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01/13/2005 Archived Entry: "lesson talk"

We're doing lessons a bit differently at the moment. They were simply taking too long. Two hours of sitting at the table is not time well spent, especially when the child is not even 6 yet. The important hands-on stuff like science experiments and art were falling by the wayside. What we do now is cursive and math every day. Then we alternate our pile of books each day. So pile A has a reading comprehension and reading workbook, our Solar System study, grammar and art. Pile B has a different reading comprehension book, logic, Dinosaurs, spelling and science experiment. I think this will work much better. Two of the workbooks will be finished very soon and I don't plan to replace them with other books because I want to add history to our lessons. I'm very excited for the program we've chosen but have held off purchasing because we probably won't start it until after we settle in with baby. Probably not until March.