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History Modules in 4 days per week?
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Please forgive me if I’ve asked this question before, and completely forgotten the responses. I’d chosen something else for history for the coming year, but am now reconsidering the SCM history modules – Module 4. I really do like how it’s set up, but we do school four days per week, and I don’t know how it’d work with trying to squeeze the scheduled 5 days into 4. Has anyone successfully done this?
Thanks,
Aimee
This could be done easliy because the History is scheduled four days a week with one day a week for Bible and Geography. Just do the Bible/Geography doubled up with other days and you will be fine. Two days are World History and two days are American History. You could do the Bible part with one set of two days and the Geography with the other set of two days. I hope I’m not confusing you. Look at the free sample to see what I mean.
We did Modules 3, 4, and part of 5 in one year. But this was for my junior. We plan to cover the rest of Module 5, do 6, and add in the OT readings from Module 1 & 2 for next year.
This program is very easy to be flexible with and if you use the SCM Online Organizer it makes it even easier to be flexible.
Rather than feeling like you have to squeeze in the lessons, why not schedule 180 days in your school year so that you end up completing one lesson per day? That way, you’re not confined to completing five lessons each week. I like my resources to work for me instead of me working for my resources. We are trying a four-day/week school year this year, and that was the easiest way for me to know that we were completing the resource in the same amount of time as a normal school year. I always schedule 180 days per year anyway, since that’s what PS in Texas schedules.
I have also found that many of the module lessons are short enough to complete two or even three lessons in one day. For example, when we read the story of Esther last year in Module 2, my children were not content to leave the story open-ended over three lessons as laid out in the lesson plans. So we completed all three readings on Esther in one day and checked off three lessons. Does that make sense?
I definitely think the SCM team wants us to tailor their resources to fit our needs and schedules instead of feeling confined.
Hope that helps!
Lindsey
I took the OP to mean that she was doing something else educational on that fifth day each week therefore she would already have 180 days included. Many people do school all week but only their main curriculum for four days , leaving the fifth day for field trips, co-ops, and other out of the home educational activities.
But yes, again, you could easily make this work for you.
Yes, we do our co-op on the fifth day and use the afternoons for catch-up, but don’t usually schedule our main lessons that day. I’m thinking, from what’s been shared, that I could break the Geography and Bible day into those two subjects and schedule them on different days, yes?
Thanks so much!
Aimee
Aimee, I have found most of the Bible lessons short enough to easily double up on one day. That would give you a 4 day week with 180 days, leaving the extra day for co-op. It has worked for us quite well.
Thank you! I’m really leaning in this direction. I was trying to rewrite a HOD curriculum for this time period (Module 4), to use spines that are more CM and to make it more CM friendly in general, and I got 9 weeks into it before getting totally overwhelmed, wondering why I’m completely reworking something – MOH is scheduled for 21 weeks and I do NOT like it – when perhaps the work has already been done for me!
Blessings,
Aimee
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