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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.

My ds loves these books! We have had the same experience that they learn drawing techniques and apply them to other art assignments. In fact when my ds was formally tested due to his CP the neuropsychologist could not come up with an explanation for his good drawing skills. This doesn't match with his other fine motor skills at all. I am sure it is mainly due to these books. Of course the notebooking assignments also help.

Yay! I have such a hard time staying "in the moment" with the guides I'm currently in because posts like these make me look forward to the next one so much! We'll be in Preparing sometime next year and I just can't wait...at the same time we are really enjoying Bigger as well.

This is so exciting! I know what you mean, because we have seen tremendous progress in my third little guy during Preparing so far this year too. Drawing has not been his thing in the past, and the assignments were very challenging for him up to this point. We are really seeing progress now, and he is so proud of his work too! Draw and Write Through History truly does teach children how to draw!

Blessings,
Carrie

Thanks for sharing this with us
I can't wait top get into the Draw and Write through History series.