Planning your CM education 12 year

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  • February 23, 2015 at 3:00 pm
    Danyella
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    Hello,

    I am working through the planning your cm education book and I’m stuck on the Big Picture and the idea of teaching your kids together. I feel like I need to do topic planning here also. When I try to do this I am having difficulty trying to envision teaching my kids all together science and history through 12 years. I can’t teach chemistry to a 9th grader and an 11th grader to an equal level of understanding, I don’t think? If I follow my 4 year rotation this will be the only time the 9th grader is taught chemistry.

    Is there a point that you release your children to independent study in these areas? 7th – high school maybe?

    Am I jumping ahead? I know there must be a reason for not planning 12 years but I can’t see it.

    Any advice?

    Danyella: Mom of 4;  2, 4, 6, and 8 years old

     

    February 23, 2015 at 3:12 pm
    suzukimom
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    Not all subjects are done as a family, and yes science and some other topics are definitely generally done independently by high school.

    (that said, I believe that the Well-Trained-Mind – which is Classical, not CM, has students working in the same science rotation in a family, although not necessarily at the same level….)

    March 5, 2015 at 2:48 pm
    Danyella
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    Thank you for your reply.

    March 15, 2015 at 3:55 pm
    Claire
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    I have kept mine together for the subjects you mentioned thus far – they are ages 12 and 14.  I occasionally panic about it but ultimately see that family subjects add more than they negate.  Maybe I won’t always feel that way, I can’t say.

    We do all subjects together except: Math, Foreign Language, Literature, and the extra literatures/biographies we read for Science and History.  Composition, dictation, speech, spelling, grammar … Those might also be considered separate.  Maybe I should have listed it in the other order by what we did do together!

    I think it helps to sketch out your children’s high school years and see how things will come together.  If you see a gap or a chance one may not get a “full” experience in a subject, you could adjust for that as needed.

    Your expectation for their level of narration is how family subjects differ.  That and perhaps a younger starts to narrate on the lesson while you and an older one have a more in depth period of “grand discussion” before they narrate.  I have not consistently added things to my older child’s lessons (in the form of extra assignments) but I do use higher level thinking and analysis narration prompts.  Either might work.

    Honestly, they seem to go as deep as their age/stage/skill level allows.  In other words I don’t have to stop one from trying to understand too deeply or another from understanding too simply.  If that makes sense?

    HTH

    March 16, 2015 at 5:36 pm
    blue j
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    I just noticed the ages of your children. While you can have a general idea of where you want to go, I would not plan out all 12 years now. Quite simply, you may have things come up or occur that you are just not aware will happen. Life happens and you may find that you need to work around or through some things and others get left behind to be picked up at a later date for all sorts of reasons. As a recovering box checker, I understand your burning desire to lay out everything, but I highly recommend you do not do that to yourself. You will be laying the ground work for upset and frustration when, not if, life gets in the way.

    Also, there are some things that you can have each child doing independently. It may be hard to see it now. Remember that you will grow with this method just as your children grow, so when the time comes, you will be much more prepared to move on to that next step. It will likely still *seem* like you may be out of your depth, but just like anything else, you will find that it’s just that you haven’t walked that exact leg of the road before, but will be fine once you step forward.

    Blessings,

    ~jacqleene
    Mom to 5 – 25, 23, 20, 18, and 14

    March 16, 2015 at 10:28 pm
    Carla
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    My high schoolers have gone on their own for science starting in grade 9.  They stay on the same history rotation as us, though, but do more challenging work.  My 2 in high school have done the same novels and plays so that they can have discussion.  My oldest is graduating this year and my 3rd will be entering high school and he will join his older sister in doing the same English work.

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