When we first started Preparing 12 weeks ago the Draw and Write Through History book was hard for my dd (8 yrs). I sat with her for about four weeks every time there was an assignment from the book pointing out things, but she did all the drawing. I think a lot was a confidence issue. Now I try to never compare my dc, but seriously dd started to do better than ds (10yrs). One day I told her, I didn't know why she dreaded it so much that she was doing beautifully (had previously told her this), but when I showed her how much better her drawing was than her brother's it was like a switch clicked in her head. From then on she did the drawings by herself and they are just beautiful. She even this week did the advanced portion on the Phoenician ship.
When ds was drawing a certain dinosaur for his science pg last week, he specifically told me, "Momma, I just applied Draw and Write principles to it." This meant a lot to me as I've heard from other homeschoolers that books like this don't actually teach a child to draw, it teaches them to copy. I can say this has not been the situation in our home. My children are learning to apply the principles to their other drawings.
We are about to the end of the book, but I'm already looking forward to next year's book.
