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leanne maree
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Posted: July 19 2010 at 8:32pm \| IP Logged

Not sure how it will work, but We are looking at studying one topic a week. We have been using a schooly type timetable for years, but I am seeing a need to change styles.
I will clarify.
After Faith, Timestables, and Maths, we will concentrate on one topic for a week.
we break our year into terms of 10 weeks here in australia. So my thought is to have 5 topics and repeat them until the end term.
Has anyone done this before and if so, has it worked OK.
Thanks Leanne

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Posted: July 20 2010 at 2:38am \| IP Logged

Leanne

We have used this approach but found it best to spend three weeks at a time rather than a week. It worked for one child in particular, to this day he prefers to concentrate on only one subject at a time. Yesterday for example he did two weeks of English work, today he concentrated on only History.

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leanne maree
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Posted: July 20 2010 at 6:45pm \| IP Logged

We have been doing this style a few days. its been working well. dd doesn't have to swap and change to another subject.
so far, so good,
thanks for the encouragement Erin. I needed that.
Leanne

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Posted: July 21 2010 at 1:14pm \| IP Logged

There is a learning philosophy that does something similar, where students work on one topic at a time for several weeks - usually more like a month at a time -of maths, then maybe language arts, then history, or chemistry etc. It seems to work well for them. I think it would be satisfying to go quite deeply into a subject, and then, that learning philosophy says, let the new knowledge "sleep" and become part of the child in the child's own way. It's something I am considering working on with my children actually as our new timetable looks so chopping and changey, very schooly, and it makes my heart sink!

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Posted: July 27 2010 at 12:09am \| IP Logged

We have been using this style now for about a week and a bit.
Its brought a depth to learning and concentration that I didn't see before,
early days though.
lucy, the reason why we changed was because it all looked 'choppy and changy'-and dd was ready to move on
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