for with clear expectations. :) 30 reviews I did if I didn't miss my count. Kept us busy. Anyways, on the board that is part of this review process someone recently asked, what review products are you still using? I thought that would make an excellent blog post so here I am, telling you what, of all the 23-24 products I reviewed am I still using. The links will point you to my reviews for each of them. :) We Use These Regularly We thoroughly enjoy Reading Kingdom. It has clear expectations, the lad knows how much I expect him to accomplish. I see the results in his learning. It is so clear cut it works well for him. We did have a rough start with the program but have now hit our groove with it. The Scaredy Cat Reading System byJoyce Herzog is also a winner for us. We don't use it all the time, but it is such a flexible program with definable goals that my son is becoming more confident with his reading. :) Chess House. It inspired us to start our own chess club. We love it's portability and everything about it. Bible Study Guide for all ages was a huge hit i our house. It works both for teacher and son. The lad isn't keen on the timelines, likes the geography and overall finds the format easy to use, understand and read. :) We've purchased more in the series. French Essentials was one of the last reviews we did, we continue to use it and plan to download ALL the units as they come in. Excellent program. Last but not least isIXL.com. We use this a couple of times a week as a let's do something that won't take long and will either tell you what you know well, or tell Mom what we need to work on. :) We use these Sporadically Lonestar Learning. We use this about 1-3 times per month. Gives the lad good practice with word problems. He's getting to the point where he can do it himself. :) Essentials in Writing is s a program that I very much enjoyed and my son did to. My problem is I keep forgetting about it. :) I shouldn't do that. My goal is to finish it by the end of the year. :) Circle Time isn't so much a program as an awareness of how having a regular start to the day is important. When we don't have our regular time, it feels like we don't get anything done in our day even though I know we do. One I want to finish but can't Adventus is a program I LOVED. My son loved it to. We used it regularly up til about 2 months ago when my computer needed to be rebooted I think is the correct term. Ever since then I can't get it to work again. I find it frustrating. There were others we enjoyed But the point of this post was to say what we are using now. :) We enjoyed Seed Sowers, Gryphon house, birdcage press and many others. But some were short term reviews and others are on-going programs. It has most definitely been an interesting year filled with lots of learning. :) I am hopeful I'll be chosen for next year as well. OH!!! Guess what. Others thought this would be a fun idea as well and so to coincidence with the blue ribbon awards, we're doing a linky to celebrate our favourite reviews. Please do come join us as we thank our vendors! :) Join here.
annette
11/22/2013 11:01:59 am
it's a great resource isn't it? :)
annette
11/23/2013 03:32:16 pm
thank you ladies for stopping by. :) It's been fun! AND... I've been accepted back for next year. Pretty cool eh? I was on pins and needles all week. :) 11/25/2013 09:00:26 am
Adventus, Bible Study Guide and IXL are some of my favorites too!! 12/6/2013 01:52:14 am
Fun to see you all using some of our favorites as well! We love Reading Kingdom and Bible Study for All Ages- we start with that every morning! 12/6/2013 01:53:55 am
It has been a great year! So many great vendors. Looking forward to another fabulous year of goodies! Comments are closed.
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