First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind

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Genre: POLITICS and GOVERNMENT; Primary / junior schools; Study and teaching (Primary); Grammar; Education / Teaching; Parent Participation; Education; Language arts (Primary); Home Schooling; Elementary; Teaching Methods and Materials - Language Arts; Language Experience Approach; Composition and exercises; English language;

Average Review: 4 stars

Review: Useful, but overly specific : I like the memory work and the grammar in this book. My girls have learned alot of poems by heart and they can tell you the definitions of the nouns and verbs etc. I don't like, however, that each lesson is dragged out for so long. My kids started this book at the ages of 4 and 6 last year and are still using it, though less frequently now. They really don't need a week or more to learn each lesson, so we skip alot in this book. I also don't like the re-done versions of certain classics like the "Sunday's Child" poem. So we looked up the original online to teach them instead.