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violingirl
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Posted: Sept 14 2009 at 8:38am \| IP Logged

May I ask a few questions about main lesson books? The way I understand it, a main lesson book is used as a kind of illustrated narration for the child. Am I on the right track?

At what age do you start to use a main lesson book? Do you keep different main lesson books for different subects? I'm particularly thinking forward to next year when we plan to use the continent plans from Serendipity - would we use one main lesson book for the entire Africa study?

Do you use main lesson books for things I think of as non-artistic subjects like math? If you do, is it possible to share an example?

Thank you in advance!

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Posted: Sept 14 2009 at 10:13am \| IP Logged

I try to keep main lesson books separated by subject. It's nice to have all Botany in the same location, for example. We are keeping only one book for Continents. I know other people on this board use math journals.

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Posted: Sept 14 2009 at 2:40pm \| IP Logged

I have returned to using MainLesson books this year, but only with my youngest. We use one for history. I have her give me a narration which I write on one half of the page and then she illustrates it on the other half. She is 6 years old and is so proud of her book! If anyone comes to the house, she whips out the book to show them.

When I was using mainlesson books regularly, I would have a book for each subject. I even used one for math when my ds was in Gr. 1. You can use these books at any age.

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Posted: Sept 15 2009 at 7:39am \| IP Logged

I have never used them until this year. I am using one with my newly 5 year old. At the end of the day I have him narrate a sentence to me about what he learned or enjoyed doing during his learning time. He then copies that sentence in his book and draws and colors a picture of it.

He really likes doing it and it reinforces for his what he learned or enjoyed. For example he did a floating activity last week using water, oil, and syrup and he illustrated that it is easiest to float in syrup and hardest in oil.

I think you can tailor these to whatever purpose you want. ..just keep it fun for the kids or they will not want to do it and this isn't something you want to force.

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Posted: Sept 15 2009 at 9:04am \| IP Logged

Thank you for your thoughts!

I was thinking to start casually using something like this for my four-year-old. He's been doing a lot of loose pages lately drawing animals and I think he would really think it was cool to have them all together in a book.

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Posted: Sept 15 2009 at 10:30am \| IP Logged

Is there a thread somewhere that explains exactly what a main lesson book is? I know I've seen them mentioned over the last year or so on this message board so I'm curious as to wether this is something that originated with one of the ladies here?

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