lionfamily1999 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 So, I'm planning ahead and I've realized that Andrew will be done with his 2-3rd grade workbooks for Science and Math by May. That's great, because that's when we were planning to do his tests, but not so great, because we'll be out of Science and Math stuff to do. Question 1: What do we do for Math and Science? Move on to 3-4th grade? Since we've only started in December, we're waaaay behind in Grammar and History. By my calculations, we won't finish The Ancients until December (or so?!?). FLL will be fine since the local p.s. wasn't teaching Grammar anyway, we're actually ahead of them :glare: Question 2: If you start late for History, do you skip chapters to catch up, or just stay behind? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningirl71 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 So, I'm planning ahead and I've realized that Andrew will be done with his 2-3rd grade workbooks for Science and Math by May. That's great, because that's when we were planning to do his tests, but not so great, because we'll be out of Science and Math stuff to do. Question 1: What do we do for Math and Science? Move on to 3-4th grade? Since we've only started in December, we're waaaay behind in Grammar and History. By my calculations, we won't finish The Ancients until December (or so?!?). FLL will be fine since the local p.s. wasn't teaching Grammar anyway, we're actually ahead of them :glare: Question 2: If you start late for History, do you skip chapters to catch up, or just stay behind? Thank you! Could you just be done with science after May and concentrate more on history after that? I wouldn't be done with math, math is one of those things you have to keep plugging away with, but I would think doing this with science would be fine. As for skipping chapters for history, it just depends on what your focus is. It doesn't hurt to skip a chapter here and there, but you wouldn't want to skip big chunks. I've actually done both. I've skipped chapters before, and then have stayed behind at other times. If you are doing a 4 year history cycle and plan to do this throughout your homeschooling time, you'll hit the subject matter again. Your biggest focus at this age is exposure and creating a love for history. To me, whatever you need to do to NOT make it drudgery is what you should do! And, after May, if you were to just not go on in science and use that time for history too, maybe you'll be able to finish on time!:) Another thought: do you have the SOTW audio cds? I actally started late this year with SOTW4 and am having dd go through two chapters a week. She listens to both chapters with the audio and then she does her mapwork, timeline, outline, and any other reading only on one chapter. So, one chapter is just left as reading. That is a way you could "catch up" without skipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 Angie, how many chapters do you do a week for history? I want to double, or even triple, up every week, but I'm worried we would cover so much that Andrew would miss too many details. Also, what are the timelines people keep talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningirl71 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Angie, how many chapters do you do a week for history? I want to double, or even triple, up every week, but I'm worried we would cover so much that Andrew would miss too many details. Also, what are the timelines people keep talking about? I cover two chapters a week. One dd actually studies more in depth through outlining and mapwork. She keeps a timeline for all chapters. One chapter is just reading for her. At 7, I don't think you need to worry so much about missing details! He will encounter this info two more times if you follow the 4 year cycle. I would focus more on just the story and having fun with it. After reading a chapter, have him do an oral narration. Also, there is nothing wrong with using SOTW as a read aloud. I have had many friends who have just done it for "fun." The audio cds are very engaging in my opinion if you don't have those. Do you have the AG for SOTW? The projects in the AG, even the coloring pages, are a great way to cement events/people into a child's mind. My kids remembered more when they did a coloring page. For real!:) The main thing: Relax. Have fun. Don't make history a chore or you'll always be behind. If you really want to get the book done "on time" look it over, see how many chapters you need to cover in a week, do one in depth and the others as just read alouds. :) As for a timeline, unless you are really into them, there is really no reason to do one in the grammar stage. My daughter is in the logic stage and we use it to try and connect events in history. She can visually see what is happening in different parts of the world at the same time. For logic stage kids, it can be a great tool for visualizing. In the grammar stage, it's just another thing to get done, imo. I hope I'm being helpful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 Oh, we're not even close to finishing on time, I just wanted him to get the first go through with all four books. Since we started a year and a half late, I knew we'd be behind... I guess I was just hoping we could catch up, somehow... We use the all the extra stuff too, and read the chapters aloud. We had been doing a chapter a week, but I guess we could bump it up and just not go as in depth. You're right, he just needs the gist of it for now, depth can come later. Thank you for all your input! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runningirl71 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Oh, we're not even close to finishing on time, I just wanted him to get the first go through with all four books. Since we started a year and a half late, I knew we'd be behind... I guess I was just hoping we could catch up, somehow... We use the all the extra stuff too, and read the chapters aloud. We had been doing a chapter a week, but I guess we could bump it up and just not go as in depth. You're right, he just needs the gist of it for now, depth can come later. Thank you for all your input! You're welcome! And, who told you you started late?:) I didn't start the history cycle until dd was in 2nd grade. She is in 5th and doing SOTW4. We will be going back to Ancients in 6th. For jr. high I plan to do this: 6th~Ancients 7th~Medeival/Renaissance 8th~Early Modern/Modern I'll combine early modern and modern together as that seems the most logical to me right now. Then we'll start back in Ancients in 9th. Since my daughter is in 5th (and an older 5th at that), I didn't feel this way, but there are others who feel that doing Modern, SOTW4 in 4th is too much with all the war, the holocaust, and such. I've read over and over mothers who skip this time period in the elementary years and just go back to Ancients. If you're feeling "behind" you could do this too. Just another thought! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 So, it can be done! Thank you!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ummtafari Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Since my daughter is in 5th (and an older 5th at that), I didn't feel this way, but there are others who feel that doing Modern, SOTW4 in 4th is too much with all the war, the holocaust, and such. I've read over and over mothers who skip this time period in the elementary years and just go back to Ancients. If you're feeling "behind" you could do this too. Just another thought! :) We skipped all of the details about the Greek gods from the Ancient time period. So, that may be an option if you are looking to skip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 And remember what ever you skip will be covered again in the next two cycles. I didn't get SOTW until 2nd grade and started with SOTW 2. Dd has had very little ancients work. Luckily when I was planning 1st grade I stumbled into the ancients a bit. First grade for us was pre-TWTM. So we did SOTW in order 2-4ish, I'm kinda skipping around and working in American history too. I'm starting the second cycle with ancients next year. With science you can probably be done. If you have the time and inclination doing math over the summer shouldn't take too much time out of your day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 We're going year round, that way I can get Andrew where he needs to be in grammar, history and math before the logic stage. I'm really appalled by his lack of knowledge in these subjects. Not so much history, I don't think many schools follow the history program we have here, but his grammar and math levels were ....... embarrassing. I was thinking of taking a little time off with Science and maybe just making math reinforcements all summer, so he is not too far ahead of his friends. My biggest concern was history, but you guys have really talked me down. We'll do less, read more, and try to surge ahead, throught the Ancients, through the next book and hopefully be caught up by next summer. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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