Can I do History 3 days a week?

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  • Nichole De Line
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    Hi, I am new to this forum but have been using  CM methods for a few years.

    I would like to know if it is possible to use the SCM History lesson plans 3 days a week instead of 5?

    It is written for 5 days per week, so I am  a little nervous about using it.  Any advice would be very appreciated.

    Thanks

    Melissa
    Participant

    The lesson plans include history, geography and Bible broken up over five days for three terms, 60 days in each term. Not all five days are history.

    Sue
    Participant

    We are mostly on a 4-day week for academic subjects, except for math (5 days).  We do Bible separately, assigning specific readings and studies to the individual for the most part, and we count in family devotions.

    We have done history/geography over 4 days often.  We just do history on 3 days and geography on the 4th day.  Sometimes, if we need to intensify a portion of history to finish in time (or to prepare for an upcoming field trip), we will add in another day, but mostly history is 3 days a week.

    That being said, if we should have done 30-minute readings with or without narration over 4 days, I added on 10 minutes to each of the 3-day sessions so we covered what we needed.  However, my kids have all been middle school or high school ages in the past 3 years, so that was not too much.  If you have younger kids and only do 20 minutes per session, you might want to do 30 minutes per day split up a bit if that’s too much in one sitting.  Then geography would have its own separate day.

    totheskydear
    Participant

    If you leave out the Bible assignments from the SCM guides, the history can be done in only 2 days for the earlier time periods, with 1 day for geography… Which, sometimes, is just looking at a map and memorizing where 1-3 countries are and only takes about 30 seconds to do.  😉

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