[quaz]

I'm posting a seperate thread on this one... I know there are a few TJE'ers around here, and I was wondering what you end up doing for the core phase. Just read early classics? This was one aspect I didn't like about the book... it was highly vague about what you do with younger kids.

thx
Tammy

 

[rainbowmum]

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Originally Posted by quaz I'm posting a seperate thread on this one... I know there are a few TJE'ers around here, and I was wondering what you end up doing for the core phase. Just read early classics? This was one aspect I didn't like about the book... it was highly vague about what you do with younger kids. thx Tammy

Sorry I can't answer this thread ...but what is TJE?

 

[busybeemommy]

I do a bit of TJed, but not completely (also like Charlotte Mason and TWTM).

We do this:

10 minutes each day at breakfast of Bible lessons (I read a NT story, we discuss, and then I assign a Bible verse for copy work)

15 minutes of history (we read the assigned portion of SOTW, add a timeline figure at the eye-level timeline that runs around the playroom and discuss it; or, if we are working on a supplemental book (i.e. the Aeneid for Children), we'll work through that; or, we may occasionally do a hands-on project)

10 minutes of math (we use Rod and Staff)

15 minutes of "work stations" (one kid will practice piano, one will do their reading aloud with me, one will do their daily chore, and the other will work on their memorization poem or speech)

10 minutes of story time (generally one of the classics, i.e. Robin Hood or Sword in the Stone)

10-30 minutes of Shakespeare (we do one play per term; depending on the day, we will watch the movie of it, read the Lamb version, do a vocabulary worksheet and work through the real version, or act it out)

15 minutes of art and composer study (we do 1 composer and 1 artist per term; we may play a game with the picture (like hide it and describe it from memory) while we listen to the music, or try to draw our very own version)

10-15 minutes of science (this year is anatomy, so at the beginning of the year we made large life-sized cutouts of our bodies and hung them on the wall; each time we start a new system or organ, we will glue it to the body; we use the Somebody game, anatomy books and mommy's know-how, models of the organ systems, etc. to study; at the end of the year, we will study a little first aid)

chores and playtime until lunchtime (kids have to clean their rooms if necessary, take care of their parts of the garden, feed the animals, and do whichever chore they won on the Wheel of Chores)

Lunchtime

Quiet time for an hour (naps or reading)

Afternoons are freetime, so kids can play, read, draw, etc. They also have lessons to attend, but no more than 2 lessons per child at a time (i.e. piano and ballet, or piano and karate).

 

[quaz]

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Originally Posted by rainbowmum Sorry I can't answer this thread ...but what is TJE?

tje = thomas jefferson education... theory is based on a book of a similar name... focus on classics and mentors

Tammy

 

[lilyka]

thank you

 

[Irish_Blue]

Recipe for Sucess is a good thing to read, it goes into more detail about the core and lol phases.

http://www.curriculumconnection.net/...rningnotes.htm

It's like a REALLY long article ~ but it's full of really great information. You can also get it on CD but from what I hear the actual paper article is better/has more detail.

 

[Brisen]

Yeah, the article talks more about Kidschool and such things. My 3 kids are all in Core Phase, and I do feel lost sometimes.
I see tjed as family-centred education. I'm a leader in our family; while they're young, I share what I'm doing, which means I need to be doing something. I'm using history as a backbone to my studies, on a 4-year cycle, which (very roughly) coincides with our scripture study. Once I have learned something, I can share it with my kids, if they're interested. If they want to learn something else, we can research that.

We do a lot of reading, playing, crafts. I generally try to start the day with "school time," which includes a devotional. We sing, have a prayer, and read scripture. Then we do a little lesson/talk about something from the promary programme at church (we have the manuals they use and folow along at home). We do some reading, often from whatever history book we're on, and I try to include poetry too. And the kids choose books. Then, in theory, each kid gets some "mom time," where they choose an activity for me to do with them. Then it's free time. If I have something specific in mind to do, we'll do it then. I'll get out our school boxes -- games, puzzles, etc. -- and the kids can play with their toys. I might work on French, and hope someone wants to join me. I try to practise the piano before lunch.

Afternoons are for me to study or get "stuff" done.

I agree, the book was lacking in what to do with core phasers... it seemed more directed at homeschooling scholar phasers.

 

[TopazBlueMama]

Charlotte Mason type education is really good for core phase.

 

[AngelBee]

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[Brisen]

AB, three of the four "new post" emails I got this morning were posts by you... can you guess what threads they were from?