m0mmaBuck Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Anyone use this alongside SOTW? I have one child who loves drawing and the program intrigues me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommy5 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I haven't used it ... but I thought about it. I decided to use Draw Write Now for my 7 yr old, instead. He loves it! If your child is older, I think the Draw and Write through History looks good ... we aren't doing cursive, yet, so that was part of our reason to wait on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aconnolley Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I bought this for my daughter who loves to draw and uses her Draw Write Now books all the time. She didn't end up using it as much as I would have liked. I think that we both forgot about it. :glare: The first book includes cursive copywork and instructions for drawing: Plant Tree Dinosaur Adam and Eve Noah's Ark Giraffe Wooly Mammoth Tower of Babel Pyramid Mummy Sphinx Silkworm Moth Giant Panda Joseph Moses Frogs Locusts Quail Ark of the Covenant Trojan Horse David Sheep Phoenician Ship Sperm Whale I wish that I had been more organized with including it with our curriculum as I think that my daughter would have enjoyed it. :001_smile: Angela Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I don't use them as written -- but we keep them as a resource and sometimes pull them out to draw something related to a history lesson (or just let the kids use them as the fancy strikes). I'm not crazy about the text in the books, but the drawings are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I ordered them for DD who loves to draw, and my plan is to try to use them as copywork/art next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 Thanks for the input. I like the idea. I just don't know if I would implement them in any way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Thanks for the input. I like the idea. I just don't know if I would implement them in any way... Since we do a lot of writing related to history, I will occasionally assign a drawing *instead* of a writing assignment. As I said, I don't pay much attention to the text in DWtH, but we do make good use of the drawing. It's a nice break from narrating / outlining / summarizing / timelining / mapping while still reinforcing what we've learned. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted April 1, 2012 Author Share Posted April 1, 2012 Since we do a lot of writing related to history, I will occasionally assign a drawing *instead* of a writing assignment. As I said, I don't pay much attention to the text in DWtH, but we do make good use of the drawing. It's a nice break from narrating / outlining / summarizing / timelining / mapping while still reinforcing what we've learned. :) Thank you! That was actually one of of my thoughts when I saw the program. I'm hoping to make HS'ing a little more fun for everyone involved next year and my kids (at least DD) love to draw. I was thinking it might cover me a little bit for art too since that is an area in which we remain eternally deficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Since we do a lot of writing related to history, I will occasionally assign a drawing *instead* of a writing assignment. As I said, I don't pay much attention to the text in DWtH, but we do make good use of the drawing. It's a nice break from narrating / outlining / summarizing / timelining / mapping while still reinforcing what we've learned. :) :iagree: Thank you! That was actually one of of my thoughts when I saw the program. I'm hoping to make HS'ing a little more fun for everyone involved next year and my kids (at least DD) love to draw. I was thinking it might cover me a little bit for art too since that is an area in which we remain eternally deficient. I plan out when we will use drawings from this (or Draw Write Now). We don't use the text, usually. It takes us one sitting to draw the item & one or more sittings to color/shade it. (The coloring/shading is where the beauty comes in, IMO.) I use it as a supplement, for some artistic teaching (shading, perspective, etc.), or instead of a writing (written narration) assignment for my artsy one. We are doing "History Notebooks" this year to go along with our American History. This is one of the things that ends up in our History Notebooks! I usually do the drawing right along with them so they can see that mine isn't perfect, either. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeganW Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 FYI - they are young earth. (Dinosaurs on Noah's ark, and apparently some of the text supports that viewpoint as well.) That may or may not appeal, but just wanted you to know upfront! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmomjacquie Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 We got one that goes with our adventures topics for next year. Will use it more for the art side of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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