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I recently got this book for my daughter. I was wondering how to break it up into days. Does anybody have any sdvice as to how to schedule this?
How old is your daughter? Is she doing this by herself or with you?
When we did this book we did it together (4th & 5th graders). I either set the timer for 20 minutes and we read until it went off, or we read until I was tired and/or found a good stopping place. You could also count up the pages and decide how long you want the book to take. Then divide the pages by how many days/weeks and you’ll end up with how many pages you need to read a day.
My daughter is ten and she will probably be doing this mostly on her own. She is starting to become more independent in her work. We have never used a textbook so I was unsure how to divide this. She requested this book. I am not wooried about finishing the book in a year or anything like that. We don’t use a timer any more. I give her an assignment sheets for the week, and she comes to me with any questions she has about the assignments. I was just wondering how to assign sections without making it too long.
Not sure if you have the accompanying notebook, but it breaks down the lessons into two days per week for two weeks … so 28 weeks of scheduled lessons for the 14 included in Flying Creatures. Does that make sense? CBD also sells Daily Lesson Plans for around $6 that your daughter might be able to follow independently, with or without the notebook.
For anybody that has used this book, how long each day did you usually spend? she does science three days a week, but one lesson still seems too long to get done in two weeks. Sorry for being difficult, but I am just trying to figure this out. My daughter will be in sixth grade, if that helps.
We’re just over half way through the first lessons in Flying creatures ourselves and so far the boys are right in to in and have voted to continue working on it through the summer. We are just coming to the end of our first year of homeschool after being in PS. I was surprised when I gave them two options — do lesson 1, 7 and 8 before our scheduled end date in June or work through the insect chapters over the summer at a slower rate. I asked the older one about finishing off MUS Gamma over the summer so that he’d be ready to go with Delta in September and he seems cool with that. I also asked him what else he felt we should maybe look at continuing with over the summer and he suggested copy work (an area he really struggles with). Of course we’ll be reading some great books, too!
I agree that their suggested plan is not working for my boys who are in 2nd and 5th. Right now we are doing science 4 days a week, and planning between 1 1/2 – 2 weeks for a lesson depending on length. Unless there is an experiment involved I try to keep the lesson to a 20 min limit including narrations/notebook page. We don’t have the notebooks — I’ve just printed the notebook pages off the website. I’ve borrowed the book from a friend and have her daughter’s notebook here as an example, but I found there is too much in it that we’d never bother with to justify buying the notebook. Through the summer I will take a slower pace, using the same 8 short lesson approach, but not worry if it takes us three weeks to do something. I’ll just try to plan it around vacations and camp.
I think that the lessons are too involved to try to do them in two weeks. We decided to split it up into many shorted lessons. We do notebooking, but don’t use the notebooking pages. My daughter doesn’t like them. It will take us three to four weeks per lesson. We won’t finish the book, but that’s alright. I want to make sure that she is understanding what she is reading since this is her first experience with a textbook. Thanks for all of the advice.
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