Mandy in TN Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 How does a day of CM high school look at your house? Do you schedule short periods throughout the day? Do you try to disperse your studies throughout the week in short time blocks or do you try to do everything everyday? Thanks- Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spock Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 How does a day of CM high school look at your house? Do you schedule short periods throughout the day? Do you try to disperse your studies throughout the week in short time blocks or do you try to do everything everyday? Thanks- Mandy I just list all the readings for the day on the dry erase board, along with math, written narration, Spanish, etc. My high schoolers choose the order to do the assignments. They narrate what they have read whenever I have some free time between classes with their younger siblings. (Sometimes this means they read 2-3 books before narrating all of them to me.) I don't put assignments for hymn, folk song, picture study, or composer on the board. However, they are in the room listening for all the music classes, while doing their own reading. The picture for picture study is on the wall in the kitchen, just above a world map, so they see it every day. We do work from every subject area every day. However, since history, for example, has 5-6 books we are reading from each term, they don't read every book every day. Usually they read from 2 of the 5 history books each day, and a different two the next day. Sometimes there is a longer book that we have to read from every day (like Arguing About Slavery earlier this year), while some books are only read once or twice a week. I have tried scheduling 2-3 literature books at the same time, reading each only a few days a week, but it has worked out better for us to read straight through a book and then go on to the next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 My High schoolers no longer do short lessons. Neither did CM's students at the high school level. We spend an hour on math, and hour of Language Arts (not includiing reading) 45 minutes on science readings 4 x / week/ 1 day is lab work. We spend 30 min. on Logic, etc. Their schoolwork includes readings from several books on different subjects throughout the week/ month and school year. I have a checklist where I write the daily things with the day and a line so we can record what was covered. Then I have a grid which covers their once a week readings (such as Shakespeare or economics) I basically cut and pasted the weekly lists from AO schedule onto the grid. HTH, Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy in TN Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 Thank you, Ladies- I am planning the most CM experience that I have ever planned for ds. I guess I used the wrong word when I said subject. I guess I meant books and weekly readings. I am using a grid and dropping things into the grid from WP QMA & WP Human Body & Forensics(that I ordered this morning), AO Year 7 lite, and the AO Year 9 geography book, so I guess I am doing it right. :001_smile: I have ended up with 15 blocks each day in my grid, so most of them would be well under an hour. Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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