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I would love to see examples of how you all alternate the subjects throughout the day. For example: math, then a reading, then a hands on lesson, then history, etc…
We don’t do things in the same order every day, but an average day might look like this…
Hymn
Poetry
History
Copywork verse
Scriptures
Math
(on Mondays when we do Picture Study, it might happen here)
Literature
Piano
(Here is where we do once-a-week subjects like composer study, art, handicrafts, etc.)
My son is learning cursive right now so in addition to copywork, he has cursive worksheets. He might do that here after he’s bounced around between other subjects, but never back-to-back with copywork because it’s too much to do all in one sitting. His handwriting starts getting sloppy.Here is my schedule for next year – my kids are 11 & 12
Daily Subjects as a family- History, Religion, music, Literature, Science
(about 2 hours)
Daily Subjects as individuals – Chores (life skills), PE, Math, typing, spelling, technology(coding, website building, spreadsheets), assigned history reader & fun personal reader. – These are done on their own. (about 2 hours, but they have been known to stretch them out.)
Monday family- Grammar (MCT), family math (Fred), critical thinking(logical puzzles, deductive reasoning, even a game of clue, risk, chess, Catan, Battleship works), Geography (about 1 hour)
Tuesday family- Vocab(MCT), art, American Sign Language (about an hour)
Wednesday family- Family math (fred), Poetry(MCT), Economics(Uncle Henry Books) (about 45 minutes)
Thursday family – Art, Writing(MCT), ASL (about an hour)
Friday family – family math (fred), Writing, Health (Sex Ed) (about 30 minutes)
The kicker for my schedule though is that my husband works shift work, so when he works, we do the family daily work and when he is off, then we do the individual daily work. This allows me to be more present when my husband is around. So the daily work changes based on my husband’s schedule and so we really do about 3-4 hours of school work any given day with at least 2 days where we don’t do any, or at least not any formal work. We usually school year round and if kids want off during holidays or summer, then they know that to get those “free days” they have to double up on their individual work load. This gives them some control over their time as well and teaches that them to work first then play, or at least I am hoping it will. LOL
Hope this helps.
To help lay out the subjects, I have always made cards for each subject and color coded them depending on what part of the brain with be used and then alternated the colors.
Kayla, I like the idea of color coding. I really need to come up with a better system for my struggling 8th grader this fall. A routine is obviously recommended, but using the color coded cards would, in a way, be letting her ‘choose’ what to work on, and at the same time, giving her something more visual as far as knowing what needs to be accomplished that day. This is helpful for me. I’ve been trying to come up with a daily routine, but I think including a little variety of order of subjects would be good. Math probably always needs to be early though:)
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