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Posted: May 09 2007 at 10:45am | IP Logged Quote EmilyC
When I began homeschooling dd, we started out with Sonlight. I loved it, but hated that I spent so much money on it. We really scaped to be able to afford it. So, I tried to do my own thing the next two years. I always end up burned out by April or so each year, and wish I could figure out how to make it through the whole year without wanting to quit. I miss Sonlight and having a nice laid out plan, but our finances will not allow me to purchase another core anytime soon.

I've read Real Learning about 3 times now, and have gone over and over the booklist, wishing I could figure out how to make it a curriculum. I'm still not getting it.    How do I go about making it into a curriculum?   I'd love to do it, but I fear I'd just burn myself out trying to do too much.   

Could somone guide me through turning the booklist into a curriculum??

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Posted: May 09 2007 at 11:31am | IP Logged Quote LLMom
Emily,

It can be very overwhelming to plan your own curriculum, but it can be done, especially if you do it slowly. What I do, is plan a cycle for history and science. For example, this coming year we will be studying life science (part 2 because it is a 2 year course for us because of so much info). We are doing mammals,birds, fish, insects, reptiles, amphibians, and botony. (this seems like a lot but we do it over 2 years.) I then set a time limit on each subject but know it may change so for example, we will study 3 mammals for 6 weeks, insects for 4, etc.   I then choose living books based on those subjects, come up with a few hands on projects, movies if we can locate them, and a field trip if applicable. Like I said, this is an involved process and I work on it over 6-9 months. I also try to group as many of my kids as possible. We all do history,art,music and science together and some religion. I have smaller groups for our language arts. Everyone has their own math. I hope this helps. IF you have any more specific questions, ask away. THese ladies are an amazing wealth of info.

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Posted: May 09 2007 at 7:12pm | IP Logged Quote Leonie
You could also use several of the free online unit study guides - the book suggestions and activities are all laid out for you. I can send you some links, if you'd like!

Or you can use the ideas for presenting history/science/literature in the book The Well Trained Mind ( notebooking ideas), but with the 4 real learning booklist or the Sonlight booklist and your local library. We did that one year.....

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Posted: May 09 2007 at 8:09pm | IP Logged Quote EmilyC
Oh, links would be great!

I hadn't thought of using The Well Trained Mind with the real learning booklist--that's a really great idea. Thanks!


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