Hi OrganicMom - you might just be my twin. :001_unsure: I LOVED FLL and WWE, but I just couldn't stop feeling that WWE just wasn't enough, something was missing, blah, blah, blah. Looking back, I think that I had a bad case of "keeping up with the Jones". The classical approach to early writing is so different to what they get in public school. And when I was reading WWE and doing the work with my DS I knew in my gut that the classical method was the way to go - but every time I went to a soccer game or a scout meeting and the other Mom's were talking about the book reports and the essays that their second and third graders were writing - I would panic and question my own intuition. Result - I kept trying new things and my son got very confused, we got very behind in WWE and eventually dropped it altogether. Now as we end 5th grade I have a son who is very weak and insecure in writing skills, and as he struggles it is so clear to me that if I had stuck with WWE - just stayed the course - that he would have had the strong foundation he needs to move on to the level of writing that he should be doing now. If the classical approach is the one for you - you just need to trust it. As far as writing accross the curriculum, I think I remember SWB saying in the grammar stage that if you utilize her workbooks, that is sufficient writing work. If you're not using the workbook, then you can take their dictations/narrations/copywork from their other subjects.
Also, just a note to folks planning to supplement FLL with MCT - do be careful. We switched from FLL to MCT after FLL 4 and there was quite a relearning process for us. The two programs approach grammer very differently, in a different sequence, with a different focus, and often using different terminology for the same things. I could see using the two at the same time as possibly getting pretty confusing for kiddios. Just my two cents :001_smile: