We love Math You See! The nice short videos are so good. We almost did IEW but decided to go with EIW instead. It has much shorter videos and also includes grammar. It had levels to where I could even start my first grader on simple writing as well.

I'm sold on the lapbook! Thanks for sharing.

Those Classic Starts books look great! I’m going to check them out with the literature guides. Thanjs

We are doing Notgrass too❤❤❤Love these kinds of videos I’m still waiting on my curriculum order to put together a video 😊😅

We are doing IEW SSS with my 3rd grader. He is doing fine, we sometimes take more than a week to do a 'week' but he is managing the work fine.

We also stopped TGTB math level 2. I was going to try to hold out til the end of the year with her. She was past halfway but I didn’t love how it taught multiplication in level 2. So we quit. I’m just putting stuff together until the end of the year until math with confidence 3 comes out. We did Our Star Spangled Story a few years ago and loved it. It helped my oldest come to love History

I noticed you don’t have more recent videos… I would LOVE an update on how these curriculum choices are going for your 3rd grader!

I taught my 3rd grader IEW 1A SSS by spreading lessons out. It can take us 2-3 weeks to work through all the bullets on the IEW 5-day plan. He does IEW 3 times a week, and we are going to just keep going with it into 4th.

We did Star Spangled Story two years ago and loved it! I will have a 4th and 2nd next year and we will be starting fix it grammar also which I am super excited about.

With S&S, you can complete the course more slowly, over 2 years, and then do 1-2 years of their themed writing courses that correspond to his grade level. They learn the method of writing in the S&S course, and then they can choose from the other courses and get more practice with their S&S skills.

It sounds like you have a great year planned 🎉 I think with IEW S and S that you have kind of an easy to hard lay out and it will say something like "ages or grades do this and older kids do that" or the blue folder/binder from IEW says it like that. But, we mostly use the themed writing books. I have a plan for the upcoming school year but I remain flexible in my mind. We are sticking with the math that has worked for us. We combine "Math Lessons for a Living Education" with Easy Peasy Math for my oldest (4th) and youngest (1st). My rising 3rd-ish grader, will just be doing Easy Peasy Math. Then my oldest does Classical Conversations Essentials program for her LA then she and I discussed and I will assign 5 books the rest is her choice. My middle daughter (the 3rd-ish grader) will continue with hooked on phonics and McGuffey's readers. She also does oral narration and Copy-work. The same for the 1st grader. My two oldest do spelling together using a vintage speller called, "The Aldine Speller". We cover everything else pretty much with our Classical Conversations Co-op Community.

Do you have a link for the lapbooks that go along with your starter books! Those look so fun

Loved watching this. My oldest is also 8 and going into Grade 3. We use all about spelling as well. We still need to start level 2 though, but I’m excited to try level 2 in color since they just released level 1&2 in color with an activity book. 😊

We also really like All About Spelling, great program! We started IEW a few weeks ago, so far it’s been really good!(5th grader) I casually tried to have my 3rd grader start IEW with us, but he isn’t ready, didn’t make it through the first video.(He’s currently doing TGATB LA Level 2)

Where did you find the lap books for the classic start books?

Are the classic start books mainly on amazon? What folders did you use ?

I contacted iew and they told me to hold off until 4th grade to start the video program. So we plan on doing their writing curriculum on the Bible study for 3rd grade.

I’ve typically seen S&S started in 4th or even 5th despite it saying it’s for 3rd.

What is the name of the company that you got your reading curriculum from? The book studies?

Math with confidence.

I found Fix it Grammar to be a big letdown. It doesn't explain things any better than TGTB.b

With structure and style we go with my 4th graders pace. Sometimes it took us 3 weeks to do a weeks worth. You can split I up that way you only do half this year and other half next year. That’s what I’m doing.