CM vs. Winter Promise

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  • September 2, 2009 at 4:55 pm
    lovinmomma
    Member

    Hello!  This is my first post here.  I would love to hear thoughts and opinions on how to make WP truly CM.  I won’t be using their LA, so that is not an issue.  How close to CM do you feel that it is?  Is ther a way to make it more CM?  What aspects don’t really need to be changed to be CM?  I have ordered the DVDs from SCM (the 1 day seminar ones plus the rails one).  Thank you for all of your help! 

    P.S. we were already using RS A and our children are not yet in 1st grade they are still very young, but I am planning ahead.  Yes, I’m one of those people that plan waaaaay ahead.

    September 2, 2009 at 7:40 pm
    Cindie2dds
    Member

    Hi Julie!  So good to see you.  I am glad you ordered the DVDs.  I know you won’t be disappointed.  I am sending you a PM.  You probably won’t get much response about WP here; no one really knew who they were when I asked a similar question a month ago.

    ~Cindie

    September 2, 2009 at 7:43 pm
    Cindie2dds
    Member

    Julie ~ for some reason I can’t send a pm right now.  Surprised  I’ll go to my email box.  I think I have your address there.

    September 2, 2009 at 8:35 pm
    lovinmomma
    Member

    Alright.  I’ll be waiting for your e-mail! Thanks!

    September 3, 2009 at 12:43 am
    HeidiS
    Participant

    I had my first look at Winters Promise when I was visiting friends in Alaska in June. My first impression was WOW there are a lot of books to read, but they all look like fantastic books! I wanted to make a list and just read the books:) It really reminded me of Sonlight, with a CM bend to it in that they really encourage lots of narration, copywork, nature journals, etc,. It has a schedule set up similar to SL and thats what got hard for me, just too tight a schedule, I know I could never keep it up;) They had some GREAT ideas for narration activities though, that alone was SO cool, then the novels they had chosen were awesome. Just looked like a lot to read in one year, but if anyone can do it, this friend can, so I will be checking in with her to see how its going.

    Heidi

    September 3, 2009 at 12:58 am
    mrsjamiesouth
    Member

    Hi, we are using WP this year.  I don’t really care for it, we are disappointed.  We got the CATW theme and it is way too mature for my 9 year old. Lots of reading about sex workers, so I put away those books and I am having to try to find good books for each country.  I too was attracted to all the hands on projects, but I am finding they take away too much from more productive learning.  They are just crafts and not productive crafts.

    Also, had major issues with shipping.  We ordered in Feb. and still I am missing 2 books.

    September 3, 2009 at 1:28 am
    Cindie2dds
    Member

    I was disappointed with the non-productive crafts also. I scrapped the schedule completely, since it was just all over the place and too choppy for us, and we are now using just some of the books until we start Module 1.

    I must say that the guidebooks I have used from several different companies were not a fit for us also ~ there is one common thread here, ME! Wink I have learned the hard way that a guidebook with a detailed, daily or weekly premade schedule (for me) doesn’t work. I need “lessons” that I can vary and move around, schedule to fit us and our priorities: twice a week for this, three times a week for that, every day for math, etc.

    September 3, 2009 at 1:49 am
    JBaldwin
    Participant

    We use Winter Promise and are doing the American Story 1.  Unlike the other posts, we love WP and feel it fits CM methods very well.  Unlike Sonlight, my daughter is way more interested in WP’s books.  She loves the crafts and making the the 3-D maps.  I guess it depends on the child.  Again, see which WP program you are going to use, and then ask a ton of questions regarding that specific theme since I know they vary greatly.  Good luck!

    Jeanette

    September 4, 2009 at 12:36 pm
    Jimmie
    Member

    I agree with you, Jamie, that many of the crafts in WP are meaningless. But like any curriculum, you can pick and choose what to do. Not all of them are pointless.

    The notebooking pages are a great disappointment as well. But the concept is so wonderful!

    October 11, 2009 at 1:48 am
    TXMary
    Member

    We are using WP this year after using SL previously.  We are using Animals and Their Worlds, which I love the concept of, but for my Kinder is just too much!  I don’t care for many of the crafts and the AW is so time consuming that my little guy is worn out by the time we were getting to Math and Reading lessons.  Now, we are doing Math and Reading first and if we get around to AW then we do what we can. I have tweaked it so much though that it is disappointing.

    13 yo ds is doing WP Quest for the Middle Ages and we love that so far without much tweaking at all.  Great books!

    October 12, 2009 at 1:31 am
    mrsjamiesouth
    Member

    We were doing CATW by WP and I don’t feel its very CM.  Spending the whole year on Geography and no history is too much.  We have set it aside and went with module 6 here.   I have a friend doing QAW, she’s the one who got me started on CM, and she absolutely loves it.  Her only complaint is that its a little too much reading, and she skips the craft projects and she thinks they are a waste of time too.  My biggest complaint was the cost for what I got.  By the way, I am still missing 2 books and I ordered in February. 

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