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I am wondering how I would do the table of contents when I don’t have the books yet. A lot of our books will be from the library.
Try amazon.com
If the book is on there and is sold through amazon, chances are it has the “Look Inside” feature which always includes the TOC. I don’t know if you could somehow take a snapshot of that in a pdf, but you could at least see it and maybe type it out worst-case. Still easier than putting in separate entries manually (which is what I did for oldest DS).
Sahmamma: Do you know which books you will getting from the library? If you do, a search in the book finder or on amazon or CBD might help you locate the table of contents (copy and paste or print it off the site). If it’s a book you will be using straight through, like a literature book, you could just find out how many chapters and make a list that says “Chapter 1, chapter 2…” and so on and not worry about chapter titles. Or, if it’s a lesson book “lesson 1, lesson 2…”
Don’t forget that you are always able to make a copy of the TOC when you actually have the book in hand, too.
UG, I don’t want to vent but I am trying not to give up at this point. I’m frustrated and starting to snap at my kids and I don’t like it. I’m spending hours and hours on this and I still don’t have enough done. All I know is what I am using and what terms I am using the resources. Copywork, cursive, bible study, history, geography, music study, they are all starting to blurr together as one. Ds wants to do first aid, what category is that exactly? It’s so hard to do this when I have no quiet time. The Bible/History/Geography still has me all confused as to which days I do what and what it is considered. I have bible listed every day, but don’t think the Gen through Deut. actually does it every day, I don’t know anymore. Phew, that felt good to get out.
and….the printer ink is almost gone and I don’t have money to buy more.
I’m going to have to be creative I guess.
Sahmamma, do you have the SCM Module guides? I HIGHLY recommend them. If you have those, you won’t need to schedule other than to say what day you will use it. We do it everyday and like someone else, we just do whatever the guides says is next (history, geography). We go to Community Bible Study, so we don’t always follow the SCM on Bible but do discuss our CBS material every day. We are participating in Bible Bee this summer and it included a 2 Timothy Study, so we’re using that right now and discussing weekly (actually DH is doing this with them b/c I usually do it and I asked him to take this on and he did).
Anyway, what I do on our schedule for the week under “HISTORY” is just do a simple checkbox and then “HISTORY: Family Read-A-Loud History OR Geography/Bible Discussion/Prayer/History”. And I just look in the module that morning for what is up next. For their individual reading, I just use the handy (very handy) chart the SCM guide includes. I actually photocopy that and highlight that child’s reading (whichever column applies).
Hope this makes sense.
Are the module guides where there are boxes for the days of the week and in them there are general subjects to do for family or student?
The TOCs for Apologia Young Explorers can be downloaded as PDFs directly from apologia.com
You can import them page by page into another document and scale down as needed.
No the module guides are sold in the bookstore and are for certain periods of time and Bible books. You can buy a printed copy or ebook version. I used Module 4 last year, which was our first experience with them. I’ve already ordered and received Modules 5 and 6 if that tells you anything. The best part is that it is laid out day by day, and they give reading suggestions *including chapters on which week* for each age/level, which is huge for me b/c I have 5 students at 4 different levels.
Here is a link to the Module 4 guide: http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/middle-ages-renaissance-reformation-epistles/
You can see the other 5 in the right sidebar on the main bookstore page: http://simplycharlottemason.com/
No. I think that is just the curriculum guide. I don’t know if you saw these. This link is for the 6 different History Modules Guides: http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/history-handbook-series/
This was a blog post about how to use them:
http://simplycharlottemason.com/2010/06/30/how-to-use-the-scm-history-modules/
To really answer your question:
The Modules are the ACTUAL guides to the DAY-TO-DAY study that you are so stressed out about figuring it out. If you haven’t downloaded and read the sample here it is:
http://simplycharlottemason.com/store/samples/Genesis-Deut-Egypt-Sample.pdf
It shows you how to use it, what you need, and samples of the first few lessons. Seriously, with this Module Guide, you open and do it everyday and you will cover history, bible, and geography in your school. You don’t even have to figure it out. It’s already done – and it can count as all 3 subjects.
If you will notice in the sample that there is a list of all the lessons (180 of them) – another way to track your progress is to write the date done in the actual book. Then you don’t even have to make copies.
The section that LDIMom refered to is also in that sample.
Here is a link to the Module 4 guide: http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/middle-ages-renaissance-reformation-epistles/
You can see the other 5 in the right sidebar on the main bookstore page: http://simplycharlottemason.com/
Yes, I have the module one guide for the history/bible/geography….the Genesis through Deuteronomy and Egypt.
I think the problem I am having with this one is transfering it from as-is to the spreadsheet showing how many days I do what. Does that make sense?
Or do I not even need to do that, transfer it to a spreadsheet?
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