New here-dumb question

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  • February 8, 2009 at 11:14 pm
    tammis920
    Member

    Hello!

    I am a CM mom, and just found out about the organizer, so I’m doing the free trial. I did enter a bunch of things, but here’s my dumb question. We read a lot every day, and I don’t know ahead of time what we will be reading. I will want to add the books to my organizer though, so how do you add stuff to show you read it, if you aren’t adding it to the daily schedule? Of course, this will encompass lots of stuff besides books, that I’ll want to record. Also, I thought I read something about a “journal” feature? Where would that be, and how do I use it?

    (I’m sure the answers are here somewhere-but it took me forever to just add the things I’ve got & watch the how-to videos)

    Thanks!

    February 9, 2009 at 2:30 am
    the9clarks
    Participant

    You really don’t know what you’re going to read before you read it?? Anyway, you can set up a resource and title it: Literature, or Science, or whatever. Then schedule it daily, I’d think, and then you can add a note for each book. For instance, we watch a Signing Time video every M/W/F, but I don’t decide ahead of time which one we’ll watch. So the resource is titled: Signing Time and it pops up on those days. I click “worked on” every time (or else the resource will disappear as “finished”) Then I have a running list in the “note” of each episode we’ve seen. If we duplicate one, I just don’t enter it. Make sense?

    February 9, 2009 at 2:41 am
    the9clarks
    Participant

    I also have a resource titled: Poetry of Emily Dickenson (but you could also just call it Poetry) and you just click “worked on” until you’re ready to quit the subject.

    February 9, 2009 at 2:28 pm
    Bookworm
    Participant

    Here’s another option that I use. I have a list of free reading for each child to do. I don’t know which book they are going to work on when; I let them choose. But I do know what books they have available. I list all their books in the “leisure reading” category, but I schedule them all for Saturday. That way it doesn’t clutter up my everyday schedules. When a child finishes a chapter/book, I just click it off, whatever day it is.

    Another benefit to this is I can print off a list on Saturday and they can “see” what books they have to choose from to read next. This is especially good if you have a child who occasionally roams the bookroom wondering “What do I read next?” 🙂

    Michelle D

    February 9, 2009 at 6:57 pm
    Sonya Shafer
    Moderator

    The Daily Journal should be a box at the top of your Daily Plan page. You can just click inside that box, type whatever you want to note, then click outside the box to automatically save. So another option would be to just type the book titles in that Daily Journal note box along with any other information you want connected to them.

    I like to do something kind of in between the9clarks and Bookworm. I’ll add a resource called Extra Reading or Library Books or something like that and give it divisions called Week or Stack or whatever. Then I’ll add numbered divisions without titles and schedule it. When it shows up on the Daily Plan it will say something like “Extra Reading: Read independently Stack 1.” I then add a note with the titles and click it as Finished at the end of the week or when we take that load of library books back. Then Stack 2 rolls up as the next assignment.

    As you can see, there are lots of ways you can keep track of these things in the Organizer. 🙂

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