Weaver Junior High and High School supplements

by Sharon
(Leavenworth, Kansas)

Product: Weaver supplements for volumes 1 and 4.
Subjects: Science, language, history, ect. (not math)
Levels used: 7th-9th grades.

I love Weaver! I really do. Rebbeca Avery is so bright and so full of ideas, that she makes my own head swim.

Dates used: 2006 to 2008

Likes: I have never seen so much information so packed into one 3-ring binder! This is intense. Your child will be one smart kid if he gets even half of what is in one supplement. I thought the materials were very complete and scholarly.

Dislikes: My problem was the order of them. There were divisions between grades. The dividers were between units. This made finding the right objectives for the right child much harder than the color-coded Weaver volumes.

One should also understand the the supplement goes with the volume. Even if you do not have a child who between K and 6th grade (the levels covered in the volumes) you will still need to purchase the volumes for the bible lessons and other general information that will help you see why the child is studying that objective at that time.

I also found it more difficult to teach high school without textbooks. Even Mrs. Avery wrote that those may be needed. However, instead of simply studying one subject one year, the student will study many different objectives in different subjects and keep going back to those varied subjects until the course work is done.

For example, it may be that the child completes 1/3 biology in 9th grade, 1/3 biology in 10th grade and 1/3 biology in 11th grade. This type of record keeping was too hard for me.