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Posted: Sept 29 2012 at 12:47am | IP Logged Quote Mary Fifer
I'm with Marilyn.

First, I want to apologize for cramming so much information into my post above - I was SOOOO new to websites and barely knew what a forum was or how it worked. I did not see that I was adding too much that did not apply to the topic of this thread.

Now I understand the idea of keeping one idea in one thread and that is the reason that I write today nearly two years later.

We were snowed out of going to that IEW meeting, but a friend of mine loaned me her TWSS last year which convinced us to buy our own copy. Mr. Pudewa is a born teacher and our children love what he is teaching. I am using some of his ideas with our younger children but it is our 12th grader who is zooming ahead simply "taking the course" herself and using it toward her research paper. I am so impressed with the changes in her writing, spelling, handwriting and eagerness to write. This alone was worth the price of the DVDs and binder. He's right that a high school student can gain a great deal from the course in a short time.

Our set has bonus DVDs and in one of these he explains that in the time that had lapsed since he had first published the DVDs he saw that he should have promoted being sure to move through the units rather than dwelling on the early units too long. If you do something through all the units through the year, you and your children do not get stumped or bored so easily. I agree with him that actually doing it is the key to understanding what he's taught. I was glad to hear, too, that he wouldn't have changed the original DVDs.

As for Marilyn's question of age at the start of this thread, I'm finding that our older children benefit most; but that I'm teaching the younger ones with more confidence and better ideas so they might be the long term winners.

Again and again, thank you for posting this info!


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