I don’t usually get into the minutia of curriculum here (but why not! It is listed on the side as topics I might discuss). For one thing, I don’t want to bore everyone. And for another, in many ways, it doesn’t entirely matter at this level of the game. As long as you do everything every day, one set of materials is probably as good as another. However, I just want to sing the praises of Classical Writing for a minute.
The very first thing is that their materials are really well made and lovely to work with. Alouicious’ primer books are well laid out and easy to follow. They encompass reading good and worthy short stories to narrate and draw, beautiful art to copy and write about, nature study, copy work, and a little bit of light grammar and spelling (to supplement what we’re already doing). There are three primers for the year and we are happily moving into the second one with joy and delight. Alouicious, who wines about everything, saves it for last because he likes it best.
Elphine is under the mistaken impression, right now, that she hates writing. But that is just because she is trying to be a diva and will soon, I hope, leave that ridiculousness behind. She is in the Aesop book and does about two thirds of the work in each week. The other third we abandon for other kinds of writing, mainly science and geography research and writing. Her book is also laid out well and there is plenty of room to analyze and pull apart the text at hand, write it, and then write it again.
I particularly like that both books are laid out by day and week. You can open it up to the day you’re on and start working. It is helped us to keep on track and remember to do it.
And now, once more, into the breach!
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