If anyone knows of a Christopherus-specific forum where I could also post this, I'd love to hear about it. The yahoo group can be joined and read by anyone, but only current users can post.
How flexible is Christopherus in terms of substituting in, or adding in, some of your own stuff? I know they sell the curriculum components separately specifically so that people can put together their own curriculum, but exactly how easy is it?
DS is 11 and technically "grade 6", though more like grade 3-4 in writing skills (both in terms of handwriting and in expressive/sentence forming etc). He's on grade level for math and for other language things like grammar and vocabulary and spelling, and he's advanced in reading. He's socially and emotionally immature, and is closer to a 9-10yo in many ways.
He loves drawing, hands-on projects, stories, creative stuff. He's also sensory and ADHD and needs a fairly predictable and strict routine to thrive. While we're mostly happy with the materials we've found, it would be nice to do something that is actually wholly structured around arts and projects, (not to mention peaceful homelife... ugh... ) rather than piecemeal and trying to fit more things in when we're already kind of doing too much.
Christopherus is currently only "complete" up to grade 4. Because he's never done Waldorf stuff and because of his emotional immaturity, I think most of the program at that level would probably be okay for him. There are lots of things that build on previous things learned, so he'd need the "beginner" stuff for things like Form Drawing anyway. It wouldn't be like going 'backwards' because so much would be new.
We'd also want to do the Joyful Movement book... and Donna's Form Drawing book only goes to grade 3 Forms... So that would even mean substituting in some lower grade stuff, at least at first... But we'd like to still do his usual math programs... but maybe do their grade 5 stuff as reinforcement and review, IF it's interesting. Like, if it's using the Waldorf-y math things like art and pictures in the main lesson book. I seem to get the impression that it's only story-math stuff until grade 3, after which it's more nitty-gritty. In which case we'd just stick with our own math programs.
Or is the math stuff corellated with what is being done in the lesson blocks and is difficult to substitute out?
Any thoughts?
How flexible is Christopherus in terms of substituting in, or adding in, some of your own stuff? I know they sell the curriculum components separately specifically so that people can put together their own curriculum, but exactly how easy is it?
DS is 11 and technically "grade 6", though more like grade 3-4 in writing skills (both in terms of handwriting and in expressive/sentence forming etc). He's on grade level for math and for other language things like grammar and vocabulary and spelling, and he's advanced in reading. He's socially and emotionally immature, and is closer to a 9-10yo in many ways.
He loves drawing, hands-on projects, stories, creative stuff. He's also sensory and ADHD and needs a fairly predictable and strict routine to thrive. While we're mostly happy with the materials we've found, it would be nice to do something that is actually wholly structured around arts and projects, (not to mention peaceful homelife... ugh... ) rather than piecemeal and trying to fit more things in when we're already kind of doing too much.
Christopherus is currently only "complete" up to grade 4. Because he's never done Waldorf stuff and because of his emotional immaturity, I think most of the program at that level would probably be okay for him. There are lots of things that build on previous things learned, so he'd need the "beginner" stuff for things like Form Drawing anyway. It wouldn't be like going 'backwards' because so much would be new.
We'd also want to do the Joyful Movement book... and Donna's Form Drawing book only goes to grade 3 Forms... So that would even mean substituting in some lower grade stuff, at least at first... But we'd like to still do his usual math programs... but maybe do their grade 5 stuff as reinforcement and review, IF it's interesting. Like, if it's using the Waldorf-y math things like art and pictures in the main lesson book. I seem to get the impression that it's only story-math stuff until grade 3, after which it's more nitty-gritty. In which case we'd just stick with our own math programs.
Or is the math stuff corellated with what is being done in the lesson blocks and is difficult to substitute out?
Any thoughts?
