Language Lessons for K5

I’m hoping some of you seasoned h’school mamas can shed light on my conundrum. I am homeschooling four children, 7, 5, 5, and 2. One of my 5 year olds is quite advanced, naturally, in pretty much every subject but we are diligently keeping her little, since she is emotionally and spiritually very much a 5yo. She adores all things school and craves more and more. I don’t want to squash her desires, but I also don’t want to push since she is “ready” academically. Meaning, she can read and comprehend fluently and she is a math whiz. We are working thoughtfully on her fine motor skills with handwriting and then to copywork. We pretty much follow SCM’s Early Years Guide, but my question rests with language lessons.

She is currently working through Queen’s Language Lessons for Little Ones 3. She has never had formal reading instruction, though she does read aloud daily from Pathway Readers, through advanced grades, for controlled phonics readers. She just seems to “get” reading and math, too, though we keep her working through the foundations of math slowly.

Part of me would like to drop LLLO3 and just let her be, but then I worry that she never had true phonics and that is sort of a review among other things, but then I worry that wait! she’s only 5. See my problem? It feels almost forced when I pull out the LLLO3 book. She likes it, but she’s only in Kindergarten and it feels so school-ish to me, but it is on her level in terms of language arts readiness.

Our home school has evolved to be quite a pure approach to CM, but I also realize that all children are unique and have particular gifts.

Here’s what her lessons include, if this helps:

Who Is God?

Mod 1 tagalong

LLLO3

Happy Handwriting

Pathway Readers, Reading Lit Rdrs

Poetry, AA Milne

All Nature Sings (nature/science)

Life of Fred: Apples

Math Lessons for a Living Education Vol 1

Literature, literature, literature

SCM Rembrandt Picture Study, Hymns, Handicrafts

Thank you so much for reading so long!