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A candle is lit and Paul Cardall
is playing softly in the background. We've finished some reading and the girls have narrated back to me what we've read about. I've laid out their composition books, colorful paper, washi tape, markers and gel pens. So begins our copy work.
is playing softly in the background. We've finished some reading and the girls have narrated back to me what we've read about. I've laid out their composition books, colorful paper, washi tape, markers and gel pens. So begins our copy work.
Ms. Mason taught children to write via copy work. In doing so it trained the children to form correct penmanship, but over time children begin to absorb the writing styles of more accomplished authors resulting in creating more complex writings of their own.
Children should transcribe favorite passages.--A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another. This is better than to write a favourite poem, an exercise which stales on the little people before it is finished. But a book of their own, made up of their own chosen verse, should give them pleasure. ~Home Education pg. 238Copy work selections should be thought provoking, enlightening, and engaging. I do however, let my children pick selections of their own choice. This can, but doesn't always include some form of twaddle. My basic *rules* for copy work, are to copy each and every letter, be aware of proper punctuation and grammar and enjoy what you're writing. Here we see some copy work from Fancy Nancy. While some may consider this twaddle, my daughter learned a new word. "Delectable" was described for everything we ate that day, so from where I see it, Fancy Nancy for the win!
I want my girls to enjoy school. I'm a creative person my nature and so when it comes to schoolwork, I despise monotony. Staring at a piece of lined paper, using the same number two pencil, day after day for copy work irritated me! My girls weren't really saying anything about the paper or pencil annoyance, but copy work became drudgery. Writing one sentence took ages because they were always finding something to distract themselves from doing the work. Then it got to the point of crying, and when the crying starts the work stops so I stepped backed and looked at copy work from their point of view. Children are colorful people. They are drawn to color and textures, so I brought out the markers. From markers we used gel pens, from gel pens we added in colored paper, and prettiest way to keep stray paper from falling out of the composition books was washi tape!
Mommy, can we please do our copy work?
- Bible
- Catalogs
- Dictionary
- Encyclopedia
- Famous Quotes
- Field Guides
- Hymns
- Historical Documents
- Greeting Cards
- Newspapers
- Novels
- Poetry
Adding in a few basic art supplies totally transformed the way we utilize copy work in our homeschool. My girls actually look forward to it, and in the process we are creating our own little common place notebooks, we'll look fondly on when they grow older.
How about you? How does your family 'do' copy work?
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How about you? How does your family 'do' copy work?
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