Marie131 Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 I'm jumping ahead and thinking about next year already. It would be for grades 1 and 3. I have a workbook lover and a workbook hater, so either way it will be ok for at least one of them. Is it workbook heavy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_the_Rabbit_Hole Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Not in my sense of "workbook heavy". I find it to be very light both ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfknitter.# Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 We just started with red. I glanced through it and I'd call it workbook light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie131 Posted September 17, 2012 Author Share Posted September 17, 2012 Perfect! Thank you :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Hmmm...I've only had experience with LLATL for about two days, but I'd say it's more workbook heavy than workbook light. Not terribly so, though. Each week is divided into 5 lessons and each lesson has several workbook pages. But, I think you could easily skip parts of it for your workbook hater. We are trying to zip through Red quickly and then on into Yellow. Both the Red and Yellow student workbooks are over 370 pages. So far it's a hit for us and I just love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfknitter.# Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 True, but in red I'm noticing larger than usual fonts and not much in terms of areas to fill in. For use so far there's lots of cutting out of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 True, but in red I'm noticing larger than usual fonts and not much in terms of areas to fill in. For use so far there's lots of cutting out of things. That is true. So, it's not light, it's not heavy....it's medium weight. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie131 Posted September 18, 2012 Author Share Posted September 18, 2012 Medium weight, eh? :tongue_smilie: After looking at more samples, I think it will work better for my younger guy than my older guy. Is red appropriate for first grade or is blue better? He's only just started K, so not reading much yet, but I expect he'll be reading by the end of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 Medium weight, eh? :tongue_smilie: After looking at more samples, I think it will work better for my younger guy than my older guy. Is red appropriate for first grade or is blue better? He's only just started K, so not reading much yet, but I expect he'll be reading by the end of the year. Well, I'm no expert....but Red right away (lesson 1) discusses compound words, antonyms, "when two vowels go walking, the first usually does the talking and says his long name", blend words (ch, sh, pl, etc). Looking ahead to lesson 18....ou in out, ou in court, ou in young, word box words: house, double, cloud, country, etc, subject/predicate, quotation marks. I'm actually using Red with an almost 9 year old who can read quite well...but she's missed a lot of these phonics and grammar rules that is needed before starting Yellow. I believe Blue is first grade and Red is 2nd. I'm thinking you should begin with Blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie131 Posted September 18, 2012 Author Share Posted September 18, 2012 Yup, red definitely sounds too advanced for my little one. Thanks for the help :) I'm looking forward to trying this out. I've been eyeing it for a while, I'd like to give it a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie131 Posted September 18, 2012 Author Share Posted September 18, 2012 AprilMay, I see you are also using LOE. I was thinking of this one for my older ds. Are you using LLATL and LOE w/ the same child? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 (edited) I forgot to mention that there are LLATL placement tests, in case you didn't know. AprilMay, I see you are also using LOE. I was thinking of this one for my older ds. Are you using LLATL and LOE w/ the same child? Yes, I'm using both with my dd. I'm mostly using LoE for spelling and cursive. We just had our first lesson yesterday and she absolutely loved it (probably due to the fact that the first lesson begins with a card game called Dragon). The entire time she was doing her workbook pages in LoE she kept saying, "I just love this Logic of English!" "I love cursive now!" ( she hated cursive last year). Edited September 18, 2012 by ~AprilMay~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfknitter.# Posted September 18, 2012 Share Posted September 18, 2012 I have seen people use them a grade ahead to compensate for their lack of riggor, but the red book seems spot on for my 2nd grader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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