This follows on really with Nics post on Monster and Teeny [very unfair titles for 2 gorgeous children!! - or is it the parents???????]
we have also done a fair bit of thinking at melrose, its led to me starting to write a list of resources, subject headings, and now am going to think of different topics, what we have on them and what excursions etc, so a sort of charlotte mason approach, as I will try and kick it off with stories – not quite FIAR, but that kind of idea. [TBH I just didn't like how the FIAR manual read, rather than the idea].
We will also do other things – such as singapore maths, phonics reading and i think we will getty and dubay. keep going with german, based around Muzzy, formalise the music a little bit now, and do some art apprectation as well as hands on – seeing Merry’s resources there was v helpful!
What will we get over time having been to Melrose? I liked the berenstain bears science [as SB keen on Dr Seuss] , and if I’d known Katy was selling it, I would have bought it myself. Got DK books, but will also visit sonlight when I have an address for them for that people book. Have also got the usbourne time traveller from ebay. Sonlight can provide the getty and dubay as well, and perhaps the history of the world series, which I also think is great.
To start with, so that we can see what we do, and how it works, I think we will have a loose timetable – especially when I get more time off and chris and I share more. Since I can grab photocopier at work when on call, I think we will photocopy pages to put in folders, and try and have a monthly curriculum that we dip in and out of, but have sorted resources in advance. As yet, this is all wild and woolly, and hopefully will metamorphosize into something beautiful that suits SB’s learning needs, yet also doesn’t encourage our chaotic approach to life.
sounds like a plan
I love it when a plan comes together – still waiting mind you LOL
well, this is a tenous kind of plan of a plan! but I think its something to start with, and then fiddle about with as we go on, rather than complete muddling and time passing by. [I am aware that if I was more organised, this house business wouldn't have derailed everything!]
You are so together Karen, you prob don’t need to actually think a plan! I have now taught SB to sign her name btw.
And Nic has her plan mulling about on the internet now as well.
Seeing some of the resources helped me with Kennedy’s maths. As I follow a predominately autonomous approach I have been debating about a programme for ages, however after seeing Merry’s Mosiac Maths books I ordered them today. Good luck Helen.
I like the idea of autonomous, but think I might be too chaotic for it, so will start with child led/centred ish and see where we go. I think thinking about topics and resources in advance, so I at least have skeleton outlines of things to do, and resources means that we can chop and change according to SB’s desires, whithout being caught too much on the hop!
I love my wife and her lists
i hope there isn’t any patronising going on there chris, otherwise you will be in trouble!
Could you do us a list of exactly how much and why you love your wife and her lists?
Well, i’ll just need to delegate that to my list maker…….