Normally we school year round. This year I decided to take a summer break. We needed the extra time to work on the gardens, renovations and just enjoy the summer. Last year was an unusually cold summer, so there wasn’t nearly as much work in the gardens to do.
I’ve been looking over our curriculum and thinking about making some changes. Most of what we have been using works very well for us. We love unit studies and hands on learning. One area that has been tricky is spelling. We’ve tried spelling workbooks such as spelling workout and CLP spelling books. We just aren’t fans of workbooks and I don’t find the children learn much from them. I’ve also tried the Natural Speller. Its a great book but just doesn’t suit our needs right now.
I recently stumbled on to All About Spelling. I think this will be a much better fit for our family! Its hands on, using letter tiles to build words. We use Math U See and the hands on method had worked very well for us. All About Spelling teaches the phonograms in a logical order using site, sound and touch.
I’m also going to try using this as a reading curriculum. They have made some lovely readers that match up with the phonics lessons.
I’ve enjoyed reading all their samples online and browsing through the videos in their forum. I ordered the first few levels and reader. They should be in this week and I can’t wait to see them. I’ll do an updated post on what we think of the materials once it arrives.
So glad you found something…I know lots of times when we were homeschooling I spent money on things that just didn’t work and felt bad because of funds spent? But excited when “finallY’ something would work for us.