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Has anyone tried Christian Cottage Studies?


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It loosely follows the four-year cycle (with additional things covered as well) in unit study format. (Ancients to ren. in one volume, then eastern hemisphere, then two yrs of western hemisphere including Amer. hist.) It has detailed day-to-day plans, uses decent living books, and covers all different levels. I wondered if anyone has any experience with this, good or bad. I'm specifically looking at volumes 3 and 4 as a way to do Amer. Hist. with lots more Christian content than I am finding, without getting into something complicated like TOG. Has anyone used this? (I know they offer free ebooks on homeschool e-store from time to time, if anyone has tried them and can give feedback, that would be fine too!) Thank you!

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Bought one unit from homeschool ebooks (or whatever that site is called!) and also downloaded the free unit directly from Christian Cottage. Go to their site, and you can download the oceanography unit.

 

They sure do look interesting, sort of like Konos, but much more scheduled. For me, they are too religious, although I guess easy enough to modify, and I just didn't think my DS would want to do the activities. He's very anti-hands-on, just hates that sort of thing.

 

Sorry not to have a real review for you, hopefully someone here has actually used CC.

MIchelle T

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I own all 4 volumes and use it very loosely. We are working through WP Sea and Sky this year and I used some of the ocean unit with my boys and are pulling a few things from volume 2 that blend with the South Seas and Captain Cook. Last year we did the Explorers unit.

 

My sons enjoyed the game CCU had for the explorers and they have enjoyed the added hands on activities. I have owned the series for a couple of years now and my boys are 14 and soon to be 16. Wish I had found it when they were a bit younger :cool: I do not use CCU as my main curriculum but as a way to supplement, add hands on activities, or give a bit of a different slant to what we are studying.

 

I used volume 2 a bit when I planned a year of studying the history of missions and used some of the biographies listed in volume 2. My boys like the YWAM bios better than some of the earlier bios list in CCU.

 

I don't know if this is of help but CCU was written for twice exceptional children. The authors dd had a very high IQ but was dyslexic with other LD issues. That is one reason why I bought all 4 volumes because when I spoke with the author it sounded like her dd had issues and an IQ very similar to my sons. I have found that the program has allowed my boys to excel and learn to love learning when they would have struggled, experienced failure and learned to hate learning I had gone a textbook or pure WTM route with them.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Rebecca

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