Hi I would love some guidence in building my daughters confidnce with narration and recall. She's a bright kid, has a great memory for facts. She has perfectionistic qualities and is highly sensitive and reserved. We are working with WWE 1 and she does really well with the copy work. Handwritting is lovely and from a copywork perspective is probably ready to move into WWE2. With the narrations, she struggles with recall for 1 paragraph. We cant seem to get this happening comfortably or without distress on her part. I dont want to give up on this as I think it is proving there is a lot of value here for her, we just need to find out how to strengthen this skill and help her organise her thoughts. We start lessons again next week and for our narrations I am thinking to go back to some simply written fairy tales and kids stroies she knows well and have her narrate from those to build confidence. Im not sure if this is the best approach though as she is using her long term memory rather than short. Maybe it doesnt matter? Can anyone shed some light on what might be a helpful approach?

Fabulous! Thanks for all of your replies, it is great to see so much variety. I think I have been too prescriptive in my plan and will relax these subjects a litte. Im a music teacher so we listen to and play lots of music and we do a lot of art naturally as well. I think I will just supplement this with books from the library and explore some of the links above for now and do more intensive studies in later years.

Hello, I am planning our new school year (year 2) and I am wondering how you structure you art/music history lessons. Do you study an artist/composer per week, per month? Alternate Art and Music? Doing one a week seems heavy going and it feels like we are fitting in everything to year 2 and I wonder what we will do next year!! Would love to hear your approaches!!