Has anyone ever used either of these two and if so what are your opinions? Is there much difference between the two? My kids are 11 and 9. My daughter (11) has such a hard time with her writing and grammar, I thought it might be easier for her to try to proofread someone else's instead. Any thoughts would be helpful and much appreciated . Thank you.
Darlene, we bought one book of Editor-in Chief. I thought it was a neat idea, but the stories didn't really interest our son that much. Probably the most effective project we ever did in the grammar area was that each of our children wrote a story. One described our farm and all the animals. Another made up a totally fictional story involving our family, a cave, and an airplane. The kids posed in different settings to make it look "documented." Another described his favorite things, etc. The goal was to make an actual book with a dedication page, date, pictures, etc. I quilted a neat cover for each one. The work for them was this: I typed up their stories just as they had written them, and they had to find all the grammar and spelling errors. Each book went through several "revisions" before it was accepted by me, the editor, and then went to "press." The ones who couldn't write yet dictated their story to me, and I left lines in it for them to practice their handwriting, or I purposefully misspelled some words for them to find. These provided quite a bit of incentive at the time and are keepsake books now. I hope you find something worthwhile, effective, and enjoyable.
That's a neat project Prairie! I bet they had fun with that, aside from the great learning experience!! Thanks for sharing that!
This was such a rewarding project, I wanted to show you the pictures. Of course, some things have turned upside-down these days--my daughter is now my teacher! She had to walk me step-by-step through the process of posting them here. OK, we're going to get a close-up on those lions for Deena! The last one shows the dedication pages and the title page. You can also see some of the corrected rough-drafts. Some of the books had "pop-ups" in them. The children all did some drawing to illustrate some of the pages, and some had photos also. Thanks for letting me share on your thread, and I hope this is encouraging for you. Grammar can be a lot of fun!
Those are GREAT! I got a book a long time ago on making books with your children, and we just never got around to it! I WISH we would have! What a precious memory to have! Your dd is good at getting the pictures up! Thanks for the close up! I can't figure out how to get more than one picture up in a message! How'd she do that?
Darlene, "Winston Grammar" is a hands-on grammar program, and it might work well for you, especially if your daughter learns in that modality. I used it to introduce the concepts for three of our children. One of ours has always preferred workbooks, and she's doing the high school Abeka now, which is college level. [Two years ago, our older daughter in college told her (the younger one) that she (the younger one) was doing more complicated work than the college course required!] So, there's something for everyone. I hope you find something that both you and your daughter can enjoy. Leslie, these are photos taken of some our our children's writing/grammar/spelling assignments and the resulting books. I thought I'd give Darlene some ideas to spice up their grammar studies, and my daughter delighted me with helping me post pictures of our books here. I had so much fun with her teaching me! She had to be really patient, because I've had a mental block against technology, I guess. Now, if I can just find a way to keep her home for another ten years or so, I may eventually catch on to some of this. Deena, she uses Photo Bucket. We just highlighted the last number under the picture, (I think it's an IGM code) right-clicked, chose "copy," minimized that screen, brought up this thread, went to "Go Advanced," right-clicked, chose "paste," minimized the post, went back to photo bucket, selected another picture, highlighted that code, and repeated the process. Then I added words. Dd just read this and says that you don't have to go to "Go Advanced" to do this. She just went there so she could preview the post every time we put a picture on. I hope this is helpful and not confusing to you.
