scheduleing for this year

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  • August 19, 2015 at 1:35 pm
    jill smith
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    Hi all, as I begin to start scheduling for the year plus a wedding, I am up for advice from those of you whom have done CM forever. Here is my list:

    DD age 7 :

    Recorder

    Math

    reading McGuffey

    science abeka plus Of the pond people

    copy work (still deciding) spelling wisdom may still be to hard. looking at queen for little girls.

    phonics explode the code

    handwriting

     

    DD age 10:

    Math

    L.A queens

    explode the code

    science Abeka

    spelling wisdom book one

    music

    History/Geography/ Bible

    I would like a book on girls growing modesty purity ect.

    DS age 13:

    Math

    science Abeka

    History/ Geography/Bible from here

    spelling wisdom book 2

    music pianio

    composition/grammer

    vocab/spelling

    lit.

    Plus we will have a morning basket for say:

    Together we will be doing History/Geography / Bible Early Modern

    Poetry

    memory work read aloud

     

     

    August 19, 2015 at 2:24 pm
    Tristan
    Participant

    Looks lovely!  Will you do any family read aloud books?  It’s one of my favorite things to do (can be part of history, science, or other).

    August 19, 2015 at 2:26 pm
    jill smith
    Participant

    Tristan,

    Yes, we will be incorporating that with our morning routine. Is phonic to much with spelling wisdom? I also have a spelling program that I bought called All about spelling. But all I have read is to not do spelling like that?

     

    August 19, 2015 at 3:25 pm
    Tristan
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    Well, does your 7 year old read independently yet?  My 6 year old does not, my 7 year old has been reading chapter books since age 3 (taught himself, nothing to do with me!).  So for my 6 year old this year we aren’t doing spelling in any form (spelling wisdom is for 4th grade-ish on up and we don’t do spelling personally until a child has read well for a few years).  He does copywork of letters or of short vowel words (all he can read so far).  We ARE using a phonics program with him – All About Reading.

    So I guess, if your 7yo is reading already then I would go with copywork and skip all about spelling.  If they are not reading yet I would go with copywork of letters or words and phrases as they learn to read them.  No spelling.

    Does that help?

    August 19, 2015 at 4:21 pm
    jill smith
    Participant

    She is only reading the Primer for McGuffey and I didn’t rush her. Okay, I guess I will do explode the code then and copy work out of the reading she is doing. No spelling then.

    Next question, sorry, How about for my dd10. She is reading books like Charlottes Web ect,  So no spelling for her either? She just started reading better this summer. I am trying to follow the guide for weekly schedule. What is dictation exactly? Does that go along with spelling wisdom? She may be to young yet for that! What do you put in place of that then?  They show: Math dictation (5th  and up) grammar, reading, science.

    Thanks for all your help.

    August 19, 2015 at 5:36 pm
    Tristan
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    Your 10yo is probably ready for prepared dictation – which you do with Spelling Wisdom or make up your own.  Here is a great post about the process: http://www.simplycharlottemason.com/blog/a-natural-progression-the-power-of-dictation-part-1/  and there is a second post to go with that one:  http://www.simplycharlottemason.com/blog/growth-in-spelling-the-power-of-dictation-part-2/

    In essence, dictation is the next step after copywork.  They study a passage looking at the spelling of words they are unfamiliar with spelling, look at the punctuation, etc.  Then a day or so later, when they are prepared, you read aloud the passage slowly (dictate it) and they write, hopefully with correct spelling and punctuation.  What we have found is that we prefer to take a full week for one passage.  So the first day the kids copy it for copywork.  The next day they find the words they don’t know how to spell and write those/study those.  The third day they copywork it again, paying attention to the spelling words.  Fourth day practice the spelling words and punctuation.  Fifth day I read it aloud and they write.

    A key – you only do a sentence or passage that has no more than 3 words they can’t spell.  Any more than that is overwhelming!  So if the early passages in Spelling Wisdom are still to difficult you can write your own sentence for each week.

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