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Summary: <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/ch-season6">Season 6: Homeschool Planning</a><br> We might think that making a plan and working a plan is all about the planner, the app, the method, but the truth is that how we think about our planning going into it matters tremendously.<br> I remember very vividly being struck by a line of poetry by T.S. Eliot once quoted by Cindy Rollins:<br> What I really, really wanted was a system so perfect that I wouldn’t have to expend any effort at all, I could just hum along doing whatever I wanted and everything would just work out.<br> Turns out life doesn’t work that way.<br> Read the original post: <a href="https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2015/why-do-we-make-plans-when-they-rarely-work-out">Why do we make plans when they rarely work out?</a><br> <br> Listen:<br> Recommended:<br> <br> <a href="https://edsnapshots.com/plan-year-planning-kit/ref/2/"></a><br> <br> Clever Curriculum Connection: Latin<br> Being consistent with Latin over the years has been a struggle – one I have not always won. My oldest began Latin for Children Primer A when he was 8 – four years ago – and he’s now 3/4 of the way through Latin for Children Primer B.<br> I’m sure glad Dr. Perrin’s favorite motto is festina lente.<br> In my years of Latin inconsistency, we’ve had to continue to go backward before moving forward, reviewing vocab again, reviewing grammar again, because you can’t build on a foundation that isn’t there. In the end, I think this will actually help their forward progress in Latin, because we ended up not moving forward until concepts clicked rather than getting into a groove and simply moving on when they could give the right answer without understanding. Just as students should be drilled in their math facts until they are second nature – and this might take the entirety of their elementary education – so we keep revisiting what case means, what conjugating means, what declining means, not to mention how to do so.<br> This year consistency is possible for us, and I spent the first two terms of school focusing on getting our Latin consistent and solid and prioritized. I went through many iterations of weekly Latin assignments before I found one that flowed and worked for us.<br> I’m not sure this will work for you, but I offer it as a starting place. It’s much more feasible and realistic for a homeschool setting than the schedule offered in the book, I believe. It makes about half the Latin work independent work, which frees me up. This is the routine I use for both my boys, so it works with Latin for Children Primer A and Primer B.<br> Our Weekly Latin Assignments<br> <br> * Daily: We listen to one Latin chant track from both Primer A & B most Morning Times for chant & vocab review<br> * Day 1: Watch a Latin lesson from the DVD, complete the Latin worksheet for that lesson<br> * Day 2: Practice reading & oral translation with mom, complete the lesson’s derivatives worksheet in the workbook<br> * Day 3: Fill out a conjugation practice worksheet (homemade), copy the lesson’s vocab into a Latin copywork spiral notebook.<br> * Day 4: Complete the lesson’s quiz in the workbook, write 2 original Latin sentences that contain at least one word from this lesson’s vocab (Mom has to conjugate & translate them)<br> * Day 5: Latin translation page (homemade, with sentences from the chapter)<br> <br> [thrive_2step id=’16067′][/thrive_2step]<br> <br> Spread the word!<br> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/simply-convivial-audio-blog/id1150854418">Leaving a review on iTunes</a> will help other homeschooling moms discover this podcast!<br> <br> <br>
