I’ve been looking into the CM method of education as it really resonates w me. I believe it was William Buttler Yates who stated that “education is not the filling of a pale, but the lighting of a fire.” That sums up how I’ve always felt but I’ve never had any idea how to implement until now…so I am super excited to get started! The CMO is so simple!e to use I absolutely LOVE it. I am totally looking forward do digging into so many juicy books w my DC. My question is, what if one of my children has already read the children’s versions of the books I’d like us to read? Or even the exact book, (original, unabridged or modified)? Would it hurt to read them again as part of our studies? Am I cheating that child out of a term or even a year of education if I do that? Mostly she has read abridged children’s versions and I think she’s missing out on so much adventure, literary example, deeper character development (both of the books’ characters and her own), etc. Reading them again is no issue for her as she reads those books she relishes repeatedly. I just did not want to cheat her in some way. What do you all think? How would you handle this situation? TIA!
If it was the abridged versions she has read/heard, then definitely read the original, un-abridged versions. I would think more in terms of what she is missing out on by not hearing the full version. 🙂
I’ll re-read books that haven’t been read in awhile. We’ll be re-reading Alice in Wonderland this year. It’s been several years since we first read it, so none of the DC remember much of it. If there is a book scheduled for history that we’ve read in the last few years, I try to find a substitution for it.
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