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WriteShop {Crew Review}

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WriteShop is another of our curriculum favorites.  WriteShop is a top of the line writing curriculum for kids.  This program beats any other I have used.  For this review, we received a copy of WriteShop Primary: Book C e-Book Set to use.
WriteShop is easy for kids to understand and also easy for parents to put to use.  The program features packages for Kindergarten all the way to 12th grade with different levels to fit your student’s needs.  WriteShop covers writing for everyone!
WriteShop Primary: Book C Set is for students in 2nd-3rd grade and remedial 4th graders.  If you’re unsure if this level is right for your child, there is a placement test available to help you choose!  This simple and quick test will help you place your child into the correct level of WriteShop for them.
WriteShop Primary: Book C Set comes with both a teacher’s manual and one set of the student activity sheets pack.  These can be ordered in print or as an e-Book set.  I chose the e-Book set because I am able to reprint it for home use as many times as needed.  This allows us to redo any worksheets that my children may not understand and to print the lesson for multiple students.  This is great for us since my older children work on the same level for school lessons.
Both the teacher and student activity sheet pack for Book C are adorable.  They are filled with cute animals throughout to help make the lessons fun.  This also helps keep students and teachers from getting bored with the program.  Imagery is used throughout for this purpose.
The teacher’s guide discusses how the program works.  It helps you set up lessons that work for you and your students.  It suggests ideas to help in the process of teaching the lessons.  It provides ideas for extra work and games as well.  The guide is thorough and easy to understand for even the most inexperienced of teachers.
WriteShop also helps you to set up a plan for your lessons covering more than one student on differing levels so that you, the teacher, are not overwhelmed with teaching multiple students.  This is a great help for Mom’s like me who has multiple students on one level and another student on a lower level of the program.  Because of the suggestions in the program, I was able to create a plan that worked great for us to use at home.
WriteShop also helps you to set up a Writing Center for use in lessons as well.  The Writing Center helps to promote better writing skills in students.  This can be a permanent or portable station for you to use.
In the Writing Center, students can find a manuscript writing chart, cursive chart, and upper and lower case letters.  There should also be paper of various types, mostly lined.  A children’s thesaurus and dictionary is also suggested for this center.  And don’t forget writing tools such as crayons, pens and pencils! Putting all these things into one place makes learning easier for your students.  There are a great many additional suggestions for a Writing Center shared within the teacher’s guide for Book C.
Every WriteShop lesson has a focus and a theme.  The focus provides an important skill to be taught.  The theme helps make the focus interesting and fun.  These work together to provide a great lesson that keep students interested.
In the teacher’s guide, you will find objectives listed at the beginning of each lesson.  You will also find a list of needed supplies and before-hand prep to be done to make the lessons flow smoothly.  Utilize this as it’s there to help keep you organized and ready to go.
The 254 page teacher’s guide covers everything you need to complete your WriteShop lessons.  The plans are extensive and are easily implemented in your home studies.  It can be printed for use by the purchaser only to be used for lessons at home.
The student activity sheet pack is 25 pages in length and can be printed for use as home for multiple students as needed.  This activity pack provides all the worksheets to be used for the lessons taught in the teacher’s guide.  They are complementary in design and fun for students to use.  An evaluation chart is provided in the back of the student activity pack to help you evaluate how much your student has learned and see where additional practice is needed.  
WriteShop Primary: Level C Set is available for purchase for $35.95 in print or $29.50 as an e-book which is what I used for this review.  Additionally, the Student Activity Sheet Pack for Book C can be purchased in print for $5.95 or as an e-Book for $4.50.
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Quick Update: July 6, 2011 {Thoughts from Me}

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Luv’N Lambert Life has been on vacation for the last few days.  We took a short trip to Georgia over the weekend to visit family and really enjoyed ourselves.  Family time and fun away from the norm was something we really needed.

The kids really loved the in-ground pool.  They went down the waterslide, cannonballed off the side, and swam until they were exhausted.  When they weren’t playing in the pool, they were loving playing inside, jumping on the mini-trampoline and swinging on the tree swing.  We also enjoyed a wonderful fireworks show in town with everyone.  It was the perfect vacation for us all.

On the way home, we stopped by several great stores just to look around.  We picked out a boat for all the kids to fit on safely while we go on our River Adventures but we haven’t made a purchase yet.  We also picked some adorable furniture to use at our house for Outdoor Adventures at home (not purchased yet).  The kids enjoyed helping us pick those out too!

On July 4th, we held a cookout at home with family and good friends.  The kids played in the water sprinklers and baby pool keeping cool.  We enjoyed grilled burgers and hot dogs and a great fireworks show when night came.  Laycie was a little scared but overall she did great with the fireworks.  The whole weekend was wonderful.

The kids got a little burnt.  Laycie didn’t since she stayed right with me the whole weekend.  Winston tanned just like he always does.  Poor Justain and Emmalee paid the price for sitting in the sun though.  Emma’s poor little shoulders are still red two days later and she usually tans just like her brother.  Not this time though, so we have been keeping on the aloe and taking tylenol as needed for pain.  No blisters or peeling so hopefully she will be ok.

The past two days have been spent cleaning house.  We have removed tons of clothing from the kids bedrooms, sorted through it and re-washed what had been sitting in drawers or the closet for a while.  I made laundry detergent on the 4th for the fun of it and needed to try it out!  So far it’s working better than my store bought detergent and it doesn’t make my skin itch like the store bought kind does!  I’m in LOVE with it!  We have decided we want to wash the whole house down with this soap, it smells sooo good!!

So that’s pretty much what we’ve been up to for the past week.  For the rest of the month, we will be continuing schoolwork, decluttering house, and spending time with friends since we have three birthday parties during the month to attend.  There’s a lot of love to be shared and a lot of fun for us while we are Luv’N the Lambert Life.