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Hello, and welcome to the WTM boards! Honestly, I would put GFWTM back on the shelf for two years and then come back to it. It's marketed for 5th-8th grade, but I think 5th is a little on the early end for many kids. What if you simply reviewed your FLL concepts once a month or so and gave the kids' brains a bit more time to mature to handle the abstract thinking that later parts of the books ...
I lurked on the WTM boards from 2004 and we started homeschooling in 2006. We would not have been able to do it without all the advise on the Curriculum boards, especially the K-8 ones.
I used to think that we would follow the WTM four-year cycle for science and history, but my perspective on both has changed. Just as there is more than one way to begin the journey into history, there are multiple roads into the sciences. To me, scientific understanding seems to grow in a spiral...
I have a student who seems to do well with the WTM Academy AoPS math classes. He's a freshman finishing geometry this year and looking at next year. I believe he's completed the whole AoPS Intro to Algebra textbook already. Is there a sequence of math classes at WTMA that students follow? What WT...
Looking ahead to start planning for high school - We hope to follow the WTM plan for combining History and Literature. In TWTM (2009), it says to make a realistic assessment of how many books the student will be able to cover, and then choose 8, or 12, or 18. Of course this will vary depending on...
My 10th grader could do Medieval. I've read about every history thread I could find, but really don't know where to start. Any advice on transitioning into classical/ WTM in general during rhetoric is coveted as well. TIA!!
Looking through the forums, I see so many different curriculum choices for 5th grade science. I am SO undecided about what to do for my 5th grader's science. I like the idea presented by the WTM (scientific method, experiments, etc.), but I don't like that every thing we're supposed to do isn't a...