It would be mine too. Definitely my favorite activity with my boys. 🙂 Today is Read Where You Are day by the way! Snap a pic of reading with the kids, share and use the hashtag #ReadWhereYouAre! 🙂

Forgot to add: we’re starting in six days. I’m having baby #6 in Sept so I want to get a month under our belt before we take a little “maternity break” when little sister joins us. I am glad to see I’m not the only one in a fetal position, hoarding all the chocolate!!! Just ordered my last curriculum books on Amazon today (good golly I love Amazon Prime!).

Hey Danielle! I have to say, the student workbooks are pretty self explanatory. You will have to review concepts with them and go over certain things like counting by 5’s, 10’s, etc. All in the name of being thorough, the teacher workbooks come with really big lessons attached to them and we found it to be TOO thorough, if that makes sense. This probably sounds bad, but they were grasping the concepts just fine, so we were all aintnobodygottimeforthat. We started out with teacher workbooks, but since the student versions were explain-as-we-go with the layouts, we ditched them. The lessons are very much build-as-you-go, and the review is also thorough. So it all depends on your style; on the kiddo’s learning style and your math abilities. We were fine, however… aside from googling a few terms we’d forgotten ;} Our kids picked it up with ease – our Kindergartener this year, started level K last year, and now he’s on first grade math – and the program is age appropriate but now he’s ahead because it was pretty great with the layouts and the ease of use. We’re picking up the handbook this year for grade 4 because I’m terrible at math and want to be thorough – but we will only use it as a reference for tough spots. I hope that helps!