My 4th & last baby will be a 6th grader! Math- Saxon 7/6 (this is new for us, we like CLE but she is taking this through a coop so I Hope it works out). LA- Rod & Staff English 6 Writing- Writing With Skill L1 History- Notgrass From Adam to Us part 2; From Castles to Computers Science- History of Science and labs at a class Lit- The King’s Fifth, Madeleine Takes Command, The Switherby a pilgrims, The Chestry Oak, Children of the Storm, Along Came Galileo, The Story of Thomas Alva Edison, Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia, Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein Spanish- class Art- History of Art & Music following along with Notgrass

I am so sorry I just saw this! That sounds like a good plan. I like moving back & forth between curriculum to keep things fresh too. We are really enjoying Level 4! We tried to juggle W&R with tgtb L4 while finishing up IEW ATF&F that her coop was doing. That was too much. We have dropped the coop & solely focussing on tgtb & I have been very happy with everything in level 4 ! We have done the concurrent lessons in the creative companion and are almost done with part 1. I flipped through part 2 & the rest of the creative companion, and I really like the writing assignments. I think we will just keep on keeping on with tgtb for now. Maybe we will revisit W&R this summer. But I am really happy with TGTB level 4 and my daughter is doing really well with it too. I hope you are able to make all the things you want to do work! Enjoy !

I saw that from tgtb. You will have to let me know what you think of it if you use it. On a whim last night I bought Sonlight Science D’s pack. Some of the books I was thinking of using already so It seemed to be a good package. It touches on Biology, Taxonomy, and Human Anatomy.... we shall see!

Math: CLE 500’s LA ; tgtb level 5 & BF History of the Horse History: Tgtb Y4: Ancient Rome, The Reformation/ History of the bible, Slavery/ The Civil War Era, The Civil Rts Movement, Post WW2 History Science: Sonlight Science F: Health, Medicine, Human Anatomy plus Tgtb Maturation Unit Art & electives: Water Color, Theater Suessical the Musical with coop, cooking challenge competition class in coop Bible: Case for Christ with coop, L&L bible & hymn study PE: Beach days, Park days, Coop recess, horse back riding 2x a wk, bike riding, swimming, dog walking.

Thank you for saying this! This was my initial thought & “feeling” looking through books 2 & 3. I haven’t ordered anything yet because I just couldn’t bring myself to order book 2.... she can easily write a multi paragraph narrative, so your comment has been very helpful!

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Thanks, yes, You are quite right and I meant “narrative writing”, not narrations. I actually think we did more narrations in W&R then IEW. Since we are coming off of a year of written narratives in IEW (we disliked it sooo much) I think the title W&R Narrative 1, 2 is throwing me off because of the IEW narrative aversion rt now.... lol, if that makes any sense. I only have the fables book so went back through it & we started halfway through it again this week...... we still love it, but not sure what book we will do next.

W&R stands for Writing & Rhetoric. It is a writing curriculum from Classical Academic Press. We love it so much more then IEW

It does look reading heavy, which I like. I like when reading is built into an LA spine like that, then I can just let her choose & read books about her own interests. Anyhow, I am Interested to hear your progress and see which direction you take! Good luck ❤️

I hope it works for you both! On another note, You said your son did W&R and level 4? How did you like it? I am trying to decide whether to continue on to Tgtb level 4 with W&R or just do W&R and a different grammar/spelling. Were you able to use W&R with L4, or is it too much writing? I keep looking at it and we love W&R & tgtb, but I keep thinking “remember-Less is more for this child”. I don’t want to try to tackle too much... lol Level 4 seems so different in format, we like the art but my daughter does not like geography. She already flipped through it and grimaced.... not a good sign as she really loved levels 1-3. Ugh! What to do, what to do!

Yes! That is exactly what I did with my youngest- dropped everything but tgtb level 2 and just focussed on that for LA and she thrived! Less is more for her - maybe yours too?! It was easier for me as well. Then when we completed level 2, we started level 3 (which was a lot of review from 2 blah!). She begged to do writing. So We did W&R after completing Level 2. I don’t know what your goals are, but at this stage, I think if you want to minimize- wait to complete level 2, then start W&R. Doing W&R and L2 would have been too much at the stage we were at. My daughter also wasn’t ready for a writing curriculum until after tgtb 2. Hope that helps

I see, we actually loved the spelling rules & dictation within the coursebook lessons themselves. My daughter thrived with level 2 (after finding what worked for us, dictation was difficult at first). We did not do the sp words from the companion because those words are read & practiced within the coursebook lessons- they are used within the sp dictation sentences as well. So you are actually learning & working with all of the spelling words without knowing you are. This replaces busy work, drill & kill. But, maybe that has changed in the new updated version, not sure. But ordering the hard copy was worth it to me. I would wait until after level 2 to start W&R, but that is just me. My daughter is a creative, natural writer and this progression worked well for her.

What level are you using in tgtb? We did tgtb levels 1-3 and I used W&R with Tgtb level 3. We skipped all of the writing workshops in tgtb 3 and Did W&R instead. We used W&R sporadically, maybe every other week & we loved both together, it made for a really lovely combo! But, if you have a spelling you like, then you could drop tgtb, use W&R, and all you would have to add is a grammar and read books of your choice. Easy grammar comes to mind. I did this last yr- after tgtb level 3; we continued W&R with spelling one week, then Easy grammar with spelling the next week. Again, not sure what age, level you are thinking though.

I need help with W&R placement. My 10 year old natural writer just finished IEW's All Things Fun & Fascinating through our Coop. It was not our favorite. It was pretty easy for her, but dreadful. Before we did IEW, we went through W&R book 1 Fable. We absolutely LOVED it and I would like to continue on with it. I have been looking through books 2 - 4, and having a difficult time deciding where to place her! We did so many narratives in IEW I am thinking book 2 would be more of the same. I want her to be challenged but still enjoy it. Book 3 appeals more to us. Book 4 seems like it might be just rt. skill wise but the content just doesn't appeal to me as much. I also keep reading that book 4 is difficult, so I am unsure where to jump back in. Has anybody else been in a similar situation after IEW and have any Thoughts?? Thank you!!