................... Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 (edited) My dd is riding now and learning 4H as well as studying on her own... I was planning to do Monarch Civics but...I may be throwing the whole Monarch thing out the window. I don't think my dd will thrive with self paced courses... So...she has already studied so much regular history - I mean a lot. She really does NOT nerd history this year. Civics would be ok and I haven't ruled that out. But- would the BF history of horses be way way too juvenile for her? Note- also keeping in mind she already read all The fiction books included Edited May 16, 2017 by Calming Tea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneGirlAcademy Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 I would in a heartbeat. But, I would exchange the fiction titles with higher reading level novels. For example, Sea Biscuit: An American Legend, War Horse, The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, Captain, and lots of books on Secretariat. There is a ton of great horse novels. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 Thanks OneGIrl- Wouldn't that mess up the questions and assignments though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneGirlAcademy Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 (edited) It is true that you would not be able to use the questions that are directly related to the novels assigned. But, you can easily replace those questions with her own written journal entry. Beautiful Feet can be quite time consuming. I sometimes have to whittle away some of the work off the lessons. So, not having to answer every question in the lesson may be a blessing in disguise. About the unit study of horse breeds. It would easy to assign new novels. For instance, The King of the Wind focus on the breed, Arabian. That horse was brought to England and became one of the founding horses that became the breed called the Thoroughbred. So, I would replace that book with Seabiscuit or Secretariat. I I would replace Brighty with the novel Captain which is also about a donkey. But, I would not kill my self trying to match the books. Having the drawing and breed study separate from the novels would not harm the study. If horses are truly her passion, this study would be off the chain. Edited May 16, 2017 by OneGirlAcademy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
................... Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 Ok thanks!!! She loves the ide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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