Lydia finished Handwriting Without Tears Kindergarten. I decided a while back that once she learned how to write her letters, we would start copywork. I've had Language Lessons Through Literature on my radar for a few months and bought it back in December. It is a fairly gentle, Charlotte Mason/Classical hybrid grammar program. It uses children's classics, poems, art, and copywork to teach grammar and writing. I decided to give it a try, thinking I'd like it well enough.
I bought the book and the PDF workbook. The workbook isn't required because the book has all the assignments and copywork sentences in it, but the PDF has all the copywork in several different handwriting fonts, including HWT, which was huge for me. Rather than copy each onto paper individually, I can now just print them right off!
Today we did our first day, so this is by no means an exhaustive review, but we had a good first experience and I wanted to share. The first book is Peter Rabbit. Lydia, Ellie, and I sat down together and read the book. The girls really enjoyed the story and when it was time to do copywork, Lydia was very interested in the sentence that was from her story. We talked about sentences starting with a capitol letter and ending with punctuation (she already knows about period, question marks, and exclamation marks). At the end I had her draw a picture from Peter Rabbit and she loved doing it. She loved it so much she kept on drawing the rest of the day. Eleanor saw her having fun with it and decided she just had to join in and do her own "copywork" (scribbles with crayons). Lydia also pretended Peter Rabbit later. I played Mr. McGregor.
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| Peter (complete with shoes), Mr. McGregor, and the garden gate. |
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| "Mr. McGregor said, 'Who ate a bite out of my tomato!? I'm going to eat you up!" |
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