Just looking for feedback from anyone who may have used any of the MBTP programs.
I've purchase a single unit before (we plan to use it this year) on Little House. With my older DS we're pretty well set with what we're using for curriculum anyway. I'm tempted by their new 10-12 curriculum but it's SO expensive, even if we just get the online version and the science kits, getting our own books from the library, it's still over $400.
But now I'm looking at the 5-7 curriculum for DD. She's only 3.5, but quite gifted, she meets the prerequisites of knowing all letters and sounds, starting to read C-V-C words, and understanding numbers to 20. And looking through the samples, there are some activities similar to some things we've done already, with some Teachers Book Bag units for instance.
We're a very Waldorf and CM-inspired family and I'm totally on board with delayed academics, but this girl ASKS for worksheets. She was very upset the other day when she couldn't find her 'green book for drawing numbers in', and I couldn't figure out what she meant, until I realized it was the green binder in which I had placed all the printed out worksheets from some e-books I'd got from currclick... Lots of finish-the-pattern, colour-by-numbers, tracing pictures, circle-the-number-of-objects, that kind of thing.
She spent a good hour just doing worksheets from the binder of her choosing, and today did some more as well, completely on her own initiative (I didn't know she was doing them until she came to show me her finished sheets!)
She also loves the hands-on projects, when DS was doing a science project involving sprouting some seeds, she had to do it too.
ANYWAY, long story short, I think she'd really enjoy this program. BUT, #1 it's expensive, #2 do we REALLY need any curriculum at all, even if she would enjoy it, and #3... one of the sample lessons, on animal habitats, has a caption and illustration for "A penguin waddles in the arctic".
Uh.... okay. A very CONFUSED penguin waddles in the arctic!!! If this basic error made its way in, are there other problems with the program as well? Is it a way overpriced terrible hunk of garbage? Or is it great, with just this single little (little? only half the globe little...) mistake??
I've purchase a single unit before (we plan to use it this year) on Little House. With my older DS we're pretty well set with what we're using for curriculum anyway. I'm tempted by their new 10-12 curriculum but it's SO expensive, even if we just get the online version and the science kits, getting our own books from the library, it's still over $400.
But now I'm looking at the 5-7 curriculum for DD. She's only 3.5, but quite gifted, she meets the prerequisites of knowing all letters and sounds, starting to read C-V-C words, and understanding numbers to 20. And looking through the samples, there are some activities similar to some things we've done already, with some Teachers Book Bag units for instance.
We're a very Waldorf and CM-inspired family and I'm totally on board with delayed academics, but this girl ASKS for worksheets. She was very upset the other day when she couldn't find her 'green book for drawing numbers in', and I couldn't figure out what she meant, until I realized it was the green binder in which I had placed all the printed out worksheets from some e-books I'd got from currclick... Lots of finish-the-pattern, colour-by-numbers, tracing pictures, circle-the-number-of-objects, that kind of thing.
She spent a good hour just doing worksheets from the binder of her choosing, and today did some more as well, completely on her own initiative (I didn't know she was doing them until she came to show me her finished sheets!)
She also loves the hands-on projects, when DS was doing a science project involving sprouting some seeds, she had to do it too.
ANYWAY, long story short, I think she'd really enjoy this program. BUT, #1 it's expensive, #2 do we REALLY need any curriculum at all, even if she would enjoy it, and #3... one of the sample lessons, on animal habitats, has a caption and illustration for "A penguin waddles in the arctic".
Uh.... okay. A very CONFUSED penguin waddles in the arctic!!! If this basic error made its way in, are there other problems with the program as well? Is it a way overpriced terrible hunk of garbage? Or is it great, with just this single little (little? only half the globe little...) mistake??
