Where would you start? Would you do each year that they are at together? Would you pick one year and do it with all three (doing different phonics, math, english, what not with each child at their level) I'm intrigued by this and think I might prefer to use it over what I had planned. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks, Kristine
First of all I LOVE Charlotte Mason and Ambleside has been a Godsend to us! We will be in our third year of homeschooling this fall and CM rocks! I have to do two seperate levels because my kids are 5 and 12, K and 7th. Combining won't work for me. Judging by the ages of your kids it would be very possible to do certain things together especially with the younger two. Actually depending on your kids you could do them together for literature, history, science, poetry, art, music, geography and then do individual grammar and language arts and give them individual map work pertaining to your geography and history lessons. Let me know if I can be of any assistance.
Tiffany, Thanks, so what year would you pick to start with if you had a 2nd, 3rd & 5th grader. I would probably just pick one year and go there, vs. doing two separate years. Then I could also do what year they are in for extra reading and use the suggested readings for that. Or pick two years and intertwine it. It seems there's not an overkill of work that that would probably work?? Thanks, Kristine
I think it would depend on your kids. My son (age 11) doesn't like to do stuff with lil sis. Makes him feel like he's doing stuff "below" him. It's his PS mentality I think. So personally I am doing both seperate for everything except the dictation/spelling part. Well no I take that back - my 3rd/4th grader won't start dictation until her writing gets better.... but they will both be using the same book for it (I went with the Spelling Wisdom btw) I'm still reading about this whole concept - which honestly.... ummmm.... I haven't read some of these books - LOL. Also you can take a look at Oldfashionededucation.com which has a really nice printable lay-out for scheduling each grade. Then you can mix if you want to (after looking at some of the books I liked the ones from AO better for some subjects and from OFE for others).... Good luck!
