I'm trying to decide on placement for next year, and iron out our summer plans / schedule. I would really appreciate advice!
Background: DD started MP in 2nd grade. We started this year with 3A, but changed to the moderated pace after a few weeks. We also changed out Astronomy for Mammals.
This year has been a crazy year with a lot of life. We were a little bit behind, but nothing we couldn't catch up over the summer. Until the end of February when she broke her arm. She's just now getting transitioned into a brace but is still struggling with writing. I even posted and asked for advice when it happened
I know that ideally we would have kept up with everything orally and kept right on track, but the truth is that is so time intensive and mom intensive that we didn't. Her retention on what we covered orally also isn't nearly as good as her retention on what she has written.
My initial plan was to push through this summer and get everything done to where we could start 4th in the fall. I'm not sure that's the best plan. I want her to have good retention of the content and not feel like we missed the entire summer just to push through. The upside to this is we don't have any more travel planned for the summer, and she only has 1 week of camp, other than that week, and the week Mom will be at Sodalitas we are home.
I don't think she really needs to repeat all of third. We have kept up well with math (she can write numbers with her left hand!), spelling we have switched to R&S and are just going to keep making progress on that, and literature has been easy to keep up with because she loves reading. Discussing the books with the guide was already something we were doing.
My latest thought is to put her in 4th for new users. That way she will get a review of the weeks we have done, and I believe is ready for the increased workload, and she'll be on track for 5th the next year. We could easily finish up math and literature over the summer, and we're doing our own thing with spelling. Thoughts? Ideas? Is there a better plan out there, or does this seem like it will work? I just don't want to rush through the wonderful content subjects and of course I want her to have a sturdy foundation in LC before moving onto FF. Thank you so much for any advice!
Background: DD started MP in 2nd grade. We started this year with 3A, but changed to the moderated pace after a few weeks. We also changed out Astronomy for Mammals.
This year has been a crazy year with a lot of life. We were a little bit behind, but nothing we couldn't catch up over the summer. Until the end of February when she broke her arm. She's just now getting transitioned into a brace but is still struggling with writing. I even posted and asked for advice when it happened
I know that ideally we would have kept up with everything orally and kept right on track, but the truth is that is so time intensive and mom intensive that we didn't. Her retention on what we covered orally also isn't nearly as good as her retention on what she has written. My initial plan was to push through this summer and get everything done to where we could start 4th in the fall. I'm not sure that's the best plan. I want her to have good retention of the content and not feel like we missed the entire summer just to push through. The upside to this is we don't have any more travel planned for the summer, and she only has 1 week of camp, other than that week, and the week Mom will be at Sodalitas we are home.
I don't think she really needs to repeat all of third. We have kept up well with math (she can write numbers with her left hand!), spelling we have switched to R&S and are just going to keep making progress on that, and literature has been easy to keep up with because she loves reading. Discussing the books with the guide was already something we were doing.
My latest thought is to put her in 4th for new users. That way she will get a review of the weeks we have done, and I believe is ready for the increased workload, and she'll be on track for 5th the next year. We could easily finish up math and literature over the summer, and we're doing our own thing with spelling. Thoughts? Ideas? Is there a better plan out there, or does this seem like it will work? I just don't want to rush through the wonderful content subjects and of course I want her to have a sturdy foundation in LC before moving onto FF. Thank you so much for any advice!
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