Vida Winter Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 I'm entering lessons in an online planner and am curious to know if anyone has this mapped out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 We just do one lesson a week. It usually took my 2nd grader 4 full days to finish a lesson, and I expect the same in 3rd. Each book has a slightly different number of lessons, you can check the TOC's. I haven't tried to map it out in any more detail than that, although I suppose one could - there is a "typical school week" section at the front of the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 The lessons sometimes vary in length. We also often did one lesson per week, taking 3 or 4 days. Now we can do one lesson in 2 days sometimes, but that's with a 5th grader finishing up the book. They just all depend on your child's writing stamina. I usually did beginning up through copywork on day 1. Then dictation up until just before the final writing assignment on day 2. Then we'd do writing assignment on day 3. A few lessons have two writing assignments, so those would take one day each. If you plan to do rewrites and such (the "writing process" of rough draft, edit, rewrite), you'd need to add in extra days. We haven't rewritten anything. We just discuss what he wrote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancingmama Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 We are also doing one lesson a week. Sometimes it takes 3 days and some days take 4 and sometimes 5. I just put in writing everyday. I can add free writing on weeks that it takes less time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narnian Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 Yep, I mapped it all out. We are doing only Fable this year so I read through the book as I made the schedule, trying to keep the workload--and especially the physical act of writing--balanced for my 2nd grader. The amount of work assigned varies in each lesson, but my current plan is to have her work through it at a pretty gentle pace, completing one lesson every two to three weeks and only working on it 2-3x per week. Like so (each line being one day's work): Lesson 1: Narration L1: Talk About It + Copywork L1: Go Deeper + Dictation L1: Sentence Play L1: Rewrite / Speak ItL2: Go Deeper + Dictation L2: Sentence Play L2: Summary L2: Amplification / Speak It L3: Narration L3: Talk About It + Copywork L3: Go Deeper + Dictation L3: Sentence Play L3: Copiousness L3: Amplification L3: Summary / Speak It Whether this will work in practice or not remains to be seen. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmom10 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 We just started this with my 5th grader (weak writer) but want to take it at a bit faster pace. We finished lesson 2 today, on day 6 of school. I'm hoping we can keep up with 1 lesson per 3 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedarling Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 I've scheduled a lesson each week on Mon-Wed, but it could extend to Thurs and Friday if needed....those days are just freewrite and emailing a weekly summary for the writing time, so we could finish up the lesson then. (Not speaking from experience, though...we haven't started our school year yet.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 One lesson per week here as well. there is basically very little writing the first couple of days, so if you have anther program you want to use! you can double up on day 1 and day 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 We did a lesson a week. I scheduled it in my planner as Week 1 Day 1 Week 1 Day 2 Week 1 Day 3 and Week 1 Day 4. We occasionally didn't need the 4th day, but usually we used the 4 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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