SCM Curriculum guide?

We certainly won’t tire of you! 🙂

I just started Matthew Through Acts and Ancient Rome yesterday.  I have TONS of books, but I just don’t know when to say when and I needed to pare down my ambitions.  What I love about the SCM history guide books is the fact she hasn’t utilized so many books to become overwhelming. I love the idea that I can reliably cover bible, geography, and history without wearing myself out, but should I have more time I can pull other books from my library to add in. My husband and I are doing the Romans bible study as well. Our kids just listen in as we read and discuss.

I have done so many packaged things and have always been daunted by being “married” to one thing for 180 days. I feel very much at easy with SCM because it is just right in terms of not being too much or too little. I am happy that geography takes 10 minutes a week and that my bible memory box is the best thing since sliced bread! I see people with long, complete curriculums for things that really should be “bite size”. That is a recipe for burn out. I was burned out from trying to cover all these man-made bases.

Hi Cindie – One of the ways that I’m planning to use the organizer is to keep track of things that I want to accomplish for myself – FACEBOOK time is NOT included – hahaha – for some reason I have no problem fitting that in.  So for the new school year I’m scheduling my own chores so that I can check them off – it’s SO gratifying!  Plus they’ll be right up on the screen to remind me and taunt me if I’m not doing them.  Also, while my daughter is just five and not required to do anything yet for state mandates, next year we’ll be required to complete 1032 hours of schooling.  So I’m planning on putting in lots of activities that I can check off that’ll be rather vague but give us a very complete log of what we’re working on.  For example – Her math book is in the organizer already, but I’m going to add a resource called – “practical mathematics” and everytime I ask her to tell me what time it is or help me with measuring for a recipe or practice counting to one hundred I’m going to check off that we completed a lesson.  I’m going to do the same thing with Language arts – and call it vocabulary building – then any day when she asks me what a word means, I’m going to check off that we did vocab. building.  I would say that all of this is not necessary in states that don’t require a certain number of hours, but for the states that do – I think it’ll look impressive!  (i’m married to an attorney so he’s super adamant that I go above and beyond the state requirements just in case).

http://simplycharlottemason.com/timesavers/memorysys/ This link explains the Bible memory system.  Lots of great goodies on the homepage if you scroll ALL The way down on the left hand column.

Rebekah