Too much?

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  • July 1, 2011 at 5:21 pm
    suzukimom
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    Just working on the steps to planning our next year… first time I’ve done this from scratch.  I have a Year 1 and Year 3 student – most of this will be done together, with a bit on their own….   I have calculated the # of days per subject for the week… and trying to figure out if this is too much… it looks like a lot (yet it looks like less than AO had wanted from us…..)   We are doing Terms with 10 weeks of main work, and 3 weeks of projects/breaks…. so this is figured based on that….

     

    Daily – History, Scriptures, Memory Box, Literature, German, Violin Practice, Math, Copywork, Scripture Reader (independant), and the Year 3 boy would have Organ Practice.  Songs (3x a week we would do Church Songs, the other 2 would be Folk Songs)

    3x a week – Poetry, The Year 1 girl has Reading Practice.

    2x a week –  Science. Indiv. Literature.  The Year 3 boy has Reading Practice, and Scouting time

    1x a week – Indiv Violin Lessons.  Group Violin Lessons (maybe?). Swim Lessons.  Geography, Picture Study, Nature Study, Drawing, Year 1 girl has Scouting time.     Timelines, Family History.

     

    It seems to look not too bad – until I start putting the list for each day of the week (which I’m still determining) and then wow… it looks like a LOT.  I know a lot of these only take a few minutes, and most only 10-15 minutes… but a couple are more like 30min…. and it just looks like a LOT more than in the sample in the book…..

    But I’m not sure what I would cut out either….?

    July 1, 2011 at 5:43 pm
    cedargirl
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    I have had that reaction once I get t he daily scedule down. Usually the first word that comes to mind is EEEK. Then the year begind and we get settled into our studies and it all starts to flow. I have times where things get tossed aside, or blush, not even cracked open. I know that pre-Planning Your CM Ed planner & DVD, we were not accoimplishing 1/2 as much and enjoying the flow of activities! I think your plans look awesome!

    July 1, 2011 at 5:48 pm
    momto2blessings
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    Looks good to me:)  If I felt the need to decrease the frequency of something, it would probably be history or songs…if I had to.   Don’t know if this helps, but one thing I hope to do next year is try to do some of the music time/maybe reading while they eat.  Also may try to schedule all the harder subjects in the morning, w/more of arts/lit./nature/music practice, etc. in the afternoons to hopefully make it feel a little lighter.  HTH some:)  Gina

    July 1, 2011 at 5:55 pm
    Bookworm
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    Yes, all I can think of differently is we usually did history twice a week at that age, songs twice a week, literature twice a week.  That’s all I can think of.  When you are ready to begin, if you find your days are too long you could re-adjust so you don’t have quite as many daily subjects. 

    July 1, 2011 at 6:29 pm
    suzukimom
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    Thanks – big relief!

    The history calculated out to 4.2 days a week… so most of the time we can just do 4 days… but I’ve scheduled the 5.  Some of the history is biography and historical fiction…  Also a couple I guessed might be a couple of readings for a couple of books that didn’t have chapters….  Hopefully we’ll be good

    For the songs…  we are going to learn a primary song a month…  I want to do the song often enough that they learn it well…  I also hope to teach some of them in ASL and possibly German.    (We don’t officially study ASL at this point… but the kids took a “baby sign” class as pre-schoolers, we watch Signing Time when we can (They put it back on our station once a week!  Yeay! – and they probably remember a bit more of it than German.  I’m considering doing it officially for our 3rd language (2nd foreign) starting next year.    I don’t know if I can find the songs in German….

    For the folk songs… my dh really wants us to do them.  The funny thing is that our kids probalby know more folk songs naturally than most kids their age, as we listen to a lot of Stan Rogers, Stomping Tom, and other Canadian Folk Song singers.   I’ve asked my dh for a list… lol.  Not sure how much work we will do on it – probably work on learning the words, and mostly listen to them…

    German on the day that we do violin lessons will be done in the car (listening).   Generally meal times I try to have our Suzuki violin music going…. as we have 2 CD’s now that we are supposed to listen to at least daily.  I have recently put a CD player in the girls bedroom… have to scrounge up one for my son’s room.  We had done that in the past, but then the kids were fooling with it and I didn’t want it broken.  They seem to be doing better at not playing with it.

    Thanks again

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