Schooling Multiple Ages

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  • September 30, 2017 at 2:13 pm
    holcombfam
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    Hello, I’m new to Charlotte Mason and trying to figure out how to teach multiple grades at one time. For example, I will start homeschooling my 6th grader in January and then in two years my second will start 1st grade. Where do I start him in the curriculum since my oldest will be further along? Will I be working out of two books simultaneously?

     

    September 30, 2017 at 4:18 pm
    totheskydear
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    The SCM history/Bible/geography guides are designed so all grades are studying the same time period together. So you read one main book together and your 6th grader would read an additional book, and depending on which guide you use, your 1st grader would look at a picture book.

    October 1, 2017 at 3:26 pm
    holcombfam
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    So if my oldest is in the Joshua/Malachi/Ancient Greece book when my 1st grader starts would he join in with my oldest or start from the beginning with Genesis/Deuteronomy/Ancient Eygpt?

    October 2, 2017 at 1:42 pm
    Amanda
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    Your first grader would join in with your older child.  As a family, you should be running only 1 history/Bible/geography guide.  Each child will be doing their own level of LA and math.

    October 2, 2017 at 9:02 pm
    Karen
    Participant

    Right.  Keep the history all out of the same guide (just use whatever book selections/grades are appropriate for your children).

    So, we’re doing Modern Times (Module 6) this year.  My oldest (8th grade) just finished the Russell Freedman Photobiography of Abraham Lincoln.  My 2nd oldest (6th grade, dyslexic) just finished listening to Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House.  My third born (4th grade) just finished reading Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House (same book — I just felt like my 6th grader would get more out of this than whatever was suggested for her grade).  My fourth (3rd grade) finished reading the D’Aulaire Abe Lincolon book.

    But, they all listen at the same time to me reading the spine (Stories of the Nations and Stories of America).

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