This Curriculum has Changed My Daughter and I Love It!

    

My 9yo is doing the lower school but she has been doing Japanese for the last 3 years now (we have only been doing CTT for a few months) and just adds it in during the day. She is also doing Word Roots and Saxon Math. We were doing other things for the other subjects but we dropped them in favor of the whole CTT program--all my daughter's choice and we would never go back. She is an awful speller also or I should say she was and she is also an avid reader BUT this freedom of her taking control of her own education through CTT has somehow sparked better spelling, better writing and she does more research into various things that interest her-ON HER OWN. I do not have to come up with anything and in fact we are selling our SOTW among other things because that was stuff I chose.

This is a kid who hates to draw yet immediately chose the Animation I class as her elective and is having a ball. I think if you plan on doing it talk to your kids and see how they want to proceed, have them do the 'How To' course to see if it is something that fits their needs. The 4 hours that it talks about for us has not materialized-but it has in some ways-the actual work from CTT is done and finished in about an hour because she is doing it rapidly as she enjoys thinking and writing--then I get a quiet house for a few more hours as she explores subjects on her own or reads or creates because OF CTT. So here is what she is doing now just as an example:

• CTT Prehistory
• CTT Science Basics
• CTT Animation I
• CTT Creative Writing
• Saxon Math
• Word Roots
• Japanese Reading/Writing/Speaking
• CyberEd online science

Geography (her choice she wanted to keep this but I let her proceed on her own) and just general lots o reading books She also has 2 outside things a Science class during the school year and Fencing that keeps her busy.

I hope I am making sense...I just woke up...but really let your daughter take a look at it and if she enjoys it do not be surprised to see her rebelling against some of the other materials instead of using them in conjunction with.

I have found parts of my daughter I did not know existed-a good speller, creative, a love of writing thoughts, dedicated, committed and a kid who is able to argue her opinion and then back it up. I kid you not this curriculum has changed my dd and I love it! She no longer whines and tells me she can not figure things out she tells me about all the things she figured out on her own!