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I am still coming up with my plan for next year with my youngest 2 and got to looking at MP curric. I know it is classical education, and not focused on history. Is it more LCC in nature?

 

 

And has anyone here used the K or 1st grade program? If I went that way for next year dd5 will be a young 6 yr old(turns 6 mid sept) and registered grade 1, but will be doing a hybrid year of K/1st. She is not reading yet, but writes neatly and uniformly, she knows her letters and can do copywork and if I spell out a word for her she can write it. Which level would you go with? K or 1st.

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Hmmm. I'll try answering this, and hope that someone with more experience will also anser. If you can only do one, start with K and modify the writing assignments. Since she is not reading yet, I don't think I would jump into 1st, but because she is writing well I would focus less on the writing in the K program and do more narration. Oh, and to answer your first question, jest it is more LCC.

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I am looking at the MP 1st grade literature for DS for next year (and will probably use it) and when I posted about it on another board, a few moms told me that a kiddo should be reading before starting it. DS will actually do mostly 2nd grade work next year but since there is a HUGE jump from 1st to 2nd with MP, we will do 1st for lit...since he is reading pretty well.

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I don't have any experience with MP packages or their K program. We did use Story Time Treasures and More Story Time Treasures last year with my oldest for 1st grade and really enjoyed the course. IMO, this was perfect for 1st grade. I ordered two more sets for my twin K'ers, but decided to wait until 1st grade, even though they were 5.5 when they started K (and my oldest was just 5 when she started).

 

There's enough writing in STT/MSTT that it seems best right where MP places it -- for 1st grade. This year we are doing the 2nd grade Literature Guides for (1) The Courage of Sarah Noble; (2) Mr. Popper's Penguins, and (3) Beatrix Potter Tales. We're not going to do the guide to Little House in the Big Woods -- saving that for next year, because all four guides would have been too much (we also did 6 weeks of poetry study with Evan-Moor guides, well worth doing). There is a TON of writing in the 2nd grade literature guides. My 2nd grader can manage it, but even I think it's a lot of writing for that level of student. You could reasonably do some of the 2nd grade guides in 3rd grade and still not be short-changing the student. I agree with the above poster, there is a huge jump from 1st to 2nd with the Lit Guides.

 

One thought -- If I had known how much writing was involved in the MP Literature Guides, I would have realized that MP Lit 2 + WWE 2 are enough for Composition for the year! I had something else lined up (WWW), but we quickly ditched it in favor of our other materials. HTH.

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My son is using Grade 2 this year, I discovered MP through LCC, MP is Latin centered. I use Singapore math instead of Rod and Staff.

 

I would start in K. The phonics and reading in K is closer to what a typical 1st grader would be doing in a school setting. It was too advanced for my son, who has reading delays, so we revisited it I'm 1st grade.

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I don't have any experience with MP packages or their K program. We did use Story Time Treasures and More Story Time Treasures last year with my oldest for 1st grade and really enjoyed the course. IMO, this was perfect for 1st grade. I ordered two more sets for my twin K'ers, but decided to wait until 1st grade, even though they were 5.5 when they started K (and my oldest was just 5 when she started).

 

There's enough writing in STT/MSTT that it seems best right where MP places it -- for 1st grade. This year we are doing the 2nd grade Literature Guides for (1) The Courage of Sarah Noble; (2) Mr. Popper's Penguins, and (3) Beatrix Potter Tales. We're not going to do the guide to Little House in the Big Woods -- saving that for next year, because all four guides would have been too much (we also did 6 weeks of poetry study with Evan-Moor guides, well worth doing). There is a TON of writing in the 2nd grade literature guides. My 2nd grader can manage it, but even I think it's a lot of writing for that level of student. You could reasonably do some of the 2nd grade guides in 3rd grade and still not be short-changing the student. I agree with the above poster, there is a huge jump from 1st to 2nd with the Lit Guides.

 

One thought -- If I had known how much writing was involved in the MP Literature Guides, I would have realized that MP Lit 2 + WWE 2 are enough for Composition for the year! I had something else lined up (WWW), but we quickly ditched it in favor of our other materials. HTH.

 

 

Not meaning to hijack...but would you do MP 2 with WWE2 and FLL2, or would that be overkill?

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Well it sounds like it won't be the fit I was hoping for. I thought I would be doing the gr 2 with ds who will be 10 and in 4th by then,. but it sounds like even that will be too hard for him. If based on reading ability I would have to have him in the K program too...well back to the drawing board.

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