CC with another curriculum like TOG or HOD?

[tm_burriss]

Does anyone use CC with another full curriculum? I know it is meant as a full curriculum but I am not good at fleshing out the topics. I would like a curriculum to use along with it that already lines out my literature/history/geography etc. I don't care if it lines up with the timeline for CC as I don't particularly love the way it is organized anyway. We love the memory work for CC but I am not a fan of building my whole curriculum around it. Next year I will have one is 2 in Foundations, 1 in essentials, and 1 in Challenge A.

[G5052]

When I had multiple kids in Foundations/Essentials, I used Sonlight for history/lit/Bible. I didn't have the time and energy to get my own program together. I did approximate the time period with the cycle, but of course not week-by-week.

 

Last year my youngest was in Foundations/Essentials, and we used Veritas. I enjoyed that too. Same kid is doing the last Veritas self-paced course this year with Challenge A, but only because we wanted to finish their cycle and the self-paced is pretty light for a 7th grader. You may be fine with just Challenge A.

 

So yes, you could use HOD or TOG as well. I am generally crazy-busy, so something scripted works best for me.

[tm_burriss]

That is what we are running into. This was our first year homeschooling and although I am happy with the choices we have made next year is going to be a bit more chaotic (if that is possible) so I wanted at least part of it to be scripted and we just have to check the boxes.

[Momof2littles]

I'm going to use sonlight core A and cc with my first grader in the fall. I do not like HOD and I don't know much about TOG.

[MeganW]

We use CC just as memory work, and we rarely do anything with it other than review in the car. I treat it like one "subject", and use completely different things for math, reading, writing, science, & history.

 

That being said, my kids pay a lot more attention in CC class when they have a clue what the memory work is about. So I do, most of the time, try to read the kids a short book about the topic right BEFORE it comes up in class. (Like a "Let's Read & Find Out" type book for science, a "You Wouldn't Want to Be" book for history, find a few of the interesting things on the back of the timeline cards, etc..) I go through once every 6 weeks and pull all the books I want to do, and they are in a bin ready to go. When I get behind, DH uses them for bedtime reading.

 

We do locate our history lessons on our CC timeline, and I went through my SOTW book and CC Foundations Guide together last summer, and wrote the CC history sentences into my SOTW book at the appropriate places. That way, I can review them together when we come across them. I have found that I actually don't have to bring them up, though - my kids usually remember (and are thrilled!) when SOTW crosses paths with something they have memorized at CC.

[tm_burriss]

We use CC just as memory work, and we rarely do anything with it other than review in the car. I treat it like one "subject", and use completely different things for math, reading, writing, science, & history.

 

That being said, my kids pay a lot more attention in CC class when they have a clue what the memory work is about. So I do, most of the time, try to read the kids a short book about the topic right BEFORE it comes up in class. (Like a "Let's Read & Find Out" type book for science, a "You Wouldn't Want to Be" book for history, find a few of the interesting things on the back of the timeline cards, etc..) I go through once every 6 weeks and pull all the books I want to do, and they are in a bin ready to go. When I get behind, DH uses them for bedtime reading.

 

We do locate our history lessons on our CC timeline, and I went through my SOTW book and CC Foundations Guide together last summer, and wrote the CC history sentences into my SOTW book at the appropriate places. That way, I can review them together when we come across them. I have found that I actually don't have to bring them up, though - my kids usually remember (and are thrilled!) when SOTW crosses paths with something they have memorized at CC.

 

This is how we do it for the most part too. My kids love making the connections between CC and other things and I love seeing them make the connections. Great idea about writing the history sentences in the books!