How many times a week for grammar study?

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  • April 2, 2013 at 2:21 pm
    eawerner
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    Dd6 will be in 2nd grade and I found EFTTC at our local book sale for $5.  🙂  It looks very simple and gentle which is just what we need. I’m not sure how small to break the lessons down though, or how many days to do it.  Each lesson has between 1-4 exercises and some of the exercises involve writing up to 8 sentences which for us would mean splitting that exercise into 2 or more days.  Is grammar something that is usually done daily?  Do you aim for 1 lesson a week, knowing that some lessons will take 1 day that week and others, 4+ days that week? 

    I know many of you use this resource orally, but has anyone used it as written, and then done less other copywork?  I was planning on using the catechism for copywork this year but if I have dd copy as she memorizes I’m guessing we won’t be doing copywork every day so maybe this could be our other copywork resource?

    April 2, 2013 at 2:29 pm
    Scoathy
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    DS7 will be in 2nd grade in the fall, and I have grammar scheduled 3 days a week. I am using Growing with Grammar which looks very manageable for even indenpendant learning at this age. It will be about 2 pages, 3 times a week. And each lesson has combinations of writing, circling, underlining, etc…3 days a week will take us through the entire school year.

    April 2, 2013 at 2:52 pm
    Bookworm
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    IF YOU DO EFTTC DO NOT WRITE OUT EVERY PROBLEM IN EVERY EXERCISE.  You can, according to your preference, do a very short bit every day or do a longer section twice a week, it’s up to you.  But if your child can TELL you how to do it orally or can WRITE twice how to abbreviate his and Daddy’s names, for example, then please for heaven’s sake don’t make the poor kid write out all 8 or 10 problems! Beating the horse is just not necessary, and gentleness is, I think, paramount at such a very young age.  I must confess I used this with a child in second grade, it frustrated him greatly, we put it away and didn’t do anything else until like 5th grade (when we worked on parts of speech and some beginning sentence diagramming.)  

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