What ciriculum do you use and what made you choose that one?

[DeChRi]

Just curious :)

[Satori]

Its going to vary a lot, for us I have a child who is on the more extreme end of being a visual-spatial/right brain learner and she has auditory processing issues. We didn't know this until this past school year when I pushed for testing for learning disabilities. It meant she had zero chance of succeeding with regular materials and I needed to do pretty much redo everything. For us switching to things like Teaching Textbooks, ReadingPlus (to help with both reading speed and tracking issues), time 4 learning, brainpop, youtube, supercharged science, things that were highly visual and didn't require a lot of listening or reading (which is an auditory skill and a weak point due to visual processing issues, we will slowly push those skills over the next year while we deal with medical issues causing the visual processing problems).

What didn't work for us:

K12.com school (wonderful for auditory learners though!)

Traditional book curriculum's

time4writing (trying BraveWriter this semester)

MathUSee

Singapore

Now for my kindy I'm trying to figure out how to teach her, she's a very different learner from my older dd that were trying the K12 school with her since she did wonderfully on a trial of it but she also LOVES stories which the materials are full of.

I would say, figure out what type of learner your child is then see what others are using to teach that style. TWTM forum was/is awesome for helping me piece together something for my older dd once we knew what we were dealing with but a big part of it was knowing she was on the extreme end of being a VSL/RB kid.

fwiw, I HATED hs'ing before we learned all this stuff about her learning ways/challenges, now its a piece of cake and its all due to knowledge that allowed me to find materials that teach to my dd's strength and abilities. I wish I had known about all this stuff years ago!

[DeChRi]

Thank you!  I will take your advice...I never even thought about the different learning styles and type of materials.  My 4 yr old is an extremely versatile leaner.  My now 19 month old, who knows...but I suspect she will be my challenge. ;)