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Bella
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Posted: June 09 2007 at 8:11pm | IP Logged Quote Bella
Can I still apply "Real Learning"concepts to my 10.5yo dd? May I pick your brains?

This is what I've dragged her through....

Kinder-FIAR
1st-FIAR
2nd-UNschooling
3rd-A wierd combo of MODG meets TWTM.
4th-CHC with Math U See and Rod & Staff

We tend to HS year round with breaks for vacations,health, and weather. I am not organized or follow routines by nature.(Working on that however! )

She has moderate AD/HD, combined with a strong auditory and visual-conceptual learning style. That is partly why I feel so strongly that narration would be good for her. She also tends to have what my family calls a photographic memory-as does my dh.( This comes in *very* handy when my menopausal brain is at the grocery store or library! )

This is what her summer(and perhaps permanent?) english schedule looks like:

M-Thankyou notes and letters to extended family and friends-may be in the form of email.
T-Teatime with poetry reading,Sunday's reading's and me reading aloud.
W-Rod & Staff
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F-Free write(Bravewriter)

Is she too old to incorporate narrations of her living history books and field trips?

I have her enrolled this summer in an art class that will include nature study...

I am hoping to order,"The Writer's Jungle."

I am welcome to suggestions...please!

Thankyou for your time.

Warmly,
Christy
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Posted: June 18 2007 at 7:46pm | IP Logged Quote teachingmyown
Just bumping this up!
Christy, my brain is way too muddled to help right now (I am in the middle of curriculum overload myself), but I am sure others can give you some great feedback.

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Posted: June 18 2007 at 8:17pm | IP Logged Quote Elizabeth
Christy,
It sounds like you are Real Learning with your daughter! She's the perfect age to start written narrations and I think you'd get a lot out of the Writer's Jungle. Nature and art together are perfect.
I think you've got a plan here!

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I think your plan with different activities on different days of the week sounds great!

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Sounds great! If only I could get together my summer plan so neatly. I feel like we're stumbling in the dark right now.
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Posted: June 19 2007 at 4:56pm | IP Logged Quote Bella
Thankyou for your repiles Ladies!

Elizabeth- You've given me a huge boost in confidence!

Maria- True I have her math and english figured out. I too am stumbling- in the areas of history and science. I am in the process of researching lapbooking! I think it would suit her crafty side, and fill *my* desire to avoid a textbooky approach for history,geography, and science.

Thanks for your time!

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Christy
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