Curriculum Changes Part 4: The Cub and Composition

The Cub has been crying off an on for months now about doing his copywork. He complains that it makes him feel little. Normally I just ingore children who cry about schoolwork because I'm a mean homeschool mom.

But he had been saying similar things about Saxon math (see yesterday's post) and when we switched to Singapore, a more difficult program with more thought provoking problems, his whole attitude about math changed. Now he is definitely feeling warm and fuzzy in the math department!

So I thought perhaps he might be ready for a real writing program. So I signed him up for K12's 3rd grade language arts course. He is still on the first assignment, which is basically writing a piece on something about himself or something that interests him.

He chose to write about liking math. Seriously. I had absolutely nothing to do with his choice of topic. I was nowhere near when he came up with it. Together, we refined the topic to give it focus. And here it is: Singapore Math is good (and Saxon Math is bad). It turns out that he has some strong and, I might add, well articulated, feelings on the subject.

But that's fodder for another post.