Language Arts 1

Our Language Arts and Reading 1 package arrived yesterday! I stayed up until almost 1:00a.m. absorbing the material and what it requires. Where the K program was just too easy, I can see that this years material will be a good challenge. We will be taking it at her pace, so I'm not worried about it taking more than a year to complete. There are still a few remnants of the K program left before I can say she's graduated from L.A. K (like there are still a few more short stories and poems to be read, half of her very last Go For the Code workbook, etc), but she has finished all level based parts of the curriculum, like the copywork. I feel free to go ahead and start L.A. 1 at a slow pace while completing the last bits of L.A. K--kind of a rounding the corner thing.

I am so excited about what I see ahead in the Language Arts 1 program. Flipping through it, I'm drawn to the logical way in which it's organized. It keeps with basic phonetics, while still allowing for memorized "sight" words where phonetics doesn't help. It incorportates spelling that matches the level of reading that week. Copywork matches with the reading material and fun games and activities round out everything to mix and match hard work with fun learning. I really LOVE what I see. I am truly looking forward to experiencing this Language Arts 'year', or however long it takes her.

I can't hardly believe my little girl is becoming so grown up. This program goes all the way from cvc words (consonant, vowel, consonant words), which she is very familiar with, to reading short chapter books. We're in to new territory now, and I'm nervous and excited all at once to see how it goes.