Before buying these books, my daughter had no interest in learning to read. She was frustrated and most of our school days were no fun. A friend told me about dash and now she’s flying through these books loving learning each character’s name and being able to read. She loves her worksheets and filling her sticker page as she moves through the books. Thank you!!!
These books are just what I needed to get my 1st grade twin boys reading. We started reading the level one and I will definitely be ordering level two very soon.
I love this handwriting book. the drawing and activities are helpful too!
I love this handwriting book. There's other activities to do, which helps break up the writing for my daughter. I also love how they use Cam the cat to help with letter placement.
The schedule is very helpful. I prefer schedules to be organized by weeks, so I can choose each day what I want to work on.
LOVE this program! It helps my daughter understand emotions and how to deal with them in a more positive way. The PDF games are fun too!
LOVE these activities! It makes learning to read more fun for my daughter, and there's several activities and games for each book.
I love this enrichment program! It is so sweet and easy to follow each day. I love having it ready to go for me!
We just started two weeks ago but I love it so far. It’s very simple to follow and well thought out. I think it would be nice to have other options for this curriculum like a full term of the same composter and artist like a true CM study. But I do still appreciate the variety! The worldly proverbs are fun and I will say them but we also do a bible verse daily at the same time.
We recently started the Wonder Workshop and WOW we are in love! My son is 4 - almost 5 and he has already memorized the first poem, just learning his motto of the week and practicing the manners. I cannot wait to get deeper into the series!
Our kids love it. Will definitely continue.
We used another popular open and go language arts curriculum for 2 years without much progress. I was close to putting my son in reading therapy but since we started this reading program last month, their progress has exploded!! They are both recognizing the phonics in the books as well as other books. I am so happy I could cry! Love this gentle and fun reading program.
So far love it. Each week focuses on a book. First few pages are practicing sounds and blending them to creat works in the books. Each book has lots of different activity pages connected. Her favorite activity was word bingo from words in the book.
Dont love the wonder workshop-some art and concepts feel more adult. Hated the princess and the pea book which focuses more on reading retention and not reading on her own. Kinda wish school programs would leave teaching emotions, relational concepts, values, morals to the parents.
We've enjoyed making our way through these books and they've challenged my son at a good pace. Nice pictures and stories!
The reading books have been a dream come true! And they are incredibly cute too. My kids love them!
It almost seems slightly advanced, but it's good and my son has already started it.
Love the set, this is my second time purchasing them I wish there was a set for a small classroom.
I love using the art, poetry and music in our homeschool. I do wish there was more exploration of artists from a wider variety of backgrounds, and am hoping that's added in future years. I'd also love to see more advanced Wondershop for older/advanced learners or copy work added for some of the featured poetry.
Blends seamlessly with the reading program and is so fun!
I cannot scream loudly enough how amazing the Dash reading program is (and as a former K-1 public school teacher, I have tried a lot of different programs). We did the Kindergarten level last year and my kiddo absolutely THRIVED with this program. The science-backed approach of phonics first plus the motivation of being able to actually start reading a story within a few days was so fun for her ,and she flew through all 10 books; so far it's the same story with this program, and we only started a couple weeks ago. We love the illustrations, colors, and characters (all of which is so helpful for my creative little one), but the phonics approach is unmatched. I have recommended this program to every new homeschooler I've met and I will keep doing it because it works and we LOVE it. Thanks, Amelia and team!
It's feels like a fun madlibs type way of teaching grammar.
Love it, I feel like a lot of writing books out there will do an abrupt transition to just writing without tracing and this one has a good blend of both while doing a great job of reinforcing teaching sight words and letter blending.
It has a great example of using Cam the cat to teach filling the appropriate section of the lines. It also includes fun drawing, games, color by letter etc section that are a fun little break for kiddos. The website said it was for 1st grade but I think I'd personally find it more kindergarten level with some of the basics it's covering like how to write numbers 1-10. However, in other ways like practicing copying phrases and sight words it feels more 1st grade. So for me it feels like maybe some good K level review and some 1st grade level. If you have an advance writer though I'd move up to the next book!