In fact, my co-op may be using Writing Tales next year. I recommended it to the organizers.
They are looking at various curricula for next year’s writing program for elementary students for grades 3 through 5. The organizers picked up a copy of Writing With Ease, but since the upper levels weren’t available, they nixed that idea. Then I told them about Write from History. Well, the head gal loved it. They were going for it until someone realized that our co-op isn’t organized around history. Sometimes one history and geography are offered at co-op, and sometimes two history options and no geography. And then some of the students don’t take history at co-op at all. So to have students studying ancients at home and working on medieval history at school, just wouldn’t work out.
So I suggested Writing Tales, and I really hope they go for it. It’s a program we’ve used. It incorporates grammar. And it’s fun! I’d love it if my kids were doing Write from History next year and Writing Tales. Then they would be writing across the curriculum, with two programs that teach writing from different perspectives. What a blessing that would be!
I’m pulling for you Amy!!!!!!!!
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Candace // December 2, 2008 at 9:12 pm |
Hi there! Sorry this is unrelated to your post, but I have a Q.
I bought some of your copybooks for my older 3 and LOVE them. I’ve been getting questions about them from other hs moms, and have been sharing the link to the Lulu press site, but today another mom asked and when I went to send her the link, I saw that it was no longer there. I found the currclick link a few posts down, but it looks like a more limited selection. Can you tell me if all the books are still available?
Blessings!
Candace
kimberlygarcia // December 2, 2008 at 9:26 pm |
Hi Candace, and thank you for the positive feedback! I pretty much work in a bubble and it is soooo nice to know when books I make are working out.
About the copybooks, I have upgraded them so that they fit the Charlotte Mason method of teaching writing. Basically, for the most part, you can continue to use them as you have been, but if someone wants to use them as a complete writing program for a beginning writer, they will work for that also.
I still have the old books, if you search on lulu under my name–Kimberly Garcia. But I think there might be two of us there, I’m not quite sure. Anyway, I don’t have the old books linked to Write from History because they cost more than the new book s with the upgrades. That is because there are more pages.
I will eventually upgrade all of them, but I have so many irons in the fire, I’m driving myself crazy trying to do too many things.
Specifically, which book are you looking for?