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Tips on teaching multiple grades? - 8/4/2008 4:14:04 PM
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dozermom67
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Please post your tips and ideas for scheduling and teaching when you have children in multiple grades. Right now I have a boy going into 4th and a boy going into 2nd.
Thank you!
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RE: Tips on teaching multiple grades? - 8/4/2008 4:17:34 PM
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zoebob
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I have found that my kids don't necessarily need a lot of one on one instruction. They can generally get a concept with 5 minutes of explanation and then spend some time doing practice on it. In science they read their books on their own and then I review with them at the end of the chapter. My girls are only 1 grade apart and we do social studies together. SO, basically I get one kid going on something and then work with the other one until they can work on their own.
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RE: Tips on teaching multiple grades? - 8/11/2008 11:52:30 PM
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dramagal
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That's only 2 years apart. There are plenty of things you can also do together.
History is a good example. Reading aloud to them, discussing, doing timelines . . . they can both participate. I taught my 8th and 6th grade kids history at the same time - out of an 8th grade history book. (The 4th grader sometimes participated, sometimes had his own stuff.) When it came time to essay answers or a paper, I merely graded differently.
If you set aside a certain time for reading, it's great to have it at the same time. And if you have any curriculum that has you reading aloud to them - what better way to spend your time than cuddled on the couch reading to them? (Or, as we did one year, I read to them while they folded their laundry.)
At this age, science can also be done together. And art. And a foreign language, when you choose to do one. One year, my three kids and I all learned Italian together. (The next year, we branched off into different languages, which they've continued.)
When their schoolwork is different, I try to get one settled - he knows the math lesson and now just needs to do the problems - and then I get the other started. And then I'm available for questions and help.
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