AAR Pre-Level 1 and ETC A, B, C

[bethanyjoy]

I have started AAR Pre-Level 1 with my soon-to-be 4-year-old. I used ETC A, B, and C with her older sister (that was right before AAR Pre-Level 1 came out). Anyway, she sees her older sister "doing school" and wants to do it, too. She is enjoying AAR, but wants to do more. I was looking through my older daughter's old ETC books and wondered about getting my younger one her own set and did those with her in addition to AAR (she likes workbooks!). Do you all think that would be confusing since the order of letters introduced would be different and AAR only introduces capitals first where ETC mixes them up?

 

I'm trying to come up with some quiet activities that my little one can do at the table while I'm working with her older sister (she will be 6 soon), especially since she wants to be right by me and is begging to "do school" at the same time! I thought maybe the ETC books might be an idea, but I don't want to quit doing AAR Pre-Level 1 either!

 

Thanks,

Bethany

[craftyerin]

My kids are currently doing both AAR pre-level 1 and ETC A. Mine don't seem bothered or confused in the least about talking about one letter in AAR and another in their ETC book. We didn't start ETC until we had gotten through the first 1/3 of AAR and were working on lower case letters, though, so we didn't have the overlap of working with both upper and lowercase letters simultaneously. I do have both AAR letter posters hanging, though, so that we can compare the upper and lowercase versions at any point. That seems to help. They're all learning a lot, really fast! I think ETC has been really good for reinforcing letter sounds and helping us toward reading readiness. We're almost finished with A, and will be doing B and C for sure.