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Modifying OFE3

By Dawn on September 14, 2009 Comments { 0 }

I have written that I was going to modify our Old Fashioned Education, Level 3 schedule to fit our trimesters. I have it written out in a notebook for me, but I just got done typing it up- mostly for you Before you take a look, let me explain just a tad.

Miss Maggie has a very nice lesson plan set up which you can download from her site. I have that, but I wanted to be able to spend a whole trimester studying Egypt and Old Testament History. She has some titles which have SOME Egyptian history in them, but the majority of them were about Greece and Rome. I also added in a couple of neat books that I purchased from Simply Charlotte Mason, which are from a Christian worldview AND are about Egypt.

Another large majority contain wayyy more mythology than I am comfortable teaching to my boys. I want them to have a good solid Bible foundation before they have to study gods (little “g”). Taught in the context of history, well then that’s okay in moderation. So, long story short, we ditched most of the myth based books. Some of the books are very comprehensive in nature and cover all three civilizations. These we will read continuously, although I did break them down to show in the trimester schedule. We will also read the entire Bible by the end of the school year, going through Story of the Bible, one Chapter per day.

And yes, there are a few months missing. We do not have school in December, April, or August. Also, we have co-op all day on Thursdays through the end of March, so what you are seeing planned out is our work for four days per week. Thursdays are computer school in the mornings (Sens-Lang Typing, Quarter Mile Math, and Spelling City) and Co-op from 10:00 on. Without further adieu, here is our modified OFE3 plan.
ANCIENT HISTORY OFE3 SCHEDULE

You need a PDF Reader to view the schedule. You can download the FREE, small, amazingly fast-loading Foxit Reader and be up and running in no time. It blows Adobe Acrobat Reader out of the water in downloading and document loading times.

I hope the schedule makes sense, and that this helps someone see how things can be changed. Remember that no matter what, it is YOUR SCHOOL. Curriculum works for you; you should never have to be a slave to your curriculum. It is strictly a tool, and there are many ways to manipulate a tool to make it do what YOU want it to. I included our science curriculum and notebooking pages which aren’t on OFE’s list but are very integral to our schooling. Again, you make things work the way YOU want them to.

Happy Homeschooling!

categories: Homeschooling

Tags: An Old Fashioned Education, modifying curriculum, OFE

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Momma’s OFE Curriculum Giveaway!

By Dawn on August 31, 2009 Comments are closed

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I’ve waited. I’ve Tweeted hints. You’ve waited. Now’s the time! And do I have a bundle for you!
All titles are from An Old Fashioned Education, and per Miss Maggie’s request, this package is entirely free!
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OFE-K The Burgess Bird Book by Thornton Burgess
OFE-1 Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston, The 7 Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air by Jane Andrews, Word Mastery by Florence Akin
OFE-2 40 Missionary Stories by Margaret Eggleston, Among the Farm-Yard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson
PLUS a beginning printing book, in plastic sheet protectors so it can be reused with multiple children

So how do you win? You must fit 2 qualifications:

1. You must be USING An Old Fashioned Education. It must be your chosen, decided-upon curriculum. These books aren’t just so you can check it out. If you want to do that, you can download all of these books yourself from GoogleBooks.

2.You must NEED all of these books! This means you have at the minimum, a second grader and have youngers coming up shortly behind him or her. Even better would be if you’re teaching all three grades currently!

So there you have it. Leave me a comment, and I will contact you via email. U.S. Shipping only. And please, if you haven’t truly decided on OFE, leave these books for someone else. I would hate to see them end up in the trash or a thrift store shelf. THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON FRIDAY MORNING!

NOTE: We used this set of books last year, with my then first and third graders. It worked very well for the two of them, and we are using OFE3 this year together for both boys.

categories: Homeschooling

Tags: An Old Fashioned Education, free curriculum, Not Back to School Blog Hop, OFE

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Giveaways for Curriculum Week!

By Dawn on August 24, 2009 Comments { 1 }

NBTSaug091 Next week is the fifth and final Not Back To School Blog Hop, and I have a giveaway! I will announce it that morning, along with the things that I have for sale, so stay tuned! If you use An Old Fashioned Education, and you have younger elementary children, this will be of particular interest to YOU.

categories: Homeschooling

Tags: freebies, Not Back to School Blog Hop, OFE

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Gearing up: OFE3

By Dawn on August 12, 2009 Comments { 0 }

You know that a homeschool Mom is preparing to start school again when she stays up until 12:30am going through her book lists! That is exactly what I did last night. P (17) was babysitting, so I was actually waiting up for her, but my OFE3 book list is what occupied my time. We are covering ancient world history this upcoming year, and I noticed there are a LOT of mythologies listed. I want to cover the OT Jews and Egypt, which I notice there ISN’T much coverage of in the list. I switched out a couple of myth-based titles for a couple of titles that intrigued me on Simply Charlotte Mason’s website. There are enough seemingly myth-based stories within the Greek and Roman histories that I didn’t feel we needed more. We are going to read Boy of the Pyramids by Ruth Fosdick Jones, and Letters from Egypt by Mary L. Whately. Both promise to give a good picture of the lifestyle of the Egyptians, and Letters is from a Biblical worldview with applicable Scriptures interwoven too. Boy of the Pyramids is a mystery, so that should be rather fun! I purchased them both as ebook downloads, since I am already printing a dozen books… what are two more? They are available in print editions, also.

Between the Literature, History, Biographies, Social Studies and Nature reading lists, there are 16 titles. That seems like a lot, to me? And that’s not including additional Twins Stories, which are based on different countries, and we are doing some country studies too. I know most of the books are to be read just one chapter per week, so that makes it much more user friendly! I am excited to read these books, because I have skimmed through most of them and I think my boys will really like them. I rather pity the moms of girls using this particular year of An Old Fashioned Education, because it does seem to be geared more toward boy’s interests than girls.

And on a totally different note, we awoke to pouring down rain this morning, so I’m thinking that the boy’s Royal Rangers Beach Party is probably not happening this evening. I’m just happy for the rain. We have had WEEKS of over 90. UGH!