The Rowe Tribe

The Rowe Tribe
2012

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

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One of my favorite curriculums I've ever used has been this one. We experimented with it when it was new on the market and probably only around in the Charleston area. Now, these gals have moms using their materials all over the place. What began as the most impressive book list for a grade level I had ever seen (and I am a "book gal") has now evolved into high school classes and full lesson plans with everything but math (that's a lot of material) for many grade levels. I am so hoping that Beth will make some of her high school classes available on-line (hint hint Beth!) as I have said since my oldest was 5, that I wanted him to be in some of her classes. What a tremendous learning opportunity with such good materials and literature and a fabulous instructor to boot. Beth once said she was not a "rule follower", ah, a girl after my own heart. But that's not just why I like her so much. She and Dana have made a great team and each do their parts well with much enthusiasm as well as skill and dedicated effort. Being amazed at the book list and wealth of information of project ideas, resources, what we called when I was being teacher-trained in college, the "whole language" approach to grammar and literature amazes those I expose to this curriculum. The specific lesson plans then "blow them away". It's hard to find such an adaptable, usable, resourceful, specific, easy to follow curriculum such as this. In fact, even though we have used many other resources over the years and will continue to, this is the most thorough approach I have ever seen to integrating subject areas all together in common themes that make a lot of common sense. Check out some of their new offerings at:
http://www.epikardia.com/blog/curriculum/win-free-curricula/