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Becky Parker
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Posted: April 11 2011 at 8:03am \| IP Logged

This is a spin off of my other plea for help.

I've been thinking about how I do my planning and how I'm also struggling with trying to fit certain aspects of learning into our day. Along with some really great ideas from my "help" question, I'm wondering if I should change the way I actually plan for the school year. For example, I am currently looking at curriculum for next year. I am using Evernote and I have a page set up for each child with the list of subjects under their name. (Math, Grammar, Spelling, History, Science ...) But I'm wondering, would it be beneficial to set it up so that the skills I want to cover are listed and the subjects plugged in to those. So instead of listing something like:
"History - Old World and America text. See list of historical fiction for each time period."
I list it as:
"Narration - Old World and America History text and historical fiction" or something like that. I realize it seems like I'm doing the same thing in each example, but I'm putting the emphasis on the skill I want to cover (narration) instead of the content (history). Under that same skill of narration I would also list books for literature, lessons from ILL, or even a science book.
Another example would be changing
"Spelling - AAS" to
"Dictation - spelling sentences and words in AAS"

Do you see what I mean? I would emphasize the skill, and plug the other subjects into them. By doing this in the initial planning stages, and maybe even in my lesson plans, I'm wondering if this would help me to re-focus on skills and not so much on content.

I already do this with copy work. I used to list it as handwriting, but that's changed in the past couple of years and I now just list copy work and plug in the handwriting book pages or the paragraph or whatever they have to do that day. I realize that I am covering that skill of copywork through various sources and it's working well, so why not do that with the other skills?
Clear as mud?
Silly idea?
What do you think?

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Becky Parker
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Posted: April 11 2011 at 9:58am \| IP Logged

Coming back to answer my own question - Nope. Can't do it.

What I can do though, is plug in to certain subjects those skills that are easily covered by that subject. So history lends itself well to narration. I can use narration as the primary way in which I evaluate how much my kids are learning in history. I just really have to discipline myself to use narration and pegging it to a certain time of day will help. Likewise with the other skills I want to work into our day.

Thanks for letting me think out loud! You can now routine to your reading of posts that make sense!

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