Our First Year with Rod and Staff (Grammar and Spelling)

This is our first year ever using Rod and Staff, and we are loving it.

Grammar- I like how it is set up. The lessons just seem to flow nicely. They are a bit much if you try to do a lesson a day so we break it up and do a lesson in two days. and this helps review what we are learning. I have heard a lot of people say Rod and Staff is to much or to hard, I think it is because they are trying to do too much at one time.
 We are also a little Charlotte Mason, meaning we like shorter lessons because we learn more from them. So we try to only work on grammar for around 30 minutes at a time.

This is us working on grammar together. The Teacher book is bigger and has the student book plus answers and lessons in it. I know exactly what we are doing for each lesson.

We like that it has us diagramming sentences. It really has helped us understand sentence structure.

 Spelling- We like that it has all kinds of activities to help with spelling. Gamer likes to do spelling, crazy kid! He is pretty good at spelling and enjoys it. Sometimes we have tests , and sometimes we don't.

Gamer is doing his written practice by himself.


The grammar has an oral portion which you do together, and then written practice for him to do himself. And sometimes it will have review and practice that he does by himself and sometimes we do it together. It also has writing lessons which have been wonderful for Gamer and has helped him greatly.


The spelling has three different parts A,B,C and then I also have him write his words in cursive and print in his spelling notebook.

That about sums it up we like it so far and I can see us using it for the rest of his school years.

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