Since reading Tristan’s list earlier on the other thread, it has got me interested in 9-11 yr old’s daily schedule. Can you please post them? I really appreciate it! Sometimes I think we are doing a lot sometimes not enough!!
Here is my DS 11 schedule for the new year. It changes based on completing a resource or if one needs changed, Friday’s are also different. We are always done before 12 each day. You really shouldn’t compare what anyone else is doing because we each plan our days based on our own life and our children’s abilities. However, it can be fun to see what others have chosen to use for their families. I’d enjoy seeing yours!
M-Th
Geography – Trail Guide to World Geography Math – Teaching Textbook Vocabulary – World of the Week Grammar – Easy Grammar History – SCM’s Joshua – Malachi & Ancient Greece Spelling – All About Spelling Science – Apologia General Science Literature – Tales of Troy and Greece / The Arabian Nights (alt. days) Literature Read Aloud- Little House on the Prairie series Literature Independent – Alt. between 2 books Literature Nightly – Tarzan of the Apes
Friday
Geography – Trail Guide to World Geography Math – Teaching Textbook / Drill Vocabulary – World of the Week Typing History – SCM’s Joshua – Malachi & Ancient Greece Music – Composer study Poetry – Favorite Poems Old & New Literature – Tales of Troy and Greece / The Arabian Nights (alt. days) Shakespeare Art – Picture Study Literature Independent – Alt. between 2 books Literature Nightly – Tarzan of the Apes
History (geography is a part of this, she also gets writing assignments from this – notebooking/written narration)
Scripture memory
Scripture study
Family Read Aloud
Hymn study
Individual she has:
Scripture study
Music/Piano lessons
Science
Analytical Grammar
Literature of her own, she’s between books assigned by me, next one begins when she finishes up this science unit on genetics.
Vocab comes from science/history/literature.
Spelling comes from her written narrations when we see a consistent issue.
Math
We tend to do science/nature study in units with breaks between. Right now she is doing science and taking a ‘literature unit’ break. She still is reading about 4 books on her own outside of history, but not an official study of a title for literature. (For this year she is trying the Progeny Press Literature guides, which take 8-10 weeks each). She does handicrafts on her own or with her sister.
I love hearing what others are doing for their ages!!! It is such an individual thing!
-Korean (Rosetta Stone and other language activities)
-History reading (additional, on his own; sometimes on audio)
-Math 30 min/day (Teaching Textbooks)
-Literature Reading (he is in a book club so he always has a lit book going)
-Adding to his timeline weekly
-One dictation passage each week
-Three written narrations each week on his blog
-Practice Guitar
-Religious Education (an online couse)
In addition, once every two weeks we are involved in a memory co-op similar to Classical Conversations. We practice all of that memory work along with our day-to-day school work.
Currently reading the sugar creek gang series (1 ch. a day)
Music practice daily
Grammar 3x week
Written narration 2 days a week
SW with dictationon fridays, usually
I have science scheduled 4 days, may get in 3 with nature study on Friday on a good week. I would like him to read more living books like he used to, but we’ll see.
History reader almost daily, not quite necessary with this module but he likes history activities & history pockets.
Family studies pretty much as the free guide suggests.
He also participates in several community/homeschool classes, and study island almost daily.
morning basket (Everyday Graces, Child’s Book of Character Building, Book 1, Missionary Stories with the Millers, Window on the World, devotionals, hymn cds, prayer sticks), daily
poetry, Shakespeare, nature study, music study, picture study (SCM, AO) 1x each/week
SCM Genesis – Deuteronomy & Ancient Egypt, daily
God’s Design for Science Animals (18 weeks), 2x/week
Jane Fielding Animal Autobiographies, 1x/week
Burgess Animal Book, 1x/week
God’s Design for Science Plants (18 weeks) (same schedule as Animals after Animals complete)
Plant Life in Field and Garden
Beautiful Feet Character through Literature Intermediate, daily
Keepers of the Home, 1x/week
Her day is approximately 3 hours long … sometimes an extra half hour or so if the littles are extra needy. 🙂
Copywork – (generally pull 3 strips from the copywork jar, then choose 1 to do.
AO Reading – he picks from the weekly list… (mostly reading along with an audiobook – a few done with me)
Foreign Language – German 2 days, ASL 2 days
AO Reading – again pick from the list
Math – RS Level C (done with me and his sister)
Free Reading
There used to be violin practice (teacher wanted about 45min, and about another 10min music reading…..) – but we aren’t doing violin anymore…. plan to add keyboard (piano) & or organ soon.
We will soon be adding All About Spelling (when it arrives)
Our time varies depending on how long his readings are. About 2.5-3.5 hours generally…. (not including music practice…)
Then we split up for individual work, and the 9-11 year olds are doing:
Spelling Wisdom 1 – Copywork & Dictation 1-2X per week
All In One English Grammar
Teaching Textbooks Math
Math Facts Drill
Writing Assignment – 2X per week
Rosetta Stone French
After lunch, we go back to Family work for:
History Reading/ Book of Centuries
Science Reading
Literature (read aloud)
Then littler kids lay down to rest and big kids read at least one chapter per day of their independent reading assignment (though usually much more).
They also work on handicrafts in the afternoon (knitting for dd and carving for ds this term). At 2:00 or 3:00 we are done with all required work for the day – without fail. But we start pretty early, 8:00- 8:30.
We are outside a lot, but need to be better about taking our notebooks out at least once a week – that’s one of our goals this year.
Fridays are reserved for composer study, picture study, and an art lesson. I plan on doing Shakespeare this year, too.
My older kids are also in a co-op science class, chess club, and piano lessons.
I think that does it! It’s helpful to see what everyone else is doing, too!
I, too, have moments when I wonder if we are doing enough and wondering if we are doing too much. It usually helps to talk to my husband at times like that, or my mother who, thankfully, is supportive and encouraging. And of course to jump on this website to get ideas! 🙂 Here is how we are currently doing things for my 10 yr old independant learner, though it is always changing:
Family Work –
A Child’s Geography 2x wk
Art/Music Study 2x wk
History 2x wk and/or independant reading from SCM guide
Occassional Nature Study
Spanish 2x wk plus vocab games
Family Read Aloud – usually 2 books going
Independant work:
Journaling 2x wk 10 min
Math 3x wk – Rightstart, plus lots of games
Science – 2x wk Apologia Flying Creatures
Written Narration 1x wk
Spelling Wisdom 2x wk
Cursive copywork 3x wk
Primary Language Lessons 3x wk
Map Drill 2x wk
Typing 4x wk
Logic workbook 2x wk
Usually 1 or 2 literature books going
Work on Cubscout Goals as needed
He is drawing and building Legos in every minute of free time 🙂