Questions About MCT

[Guest gracereece]

Hello to ALL!

 

This is my first ever post, so I'm coming out from lurking in the shadows! =)

 

Through my lurking, I've discovered MCT here about two years ago. I find mixed reviews. Again, I don't want to invest in a system only to discover it doesn't work for us. Would it be too much to do MCT and IEW together? How long does it take at the beginner level of MCT to do? Any other helpful advice/tips that I'm not thinking to question? My ds memorizes pretty well, but is very active. I'm thinking of using MCT to prepare my son for CC Essentials? Do you think it would be too much or that parts of it would be great to use instead of the whole thing? Thanks for the input and help! This forum is such a blessing! =)

 

Hugs!

[KellyMama]

Giving your post a 'bump!' :)

 

I don't know how to answer all of your questions because we've only used MCT to supplement our LA line-up (GWG and WWW, Abeka Spelling) but we love it!!! So far we've read through Sentence Island and are about halfway through Building Language. I plan to read Music of the Hemispheres in 4th quarter. We're also reading the new Mud trilogy books (based on Mud the fish - introduced in Setence Island).

 

I'm looking into doing IEW next year, but that would just replace our WWW curriculum for writing, not any of the MCT books we've used. I think whether or not it ends up being 'too much' would depend on how you plan to use MCT and IEW. For example, you could do the entire MCT program for LA, and then after viewing the TWSS DVDs, choose to use IEW to implement 'writing across the curriculum.' I think the programs would compliment each other just fine like that. Again, I don't use all the components of MCT so I can't speak from experience, but hopefully someone else will chime in! :)