How many books at once?

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  • August 16, 2009 at 9:22 pm
    blueyes
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    We will start school in a couple weeks and I’m still trying to finalize our schedule. My 12 yo DS will be 7th grade and this will be our first full year of hs’ing. My question is: how many books do you have your child reading at once? We want to use living books to supplement our history and then of course we want to do literature as well. So should he be reading one history novel, and then something different for literature? Should we be doing anything for reading aloud as well? I’d love to hear what you all do. We will be studying ancients this year. And we are using NOEO chem for science, so we’ll just use whatever books they suggest.

    Oh, and for the literature selection – it can just be anything, right? It doesn’t have to have anything to do with the ancients time period, right?

    August 17, 2009 at 3:40 am
    Cindie2dds
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    I was wondering this myself, coming from Sonlight, you read a chapter or so a day of several different sources. 

    I’m all ears…..

    August 17, 2009 at 1:53 pm
    missceegee
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    I schedule by Subject, below is a link to an image of my 8 yo 3rd grader’s daily/weekly schedule, if that helps. I have this posted in our schoolroom so that I don’t have to print from the SCM planner each day. We just keep going where we left off before.

    http://www.box.net/shared/71g068x8fh

    Most things are once per week for us, but by way of explanation…

    • RA Bible, Geo, History = SCM Module Matt – Acts & Ancient Rome and it’s corresponding books (daily)

    • RA Literature = Farmer Boy (1 chapter/week)

    • RA Science = Owls in the Family (1 chapter/week)

    • RA Literature/Tale = Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (librivox audio) (1 time/week)

    • Additional Literature = Ginger Pye. These are books from her list, no narration required

    • Personal Journal = She writes whatever she wants. This is just for her personal memories.

    • Handicrafts/Life Skills = I only schedule this once/week, but she works on it more.

    • Story CDs = from our collection, the library, librivox or wherever. This includes our American History Stories by Mara Pratt and read by Jim Hodges

    • Drawing Journal = one time/week, work on one animal or whatever until comfortable with how it looks and then choose another. 

    • QT = Quiet Time (daily afternoon siesta)

    • minutes are to keep me from going overboard on any one thing

    Perhaps this will give you a visual of how at least one person (me) schedules one of my kids. My 5 yo is similar, but much less work.

    HTH,

    ChristieSmile

    August 17, 2009 at 4:55 pm
    HeidiS
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    Thanks Christie

    This is interesting to me. I have a 14yo son who loves to be read to but does not like to read more than one book at a time. He says the stories get all jumbled in his head and he can’t keep them straight. Now this boy does have some processing issues but nothing serious. There is just no way I can get through this year with him only reading one book at a time, so I am looking for suggestions! My 9yodd has a way better grasp on this and she is also able to narrate better than he can. I think it is an attention thing with him because his mind is always outside and going rather than indoors and focussing but I am kind of stumped as to how to get him over this hurdle? Any ideas??

    Heidi

    August 17, 2009 at 5:15 pm
    briedell
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    Here is how we do things around here.  I just got this schedule finalized last week. 

    My 11 yr old dd-Term 1

    Literature Selection-Tuesdays   Science Family Read-Aloud Thursdays and Fridays

    Student Reads for Science Thursdays   Student Reads for History on Fridays

    Among those books we have Apologia’s Flying Creatures of the 5th day, so both my read-alouds and the books my eldest reads on her own center around birds, insects, ect…  Her book for the Literature selection enforces our faith  For History, she’s reading a book that enforces Ancient Egypt which we’ll be studying in full during term 2  Each of these books will change once we start Term 2 and then again when we start Term 3

    For my 7 1/2 yr old dd, she is still learning to read, so I read most of her books to her or we do buddy reading.  Again, the books we use compliment what we are studying in history and science.  Our literature enforces or beliefs in Jesus.

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    In Christ, Bridget

    August 17, 2009 at 8:51 pm
    caroline4kids
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    Hi,

    We read our Matthew Through Acts in the evenings after supper,

    During the day the kids each read a small selection from a living history and science book and either narrate orally or in writing. We use a lot of Yesterday’s classics books for this.

    At night the kids listen to literature on audio books before bed.

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