D’Aulaires Greek Myths Study Guide

[Canada_Mom]

I am planning on ordering this to do with my 2nd grader over the summer and into this coming fall. She has been reading the D'Aulaires Greek Myths book to herself over the last several months and does a good job narrating back to me without prompting. Do I *need* to get both the student book and the teacher guide?? I would prefer to get only the student book, if possible. Can someone tell me what is included in the teacher guide?

Also, we will be reading SOTW2 starting in the fall. Could I add in bits and pieces of FMMA (and study guides) or is that far TMI for a 7yo?

TIA.

[kincaidknight]

I actually just bought the TEACHER guide to use with my 2nd grader this year since she has the stories practically memorized from reading them and listening to them on audio. Because I don't want all of the written busywork for this subject while we're still picking up the pace in writing in language arts, Latin, etc., I want to do the work orally with the teacher's guide as my prompts. It has the exact questions and everything in the student guide, but it has the answers for each. It will guide my discussions with her over the stories and the picture study, and I can occasionally have her write the answer to one or two questions, as appropriate. I would think that if you bought one or the other, it would make sense to just buy the teacher's guide so you have all of the teaching tools in there and then she could do the work orally or write them out on paper if you provide the questions for her.

Kristin

[kincaidknight]

Okay - I'm already going to amend my answer! My teacher guides for Greek myths and Christian Studies 1 came yesterday and I looked through them last night. I had only ordered the teacher guides so I could work through the materials orally. Well, I already placed an order for the student guides to go with them even though I have no intention of having my daughter write in them . . . because I would like her to have a copy of the book in front of her as we discuss the facts to know, vocabulary, maps, etc. There are matching activities in the review sections that we cannot do orally. I want her to see the memory verses/copywork herself and not in smaller type in my teacher's manual. Even though I won't have her write in this book and I can reuse it with my other children eventually, I do want her to have her own copy in front of her was we work so she can make the connections between what we're discussing and how it is written. We did this with Prima Latina when we did it orally - I had the teacher guide and she had the student guide in front of her to follow along.

[karensk]

I am planning on ordering this to do with my 2nd grader over the summer and into this coming fall. She has been reading the D'Aulaires Greek Myths book to herself over the last several months and does a good job narrating back to me without prompting. Do I *need* to get both the student book and the teacher guide?? I would prefer to get only the student book, if possible. Can someone tell me what is included in the teacher guide?

Also, we will be reading SOTW2 starting in the fall. Could I add in bits and pieces of FMMA (and study guides) or is that far TMI for a 7yo?

TIA.

The D'Aulaires' Greek Myths Teacher Guide contains the same pages as the Student Guide plus all the answers filled in. The Teacher Guide also contains five tests (I photocopied these) and their corresponding test keys. From what I remember, the tests have a mix of fill-in-the-blank items (mostly vocabulary words and who's who), questions to be answered in a sentence or two, and mapwork.

I think if you could only get one, the Teacher Guide would be the easiest one to use in a discussion format, as the answers to all the questions are already filled in for you.

HTH!

:)Karen