R&S writing lessons

[hollyhock]

Does anyone do the writing lessons in Rod & Staff and then do narrations and outlines on the side/in other subjects? How does this work for you? I am thinking about expanding my son's writing horizons and seeing how this might work for him. Would love to hear others' experiences.

[2_girls_mommy]

This is what we have always done. My oldest is only 5th grade though, so I don't know what ages you are asking about. But typically she does all R&S assignments. She does at least one history summary per week. She writes summaries/narrations for literature. She has dictation once a week. She has a pen pal that she has written to for years. She memorizes poetry and has occasionally over the years been assigned to write one based on the type we were learning about. Those assignments usually came from SOTW and occasionally from the BCP online plans.

 

In the past she also had science summaries to write, but this year she is doing a more traditional science program (text and written questions) and just reading and orally narrating to me from science biographies that I assign on the side.

[hollyhock]

Thanks. I am talking about 5th grade right now too. I think I'm going to work in one R&S writing lesson a week in the place of one outline and see what happens.

[Clear Creek]

My oldest is in 5th grade and she does all of the R&S writing lessons plus she outlines twice a week from her history book (Famous Men of Rome). Writing is her weakest area, so she does Jump In as well every day (she just finished Wordsmith Apprentice). She does narrations from her science once a week.

[2_girls_mommy]

Sorry, we do the the outlines too. Forgot about that. So mine does all the R&S writing when we come to them, 1-2 History outlines a week, 1-2 history summaries a week (usually just 1) and a couple of literature summaries a month, plus a pen pal letter a month.