I have not been on here in awhile (life sometimes gets in the way!!) but I wanted to thank the writing strands users on this site. I have struggled to find a writing program that I liked. I am a natural writer as is my oldest daughter. When the other two tried to learn to write, we struggled. It seems like I have tried every program out there. Based on rave reviews, I bought Writing Strands. I LOVE IT!!! Why didn't I buy this years ago. My 7th grade boy and 5th grade girl are zooming through WS 3. They are so happy and actually like writing. I can't believe it. My life is complete!!!
yeaaaaaaaaaah! Thanks! I am glad to hear it! We start this week and one thing I am really looking forward to is the new lessons I picked up for ds this year. I am being so creative with his classes! ( curriculuim?) anyway I am glad to hear the rave reviews again cause I need encouragement at the moment. My ds' SOS work is unavailable at this point as its on my lap top, and this computer will not remove the old to put in the new for some glitch problem. I gave up on that, but am working on the things I have available, a few old Life Paks he can work n until my lap top gets its new plug .. oh where oh were is that big white truck with blue and red letters on it?? Anyway so I am hoping his Writing Strands will have fun for him to start off with. So does it seem like they got into it righ taway? Mine is 7th grade
My oldest is using Writing Strands also! I won't say she's loving it (yet), but she's doing better in writing that she has before. And she's not arguing about it. We've only done the first lesson (3 days). I'm supposed to do the Record of Progress this week. We're taking a week off between lessons and I'm just going to give her topics to write on (take them out of a jar, basically!) This will give her stuff to edit when she gets there! LOL
We are doing WS MWF. We are on lesson 2, day 6. The 7th grader seems to be able to do it himself. He jumped right in and has not complained. The fifth grader has been a little more challenged. I have to go over the instructions with her but she is able to do the work, no problem. I have not found it to be too much so far and have decided not to take time off between lessons. Maybe later on if they get burned out. I know the feeling about computer issues. My 9th grader is doing Keystone and the first day none of our 3 computers could pull up the graphics. I was thinking, I spent all this money, now I am going to have to buy a new computer. DH was able to fix some setting and it worked!!
Yep.. I still get grumbles, but he is actually doing the work right and seems to be putting some effort into it. I changed a lot this year and WS and TT math have made the biggest differences in our days!
We're having an odd week this week with the holiday and co-op starting tomorrow...so instead of starting the new Lesson in WS, I'm having her redo Lesson 1 Day 2 today, and Friday. Thursday I'm having her write a letter to her sponsor child for Compassion. Technically, it does say to take a week off in between. I don't necessarily plan to do that, all the time, but we will take the last few days of a week of if she finishes a Lesson, say, on a Weds or something like that. She did much better this time around of that exercise. The first time she did it, she just kept adding adjectives and adverbs to the one word she added to the three word sentence. She did it today, and she changed it...so I was happier with that!
Okay, we have done 4 days of Daily grams nd 3 of writing strands.. he says they are so easy he loves them! THen he keeps asking me, "What am I supposed to be learning with this?" But he is working independantly with them both and jumps at the idea when I say he can do them now! HUrray!
HA HA HA!!!! I love that. My kids feel the same way but I can say from experience, Daily Grams really worked for my kids. I used only DG from 2nd through 4th grade on all three of my kids. I started Easy Grammar lessons in 5th grade. All 3 have always (shocking but true) scored 100% on grammar portions of standardized tests. I ask myself all the time can it be this easy. That is why I am so excited about Writing Strands. It seems so easy but I can see them learning from it without even knowing.
