What subjects do your children narrate? How often?

[KIN]

I'm thinking and wondering what others do!

[Dayle in Guatemala]

We narrate:

History every day
Science every day
our read aloud (more of a discussion) every day

***We do these every day because we do these subjects every day.

We have other things we may or may not narrate depending on what we are studying and reading.

[Marsha]

or do it orally?

[Dayle in Guatemala]

sometimes we write them depending on the lesson--usually History is written on their History Scribe page they are working on.

Usually we do them orally when they're younger (my ds is 9 and I don't require a lot of written narration from him just history) but, as they grow in their skills, they do write them out!

[Mom2legomaniacs]

Mine are in 1st and 4th.

4th grader: I have him write out at least one history narration a week. Sometimes two, depending on the time frame and mood around here. I try to have him do a short one once every lesson with science (ends up being about one every week to 2 weeks depending).
Both of these will be increasing in quantity next year as we move into working more and more on writing.


1st grader: I just have conversations with him about what we have read in history and science I don't bother with writing anything down. We just discuss. Occasionally, with science, I will have him draw a picture of something we have studied and write a fact at the bottom.

[OneRoomHomeSchool]

Science - twice weekly
Literature - twice weekly

(we are not doing history until this fall - I just added 3 kids suddenly to my homeschool, so history will wait until fall as a 'family' study so that we can get everyone caught up on basics :) )

[asher]

Once a week he will do an illustration and narrate for Science (I write it down), and occasionally for FLL.

[WTMindy]

My kids do one written history narration (meaning a few paragraphs about what we learned) per week. (Although this year we are doing writing a little different).

They do science lapbooks twice a week, which is less writing, but I would consider it narration.

They are always telling me every stinking detail about the books they are reading. I count this as narration, also.

[Plaid Dad]

History, Religion (Bible stories), and Literature. For first grade, I required oral narrations only a few times a quarter, or if I got the sense that dd was struggling with understanding the story - or was spacing out. ;)

[Jenny in Atl]

Lit, science,& history.

[Paula in PA]

This year, dd does a written narration for each section of each chapter of SOTW and any story narrations from FLL2. All literature narrations are really just oral discussion at this point. Next year, for 3rd, I will be adding written narrations for science and maybe some for literature.

[PariSarah]

Ds must do a minimum of one "composition" a day (we school six days a week), and that can be a narration or a letter to a relative or friend.

He must do one history and one science narration a week. Other than that, he's got a choice on the rest of the narrations for the week. It can be more history or science, a book report, or a topic report (pulling from two or more sources); or he can write a thank-you note or a friendly letter.

Narrations have to be at least eight sentences. Letters have to follow a certain format and fill at least the front and half the back of a "picture" page (top front half blank for a drawing).

He also does brief oral narrations of assigned reading, which isn't much. No narrations required for "free reading" time.