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  • July 16, 2017 at 9:30 pm
    Rice kellie
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    Hello,
    I’ve been using a unit study approach in the past and would like to use SCM for next year. I’ve read quite a few books on the CM approach and a DVD series by SCM. Could some of you help point me as to how to do this? I looked at AO, but I liked what I saw with SCM more and the material that I’ve viewed seems to be a better fit. So, how do I go about planning? I’m so confused about how to plan and what to buy for language arts. Do you buy the individual studies? Or do the students read living books? I’m sorry if these questions have been asked already.  I’m just at such a loss as to how SCM works and what to buy.
    Thank you,
    Kellie

    July 16, 2017 at 10:17 pm
    sheraz
    Participant

    Hello, Kellie, and welcome.

    Have you seen the page that walks you through planning a SCM school year? It helps you know what to plan for each subject and each student.

    Here is the place where you can get started:

    https://simplycharlottemason.com/build-your-own-curriculum/

    Basically, you as the mom would need:

    1. Family Study Guide for the history, geography, and Bible

    2. An Enrichment guide that takes you through all the riches

    3. Individual study plan if you want a guide to planning math lessons, reading, handwriting.

    4. A science guide

    Each of these guides will have a list of Resources Needed, and you would locate what you need based on that list. All of them include living books, short and varied lessons, exam questions, and the term schedules.

    The family studies are for combined learning…this works great for subjects like history, geography and Bible. The lesson plans are in this guide and you get the books listed in the plans under Resources Needed.

    The enrichment studies contain the plans for all the wonderful CM riches – Shakespeare, Plutarch, picture study, music study, poetry, etc. They will have all these subjects scheduled for a year and you just buy the things you need from the list that comes with it. For a person new to CM methods and philosophy, this is invaluable!

    Individual Studies break down the individual student’s work – things like math, reading lessons and practice, handwriting, etc.

    The science guides have a year’s worth of lessons and nature study suggestions in them. We have enjoyed many of them. SCM book lists are incredible!

    I hope this helps. =)

    July 16, 2017 at 10:24 pm
    CrystalN
    Participant

    Hi Kellie, welcome. Have you checked out  “SCM Curriculum” and  “Build Your Own Curriculum”  on the “Our Curriculum” drop down menu? Those are super helpful. There is a planning chart you print out and use in the build your curriculum section. I will try to help as best I can. The individual studies would be your lesson plan, additional items are required, the actual “curriculum” is not included. The same goes for history and enrichment guides, the guides are your daily plans, but do not include your materials. So if you wanted to jump in to SCM and use all the great things they offer you would buy one history guide, one enrichment guide, and one set of individual plans for each student. You would then need to purchase or borrow the books on the booklist for each of those guides for your ages. I know it seems complicated but it really isnt. For language arts it depends on the grade. Delightful reading for littles, Spelling Wisdom with Using Language Well for 3rd and up. Plus oral and/or written narrations. If you go to the bookstore and look at the sample of Individual Studies for your childs grade it will show you the required resources.  I copied this from grade 3

     

    Book List for Individual Studies, Grade 3

    Math course of choice

    Simply Charlotte Mason science course of choice

    Journaling a Year in Nature notebook, one per person (optional)

    Spelling Wisdom, Book 1

    Using Language Well, Book 1, Student Book

    Using Language Well, Book 1, Teacher Guide and Answer Key

    Select Track A or Track B

    Track A

    New Friends

    More New Friends

    Print to Cursive Proverbs

    Track B

    Hymns in Prose for Children

    Hymns in Prose Teacher Book (optional)

    Hymns in Prose Copybook

    I hope that helps a little.

    Crystal

    July 16, 2017 at 10:54 pm
    Rice kellie
    Participant

    Thank you Crystal,
    What you shared is so helpful. Could you tell me what track A and track B mean?

     

    July 16, 2017 at 10:56 pm
    Rice kellie
    Participant

    Also, is there a way to see what books are recommended as far as literature for them to read? Do you know how many books per year they read on their own? Are they assigned or does the parent pick?

    Thanks 🙂

    July 16, 2017 at 11:30 pm
    CrystalN
    Participant

    Here is a helpful chart of recommended Individual Studies by grade level.

    https://simplycharlottemason.com/planning/curriculum-guide/individual-graded-subjects/

     

    July 16, 2017 at 11:34 pm
    CrystalN
    Participant

    I had a really long explanation for you about literature and the modules with links and it vanished, ugh, sorry. I have to scoot now, I will try again tomorrow, sorry.

    July 17, 2017 at 11:10 am
    CrystalN
    Participant

    I will try this again. For literature SCM has a list you can use, it is by grade level and there are 4 groups in each grade level, you find your childs grade level and select one of the groups to read for the year. The next year you pick another group. The number of books varies depending on age, length of book and difficulty. Enjoying the books together is recommended, but you can also assign them or do some combination of assigning/reading aloud. If you purchase the Enrichment guide this work os done for you, it provides daily literature reading assignments based on the booklists. Here is the link to the literature lists.

    https://simplycharlottemason.com/planning/curriculum-guide/literature/

    The history guides give specific grade level reading assignments as well, which is really literature also. It is my favorite part of SCM curriculum. Keeping my family learning together is important to me, most “family” curriculums boot the high schooler. I want to enjoy time with my high schoolers for as long as I can. Hers is a link to the Joshua-Malachi amd Greece booklists

    https://simplycharlottemason.com/planning/curriculum-guide/joshua-malachi-ancient-greece/

    I find the easiest place to find all the lists in one place is in the Build Your Own Curriculum section, it seems to give the most detailed info in one place with ample links. Generally all the lists and recommendations you find are straight out of the Lesson Plan guides. You can poke around in the Build Your Own section to get an idea of how it works and what guides you want to start with, and then head over to SCM Curriculum section or the bookstore and start shopping.

    I hope that helps a bit. Happy planning!

    July 17, 2017 at 11:26 am
    Karen Smith
    Moderator

    Because children learn to read at different ages, there are two tracks for language arts in our Individual Studies lesson plan guides for grades 1-3. Track A is for a child whose reading skills still need developing. Track B is for a child who does not need any more reading instruction or practice. Choose the track that best fits your child, and follow the lesson instructions for that track.

    The number of literature and other books (history, science) your child will read each year varies by age and length of the books being read. We recommend that you read to your child for grades 1-3. For grades 4-12, it is your choice whether to read the books to your child or assign them to be read by the child.

    If you use our lesson plan guides, the literature selections are found in the Enrichment Studies guides. The Enrichment Studies guides schedule the literature books for you. You can download a sample of one of the Enrichment Studies to see what materials are needed and how those materials are scheduled.

    You can also find the list of our literature recommendations by following the “literature” link on our overview chart. Choose one group of literature that best fits your family. Read the books from the group, spreading them out over the entire school year. One group equals one year’s literature readings.

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