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Anyone here use MODG for Kindergarten? Any substitutions you made? Why? Any subs you WISH you made??
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Jamie, the earliest I have used MODG is 2nd grade, but I have an upcoming kindergartner and this is what I am planning to do:
* Keep the poetry plan because they review these for several years. When we began MODG in 2nd my son did not have the K and 1st poems memorized already.
* Try Little Angel Readers instead of 100 EL.
* Love Handwriting Without Tears.
* Math: MUS or LoF. Not sure which.
* Religion: 24 Songs for Catholic Children CD and coloring book, Jesus and I, Family Treasures coloring book, and Chats with God's Little Ones. Maybe the Treasure Box books too, if I can stand the Sunny stories.
* Science: Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and/or Mudpies to Magnets
* Read aloud: seasonal books and songs from my Circle Time/Alphabet Path plans (that I need to blow the dust off of, revise, and re-post on my blog).
I am planning to use FIAR Vol 1 & 2 for 1st grade, Vol 3 & 4 for 2nd.
I am also puzzled as to why the 10 Commandment study is in 3rd grade and not 2nd. I think I would bump the religion focus up a year to prep for FHC.
Sorry I don't have time to add links, but I hope that helps!
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Thanks so much Tracy,
My almost Kindergartner is on lesson 13 in 100 Easy Lessons and will definitely be done with the Kindergarten portion of that before September. What he needs is a lot of practice. He is reading through the Bob books, but what else? Will Little Angel Readers fit that space??
Why handwriting without tears instead of what MODG recommends?
What is MUS and LoF?? And why those instead of the Golden workbooks??
I like their literature recommendations so I plan to go with that. And yes plan to do the poetry memorization they recommend.
Thanks so much!
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Sorry - sometimes I am confused about all the acronyms too!
MUS = Math U See
LoF = Life of Fred
100 Easy Lessons and Bob books worked well for my son. We later switched to Little Angel readers and I wondered why I didn't begin with them in the first place.
Personally, I like the way HWT is so well thought out:
* methodical ways to form the letters (from the top, the left corner, from the center, which ones use straight lines, curved lines, diagonals, which ones dive down, pencil lift or "frog jump") and letters are grouped this way
* the hands on prep work with the wooden pieces and chalk board
* left to right illustrations
The basic products worked for us in the past, though now I see the author had added a lot of bells and whistles to her product line!
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Have you seen the Little Stories for Little Folks readers? (CHC provides these.) We use these as we begin with 100 Easy Lessons, using them where it seems appropriate as well as the first 2 sets of Bob Books. After that we add other simple readers for them to practice on.
I haven't seen the Little Angel readers yet. Sometimes I think there is a lack of really simple readers out there for those children who are just beginning to read. It seems like many jump ahead too fast.
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Jamie, if you don't mind, what are the poems you will be memorizing for Kindergarten?
Tracy, those look like lovely plans! Thank you for sharing.
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Ha! I literally purchased TODAY Little Stories for Little Folks....will likely do their handwriting as well.
Thinking MCP for phonics and spelling.
As for the poems to memorize: Rain by Stevenson, Bed in Summer by Stevenson, The Cow by Stevenson, The Moon by Stevenson, At the Seaside by Stevenson, My Shadow by Stevenson, The Little Turtle
That seems like an awful lot to me, but that is what the syllabus says. We will give it a shot, but not sure how my son will do with all of that. I hope I am surprised!
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We liked the Faith and Freedom readers after Bob book type readers.
We also really like the I See Sam readers, which are free to print online.
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CrunchyMom wrote:
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Where do you get them free, Lindsay? I googled, and it looks like you can buy them in sets, but maybe (probably) I am just missing something?
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We used it for K last year. We did Saxon K for math which we quite enjoyed and I'll be using again this year for my next K'er. We also used HWT just because it was more easily available ( we're in Canada). I think the biggest struggle I had was trying to ridgedly follow the plans instead of taking the suggestions and working them week by week as best as I could. We did enjoy it and are coming back to it for grade 2 and k next year. We do add fun science and history books but nothing formal at the K level.
Tracy, I'm wondering if you've continued HWT throughout the higher levels. I'm debating continuing or switching to a more "pretty" cursive.
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Angel wrote:
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We also really like the I See Sam readers, which are free to print online. |
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Where do you get them free, Lindsay? I googled, and it looks like you can buy them in sets, but maybe (probably) I am just missing something? |
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Free I See Sam
Sorry, I meant to come back and link but forgot.
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Yes, we do switch to a prettier cursive! We have used the cursive books and Copy Books from Memoria Press as well as the Writing Can Help books in the Emmanuel Books catalog.
I am considering dropping handwriting books this year for grades 4, 5, and 7 because they will have ample copy work in RC History, Apologia Science notebooks, and continuing to copy their MODG poetry.
I don't use all of the HWT bells and whistles, but love the basic method of using the wooden pieces, little chalkboard, some of the songs, and the reminders to "frog jump", "dive down", or "slide down".
I am already introducing the concept of letters made from straight lines, curved lines, or both as we match two sets of magnetic letters and sort them into these three categories.
I would love to know if anyone has ever taken Jan's HWT class/workshops? Also wondering when Denise of Logic of English will publish a beginning handwriting curriculum. If I understand correctly, she advocates beginning with lower case cursive letters to prevent reversals.
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