wonderfilled Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I asked this question over on the HOD board, but thought I'd ask here, too, since this board seems more active. I'm setting up school for this coming year and I have a question about Bigger Extensions. Do you use the suggested activities (oral and written narrations) for the history read-alouds and the science or both? What I mean is on any given day do you have your child narrate on both history and science or do you just pick one? Thanks in advance. Any other advice for using the extensions would be appreciated. I saw some notebook pages someone had made over on the HOD board for Bigger extensions and used their ideas to make my own. I can't find them again so I can't give credit, but I think they are going to be helpful for keeping us on track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tidbits of Learning Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 I asked this question over on the HOD board, but thought I'd ask here, too, since this board seems more active. I'm setting up school for this coming year and I have a question about Bigger Extensions. Do you use the suggested activities (oral and written narrations) for the history read-alouds and the science or both? What I mean is on any given day do you have your child narrate on both history and science or do you just pick one? Thanks in advance. To be honest, there isn't a lot of direction on how to do the extensions beyond the few suggestions before the reading schedule for them. I purchased CLP's answer key and tests to go with the Child's Story of America text. I always had 4 children schooling so adding more time and more narration just didn't always happen with our day. I went to having them do little reports on the books. I would print out free book reviews or such that I found free online in respect to each book. I only did the extensions 2x. Once with BHFHG and once with CTC. Both times, I did not feel that it actually upped our grade level. It just gave us more books to read. This is just my opinion though. Any other advice for using the extensions would be appreciated. I saw some notebook pages someone had made over on the HOD board for Bigger extensions and used their ideas to make my own. I can't find them again so I can't give credit, but I think they are going to be helpful for keeping us on track. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderfilled Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Thanks! Anyone else? :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sew happily ever after Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 My c are going to read the extensions. We may or may not narrate on what they read. Occasionally we will discuss what they read but I'm not going to stress over it because I'm going to focus mostly on the core skills this year--extension will sometimes be optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raceNzanesmom Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 We're just reading and discussing. I'm not adding any "work" to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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