So which subject do you never seem to get to??

[3babiesmommy]

Mine is Critical Thinking (the Building Thinking Skills books). The kids and I like them fine, we just never seem to get to them! Anyone else??

[Ginevra]

Art. I have the Usborne Art Treasury and also Usborne Art Skills. I think they are a great idea for a kid who doesn't naturally pursue art. But I never seem to have my materials organized and ready when the day comes when I meant to do it and so....it hasn't happened at all yet. :glare:

[Avila]

Art and Latin. (slinking away in shame):blush:

[MyLittleWonders]

Art - we do a once a month coop with friends using Meet the Masters, but at home, I "plan" for once a month doing an activity from Art in Story, and then 2x a month having more free art time where I willingly get out all the stuff and let them create. So far, we only make the coop because my friend and I lead it together.

 

Oh, and probably a second would be Latin - I want to do at least the songs and Monkey Match memory cards every day, but I'm lucky if it's 3x a week.

[Cornerstone Classical]

last year it was science music and art:001_huh:

[blessed2fosteradopt]

Logic, art & music :sad:

[buddhabelly]

Art. And I thought I would be the only one to say that! Perhaps if we had different children (children who eat, drink and breathe art) then it would happen? We are just so busy with music that art is a rare thing.

 

A better answer is "whatever isn't on the schedule." Art.

[beezus]

I started the Critital Thinking books with my daughter, but neither of us could get into it, so I am exploring other resources. Meanwhile, I'm having her do some deductive reasoning puzzles. We've had fits and starts with Latin too, but now that we are on Minumus Secundus, it seem to be going better.

 

I wish we did more with geography. I have folder with lots of great ideas, but we haven't done many of them.

[Closeacademy]

My "Get Creative" time. This is a time to work do art, work on 4-H or perhaps break out the recorders or take the piano back up. But usually by the time we get to this we are all done with school and it gets dropped because really compared to the 3 r's it is just not as important.

[Matryoshka]

Last year it was art. Never got to it at. all. - so this year I signed them up for the very expensive Monart classes. Ouch.

 

This year is still new, so we're still ramping up. Ask me in a couple of months. :001_smile:

 

The Critical Thinking books I copy a page per book per week and put them in a folder - it's their "weekly homework" packet. This gets them done, and makes great filler for times when they're done with other independent work and waiting for me to do something with them.

 

(when I say Critical Thinking books, I mean a bunch of the smaller books from CTP, some Mindware books, and a couple other miscellaneous books including their map skills book - not that doorstop Building Thinking Skills. We chucked that and have it on CD instead. I don't sweat if they get to it or not.)

[robsiew]

How about something unique... art! I'm going to try to get to it on the weekend instead... not sure how that will go either! We don't do much music either. Mainly listening to classical music while the kids draw narrations and when they actually do art.

[cjbeach]

Art and music, so much so that I didn't fully "plan" it into our schedule this year. We signed up for an enrichment class in art and music that fell apart unfortunately. The instructor was using the Mona Brooks's book so I do intend to loosely do some of that with some reading of artist's biographies. For music I think I'm going to buy Classical for Dummies (I actually saw it first in the CC catalog).

I would love to restart piano lessons but funds are short. Maybe in January...

Edited September 25, 2009 by cjbeach

[Crimson Wife]

I haven't been very diligent about WWE. I love the theory behind CM-style language arts but trying to get my DD to do it is like pulling teeth. She's learning cursive now & I'm hoping that she'll be more receptive to copywork & dictation when she can do it in cursive.

[Lovedtodeath]

Grammar :001_unsure: I would like to, but I finally took it out of my sig line because we never do it.

[SilverMoon]

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Edited September 6, 2023 by SilverMoon

[Verity]

Science. :blush: Both of my sons have alot of struggles with their fine motor skills so one more narration/dictation, summary type thing just doesn't work for them. I'm going to have to find some simple workbook program and make it happen.

 

We are loving Latin for Children and play the chants CD's and do a little worksheet/activity daily with no fuss. We do logic twice a week using Logic Safari/Orbiting with Logic workbooks that the boys seem to enjoy.

 

Now if I can just get the darned science in there!!

[Aurelia]

Spelling. Grammar gets away from me, too, but we have pretty much dropped spelling for the time being. I just don't have time to do it right now.

[LindaOz]

MATH!!!

 

 

 

 

No, just kidding..... :lol:

 

 

 

Actually, it is probably, um, art!

[patchfire]

Another vote for art. :lol:

[Woodland_Mom]

Music Appreciation.

 

My son loves art too much to skip it, but music hardly ever happens here. Maybe we'll end up doing music lessons!

[amyco]

Around here, it's spelling. Yawwwwwnnn. I would say art, but it's not even in our plan! They get it at co-op. Even if they didn't, I still wouldn't do it. Also handwriting has not gotten done in a blue moon lately.

