We only used up through 4th. If you are starting the series at her age you may want to start a grade lower. It’s not just that the words are hard to spell but the assignments can be especially if she has never done them. For example, they are given the phonetic spelling (with dictionary marks) and they have to write out the word. Like this….. hwis ‘əl and ə hwil’ (the i should have a line over it but I can’t figure it out). Those words are whistle and awhile. That was from the 4th grade book. See, it is kind of challenging.
Other thoughts:
- They use Mennonite specific words like “Mennonite, buggy, etc, handkerchief” No big deal but not words we commonly use. (“Girls, let’s take the buggy to town.
) - Teaches by rule
- Teaches dictionary skills, abreviations, prefixes, suffixes
- Does not show mispelled words for the student to find which is good
- Can do 4 days of lessons every week – part a, part b, part c and the test.
As far as the grade level, if you go a grade younger, I would take a sharpy and black out the grade on the front cover and spine.
Again, it is not CM. But, I won’t throw tomotoes at you for it. 