redsnapper Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Does anyone know how it works in CA at a public charter school on social studies? Say if you are doing SOTW4 and state stds want you to study ancient civilizations or CA history? Personal opinions about public charter schools aside (please), anyone have advice on that? Would you double up on your history (SOTW4 and state stds) or just focus on SOTW4 and to heck with state stds or just do stds? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily_Grace Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I would double up. CA history is fascinating and fits right in with SOTW 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I've used 2 different charters and my experience is it depends on how flexible the charter is in being able to work with you. In the past, I've always just gone ahead with my own plans and not worried about the State scope & sequence. I've only had a problem this year, and that is with my highschool students, they now want them to follow the testing schedule :tongue_smilie: I'm still doing my own thing with my elementary students. If the charter absolutely requires it, personally, I would do the sequence I want while touching lightly on the time period the school wants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsnapper Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 I'm not sure how flexible this charter is. I've had friends there that simply TOLD their teacher what their kids were going to learn, and completely ignored state stds. Then I've had friends whose teacher made them stick with the stds. So if we use SOTW4 and hit on CA history there, what do you recommend for my 6th grader who needs to touch on the Ancients? That clearly isn't covered in SOTW4, lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in SJ Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 We have run into this issue before with our charter. For the most part when they are not in high school we tell our ES (Educational Specialist) what we plan to study & between the two of us we stretch & squish until what we are studying meets the state standards :001_smile: If there are gaps like not studying state history at the "right" time my ES will order something like this for me: http://www.studiesweekly.com/Fourth-Grade-Social-Studies-California It is a 4-6 page newspaper that presents California history in a fun way. My dd would read them for fun, do the little puzzles and I would photocopy the completed puzzle as her portfolio sample. It was not at all an in depth study of the history of California, but we were doing SOTW 1 at the time for our regular history. It looks like the 6th grade Social Studies newspaper is Ancients http://www.studiesweekly.com/Sixth-Grade-Social-Studies-California Amber in SJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsnapper Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 Amber, that looks amazing! I love it! I am definitely going to get it for my kids. I wish I'd known about it when dd was in 4th. Can you tell me does it come in one giant newspaper printing, or does it come in 4 separate printings? Melissa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in SJ Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 There are 28 "weekly" issues. The issues arrive in bundles of seven issues four times over the course of the school year. For our charter school they have to go to my ES's house and she brings them to me. I get the math one for my ds as well, because he loves puzzles & they are easy to throw into a bag or in the car when we are running out the door for errands or to wait at sister's dance class. Amber in SJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celticmom Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 When I was a child my mother taught in a public school and I attended a private school. My school year ended earlier than hers so I went to school with her and attended another class on my grade level for the last few weeks of her school year. I had been studying American History that year and the public school had studied state history. I was present for the end of the year review and took the state history end of year test with the class I was attending. I don't remember my exact score but I do remeber it was an A and was one of the higher scores in the class. I don't necessarily think the history covered in the public school is very in depth compared to SOTW or many other HS curriculums. You could probably hit the high points in a week or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 We have run into this issue before with our charter. For the most part when they are not in high school we tell our ES (Educational Specialist) what we plan to study & between the two of us we stretch & squish until what we are studying meets the state standards :001_smile: If there are gaps like not studying state history at the "right" time my ES will order something like this for me: http://www.studiesweekly.com/Fourth-Grade-Social-Studies-California It is a 4-6 page newspaper that presents California history in a fun way. My dd would read them for fun, do the little puzzles and I would photocopy the completed puzzle as her portfolio sample. It was not at all an in depth study of the history of California, but we were doing SOTW 1 at the time for our regular history. It looks like the 6th grade Social Studies newspaper is Ancients http://www.studiesweekly.com/Sixth-Grade-Social-Studies-California Amber in SJ Wow! Those look great! I'm definitely going to get the science for 3rd grade. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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