Story of Canada by Brown Schedule

I was asked to share my schedule for using Story of Canada by George Brown with Ambleside Online.

This schedule was figured out by matching the span of years covered by the world history for each year, but adjusting if necessary to complete a chapter.  

I then looked at the dates covered in each chapter of the world history book, compared to the dates covered in each chapter of Story of Canada, and used that to determine which chapters to read each term, and then spread the sections out over the term fairly evenly, while still trying to match the dates fairly well.  Naturally the dates do not always match exactly, but it provides a fairly close match over-all

Year 2 
(Weeks 1-24 We read a book about Canadian Natives.  The one I use is probably out of print.)
Week 25 - 1 - The White Man Comes to Canada (1st section Only)
Week 29 - 1-2
Week 30 - 1-3
Week 31 - 1-4
Week 32 - 1-5
Week 33 - 2 - The First Canadians (1st section only)
Week 34 - 2-2
Week 35 - 2-3
Week 36 - 2-4

Year 3 
Week 2 - 3 - Coming of the French (1st section only)
Week 3 - 3-2
Week 4 - 3-3
Week 5 - 3-4
Week 6 - 3-5
Week 8 - 4 - For the Glory of God (1st section only)
Week 9 - 4-2
Week 10 - 4-3
Week 11 - 4-4
Week 12 - 4-5
Week 16 - 5 - The French in Acadia (1st section only)
Week 17 - 5-2
Week 18 - 5-3
Week 20 - 6 - Canada under the Old... (1st section only)
Week 21 - 6-2
Week 22 - 6-3
Week 23 - 6-4
Week 24 - 6-5
Week 25 - 7 - The Coming of the Adventurers (1st section only) , 7-2
Week 26 - 7-3
Week 27 - 7-4
Week 28 - 8 - The Fighting Governor (1st section only)
Week 29 - 8-2
Week 31 - 9 - To the Heart of the Continent (1st section only)
Week 32 - 9-2
Week 33 - 9-3
Week 34 - 9-4
Week 35 - 9-5

Year 4 (Note - I spread George Washington's World over the whole year)
Week 3 - 10 - British in North America (1st section only)
Week 4 - 10-2
Week 5 - 10-3
Week 6 - 10-4
Week 8 - 11 - Seven Year's War (1st section only)
Week 9 - 11-2
Week 10 - 11-3
Week 15 - 12 - After the British Victory (1st section only)
Week 16 - 12-2
Week 17 - 12-3
Week 21 - 13 - The American Revolution (1st section only)
Week 23 - 13-2
Week 24 - 13-3
Week 25 - 14 - His Majesty's Loyal Subjects (1st section only)
Week 26 - 14-2
Week 27 - 14-3
Week 28 - 14-4
Week 30 - 15 - Furs of Empire (1st section only)
Week 31 - 15-2
Week 33 - 16 - To the West Coast (1st section only)
Week 34 - 16-2
Week 35 - 16-3

Year 5 
Week 1 - 17 - The War of 1812-1814 (1st section only)
Week 2 - 17-2
Week 3 - 17-3
Week 4 - 17-4
Week 5 - 18 - The Red River Colony (1st section only) , 18-2
Week 6 - 18-3
Week 7 - 19 - Settlers from Overseas (1st section only), 19-2
Week 8 - 19-3
Week 9 - 20 - Ruling our Law-Maker (1st section only), 20-2
Week 10 - 20-3
Week 11 - 20-4
Week 12 - 20-5
Week 13 - 21 - Government by the People (1st section only)
Week 14 - 21-2
Week 15 - 21-3
Week 16 - 21-4
Week 17 - 22 - Story of British Columbia (1st section only)
Week 18 - 22-2
Week 19 - 23 - Life Across the Colonies (1st section only), 23-2
Week 20 - 23-3
Week 21 - 23-4
Week 22 - 24 - Building a Dominion (1st section only), 24-2
Week 23 - 24-3
Week 24 - 24-4
Week 25 - 25 - Dominion Sea to Sea (1st section only)
Week 26 - 25-2
Week 27 - 26 - Scarlet and Gold (1st section only)
Week 28 - 26-2
Week 29 - 26-3
Week 30 - 26-4
Week 31 - 27 - The Growth of the West (1st section only)
Week 32 - 27-2
Week 33 - 27-3
Week 34 - 28 - Growing up (1st section only), 28-2
Week 35 - 28-3
Week 36 - 28-4

In Year 6, I use Story of Canada by Janet Lunn for Modern History

Scheduling 2016-2017

So another year is starting, and scheduling has been a big concern this year because... I will have 4 children in 4 different years of Ambleside Online.   This has taken some thought - especially as I will NOT be using Homeschool Planet like I did last year.   Don't get me wrong, I liked homeschool planet a lot.  But sometimes I had to tweak it a bit to make it do what I want, the reports were a bit disappointing, and, most of all, with the Canadian Dollar being so low, it is just plain too expensive for us this year.

Enter in - the paper plan!   

As Piney-Woods Homeschool uses a similar concept in scheduling AO - that is (basically) to schedule a number of AO readings a day instead of specifying the books - I was delighted when that blog had recent posts on scheduling some of the AO years in which she has students.   I followed the same ideas, of course specialized for our family and our Canadian content.  This created a daily/weekly checklist for each of my students.  This goes into a page protector so we can mark things off for the day or week with a dry erase marker.

Year 3 schedule.   Books not scheduled for the week get crossed out

Then I turned my attention to what to do about me.   I will have 4 students, and they need my help more than I would prefer....  I also have limited time.  I have decided to do what I can using a Loop schedule.  Actually, there will be 2.

First will be a math loop.  I will loop through each child.  I am trying this year to have Delta do 2 different levels of RightStart at the same time.  I got the idea from someone else, and will see how it works.  He is over 1/2 way through Level E.  Level G focuses on Geometry, and is written to the student - so (in theory) will be independent.  This will help spare a bit of my time.    So this is a simple loop (setup for 2 days)

Then there will be a loop for everything else done with me - generally rotating through students.   So, for instance, spelling for each student, an AO reading with each student, etc.   Ideally we would get through it all each day... but yes, that isn't going to happen.  This will also get put into a page protector, and I will cross them out as we move through the list.

My loop schedules

We will see how it goes... hopefully well!

Has it really been a year?

Leap Up / Investiture Night.  I now have 2 scouts, a cub and a beaver!

Wow, I can't believe it, but it has been a year since I posted last.  Things have just really been hectic this last year with 4 kids doing school, and honestly I also tend to feel like I have less to say.

I do want to mention that I didn't use Lesson Trek at all the last year... the in ability to push things we didn't do would have been too big of an issue.  I ended up using homeschool planet.  It had the features I liked about Lesson Trek, with the features Lesson Trek was missing.  At some point I'll post some pointers because it took me quite the time to decide how I liked to use it with AO the best.

I am going to try to post a bit more on here very soon.  I'm not sure if I have any readers left or not....