I am beginning to think about next school year and the choices I will make. It is part of my teaching that I take stock of what we have learned, assess if it has been effective and decide what to do from here. I do this constantly, however as I think about next year I feel very conflicted.
I would really like to use the Charlotte Mason approach to educate my children. I have been reading several books on the subject and I like the method and I know my daughter would love it. The problem lies with my son. I tried last year and this year to do more literature based and relaxed approach and it did not work for him. He is not comfortable with reading and gathering his own information about a subject. He would rather me give him assignments. It is also a struggle to get him to read hardly anything. We have been mostly doing read a louds. He is on a high reading level, but doesn't have the passion for reading that I would like.
I just don't know what to do. If I do choose to use a curriculum I know I want to get most of it from one publisher so that I don't have to spend so much time planning lessons and such. I would like to do some of his lessons on the computer so that I can devote more time to my dd who will be in first grade. He does monopolize my time. I guess I will ponder this more and see what comes. Your views, opinion or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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We are a CM family and keep a blog about our homeschool adventures. You might find something helpful- I have found that using the Charlotte Mason approach is very adaptable- the methods are the same but some will work and others won't. We incorporate those things that work for us- we also do a lot of unit studies with our literature.
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