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JSchaaf
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Posted: March 28 2008 at 3:59pm \| IP Logged

I've searched the forums and learned much about main lesson books but still have some questions. Does all written work go into the Lesson Book (copywork, spelling words, narrations/illustrations, memory work pieces) or just work pertaining to the certain block study? (Does this even make sense??) How is a Main Lesson Book different from a Notebook? Whenever my daughter has the urge to draw should I have her do it in the Main Lesson Book, or do people paste things into the book? How does a Main Lesson book work for math when one is using a traditional, workbook based curriculum for math? I'm sure there are more questions to come...
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Jennifer

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Posted: March 28 2008 at 4:04pm \| IP Logged

So, if I'm thinking about spending a month on the Human Body, we would have a main lesson book just for that and then start a new one with the next study??
I think I'm confusing myself more and more....
Jennifer

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Posted: March 28 2008 at 4:16pm \| IP Logged

A reviewer at Eclectic Homeschool Online said "Main Lesson" is just the Waldorf term for a unit study?? True? False?
Jennifer

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Posted: March 31 2008 at 2:44pm \| IP Logged

I saw your posts and have been wracking my brain on how to qualify the difference between what I know of as a main lesson book and a "unit study".

When I hear unit study - I think many subjects surrounding one topic - so if your unit study is on Ancient Egypt - your math, literature, language arts, art etc..would all be covered in that unit study. Please let me know if I have this wrong!

A main lesson book takes the place of a textbook and covers one subject. For instance in 2nd grade you might have a main lesson book that focused on "Legends of Saints" - the purpose of the main lesson block being reading and writing. Another main lesson book would focus on arithmetic. Whatever the subject - there is always an artistic element - usually student drawings beginning with crayon drawings in the early grades - then colored pencils - watercolor pencils - etc.. In the higher grades - science blocks would collect data but also include drawings of the experiments by the students as well.

Does that make sense? I think by 4th grade main lesson books and unit studies probably start to look more similar than in the early grades.

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Posted: April 03 2008 at 1:34pm \| IP Logged

Thank you, Donna! After more reading and thinking I came to the same conclusion you did. We are about to start a main study block-French Impressionists.
Jennifer

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