Our Beast Academy books arrived last night thanks to the excellent service of Horrible Books. I love Horrible Ray - he is great at communicating with you about your order, and always sends you the books first - without payment - free shipping - and then you send him a check upon receipt. Seems crazy to me in this day and age, but he provides excellent service, and builds his business solely on word of mouth. Amazing!
So we started out with math this morning since so far this week we have been focusing on language arts. We went through the first few pages, did the first set of exercises, read a Horrible Science Magazine, and then took a short break. Except, Mavster picked up his Beast Academy text book (written in comic-book form) and continued to read on his own for nearly the next 2 hours! He took a break in the middle and taught me a game they had in the book "don't make a triangle" that we played a few times. And then we ate lunch, and he picked the book up again! This was our first moment in homeschooling where Mavster really got "in" to something and needed to continue until his thirst for knowledge was satisfied.
I know he just completed 3rd grade, and the only Beast Academy level (by Art of Problem Solving) that is out so far is 3rd grade, but it takes the topics in to a lot more depth, and he is learning & interested and gaining his mathematical confidence back!
So, I consider Beast Academy a huge success! Tonight at bedtime, he picked up his Beast Academy and started reading again!
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