Well, I think I am hearing something that I have been strongly contemplating the last two weeks. I was just seeing if I coud revive the last remaining pieces of the 4 year cycle we have followed so far iin some good and inspiring way, but I think it is not a good idea.
It sure would ease up our schedule and make our learning more meaningful for this presnet year as we could slow down. My oldest did say recently that he finds the history lessons going too quckly and not very interesting. I know he would like to linger more on our present topics and do some projects etc, but we are too full of information and lacking time in our day (as I also think there is more to life than studying like hobbies and life skills to learn and enjoy) to stop and linger on a subject. I have been feeling like the 4 year cycle wasjust too much to cover lately especially since I find as they are getting into the higher grades (for a lack of a better word),t hey have much more detailed and heavier works to read through and comprehend.
I think I will discuss this with my hubby tomorrow as he is a real historian. I will have to review my recently created 6 year history plan again to see how we would cover it for the next 7 -9 years for my first two children (and then integrating my two youngest children in in the next 2-4 years).
I was just wondering if they will get enough out of the 6 year cycle over the 4 year cycle (yes that is still my “quantity over quality” mentality speaking. I am trying to get out of that thinking.
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By the way, you want to know something, for history or social studies, I was only ever taught my Canadian history twice in my teen years (which was utterly boring, poorly explained, and I retained nothing of it) along with snippets of different cultures when I was in elementary school (and it too was boring. And franky the most vivid memory of this subject during this time are two things: the fact that the Aztecs sacrificed people and how they did it, and that I had to spend all my grade 5 social studies class copying notes off of 4 blackboards repeatedly as my teacher wrote on them for the whole entire class. That is it.) I never covered world history, so I agree with you! I am learning way more history and really only begun to enjoy it this past year (as I think the ps influence has just left me in my late 30’s – cna you beleive it!)
Thankyou for your advice.