Scope and Sequence That's where I keep tripping up. I look over a curriculum guide and my public school teacher's eye reads it wrong every time. I look at a 3-yr cycle and see it as one. I look at a year-long cycle of only three items and I think I must've downloaded it wrong because where's the rest? In short, the Charlotte Mason method, which is where I'm leaning as I contemplate home education covers SO MUCH LESS CONTENT. But, it covers it well. Except, I don't even know what "covers it well" really means because I've never taught that way. As much as I've bemoaned the hoppy/jumpy modern education style of bouncing from one item to the next without quiet time for reflection and learning...still, I've never really written lesson plans for this alternate schooling method. Case in point: I learned that CM had her students doing a Composer Study and an Artist Study each year. They would study the works of famous artists in the world of pain...
The main characters: Beth and Theo (parents), Three bio sons: Seth (18), Gus (14), and James (4). Two adoptive daughters: Jane (4) and Kate (3). Our foster-to-adopt girls were placed with us Nov, 18 and adopted Feb, 20. All names are pseudonyms to protect our privacy. Beth is a special education teacher. Theo is an IT guy. We become foster parents in Aug, 2018. This blog is about foster care, adoption, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Sensory Integration Disorders.