The product was for my 8 and 9 year olds to use, However I did use it with my 11 and 12 year old as well. My 11 and 12 year olds loved the curriculum and asked for the new word of the day as often if not more than my 9 year old. They loved the cute pictures and figuring out what the word ment as well as trying to make the best sentence using the word pairs.
The only one who had a tough time with the curriculum, though she loved the cute pictures was my 8 year old. I believe this is because of her many learning issues and it takes her a bit longer to process the new information. We will be using the curriculum a bit differently with her in the future. We will be doing a word a week with her while the others will get a word a day. This will give her more practice and less pressure allowing her to process the word in her own time.
We used Mrs. Wordsworth as suggested each day I would pull out the new word and place it on our stand.
We looked at the picture and discussed what the children thought the word might mean based on that then I uncovered the definition and we discussed how close they were and why the picture would look that way to describe the word. Then we would flip the worksheet over and discuss synonyms and word pairs finding the word pairs and synonyms for each word. Since I am using the curriculum for more than one child I chose to discuss instead of writing on the worksheets. Then each child was given the chance to use their favorite word pair in a sentence.
Throughout the day we would go back over the word and play with the word cards given to us. We would use the cards to try to figure out new words and to review the words we already learned.
Mrs. Wordsmith has such cute and engaging pictures and is really simple to use. It has made our day more fun and learning new words really interesting and easy for my kids and low prep and easy to teach for myself.
