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I'm trying to find the sample module sheets from Zoology I as directed in Unit 1, Day 1 of CTC. Can anyone direct me, please?

[My son is in tears at amount of work. His name is Nigel, if you are lead to pray. I remember my older son just feeling swamped with the independence of this book, too.]

It is on the updates page:
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Apologia changed their website so the original link is broken.

We are on our 3rd Apologia book (including their notebooking journals ), and I just gradually turned more and more over to my daughter until now, at age 10, she can do most of it, except experiments, by herself. I think it would be fine to help him at the beginning.

Awww! I will pray for him and you too. Can you go half speed for a little while..?

At our house, it's me who's just about in tears at the amount of work... . Started CTC half speed alone last week, so I was able to spend lots of time helping dd get into the swing of things. Today, we're diving in with CTC, Bigger, and LHFHG. I finally had to call it quits on the day at 2...couldn't bear to look at that perfectly laid out schedule of all those things we were still supposed to accomplish today. It's exhausting! I don't know why I thought this year was supposed to be a lighter workload for Mom (because of the independance of CTC), but I feel way stretched in way too many different directions right now. I have no idea how all of this will happen at my house this year!

Sorry, Momof2n2; didn't mean to hi-jack your post, but maybe it helps to know you're not alone? We can pray for eachother!

my server was down so I just skipped that part.

Praying for Nigel and you!

We started this week and yesterday was crazy.... until 4pm but today was better. I am doing a lot of it WITH them right now.... because I have all these years in LHFHG & BHFHG. So going to slowing go into letting them do the stuff for them on their own.

HUGS

I would go half speed for a while until he gets used to the expectations. Other things you could do at first is if the amount of reading is overwhelming then you could read a page and then have him read a page and slowly work up to him reading all of it. A long time ago Carrie told me to remember that these skills are things we are working towards. If he could do them all as written, independently on the first day then there wouldn't be anything to work towards. Maybe if you have a goal in mind that by Christmas he would be Independent with the I boxes that might help. It really does get better as they know what to expect from each box, since things follow a pattern throughout the year.

I just want to encourage you to hang in there! We struggled the first weeks of CTC as well. It was the hardest guide for us so far adjusting into the workload. I think the amount of independent work is a big step up for the dc and then for us moms directing that work and checking it can seem overwhelming at first. It really took us a while to find our groove with CTC, but we did eventually. Hang in there! You'll get there too!

Thank you all - and thank YOU for the link!

When my oldest did CTC it was a huge jump in workload and independence and we both noticed it. However, it's not his thing to cry about school. Pout, maybe. Cry. Nope.

I can't imagine doing half-speed, though. To me that just means dragging the school year out longer. :S He has done much better these next two days, though.

We are skipping the vosKamp and Beechick section because of other ways we study geography and Bible as a family, so he's had almost ZERO mom-instruction this week. We will add in Rod and Staff after Labor Day. We do that daily though not along with the guide (as we use the CTC for grade 6 and hence use Rod & Staff's 6th grade book.)

I'm AMAZINGLY impressed with those of you who have YOUNGER kids doing CTC. YAY for you and your kiddos!

This year my family NEEDS for me to pour myself into my 7 year-old, 2nd grade daughter who has been all but pushed to the side educationally these last two years. Between being a slow reader (crazy as she is out-of-this-world bright) and me having a very difficult pregnancy and newborn situation last year, she has gotten scraps from Mommy these last two years. We just need my oldest two/three to do more independently this year so she can get what she needs. Oh - and I have no idea when Mary Poppins is going to show up to help me with the 3 year old and six month old.

YES Mom23. I will pray for you, too! It is HARD HARD HARD to homeschool. I would never give it up and I think the HOD approach is excellent. But man - it is work!

I noticed you talked about using Rod and Staff 6 because your ds is in 6th grade. Since you have used HOD before you probably know this, but just wanted to make sure you know that Carrie expects the dc to get through Rod and Staff 8 by the end of high school. It is a very rigorous program. That is why Rod and Staff 5 is scheduled over CTC and RTR and then Rod and Staff 6 over Rev to Rev and MTMM. If you do all of 6 this year you will be way ahead of the schedule.

Thanks, Lynn. I do realize this. But my kids have always had great command of the language piece and we just seem to move very comfortably through the books one year at a time. I do plan to slow down if/when they start to become challenged by it. It is rigorous! But I'VE learned more in the last few years than I did in MY education!!!
If it continues at this pace, DH and I will pray about having them do some English classes at the local community college in their homeschool-to-college program in grades 11 or 12. But - I will leave that for the future. I am SO trying to only look at this one day at a time right now!!!!!