Monday, December 28, 2009

New Year; New School Structure

I did a lot of thinking last night while I sat trying to make up my next few lesson plans, and after discussing it with my husband, I decided that since I am trying to merge the children's curriculum and lessons together like it suggests in Charlotte Mason's teachings that I have read at www.simplycharlottemason.com, I am going to teach Timothy with Tori during the SOS lessons in Bible and History & Geography and when she does her lesson reviews on SOS, I will have him do narration on the material and some questions/exercises of his own.  For Science I am switching both students to Exploring Creation with Astronomy by Jeannie K. Fulbright and I have a cd that is Live & Learn's supplemental material for the Exploring Creation with Astronomy (provided by my wonderful sister), so they will be doing some oral narration and then working through the material in Live & Learn's supplementals.  Doing the lessons together will require Tori to go back to a lesson plan involving multiple subjects in one day instead of just one main focus each day, but I feel with me no longer having to divide my time between them frequently, they both will take much more from each lesson and listening to one another's input will spark new thinking.  It will require me to come up with my own supplementals for Timothy in Bible and History and Geography, but that won't be very difficult at all.  Today we did this with the SOS lesson in Bible and it went very well.  I look forward to a full immersion into the new structure and have high hopes it will go well after we are fully adjusted.  God is with us, may he be with you as well.