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SCM Booklists – AO scheduling?
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We have drawn much from both SCM and AO for a while now. I’ve read previous posters describe how they have taken AO resources and added them to their SCM “framework”, but I wonder if anyone has done the opposite…taken the SCM booklists (which I prefer) and used them in an AO schedule, allowing children to work independently. Does that make any sense at all?
We are in a place right now with lots of doctor visits and interrupted schooling. The children are doing well with their independent studies, but I find us falling further behind in the things that are more parent directed. Also, my children have preferred an AO type schedule where they read their own history books instead of waiting for me. We have enjoyed our family studies and my children are learning – but in this season, I think we could accomplish more if they were able to have independent studies instead of family studies. I am in my 3rd trimester with our 7th blessing, while teaching 2 to read and spending time with the toddler. Our high schooler can’t afford to “fall behind” and we are all in a learning curve as we take on chickens and gardening on our recently acquired homestead. :0)
Adamsfamily, I will be interested to hear what others have to say on this. My 8th grader is a very independent learner and prefers to do his own reading. I like the idea of using an AO schedule w/ SCM books for history. I would still need to do some read aloud w/my younger dd – and with my work schedule it just may not happen within a set schedule – so the more she could do independentally, the better. This is not my personal ideal situation, but life circumstances dictate tweaking sometimes.
My children also like to work independently. We use an AO schedule, modified. Our oldest (12) is just finishing up year 6, then I am planning a similar schedule, but exactly like you said – using SCM books and our handy TruthQuest guide instead of the AO books. We do family studies also, but the independent work is vital in our home with a lot of young children, me with occasional work from home – I’ve been conscripted as the Human Resources department for my husband’s foreign workers 🙂 – and a few health issues on the go. It works well for us.
Gaeleen
How would you recommend the reading of the books listed in the family section of the History Modules?
Thanks! Alana
Of those in the history modules, you could have those that can read them independently do so and come to you with an oral narration or written, or have your oldest child (or children) read aloud to the younger ones and have the youngers narrate to the older and have the olders do a written narration or answers questions from a study guide during this time if you’re not confident that they can do the written narrations adequately.
Hope that made sense; gotta go, in a hurry; I’ll check in later,
Rachel
We use AO/TQ/SCM. For history, we buy the TQ guide that correlates closely with the AO year of my oldest. We have spines on hand, but I only use them when a topic is covered in the TQ guide that I want to cover and don’t have a living book about it. Right now I use the TQ guide/commentaries as my spine. My oldest is 5th, pretty soon we will also probably need to add an ‘official’ spine. We mark the SCM history books in our TQ guide and pretty much stick to using those. I assign some books for independent reading, some we do together. HTH some:) Gina
AO=Ambleside Online It’s an already scheduled CM style curriculum. It has great book recommendations, though advanced. The only down side to me is it’s not flexible enough and each child works in a different time period; that’s why mine is a modified AO, too.
TQ=Truthquest History. A CM history program, starting with American History, from a Christian perspective. It is unstructured. It gives you commentary and topics to follow along in history and books to uses for different grade levels. I use this as well, along with All Through the Ages by Christine Miller.
Rachel
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