Not sure this is the right forum....how about sharing your schedules for LCC?
I've worked for 6 weeks or so since reading LCC, arranged and re-arranged my schedule and have acquired all my materials. I *think* I've got a working plan now. :o) We started on Monday. I thought it might be interesting to read how others use Drew's recommendations to fit their own family's lifestyle. I'll go first (obviously!)
I'll be schooling 3 this year (this will be our 10th year to homeschool, our 4th using mostly neo-classical materials, and our first incorporating Latin).
I have a 5yo ds, a 7yo ds and a 12 yo dd. (K, 1st, 6th grades respectively) I also have 1 in college, and 2 in public high school.
The boys will both be using McRuffy Phonics, Right Start math, Copy- and Memorywork from The Harp and Laurel Wreath. These are daily subjects, done in the morning.
Big sister will be speeding thru Prima Latina, with the boys just memorizing phrases, prayers and limited vocab. with her daily.
DD wil also be doing CW, Keys to Fractions, and Copy and Memorywork from Harp and Laurel Wreath daily.
Because I have two levels (the two youngers and the one older) to coordinate regarding the rotating subjects, I've had to get creative with the schedule in the afternoon. I really want to spend one-on-one time in our Classical, Christian and Modern Studies. The two youngers will be following the K recommendations for Literature and so forth (Nursery Rhymes/Tales, Aesop, D'Aulaire bios). While I'm working with big sister, I bring home classic childrens books on tape as well as several picture books on tape for the boys to listen to. Both guys will be starting Pianimals as well.
DD will be using the rec's from the LCC's 3rd and 4th grades for her Classical, Literature and Modern Studies. She using D'Aulaire's Greek Myths, Hawthorn's Tanglewood Tales and Wonderbook (and Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare probably into the summer), Artners/Everything You need to Know About American History Homework, and MP's Christian Studies 1. She's also in charge of Art Appreciation with the boys, using 'How to Use the Childsize masterpieces' activities, as well as doing projects from Jeffers' Art Basics for Children. She's using Simply Music to familiarize herself with piano.
Our Read Alouds will be Sonlight's Core 1 rec's for the youngers, Sutcliff's Black Ships Before Troy and the Wanderings of Odysseus for the older. We'll also read a bit now and again from Child's History of the World.
My plan is to be fairly strict with the schedule in the mornings, but a bit more leasurely in the afternoons with our other Studies. I also hope to be finished by 2 o'clock, leaving plenty of time for reading and playing, library visits and so forth before dinner.
How about you?
Well, my DD is only 3, but
Well, my DD is only 3, but our schedule at this point looks something like this:
5-10 minutes a day I direct her to some sort of math-prep activity. This might be her funtastic frogs math manipulatives, a shapes or counting wipe-off workbook, a counting book, or merely sitting about counting objects together.
I encourage her to do some coloring or scissors practice every day to develop her fine motor skills.
Reading time consists of one picture book (this may be a library book or one of her own) followed by reading aloud from a chapter book. Right now, it's Lord of the Rings. After we finish that, we'll probably do Aesop's Fables, then either a simplified telling of Beowulf or else "The Book of Epic Heroes", an old book I found at a library sale with stories of Classical, Norse, and Celtic epic heroes. Around Thanksgiving we'll start in on our annual reading of Kevin Crossley-Holland's Norse Myths, unless I manage to get my hands on a more vividly illustrated children's telling of the Norse Myths before then.
Have you seen
that the D'Aulaires Norse Myths has been released again? I saw it on amazon I believe. My youngers love the illustrations in thier books.
And good for you for starting with your dd at 3! Sounds snuggly and positively fabulous to be sharing the great stories with her already. :o)
Yes, I noticed. And I bought
Yes, I noticed. And I bought it along with my fall textbooks (I'm a college student). It's gorgeous and I'm looking forward to reading it with my daughter.
I think the Salvete forum might be better, but ...
Here's my plan:
I've got a 5th grader, a 3rd grader, a K/1st grader (turning 6 in September, but not really up for 1st grade work yet), and a 4 year old.
In the mornings we'll do math (Singapore and Right Start), Latin (LCI for the 3rd grader, Latin Book One and Henle for the 5th) and Classical Writing Aesop B (at a brisk pace for the 5th grader, slowly for the 3rd or even not at all - I don't really want him to finish it for another year).
Somewhere in there I'll work in Spell to Write and Read for everyone, and Right Start math for my little ones.
After lunch we'll read and do history, or science, or art, as time and inclination strike. We're studying ancient history this year (sticking to a four-year history rotation for now, instead of Classical Studies/Modern Studies). My oldest will read from Kingfisher and Usborne history encyclopdeias for his spine. Then he'll read other books, keep a timeline, and make a kind of book of the centuries. My younger ones will all listen to Story of the World and do narrations and projects (the chicken mummy is mummifying already).
Other than that we'll read fairy tales, Aesop and nursery rhymes; finish D'Aulaire's and Famous Men of Rome; read Black Ships Before Troy and The Wanderings of Odysseus, maybe In Search of a Homeland; Norse myths, Roman myths, middle eastern myths, American Indian myths, Chinese myths, what have you. A little Shakespeare.
Somewhere in there we'll have music practice. And then there's Scouts, and figuring out some kind of PE ... ugh.