Classical curriculum

[sieglinde]

Is anyone else doing this? The Susan Wise Bauer one? My dd is doing Latin, Greek - yep, I know this isn't in Bauer - and Logic, though we aren't following absolutely all of it to the letter - but that's mainly because the books seem impossible to find and wildly expensive when you do find them. What I really want to know is whether any of you have kept it up for more than (say) two years... and if so whether you think it was good/worthwhile.

We use Story of the World with our DCs for the Grammar Stage and then moved DS1 onto History Odyssey Level 2 (pandiapress) for the Logic Stage.

We also use First Language Lessons for the WTM (although we are coming to the end of Grade 4 with youngest now). We follow this up with "Better Sentence Structure Through Diagramming". If Susan Wise Bauer gets her finger out and does the Logic Stage Writing With Ease course, I may well invest in that. For now we use FLL, Galore Park and Writing Strands.

For Latin we use Galore Park for the grammar side and back it up with Cambridge Latin for translation practice.

If we can't get stuff secondhand, we buy from amazon and then sell on when we've finished!

If you are fairly structured, you may be interested in the structured home ed forum. If you message me your email address, I can send you an invite for it (it's a private forum). Quite a few of us on there use WTM stuff.

Hi there tinuviel,
Sorry to hijack, but I am interested in WTM and would like to connect up with others in the UK who use it.
Would you mind giving me some details of the forum you mention?

You would need to send me your email address, camperli, as it's a private forum. Then I can send you an invite. It isn't specifically for WTM - just for structured home educators, quite a few of whom just happen to use some WTM stuff!

Just nout of interest, what other kinds of structured home ed are there apart from WTM?

Some people use a bought curriculum - Sonlight, Ace, Witsend. Others (like me) cherry-pick the bits they like from various things and put together their own 'curriculum' (although my DCs help choose subjects/resources). Some are structured in that they have set hours and do a variety of stuff within that time. It really does vary.

We've been using WTM stuff since we started full-time HE (so 6 years) but Galore Park has been added in the last 2 years.

We use Kumon for maths and English.

Hey Tinuviel,
thanks for sending. Am waiting authorization or verification or some such! Think everyone is off until the new year.
I like the look of Singapore maths - anyone else have any experience of it?

A friend of mine uses Singapore maths and really likes it. She has used it for all 4 of her DCs. Her eldest went to secondary school at 11 and was put into top sets for maths. She is now year 11 and on track for a high grade in her GCSE in the summer.

I haven't used it myself, though. Will go and have a look on structured home ed forum and approve you now!

Hi Tinuviel
I havent posted on MN for ages (my life required me to have a MN break!) - of all the HErs I know in real life I seem to be taking the most structured approach (although my organisaional skills need help!)

That is a very long winded way of saying please can I join the group you mention - Ill CAT you this message
Ta muchly :)