New here & how do you schedule Draw Write Now?

[Guest happilyeverafter]

I have always done copywork before, but my K'er is interested in drawing so I'm switching to Draw Write Now.

 

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I am wondering if anyone else has ideas for how to schedule Draw Write Now across a week and several years, too. How much do you aim to get done?

 

By way of introduction, hi, I'm Avery (a mom, not a dad). My husband and I have always homeschooled, using a casual Charlotte Mason method. I have a bunch of children. See below. :D

Edited November 17, 2011 by happilyeverafter

[ErinD]

Hi Avery! That's a nice big family you've got.

 

No answer, but I'm bumping you in case your question got lost in the shuffle. :)

[ByGrace3]

I schedule it once a week on Fridays. If we have time on another day, I offer that as an activity. I don't "plan" it though. At this point she just takes the book and picks one to work on. We use it for art though . . . not sure how it would work if you were using it in place of copywork???

[mom2boys030507]

I use book 1 once my boys are ready to copy sentences. Then they do 1 -3 lessons per week for copy work. After that, I use them as we study different topics. In fact, this reminds me that I should look through the drawings again to find something for my older boys to draw - it has been a while.

[boscopup]

I haven't used it in a while (though plan to pull it out again), but when we were using it regularly, we did it once a week.

 

Really, you don't have to schedule it though. Just pick a book, pick a thing to draw, pick a day to draw it. Done. Also, I always printed out story paper for ME as well as my kids, so we could all work on it together. They loved that.

[Tmhearn]

We use it as Art with Five In A Row. We do it on Wednesdays. I usually pick an animal that goes with whatever book we are reading.

 

If I was going to try and do it daily, I think I would schedule seasonally (which might take a bit of planning) or just go through the book chronologically.

[Guest happilyeverafter]

Thanks for the ideas. I think I will pick a day and let the kidlet choose.

[Jay3fer]

I recommend starting with Book 1. We don't schedule it, but have worked our way systematically through book one. We're almost finished. I don't do the handwriting, though - we're using HWOT because I want to stick with the fonts and techniques in there all the way through cursive. After book 1, they say you can pick and choose from any of the books based on unit studies, etc. - ie draw something that "goes with" whatever else you're learning, ie an animal from a place you're studying in geography, or a historical figure or event.