Hello! We started today and looking over the MOH together getting ds to read lesson one.. we are actually share reading its his turn right now. We are wondering how to fit it in a whole week let alone a whole year... little stressed here can you tell? 84 lessons, each week has three lessons but each week is 3 readings of lessons plus three activities then the two review and what did you miss things. How do you do this? DO you read a lesson to an activity per day? Or what? I was thinking read read read do do would work at first, but now I am not sure. Ds is stressing a bit already but I told him it will be fun, and encouraged him so he is reading now and whe he is done I will read aloud for us. anyone who is using or has used MOH tell me how you do your lessons in what order etc. thanks! Per day I mean! well also per week lesson etc? THanks!
I'm using MOH this year with my boys. On Mon, Tues, and Wed we read the lesson (I read it to them) and do one activity. Sometimes, if it's a long day we skip the activity. On Wed. we make our memory cards. I have the lesson name and number and date already on the card, sometimes ds writes a few sentences about the lesson and sometimes he tells me and I write it. On Thur. we put up the timeline figures, I have them ready so oldest ds just has to cut them out, maybe decorate, and put them on the wall. We also do the mapping and review on Thursday. I don't usually do the pre-test because they don't know much yet about history, sometimes we'll do it orally if it's something they're a little familiar with.
We do MOH three days a week. THe first day we might do the pretest or we might not, and we do the first lesson. I always have him do the map work and the timeline associated with that lesson on the day we read it; sometimes we also do the activity, sometimes not - depending on time available and on the activity itself. The second day we do the next lesson with timeline, map work, and possibly activity. The third day we do the same, plus we may or may not do the end-of-week exercise. We tried doing all of our timeline and map work on a fourth day each week, but ds just couldn't connect the work to the lessons that way. Sometimes, in the past, I've taken the fourth day to do the end-of-week exercise plus the pretest for the following week; whether we do it that way is almost always dependent on how soon in the week we get the actual lessons completed. We probably only do one activity a week, in addition to all the map work and timeline stuff. We don't do the cards; writing is just hard on him and it doesnt seem to help him retain the info anyway, so we skip it. I do have him do a narration, and in my perfectly scheduled world I often have him do a notebooking page for every lesson. Notebooking takes him forever though, because of the handwriting, so we don't do that as often as I'd like.
For me, it's particularly long because we also add other readings. Today we read about Isabella in "Outrageous Women of the Renaissance". The important thing is that you DO NOT HAVE TO do any activity! Pick and chose the ones that work best for you! We do the pre-test usually, though we tend to do it orally right before reading. So today, we read the from the other book about Isabella (having read about her from MOH on Friday!), and then they did the review on their own. Tomorrow we'll do the pre-test for the second week. We're done a bit early today, so I would like to go to the library and see if we can do the one mapping activity. I've looked on-line for a map to use, but can't find one. We are also doing an activity she doesn't have. We are looking up renaissance artists/sculpters/archetects as come across them, printing out some of their better known works, and making a notebook of renaissance art.
okay so I am not off base and gonna loose it if we are reading the side books then decide to choose one from three chapters to do an activity with? I also had to say OOPS forgot the pretest! Lol, this is going to be fun, I am just hoping I hve not overloaded us with fun stuff in too many classes, that I wont have time. My ds is getting the best education of the three though cause I am more hands on again!
We also read and use a study guide (put out by the publisher of MOH in a lang. arts curric called Illumunations), but I totally don't count that as history. It's reading, literature, whatever you want to call it. And often on the days we don't do the history activity, we do the lit activity instead. I limit it to one activity a day, and usually only get in two activities a week. I'm hoping to do better with that, but as far as our schedule goes, history is out of the MOH book itself and the literature that goes with it is scheduled into our reading time. Some we read together, some he reads alone, and we just see how much time that takes and whatever is left of an hour he reads in a book of his own choice (with my approval).
ok I just found otu I need to remove the maps and make copies for my ds' level good thing I have a copier! YEAH! HE will do his map work tomorrow, this week but I think we will make it work out to do that n Thursdays in the future... This week has been so full of 'stuff' that getting school work done how I had planned is going a bit sketchier than I wished it would. I am working on car pooling for Play Practice and dd's school so I can keep ....
