Faline Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 My rising 5th grader's schedule: Rod & Staff English CLE Reading Apples spelling Mind Benders (he is doing this over vacation) Can-Do Cursive & Queen's Pictures in Cursive (4x week) Meaningful Composition Queen's Learning How to Learn Scoring High test prep Typing Spanish (with our family) Science/history/geography/Bible done with everyone together I want to add in copywork/dictation? He will also be doing a bit of notebooking which will involve finding info in the encyclopedia, etc. a skill I wanted to focus on this year. This looks like a lot for him! (not an easy learner) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Math? I wouldn't bother with the copywork--R&S should be plenty. By dictation you mean dictating back to you what he has learned in a given subject? I would just advise allowing dictation to take many forms, like oral-on-the-spot-quickly, or a more formal oral report, or writing a paragraph, drawing a cartoon, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 My rising 5th grader's schedule: Rod & Staff English CLE Reading Apples spelling Mind Benders (he is doing this over vacation) Can-Do Cursive & Queen's Pictures in Cursive (4x week) Meaningful Composition Queen's Learning How to Learn Scoring High test prep Typing Spanish (with our family) Science/history/geography/Bible done with everyone together I want to add in copywork/dictation? He will also be doing a bit of notebooking which will involve finding info in the encyclopedia, etc. a skill I wanted to focus on this year. This looks like a lot for him! (not an easy learner) Wow.....that's very language arts heavy and appears to have multiple duplications. I would try to incorporate some of that across subjects or drop it all together. I am sure it was simply an oversight, but math is missing from your list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faline Posted May 19, 2008 Author Share Posted May 19, 2008 Yes, I forgot math--R&S. I am thinking of dropping Meaningful Composition. That would make it a lot lighter. Maybe Can-Do cursive too. I just have a hard time knowing how much is too much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faline Posted May 19, 2008 Author Share Posted May 19, 2008 Well...I am definately keeping CLE Reading...it's just so good. It was one of the best things I did for him this year. He reads a lot and will also read many more history/science related books throughout the year. The cursive programs are for cursive practice and would only be a sentence a day. I know I could use that for copywork, but he is still not comfortable with cursive and is focusing on forming the letters. Maybe I should just drop cursive all together? (He prefers printing) The test prep would be only done in the last quarter, before the testing. I feel he is one who needs the prep, or he would be clueless to the procedures of the testing. I also don't make him do every problem in R&S English and it really doesn't take him that long to do a lesson (unless it is a writing assignment). He also writes directly in the student book. Sorry, I should have clarified that right away. Thanks everyone for your input! It has been helpful.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Herbster Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Wow.....that's very language arts heavy and appears to have multiple duplications. I would try to incorporate some of that across subjects or drop it all together. I am sure it was simply an oversight, but math is missing from your list. I agree. I'm a Rod and Staff English user as well, and have to this point not used a separate composition curriculum. I feel like all of my kids so far have gotten enough writing from Rod and Staff and their spelling curriculum (weekly journal-type assignment). I've always wondered why some think that elementary students need to do SO much writing during the grammar years, when the emphasis should be on fact-gathering and learning basics. Rhetoric is coming...I'll save a lot of writing instruction until then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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