For K: Writing with Ease I, FLL 1, Frog & Toad readers, Singapore 1A/1B, Rightstart B, and various history & bio books (D'Aulaire bios, Eggleston, musicians).

I will be afterschooling a k'er. We've been working through OPGTR and Singapore Essentials during her pre-k year. We opted for late-start kindergarten (still a.m.) so we can do our "afterschooling" before school.

I also read TWTM and started WEM before I had kids. I was done with grad school, re-evaluating my own educational experience and had always been interested in the idea of the Renaissance Man which brought me to classical ed and TWTM. I've re-read TWTM several times since having kids and now have a rising K'er. I start with TWTM resource reco's and for pre-school and soon afterschooling we have followed it ~ 75%. I read nearly all of TWEM until modern poetry, when I kept having repeated problems getting some of the books. Both have been great resources.

My 4YO (amost 5) has also had success with OPGTR and is at lesson 200. We didn't follow it to the letter - often we skipped over some of the sentence reading until her stamina increased. Little games like the "sight card shuffle" worked well and we made up some flashcard games of our own to reinforce distinguishing different long vowel sounds, etc. We never used ETC but I reco OPGTR. My younger ones (2.5 YO) beg to do the Big Book and they'll be starting soon too.

Hi, We made a long vowel sorting game with these words on flashcards and my daughter reads them and puts them in the A,E,I,O, or U bucket. Sometimes we just focused on a few buckets, like A/E/I combos. We are almost done with OPGTR but still periodically do this for review. Jennifer

Hi, I started AAS in May with my DD who is turning 5 this summer. We were over 1/2-way through OPGTR and she started writing stories and letters to me & DH phonetically. So I needed something to teach her how to spell correctly. We just finished AAS 1 and will start the next which I think will go slower. We use the tiles for the lessons that involve a choice among options (e.g. use c or k or ck). Otherwise right to dictation. I plan to keep reviewing the earlier things as we go along but for us AAS has reinforced the reading and it is turning into a virtuous cycle. Jennifer