Question about "Planning your CM Education"

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  • CindyJ
    Member

    Hi,

    I am not new to homeschooling…but am to SCM as of now.  I have purchased the “Planning your CM Education” guide and I have a question I am hopeful someone can answer for me.  I am currently writing down all of our books we will be using and I wonder how to plug in the History Module 5 that we will be using.  Do I go through and add all the books from there as well? Or do I just follow the guide as written and plan out the other books that will be separate from our History?  Does that make sense?  I know it seems confusing…but I am stumped as to what is best and I’m hopeful someone else has been in this place before.

    Thanks so much,

    CindyJ

    Carolyn
    Participant

    I just put in the mod guide and not all the books.  I did add books for literature, character building, etc. This allowed me to ultimately know how often I would need to read a book or did I have enough or too many books for a term.  I hope I answered your question.

    momto2blessings
    Participant

    Yes, if you’re using the SCM handbook for bible/history/geo., you don’t have to plan anything more for that….it’s all done for you.  Just use the Planning CM Educ. book for your other subjects.  HTH:) Gina

    CindyJ
    Member

    Thank you both for taking the time to respond.  I really appreciate it.  I think I am mostly done for the first term and am now pondering the CM Organizer.  

     

    Thanks again,

     

    CindyJ

    suzukimom
    Participant

    Are you pondering getting it?   It is well worth it, IMNSHO….   You could always do the 30 day trial….

    CindyJ
    Member

    Yes, I am thinking about the free trial to see if it meshes with my way of doing things.  I am such a paper and pencil person though.  I may activate the trial in a day or so after I completely finish our fall term plans.  I don’t want to activate it too soon because I really want to give it 100%.  I am hoping to finish organizing and de-cluttering our house this week and then start back to school a week from tomorrow.  Does it take a long time to plug all the info in the Organizer?  I have four children:  8th grade, 4th grade, 1st grade and then a 3 yr old….so only three that I have to plan for.  

     

    Thanks for any insight you can offer!

    CindyJ

    suzukimom
    Participant

    The time depends a LOT on how many resources are already in the bookfinder/organizer, and which ones you need to add yourself.  Obviously the modules are already in there…  

    Take your time to watch the how-to-videos first…

     

    CindyJ
    Member

    Thanks so much!  I am using SCM pretty exclusively so I think most of the resources will be in the Organizer already.  I plan to try the trial (that sounds funny) version in the next few days.  I’ve already watched all the videos and it looks pretty convincing. I really want to be able to give my oldest a weekly plan on paper and it looks like the Organizer generates that well, if I remember correctly.  Otherwise, I’ll be working one up each week for her myself.  I used the “Planning Your CM Education” guide and loved it!  It was time consuming…but very direct and to the point.  The hard part is limiting even more wonderful books!  I can always find more books that I want to read or have them read.  I need a support group for people addicted to books!  Laughing

    Thanks again for your thoughts!  

    CindyJ

    suzukimom
    Participant

    Well, the Organizer gives a Daily to-do list.

    I make it do a weekly one by scheduling everything every day (I plan to let my kids choose what to do what day, within reason)… and make a Daily To-Do-List with that.  For subjects that are done more than once a week, I click on the “show upcoming assignments” – and it shows the next 3 assignments.  (which works ok, although I’d like to see the next 4… or specify… – but we are going to do a 4 day week…)   

    I hope that helps a bit!  There are a lot of us that use the organizer, and have figured out ways to do all sorts of things with it…

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