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Yet another question from me….
Copywork… Do you have your children copy the same thing every day for a week? Or do you give them something different every time? And does it relate to what you are studying?
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Shari
Depending upon the age of the child, you may need to have an exact copy for them.
1. Choose a passage. Ideally related to what’s being studied, but I find this less important for those getting started. I would likely buy a copybook with passages I like.
2. Set a timer for 5-10 minutes. I would not go over 5 for someone new to copywork, but may go 2-3 minutes instead.
3. Child works, giving his best effort until finished or the timer dings. If not finished at ding, then pick up tomorrow.
That’s it. Easy peasy.
Shari, I believe others here are more qualified than I. But I’ll attempt a helpful reply. In short, we vary the subjects & it usually relates to what we are studying. Although, it doesn’t always relate to what we’re studying. How’s that for clarity?
Sometimes my dd finds something in a book of her interest that she wants to copy. I’m OK with that. It’s the process of copywork that I try to focus upon.
The longer version:
My youngest (8 yo) keeps a composition book and an Apologia science notebook. We vary throughout the week the sources of copywork.
About once a week she copies the Scripture in her Junior Apologia notebook. In her composition book, she copies from various sources & then draws a picture at the top of the page related to the copywork completed. My youngest daughter loves to draw, so she uses composition book in which 1/2 of the page is blank.
Sometimes she (as well as her older sister with dictation) requests to help find good passages. When my kids help to find good passages, it gives us opportunity to talk about what makes that passage interesting. We treausure hunt passages in readers and read-alouds (including “spines”). Interesting quotes or sayings will find their way into copywork too. I also make up sentences with spelling words that my daughters have difficulty remembering. With copywork, they can then see the correct spelling and visualize it better.
At the top corner of the copywork page I date it, put down breifly in 1-2 words what we discussed (spelling, parts of speech, mechanics, literary devices . . .), general topic (History, English, Science …) & the copywork source. This then makes it nice for us to review as well as for our homeschool evaluator.
Best wishes as you work out your own pattern.
Mine do a different passage every time, but they have to re-do it if it’s not done to the best of their ability and that depends on each child. I have one that wants to choose his own passages (age 13). He pulls from the scriptures, books he’s read or is reading, quotes from famous people, etc. One uses copywork that I print out (either stuff I find online or from a book I made for him; age 12). The third kid uses a copywork book (age 9). I do start each of them in a copywork type book but eventually we get to the point where I let them choose how they want to do it.
They do a different passage/sentence/verse/etc. each day. Generally they work on the same passage for a week and continue where they left off at the previous lesson. This year I have a journal to write down possible copywork passages from our readings. We’re only a few days in our year, so I’m not sure how it will work yet. I’m planning on writing down interesting quotes, hymn verses, poems, Bible verses, or passages as they come up in our readings. My 3rd grader is using SCM’s Print to Cursive Proverbs during his copywork time. Last year we mostly used McGuffey readers for copywork.
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