Finally coming to SCM…

I’ve been eyeballing for years. I’ve tried a couple products (mostly LA) which I admit, weren’t a big hit. Other products I’ve drooled over but have never been able to afford (here’s looking at you LTDR). And I’ve scoured and scoured the curriculum guide. We have somewhat loosely followed the guide with our own materials, however, my son is half way through grade 4 and we have not once touched geography, history, Bible (outside of reading Bible stories and praying) or science in any sort of formal way, just because I’ve always felt overwhelmed by having to have four different things.

But… I want to get started on those things. And I need to be able to do them in a way that is short and sweet, just because of the way things are with our children etc… And I also need something planned out and open and go.

It finally dawned on me that SCM fits that bill exactly. So, we’re going to start after Christmas with Genesis to Deuteronomy, as well as the SCM Learning about Birds guide.  For now we’ll use our own resources for poetry, music, picture, hymn studies etc… but I’m hoping next year to use the SCM guides.

I’m hoping to have our schedule go something like this:

Morning Basket (at breakfast):

– Memory Work
– Rotating Studies (picture study, hymn study, French, virtues, music study)
– Poetry
– Rosary/Prayers

Lesson Time:

– Math
– LA
– SCM History
– SCM Science (we’re going to use the bird guide 3-4x a week, and finish it by end of the year)