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Posted: May 06 2008 at 6:07pm | IP Logged Quote lapazfarm
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I am new to this forum, and trying to get the curriculm abbreviations.    Can someone tell me what these stand for, for starters?:

CHC
IEW
SWO

CHC is Catholic Heritage Curriculum
IEW is Institute for Excellence in Writing
SWO is Spelling Workout

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Eight Wonders wrote:
How funny that this topic should come up since I was just thinking about workbooks and a drrawback they seem to have these past several days.



Since I use more of an "eclectic textbook" approach for schooling we do use workbooks. I like that they're finite and specific, and that I don't have to make up all the questions.

But when I find them being too much of a drag, I exercise my right as a teacher to edit the work. Sometimes I only have my girls do every other math problem, or skip some or all of the word problems at the bottom of the page, for instance; I also tend to use workbook assignments more as something for the girls' daily practice than as something that has to be graded and recorded--I'll chose some assignments or tests to record just to measure progress, but we don't grade every page.

And if we hit a page that's just silly time-wasting, I write the word SKIP in big letters at the top and they get some free time. And so do I!

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