c21cg
- Reviewed on Wednesday, March 31, 2010
- Grades Used: 4th
- Dates used: 8/2009 - 4/2010
I am homeschooling my grandson who has mild autism. He couldnot function in streamlined school. I am able to adjust his lessons to all one subject per day, instead of switching back and forth between 4 different lessons. He is very computer literate and gets a kick out of the silly games on the software. I am glad the lessons are short as his attention span is too. We supplement the school is History channel, A&E, Discovery etc and he seems to retain what he is learning. We are doing this as a family effort for him. We will continue on with 5th grade. Originally I signed up with the academy and it was 1200.00 but 5th grade will be just the software. It was difficult to learn how to rearrange the days but now we have it down.
In other words, we love SOS
Nana
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skjnoble
- Reviewed on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
- Grades Used: 3rd Grade
- Dates used: 2009--2010 School Year
We absolutely are thrilled with this curriculum, but I do understand that it isn't for everyone and we do supplement with other things. We combined this with easyclassical.com. My oldest son is using it for 3rd grade and is enjoying it. There are some challenges at first with getting set up and getting him used to typing, but it has helped him with his typing skills quite a bit. He works in 4 subjects--math, geography/history, language arts and science. I would recommend this to anyone who is trying to free up some time, but has the patience to work a little at the beginning. It has really worked for our family quite well. :)
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estoria
- Reviewed on Saturday, September 12, 2009
- Grades Used: 3rd-7th
- Dates used: 2006-2009
We have used SOS since we started homeschooling. I have really enjoyed SOS, and my kids have done well with it. It really helped that my children could work so independently. They would set up their laptops and get started on what was to be done that day, calling on me when they needed any help. SOS has a built in lesson planner that you can set up with your school dates and it configures what needs to be done to finish all the curric by your last day. The student logs in and does what it shows needing done for that day. It does not do every subject everyday, and may have them do two math lessons in one day.I thought there are too many quizes, but they are easily removed. Math is the least liked subject for me, it's hard for younger students to get the message trying to carry and borrow over the computer. Bible is my fave subject, I love the way it is set up on SOS and my kids have learned so much from it. Science comes in 2nd, and 3rd is History. We loved the 4th grade History the most. Language Arts is good, but the spelling is lacking. I would have my kids go into the spelling bee and play till they aced it before they took the spelling test. They weren't really studying spelling all week, so I don't think they were really retaining the information.
This year we are trying something new for LA and Math. I feel like they need traditional "paper work" for these subjects. But we will continue using SOS for Bible, Science, and History.
I would recommend SOS, but it is not for everyone. Your child needs to have good computer skills. It was recommended to me, and I wished I'd listened, don't do SOS for every subject. I think it gets to be to much. Maybe starting in about 6th you could, but a 3rd grader really needs to have the written work.
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godlovesyou777
- Reviewed on Monday, August 31, 2009
- Grades Used: 3rd
- Dates used: 2009-2010
I have wanted to use SOS ever since I started homeschooling my daughter 4 years ago, but we had to wait until she was in the 3rd grade. She's finally in the 3rd grade and we started SOS a week ago. She has completed 6 days and I don't know what I think about it. I think I need some advice or something because I'm just not loving it. The lessons seem soooo short and it doesn't lay out the lesson for the parent to know what to do. It gives you vocabulary words, then you play the spelling bee immediately after it and you don't know how to spell the words yet. Then you get problems to answer at the bottom of the lesson, but my daughter reads the lesson once and has to go back and reread it over and over to find the answer because it doesn't seem to drill it in her head. After 2 days of lessons they quiz her on what she has learned, and she has no idea of the correct answer because she has only had 2 lessons about it. My other complaint is I scheduled it for due dates and it only schedules like 3 of the 6 subjects for a day. I thought she would do all 6 subjects everyday. I have been making her do all 6 subjects each day because that's how we did it all the other years. It makes sense for spanish to only be like 3 days a week, but I would think she needs history and science everyday. I don't know, I want to like this curriculum so bad but I just don't know about it yet. If you are an expierenced SOS mom, please email me with suggestions or advice to make this a good experience. For a first time, computer-savvy mom, I'm just not excited. My email is Godlovesyou777@yahoo.com. Thank you so much for your help!!
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