Name: Thrive! NCHE Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-05-22T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-24T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Winston-Salem, NC

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January 8, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Heather
Participant
It meets from about 9-2 every other week and covers these things:
Around the World- Geography, Hymn, Artist Study,Music Study, Poetry, Hands On Art
With this meeting every other week, and with me being in the middle and almost finished with planning the rest of this school year, should I schedule these subjects to cover at home too? Honestly, these are the subjects that always get left out in our school day, which was why I was quick to join this co-op…but now that I have, should I still try to cover some of these subjects at home as well?
January 9, 2012 at 1:23 am
jenni33
Participant
If it were me, I would focus on the basics at home- language arts, math, science and history. This co-op day that you have looks it will cover all the fine arts type learning that you would need. Leaving it for co-op day would make it something special and fun for your kids. Plus, since the school year is half over, it would give you more time to plan for next year, and just use the remainder of this school year participating in co-op to introduce these topics to your kids. But if you wanted to study those things at home, I would split them up. Say for instance: (I don’t know what day your co-op meets on, so this is just an example)
M-co-op day
T- Geography drill
W- Hymn and Music study
T- Poetry
F- Artist study and hands-on art.
Use your co-op topics as springboard for the week if you can, or just use it as inspiration for other of the same types of activities at home. The scheduling idea above I got here from the SCM website. Here’s the link:
http://simplycharlottemason.com/planning/weekly/
There are lots of ways to schedule all of these different family study times, just do what works for your family.

January 9, 2012 at 1:36 am
missceegee
Participant
Heather,
I lead a CM co-op that covers fine arts (artist, composer, hymn, folk song, and poetry studies) as one of our class periods. Our family does not cover these things at home apart from singing the songs and listening to the composer’s work and displaying the pictures. We listen to the music in the car and sing at our morning scripture memory time.
One of the reasons I include this in co-op is because it’s easy to say, “I’ll get to it later.” I’d recommend that you focus on other things at home and simply “support” what you’re doing in co-op. This gives you more time to focus on other subjects at home.
Blessings,
Christie
January 9, 2012 at 3:09 am
Heather
Participant
Thank you both for your advice…I was actually hoping this is what you would say!
Thanks Again!