kailuamom Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 I am. this. close. to finishing dc's binders, schedules for our first day...tomorrow!! I ripped up workbooks, planned out the year, then weeks, then days...except for Lively Latin for my dd 8. I will be up late anyway cleaning up the classroom, etc., so I can do it, I know. BUT, if someone has already done the legwork and would like to share...I wouldn't complain!! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy in ME Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 I am very much a planner right down to the number of pages we will read each week but, as for Lively Latin, we just start with a quick flashcard review then do the next page. We try to keep lessons short so we only do one page a day and we just read through the history portion but we don't do any of those activities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kailuamom Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 I am very much a planner right down to the number of pages we will read each week but, as for Lively Latin, we just start with a quick flashcard review then do the next page. We try to keep lessons short so we only do one page a day and we just read through the history portion but we don't do any of those activities. See? I am NOT a planner, but am aspiring to be one! lol This is big for me! But, since you are a planner and this works for you, then I think it will be great for us! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kailuamom Posted August 13, 2008 Author Share Posted August 13, 2008 I decided I was going to poke my eyes out if I tried to plan out the whole year and I know the "plan" would be shot by day 3 so I just decided that we will aim for 3 pages a day. That is for my 11 yo though who has already worked through a beginning Latin program. Most of this should be easy for him. Once dd finishes SSL we will take LL at a very slow pace. Like one worksheet a day or sometimes two if they go together. I figure it will take her about 2 years to finish LL but she just turned 7 last week so it is no big deal. I think maybe I am just going to do the same - a few pages a day. Maybe 1 or 2 since she is younger and has had no Latin yet. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningirl71 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 My schedule is easy. We set the timer for 30 minutes, and whatever we get done, we get done. DD goes through the flashcards for 5 minutes and then the rest of the 25 is focused on the lesson.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickerdoodle Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 My son is 7 and we do flashcards first and one page per day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim in SouthGa Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 I have scheduled two weeks to do each lesson, and my ds (12) works on it 3 days a week. At the beginning of each lesson I figure out how many pages he needs to do each day to get a lesson done in the 6 days we have it scheduled. hth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjperez1 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 I see some of you ladies have 7 & 8yo children. The website said it was for 3rd grade and up. Do you all just taking it slower for these guys. Is it working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 I have scheduled two weeks to do each lesson... We did this, too, though we are doing 5 days/week - MWF are 15 minutes on vocabulary and chants, TTh are 30 minutes, adding reading / worksheets to the oral practice. Ironically, I just rescheduled the rest of our year in HST because we blew through the introduction in 3 days. I'm going to leave it at 2 weeks per lesson, though, until we get a couple of chapters with vocabulary under our belt. My dd is 7(and third grade), for what it's worth. (and currently sitting in a box, watching It's a Big, Big World with her brothers while we kill time before supper :001_huh:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Academy of Jedi Arts Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 My 7yo finds LL WAY easy. Every kid is different. We do between 1-3 pages per day. It takes about 10-15 minutes. If she is doing the drawings in the history book it can be a bit longer. LL has been a lot of fun for her, and right now that's cool with me. We will move to something more meaty later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Love2Learn Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 We are also scheduling 2 lessons a week. For my 10 yo this means about 1 hour a week. For my 13 yo, this is much shorter -- but she is also learning Spanish and Latin is just "introduction and exposure" for her. We have Latin scheduled 2 times a week at 30 minutes per lesson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deana FL Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 I was just coming in to ask the same question and thought I better search it first, just in case. I'm thinking set the timer is a good approach for us. I was surprised to see the length of lesson 1...I was thinking I could do a lesson a day, but I see that's definetly not the way to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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