Mothermayi,
These decisions can be difficult!
I am sorry I was thinking maybe you were thinking of it for your dd6. I remember you mentioning in past threads that your ds10 and dd6 are very advanced for their grades. I am sorry for the misunderstanding.
If it helps any I am going to list out the skills I see in ECC for my ds10. I thought it might help if someone listed them out as you think it through, and could think of how it compares to your current program. He has always been very advanced for his age too. It is my challenge to keep him challenged and moving forward; he reads a lot and remembers everything he reads so it is challenging to keep things new for him to learn on a budget. The family learning for ECC though has been good.
ECC skills ds10 is doing:
*Copying scriptures that he memorizes once a week.
*Dictating scripture that he memorizes once a week.
*Copying character traits from Hero Tales. This varies. Some weeks it is 3 or 4 times, and other weeks it is less or none.
*Copying vocabulary words and illustrating (two words per week).
*English (for him it is Rod and Staff English 4 for grammar and paragraph work. MFW recommends: ILL and Writing Strands)
*Flag Sheet note booking ~ once every two weeks. He colors a flag and writes some sentences about the flag he colors. He has asked to only color the big flag on the flag note booking sheet and the person on the John 3:16 sheet (not the smaller flag on the second sheet).
*Science ~ varies. The work sheets can be looking up information and writing it down. They also can be doing a drawing. The nature walks also have drawing. It also mentions in the front of the TM to narrate and do a written narration on the Living World Encyclopedia. He does fabulous verbal narrations, but not so much with this book; so I will admit we don't do this part.
*World Geography Book: He likes geography so some of this he challenges himself to see how much he can do without looking at anything or a map. Other parts I have been helping teach him some research skills by learning to look up information.
*Maps ~ he challenges himself to see if he can fill them in by not looking.
*Geography game ~ he loves it.
*Art projects ~ he likes art.
*Cooking ~ he likes to cook.
*Hero Tales and book of Matthew ~ he has read both on his own, but is joining in and listening.
*Atlas ~ He likes all of them and reads them regularly on his own and listens in when I read to younger children.
*Flag book ~ he went through it and put every flag from every country on every country in the world. Since the countries are on maps I think he learned a lot from doing this.
I hope this helps. I never know exactly how to approach his education; so I just keep trying. I find advanced children can be challenging in the exact opposite ways of those with special needs. Fortunately he loves to read and loves to play and learns a lot from both. He has enjoyed the fun aspects to ECC, and as always wishes everything had less writing.
Blessings,
Thank you.
Using MFW since 2004. 