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January 28, 2013 at 7:51 am
anniepeter
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Is it always best to do the narration right after reading? Right now, I have it scheduled for the day after we read the book instead of the day of (just because that was son’s preference when looking at the workload we had laid out). But I’m wondering if I would be better off shifting things to make it work on the same day as we read. Thougts??
January 28, 2013 at 12:02 pm
simple home
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I have heard that narrations should preferably be right after reading. I bought a Sony voice recorder for these purposes. My children can narrate their reading and later I can listen to it. In your case, maybe your son could orally narrate into a recording and then listen to it as he writes it out later when there is time. (if you have an iPhone, you could try the voice memo feature too)
But there’s no set rules. Schedule what works best for you. 🙂
January 28, 2013 at 5:58 pm
anniepeter
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I should have explained also that we are in the junior/senior year stage, but really just beginning written narrations this year. This is what I’m thinking right now. I did change it up some last night to see how it could work if we did them same day. So, it looks like it can work fine either way…whichever we decide best.
Right now he enjoys have a change of emphasis each day – so:
Monday – (Science day) Chemistry video, , a lab OR some extra reading/looking up someting of interest from today’s reading if we don’t have a lab today. Written narration and lab write-up if applicable. Also family reading – one chapter from Joy Hakim’s Story of Science. Other readings in literature (no narration required till end of the book so he can just enjoy this one) and his individual reading from SCM Modern Times Handbook schedule (oral narration).
Tuesday – (Government/history day) Hippocampus course reading/videos with accompanying writing assignment or regular written narration. Other readings in literature and American history same as Mon. Also family reading in history. Oral narrations on all these.
Wednesday – (Geography day) A bit more government if needed – add to yesterday’s narration if applicable (just a simple mind-map/diagram/good notes is ok today) , chemistry text reading with short written narration/mind-map/diagrams if new material is covered. Other readings in literature, atlas for info to complete a map assignment, family geography with oral narration.
Thursday – (History day) World history readings from SCM guide for the week, video for history or government. written narration (to include highlights from other reading from the week also), Chemistry – Nottingham periodic table videos/Visual Elements book – learn about three elements and complete a notebook page about them. Other readings in literature,
Friday – (Fine Arts/”Extras” day) listen to Science Friday, Character/Personal Development, Book of Centuries, music (like we don’t have tons of music every day of the week – but today it’s OK sooner!), art, family games/activities to promote use of Spanish and sign language, speech/presentation/composition (work on one of these for about an hour – have “Presentation Night” occasionally). Not sure about written narration for this day. It will probably just be this…because the writing is already incorporated.
I think my challenge is that I’d like him to have something written about everything we do! This is probably not realistic?? Anyone want to give feedback on this proposed “schedule”? I’ve read the recommendations for something written every day…so that’s where I’m headed. But I’m not sure if this plan is the place to start or end or somewhere in between. LOL!
If any “notebookers” are reading this, I ‘d also be interested to hear how you’d use notebooking within this frame. I guess I’m considering them (and written narrations) pretty much one and the same. Do you? Or how would you incorportate that in the plan?
Thank you!!