[Mesa]

WOW, I feel better after reading all these posts!

 

Add me to the "Art" list too.

 

I have it in my schedule to doc on Fridays and it had yet to happen.

 

I also never get to the library. I have sooo many books for the kids to read and need to read that we just never go the library. Shame on me!

I plan on going to the library every Friday this school year... lets see if that happens.

[nata]

Yup...add me to the art and music list. It's gotten to me so much that I plan on doing science 3x a week to fit art and music on the off days when we start SL core 5 in January. I still have a stack of the Music Masters Cds in the shrink wrap from 5 years ago!!

[Lovedtodeath]

I never make it to the library either. I am spending a fortune on Amazon, and have a list of books to get if we ever make it to the library again.

[swellmomma]

history :D sacrilige I know...BUT that is because we were ramping up and it was not scheduled in just yet. In a couple weeks we will be at full course load and then it will be happening daily. As for right now we have gotten in everythig I have scheduled including art, health, home ec etc.

 

Last year was a whole other story, we could barely get in the 3r's regularily let alone all the extras, I have to say scheduling work boxes has helped all of that, though somedays I am tempted to bump them up to 15 boxes instead of 12 to squeeze a few more things into the day ;)

[MerryAtHope]

Various ones in the past, but now that we are workboxing, we get to everything planned!

 

Merry :-)

[Lovedtodeath]

history :D sacrilige I know...BUT that is because we were ramping up and it was not scheduled in just yet. In a couple weeks we will be at full course load and then it will be happening daily. As for right now we have gotten in everythig I have scheduled including art, health, home ec etc.

 

Last year was a whole other story, we could barely get in the 3r's regularily let alone all the extras, I have to say scheduling work boxes has helped all of that, though somedays I am tempted to bump them up to 15 boxes instead of 12 to squeeze a few more things into the day ;)

Well, with TWTM a great deal of your reading, writing, logic and art are a part of history. If you are getting those in without history it is hardly sacrilage. LOL

[Hannah]

My son loves art too much to skip it, but music hardly ever happens here.

 

My dd loves art as well and does a lot on her own. She listens to the music of our "composer of the month", programs on Classics for Kids or the Vox "The story of..." CD's while she draws or paints or does a craft.

[NavyWifeandMommy]

Music, art and biographies (for my oldest). While I personally love music I cannot seem to teach it I just know it. I use to be all crafty but stopped when I started to homeschool. Biographies are just plain boring and so I haven't pushed them. I even have the kid friendly bios and still it's a struggle with them.

Thankfully I have a program that works most everything in so I don't leave anything out. I do need somethingmore of the 'logic' or critical thinking for my oldest. I think she could use seom more challenge work in some areas.

[Katiebug_1976]

Art and music seem to be falling to the side a lot this year. I think we are going to have to do these subjects as unit studies on our off weeks or something.

[sagira]

Piano practice :glare:

[Georgiana Daniels]

Science! BUT....my hs'd kids are only Pre-K and K, so I think we're ok. We rarely pull out the handwriting sheets, but that's because my K-er seems to get writing with her phonics and math. Not too worried on that front.

 

Reading everyone else's posts makes me realize all the other things we could be doing....but aren't.:D

[Lovedtodeath]

No one is supposed to do everything outlined in TWTM. TWTM itself says so!

 

I would be careful with handwriting. I thought DD got plenty of it within other subjects and now we are remediating.

[Narrow Gate Academy]

So far this year music and geography, but I hope to fix that next week.

[amtmcm]

Nature Study

 

We got off to a bad start this year because it was so hot in central Texas during August and I'm a temperature wimp. Now that our weather is getting better I have hopes of adding this into our weekly schedule.

[TracyR]

Yup, art.

But we are starting to do it on the weekends since its my daughters' favorite subject.

 

I am finding this year that we aren't getting the Bible in like I want either. I've been just relying on Sunday school for that at the moment. There is just so many hours in the day with schooling three children, having a toddler underfoot and doing college work. I may have to rely on something like Alpha Omega(gasp).

 

I need to start Latin up here. Just am short of the workbooks but I have everything else at the moment. I may have to do that on the weekends too.

[meet me in paris]

Art. :glare:

[pie]

yep.... art. We love art, and we have done it 2 out of 5 weeks, but that is the one subject that I seem to "push back a day" to to other things..

 

Pie

[Testimony]

Unfortunetly, I would say art. We look at pictures every week and discuss the artists, but they don't draw. I lack in the area of drawing it. However, they can identify different art works now, just can't draw them.

 

Blessings,

Karen

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/testimony

Edited September 26, 2009 by Testimony
grammar

[tdeveson]

Art and Latin. (slinking away in shame):blush:

 

Ack! I was going to say that, and then slink away in shame too.:tongue_smilie: