FLL 3..Does anyone notice that material

[BarbinTN]

is equivalent to R&S 4? I was just previewing FLL3 last night and noticed all the parts of speech that I am covering with my 5th grader in R&S 4. Things like, predicate pronouns, object of the prepositon etc. That seems like so much to cover with a 3rd grader.
Any thoughts?
Barb

[OhElizabeth]

Is FLL3 having you memorize the defs or actually find them? There's a difference in the level of analysis you expect with different ages/grades doing the same topic.

[BarbinTN]

You are diagramming adjectives, adverbs, direct objects, predicate nominatives, compound subjects/predicates, articles etc.

It just seems very much like what we are doing this year. I have been using R&S a grade level behind. I undestand why everything is thrown into the early levels considering the textbooks start with the SAME THING year after year after year.

Congratulations as I see you are expecting according to your signature?

Just thinking aloud,
Barb

[MCG]

for example: The bird is very big.

It just an introduction.

[Lori in MS]

I am using FLL3 with a 4th grader, but it is not hard for him. He is learning a lot of new things but it isn't a struggle. Also having all of the diagram forms etc means there is a lot less writing. My 5th grader is doing R&S 4 as well and I find myself liking the explanations in FLL 3 a lot better.

[OhElizabeth]

Barb, yes, you read it correctly! We're due in September, and sort of starting to get excited. It was all so surreal at first, I wasn't sure what to think!

I don't think a dc who has gone through the sequence of FLL will find it difficult to continue in that progression. Sounds like they're keeping it simple and not tossing a whole bunch of things together at once. You do have to make tracks with english grammar to keep up with what they'll be exposed to if you start latin at an early age. It just pushes advancement of the whole thing. I don't think we want to push a lot of analysis and discrimination (logic stage), but if the goal is just basically getting the CONCEPT and memorizing that, recognizing it in simple situations, that seems perfectly reasonable to me.

How is your history going this year? I forget, what did you decide to do? I'm trying to figure out how I want to do american history next year. I keep wanting something all scheduled out and utterly no-brainer for me (crazy fun and hands-on would be good too), and I just haven't found it. I'm hoping something whomps me over the head at the convention in March and screams just right.

[BarbinTN]

We are doing Core 3+4 and I can't rave enough about it!!!!!!!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT! It is the 2nd best hs decision I have made with the 1st being MUS:o) I have learned more about AH than I ever knew. The RA gets behind sometimes but we just catch up and keep going. I am very excited to do Core 5 next year and so is she. I ditched the SL LA as there was such a lack of instruction. We are doing some KWO of IEW's Theme Based AH plans.

I did bite off more than I could chew though. I started out with Core 1 for my boys and Core 3+4 for dd. That was a flop as was the SL Science. TOO MUCH stuff to get done. I decided just to read the picture books to the boys; Time Traveler, Usborne, Greek Myths, Peoples etc. They absolutely love those books and it's a good balance. I have my dd read Science to them. I do regret that I don't have time to read more chapter books to them.

I don't know what to recommend to you for AH. We are not hands on people. We want to read the books and be done. I will tell you that if you go with Sonlight I would NOT do a combined year. The pace of the separate cores are sweet compared to the race of the combined year. I regret not doing core 3 last year. Although Core 1+2 was not a waste.

I am quite frankly overwhelmed in my thoughts of next year with 3dc. I have friend who is sold on BJU Homesat but I feel like I'm giving up if I go that route. I also wouldn't want to give up my Sonlight and MUS.

Rambling!

Blessings,
Barb

[Cadam]

Is your third grader struggling with it? Use that as your guide. Any thing will be easy for one kid, hard for the next and just right for a third. As long as you are in the "pretty good" range I wouldn't worry about it.