Shurley vs GWG...compare?

[Pine Ledge Academy]

I am Shurley-tired, and have looked around a little. Can anyone that has used GWG tell me more about it? Is it like ABeka? Is there diagramming? I liked the look of the worksheets...which is one of my issues with Shurley...not enough practice. My other thought is to keep Shurley and add Daily Grams. Any thoughts? Thanks!

[Sasharowan]

I've never used Abeka or Shurley, but we like GWG here. There is a two page instructional section to read and then a page front and back in 4 sections. The first two cover the new stuff and the second two review. My dd9 is able to do GWG3 on her own. She has questions maybe 3x a month. I check her work and go over mistakes right after she is done. Most mistakes are directly related to how distracting the 3yo is when she did it.

[Pine Ledge Academy]

Do you find that she is retaining what she has learned?

[arcara]

GWG does have diagramming and it's is reviewed frequently. I've been impressed by how well my dd doing with diagramming with GWG! We like the program here!

[JudyJudyJudy]

My son greatly dislike GWG. I'm really not sure why. He loved FLL 3, but since it took so long for FLL 4 to come out, we ordered GWG 4. He could easily do the work; he just didn't like it. After FLL 4 came out, I ordered it. Now I have no idea what I'll use next year, but I'll probably just come up with my own program using a combination of free Google books and diagramming workbooks.

[Sasharowan]

Do you find that she is retaining what she has learned?

For the most part, yes. But she is also an expert at finding something new to "forget". If I correct her on something, she'll mostly get that right from then on, but forget something else that she previously knew.