New MCT Caesar's English 1 - schedule?

[mom4knights]

Hello ~ I decided to order the new classical education edition of the revised Caesar's English 1.  My oldest son (4th) and I have just been reading through it together.  

 

Is there anything else recommended with this?  I realize this came out just over a year ago, but I was wondering if anyone could offer advice on how to implement and schedule?

 

Thank you so much!
Jenny

 

 

[Trish]

We do a chapter/unit per week.

[Chrysalis Academy]

We did it a chapter a week, with each chapter taking two days.  We'd start each week doing the quiz of the previous lesson, then half the new lesson, then the 2nd day we did the 2nd half.

[Momof3littles]

We are doing it in a very small co-op setting and using it 1x per week. We do some of the exercises orally and then the kids work on some of the exercises at home on their own. (so in a way kind of like 2x a week, depending....).

[mom4knights]

Thank you all for responding.  Another question, do you guys have your students memorize the stems and vocab words?  If so, do you make charts or flash cards for them?  Just curious! ;)

 

Again, thanks for the help -- I think I may have been making this too hard! :)

 

[musicianmom]

My dd is learning the stems and words and taking the quizzes over each chapter. No charts or flash cards, just a lot of discussion and practice using the words. It's one of her favorite subjects.

 

I broke each chapter down into thirds for three days of reading, then a quiz on the fourth day.

[Chrysalis Academy]

We don't forcibly memorize them either.  We read, discuss, and do the quizzes.  If she's having trouble remembering a word or stem, I try and offer alternative sentences/words/usages to help her remember, or examples from her life to make the word more relevant.  If she can't remember, I just tell her and we go on.  All of the quizzes are cumulative, and the CE1 words are reviewed in CE2, so there will be multiple reviews of each word built into the program.  They stick after a few exposures.  At this point, almost done with CE2, I find that she might not have the last 2-3 lesson words/stems memorized yet, but all the previous ones are retained.  We also both point out CE words in our reading, and this helps too.  I definitely wouldn't drill and force 100% retention before moving along, unless your kid happens to like flashcards/rote memorization.  It will come naturally.

 

I do sometimes review a lesson (i.e., just review the words, not move on to a new lesson) if we've had a break and it seems like the last lesson really didn't stick.  But we had great retention, even over the summer - just needed to review once, and then kept moving right along.  So it's working.

[anabelneri]

We're doing them on Spelling City.  My lists aren't perfect, and I'm not entirely sure how the site works yet, but here are my lists so far:

 

Caesar's English Lesson 1

Caesar's English Lesson 2

Caesar's English Lesson 3

Caesar's English I Lesson 4

 

(note that the Lesson 4 has an extra letter in the title)

 

:)