The one who writes them
Maggie
What I kept noticing is how much four- and five-year-olds can actually hold. Not how little — how much. Given something worth memorizing, a child that age will take it in and keep it, and then walk around the house reciting it for weeks.
Most programs for this age assume the opposite. So I started writing the one I wanted.
Why it looks like this.
A classical approach takes small children seriously. In practice that means real books rather than readers, a thing to look at closely every week, penmanship on lines, and going outside in the cold to see what is happening.
It also means short. Nothing in a unit here is meant to take an hour. A lesson that ends while a child still wants more is how attention gets built, and every page is written to be put down.
Written as they are taught.
Every unit goes to actual four- and five-year-olds before it goes anywhere else. The parts that do not hold get cut, which is why a unit is as short as it is.
It also means they arrive slowly. I would rather send you one unit that works than a term of material I have not watched a child sit through.
On its way.
Check your inbox for the copywork page — and the spam folder, if it isn’t there in a few minutes. I’ll write again when the next unit is done.