3girls4me Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Hey there!! Anyone want to tell me the pros and cons of MFW Creation to the Greeks? I'll have a 5th and 3rd grader using it. I've never used MFW. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbollin Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I’ve used CTG twice. First time was around the year 2004. Oldest was grade 3 (mfw hadn’t written adventures yet so we all started ecc in grade 2 back then). Second time, oldest was grade 8 and middle was grade 5 and we had just moved to a new state. My pros will be another person’s cons. My cons will be another person’s pros. I like the way they make their schedule in the teacher manual.I like most of the books they schedule and work around those I don’t. I used an audio version of The Children’s Homer the second time we did CTG. The first time it was too much for me to read and too much for oldest to listen to all of it so I condensed. I found the hands on learning about old testament doable. I’d like to share some links on mfw’s board where I left some pics of how we scale back on stuff so that I get it done instead of not doing stuff. https://board.mfwbooks.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=4770#p52622 Other people have way better pictures of how fancy they did it. So enjoy that part of the link. I found the tabernacle kind of fun to make. https://board.mfwbooks.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=4761#p47453 Other hands on learning experiences, I scaled back as needed to make it reality for me. Something about tents? Sheet over the couch. Done. I know some people go all out but I didn’t and still liked it. I didn’t always read every single word in a scheduled book out loud. I would read it as teacher and teach from the book. Examples of that include Streams of Civilization and the book on the OT feasts. MFW has this concept of go the to library with our extra reading list and get some of those based on what your library has and/or add other stuff. It’s called Book basket. Book basket that year wasn’t always super full and that was never a problem for us. For some people it’s a big negative. To me it meant we had more time to enjoy some music and art, and do other things. And again in the long run it was all good. Oldest tested out of literature requirement via CLEP for college so those years or weeks in book basket when it wasn’t a lot didn’t hurt. It even worked out the year my oldest was in grade 8 and then the next year she did mfw’s high school ancients. For some people, that would create problems. Instead, she got to work on other things in that first year of high school even if one subject “ancient history†wasn’t over the top new information. It didn’t hurt her in the long run for college. She’s college senior and been on dean’s list each time. And she did quite well in the required world religions general education courses. (It’s not a Bible college, but all students take religious studies the same way everyone has to take a lit course at some point or test out.) Con: I wish I could figure out a way to use CTG with my youngest who has several developmental and intellectual disabilities. Maybe when she’s in her 20s that can happen. With the editions of the teachers manual that I had, I had to remember to read the introduction section and remind myself of things that were to be done all year, but didn't get repeated all year (one example was the use of Streams of Civ with 8th grader. It said in the front of the manual to schedule some of the chapter projects. I had to remember to do that. that's not a big deal really, but I know others missed that part. well at least one my of real life friends did)Ci. Hope some of my memories are helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3girls4me Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmasc Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 (edited) We tried it about 3 years ago. I bought the whole deluxe package. We never used the deluxe stuff at all (art cards, read aloud books, CDs). Pros: -The kids really enjoyed it, especially the hands-on stuff (coloring the timeline pieces, projects, etc) and making the timeline. -They learned and retained some of it. -I liked the TM and how it told me exactly what to read and when. Cons: -Too much for me to do. Too many books to juggle, too many projects, too much time spent for history. Of course, this is for *us*, YMMV. -Didn’t like Streams of Civilization -I’m a box checker, so I wasn’t good at just ‘letting it go’ if things didn’t get finished. We quickly started falling behind and dropped the whole thing by Christmas. :/ It’s a lovely program and definitely worth trying if it looks like something you and your family would enjoy. I haven’t sold mine yet because I’m still hopeful we will try it again someday! Edited January 22, 2018 by mmasc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5sons Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 (edited) My kids and I actually really enjoy steams of civilization. My olders that were using it did not care much for the Student sheets. My youngers did like them. We really enjoyed the music CDs as part of the deluxe package. Kristen ETA correcting my autocorrect Edited January 23, 2018 by 5sons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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