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Combing SCM and MFW
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I am posting this here because the thread I replied to is old.I am wondering what people use who have left MFW? I want my kids to have a love for missions so I am using ECC as our geography and missions curriculum. I just started so I am still trying to figure it out. I added What do people Eat and Material world from scm. I plan on just repeating ECC every few years and use the Visits to for maps. I like Truthquest history but I am wondering if it will work to combine with MFW or SCM. My kids live hands on projects and I was going to use MFW for that, but I have seen that can history has links to hands on. Has anyone used those and do you like them? How has it been leaving now and doing your own planning? I think I’m just insecure about doing my own planning, but I feel boxed in when I use Mfw exclusively. I guess I worry that I can’t an as well as they can. Right now my plan is to use SCM recommendations for grade level work and enrichment and science. Then use Truthquest along with MFW. I don’t know if it will work or be too much or if I’d rather use can history and truthquest and just add in hands-on activities. Any thoughts or experience to share?
Hi Grace,
Did you decide on a plan? My oldest child is using MFW 1st grade right now and I am trying to plan for the future. I am very attracted to the book selections and methods with SCM but the detailed plans/ hands on aspect of MFW is so easy to follow. And I think I like the looks of the way MFW does their cycle better than SCMs 6 year cycle. I also like the idea of the Truthquest commentary and how they delay world history and focus on American only for young kids (although that doesn’t work for having the whole family learn together once my younger son joins us)…my head is spinning. I feel like there isn’t one good option that gives me everything I want. Seems like you are in the same boat so I thought I would see if you had any clarity on the matter for your family!
Hi, if you want to email me I can tell you in more detail.
So I’m basically using all SCM stuff to create our own ECC year. We are going through all the Visits to books, (not putting a huge emphasis on the map work) and I am adding in more books from Give Your Child the World. We pretty much read a book a day, and map the 5-6 countries for the week once a week. It is going fabulously!
Kayla, I am so interested to hear this! That’s almost exactly what I was planning on doing starting in a month or so. I have all the Visits books and I’m gradually collecting (or finding library resources for) books from all over the world, plus Material World, Hungry Planet/Children Just Like Me. I also plan to use world music (we own tons, and I’ll find more), videos of world dance, language listening, travel videos, foreign movies, ethnic restaurants (we live in Southern CA, so lots of international food) or food prepared at home, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The living book possiblities are extensive! I plan to do this for at least a year, possibly more. I’m so glad to hear it’s working for you!
ECC= exploring countries and cultures.
Alphabetika- it is going so well! I have a 3rd grader, and 1st graded, 3.5 year old and baby cooking due in October. I purchased 95% of the recommended books in the Visits to guides. And my library had the 4-5 I couldn’t justify spending $15-18 on to read in one day. I’m planning to spend 5-7 weeks (some visits have more countries) on each guide. I plan on having 30 “lessons” so when I subtract the 5-6 hungry planet and material world readings in each guide and the 4-5 books, it leaves me with 18-20 days to read other books. So I am pulling a ton from Give Your Child the World, and national anthems, folk stories, eating at restaurants, and really just getting to know these people. We do our maps on Friday, and just color in and label on he same map, adding in each week. Like I said above, the mapping in not my focus with me kids being so young. If you want to email me more questions feel free. K dot dernier at gmail dot com. I also have an instagram just for homeschooling the CM way where you can see what books we are reading. @ Flourish underscore with underscore Charlotte
Oh! And just last week (we are doing middle east right now) we are reading through Mosque, and it talks about the Muslim call to prayer. So I got to talk about Muhammad, who he was and what they believe. We listened to the call to prayer on youtube and talked about the differences in our beliefs and theirs. It is so awesome to get to talk to my kids and teach them about people from all over, but when it comes down to it, we are all just people.
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