How do you integrate copywork into your day

[Canada_Mom]

I've been considering adding the MP Copybook III to our daily routine or on my own just coming up with a bible passage for dd6 to copy out and illustrate.

 

For those of you who use copywork... how does it fit into your school week? Do you tie in in with LA? History? on its own? How often do you do it?

 

Thx.

[Karenciavo]

I tie it in with everything, especially with my ds5. Some days it's our memory work, some days history, some days nature study, some days Bible, etc. Really, it just depends on where I decide he needs extra work.

[KS_]

We do copywork everyday, mainly because my ds really needed practice and *hated* writing anything (he still dislikes writing, but his penmanship has improved so much!).

 

I don't tie it in with anything - I just find it easier to have a 3-ring binder with their copywork pages in it, and they do the next one in there each day. I got the program StartWrite and it's been a really great help.

[Tess in the Burbs]

My son has good handwriting to be a 6yo boy! He's done HWT 2nd grade book already, so now he does the MP Copybook 1. He loves it. We do not do it everyday. I look at his ETC book and see what pages have writing, and compare it to the FLL book and what needs writing and any days that are 'light' or have no writing, then he does the copybook. It's about 2 days a week he works in that. He likes it and he transitioned from HWT to the traditional 3 line format no problems since it had the first page as copying the letters as well.

 

so for us he has copywork in other areas, and we only do copywork from a book when no other subject is offering it.

[Tina in WA]

We use History Scribe: Happy Scribe Handwriting Copybooks. I let the kids pick out what topic they would like to do. They like picking out their own topics, the books are 1 month worth of copy work, and sometimes I have chosen CWbooks based on the topic we are currently studying. But for the most part, they get to choose themselves.

 

~Tina

[Trivium Academy]

When were using it for handwriting practice (after HW instruction) it was everyday in either poetry or history. Now we have copywork 1x a week in history because we have enough handwriting in our other subjects. It's an individual decision.

[MelissaMinNC]

Passages have been 1 or 2 sentences from Bible, history and science.

 

However, I decided today that we are cutting out copywork until our current handwriting book is finished - she's doing Getty-Dubay Italics, and I think we've got about 6 weeks left in book B. She does that 4x/week. The school day is just getting too long, with too much writing. Once we're done with the handwriting book, I'll go back to copywork, 3 or 4 times/week.

 

HTH,

Melissa

[Teresa in OR]

I make my own selections using Startwrite (occasionally I write them out by hand, just for variety). Sometimes I pick a sentence or two from a book we're reading, sometimes science, sometimes the Bible verse we're working on. My 6 yo does her copywork while I am working one-on-one with my 4 yo in phonics. Sometimes she does a Happy Scribe page too.

[Closeacademy]

Copywork is great for anything.

 

Currently we are using copywork on Mondays and Wednesdays to reinforce phonic concepts with sentences like "Green feet sleep free." to remember the sound of "ee."

 

On Tuesdays and Thursdays she copies the sentences she has dictated to me when she created her own version of a fable.

 

We have used copywork for history, science, grammar instruction, just plain penmanship and have heard that others use it for math.

[Strawberry Queen]

right now I'm having dd use it for Bible. She copies out 2 verses, illustrates them, and then I'm having her memorize them. Once she has them memorized, then on to the next 2 verses. I'm trying to kill a few birds with one stone:)

 

In gr.1 she did it every day to reinforce handwriting. We did verses, poems, quotes etc.

 

Now that her writing is increasing in other subjects, I don't ahve her do copywork every day. Oh, and she's also transitioning into cursive, so she has that to do too.

[Tammyla]

for copy work. We began after their handwriting instruction moved beyond letter formation and penmanship was nice enough. My two now copy a poem from H&LW into their copybooks and then use it for memory work.

 

When they were little and still learning to write, their copy work was done in a handwriting workbook. Now copy work isn't daily work because they write so much across the curriculum.

 

There is no one way to do copy work. :rolleyes:

[EvergreenEclecticAcademy]

I incorporate copywork into at least one of our subjects every day...sometimes spelling, FLL, history, science, Spanish, poetry memorization, dd's independent reading, or our current read-aloud. I usually create my own copywork sheet using StartWrite software, but we sometimes use History Scribe pages as well.

 

HTH! :)

[ArwenA]

We do lots of copywork, all integrated into a subject. Science, history, Bible, art app., music app., and sometimes reading. I will select something to reinforce our studies. This approach seems to make me think of copywork as just part of our learning, not a subject in its self.

[Dayle in Guatemala]

I use it daily in almost every subject.

 

For language arts we use LLATL and it is incorporated into the weekly lessons. In history we use History Scribe pages and it's wonderful for quotes and literature from the historical era we are studying. For science, we use it in our notebooks from the book we are reading/studying.

 

I find it beneficial in so many ways for my dc, we use it a LOT!

[BarbaraL in OK]

Bible verse in English & Latin, 1x/week! History-related sentence, prose or poetry, 1x/week.

 

I choose slightly longer passages for my 12yo (who still benefits from some copywork), and shorter for my nearly 8yo. They can do more -- contentedly -- than I would have thought. I added the Latin to help both boys make connections between their Latin study and... the Bible (and, really, anything beyond their textbooks)! I look up the Latin online (Vulgate Bible).

 

Currently, though, they're doing thank you notes for Christmas, and are nearly done :)

[Chris in CA]

We always alternated poetry, bible and literature

The poetry and bible also would serve as our memory work when it was completed

[Jill- OK]

Similar to Closeacademy; we use copywork/dictation for reinforcing spelling (sentences from Phonics Pathways), and they copy their (simple) narrations from science. (And probably history, when we start that, next year).

 

I also take some sentences from their reading, occasionally. (I don't do copywork beyond their reading level.)

[LunaLee]

Copywork here doubles as handwriting practice and language arts. I usually chose selections from literature for copywork and we discuss different parts of speech and grammar.