Tristan Thanks for your response ! Thanks for sharing what works in your home – if definitely spurs my thinking and creative juices 🙂
I guess I am looking for some slight structure to be in place for them if I am not working with them at the moment. Like you said that you wanted to teach them how to do those things independently so they could do it independently on their own.
I never thought of using copy work in this way. We have always done it as a group , the older copying / transcribing a little bit more than the younger but they were always working on the same passage . I could just arrange it so that when I am doing math with my younger , my 4th grader could do his writing. Hmm…. Lightbulb moment ! This would give me the motivation to incorporate written narration more than I have been .
The reading list I was thinking about starting was above and beyond their daily reading literature chapter books. Maybe more like creating a “book basket ” with special books collected just for this situation.
For my 2nd grader ? I will need to think and brainstorm more for her. I know if it’s the same everyday she will get bored quickly , she likes choices and variety.
Thanks Tristan and Kelley !