jwoodbri Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I find the activities in WWE level 1 at least and the questions and narration activities in SOTW AG redundant to the point where I gave up WWE last year. So now I was thinking about adding it back in starting at level 2 but it still looks redundant from what I can tell. Any thoughts? I would love to streamline language as we are currently using... FLL2 AAS2 ETC BTC (Beyond...) WW HWT and then possibly WWE2 That's a lot of what ends up being seemingly unrelated language work for my second grader. None of it is difficult at all it's just time consuming. I'd love it to be more connected. Thanks again! Jess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebacabunch Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Why not use SOTW for the narration/copywork? It can be tedious but it really does work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I used WWE and SOTW AG. Instead of doing copywork from SOTW, I just did oral narrations. We did probably 2-3 oral narrations per day in 1st grade, and my son didn't mind (and got VERY good at them). He only did copywork in WWE though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourisenough Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 With my 7 (turning 8 end of October) year old daughter (3rd grade), I'm doing this: FLL 3 as written (we do the optional dictation exercises, but not the extra activities); WWE 2 (currently on week 21 - picked up where we left off last spring) at faster pace - generally do 2 days at a time, 3 times per week; SOTW 2 AG - only do the discussion questions orally, no narrations or written work; oral narrations of literature selections; Evan-Moor building spelling skills 4 + spelling city for extra practice/fun; Evan-Moor Daily Handwriting Practice/Modern Cursive (I skip this if it seems like she'd done a lot of writing that day). Last year, the differences were: Spelling Workout B (too easy, so we went very fast), Wordly Wise 2 (good, but I decided I could accomplish the same ends via FLL/WWE/SOTW/literature discussion), Zaner-Bloser 2 Cursive. She finished ETC in first grade (I stopped after book 4, I think, b/c it was obvious she no longer needed it). I'm not sure how much more streamlined we are this year; I guess the difference between my schedule and yours is that we're not doing ETC or WW (I'm assuming you mean Wordly Wise). If you feel like your child still needs those programs, keep it up. 1st/2nd does always seem to feel very Language Arts heavy, IMO. HTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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