to much pressure this year

That looks like plenty to me.  My 8 year old’s schedule includes Math U See, Learning Language Arts Through Literature, hymn study and Scripture memory and practicing reading out loud every day. That’s it.

We do Picture Study, literature, geography and copy work once a week. Bible/history are 4 times a  week and habit study is twice.  We read Apologia science when we feel like it. 🙂

And I see my kids learning so much with the lighter approach. It’s so much less stressful for me.

Hello, My soon to be 14 yo son still loves Legoes, Playdough, flour on a cutting board and he’s encouraged to play quietly while I do the different reading like lit, and bible commentary and history reading. One thing I do during breakfast and it takes about 5 minutes is they recite their current poem that we’re working on, our latin prayers and new words for the week, Bible devotion and working on 5 Bible scripture verses from the website. I can’t believe how great they(6 yo son, 9 yo dau., and 13 yo son)are doing.

We are reading aloud, a bio. on George w. carver and 8 cousins. Also at bed just finished 5 little peppers and how they grew, fabulous. Also, sometimes I PLAY IT AFTER LUNCH AND LET THE KIDS PLAY AND LISTEN, especially if it’s rainy. I do less organized and more whole group things. Also, after you’ve read the little house book try it on audio, maybe in the car. we love the narrator for all the little house books. library was upgrading to cd and she gave us two whole little house books on cassette.

the course load for the 13 yo son, apologia science and he is incharge of reading the two little their science living books to them, math finishing Singapore 6b, moving soon into teaching textbooks algebra, copywork from spelling wisdom ( will take us probably 3 years because he has many times recopied selections), character training( virtues), history Bible(whole family) nature journals 1 time per week, along with hymn, composer and art study. Spontaneous narrations 2-6 per week, written and oral.

9yo daughter does Singapore 2a math, time, money, oral and skip counting with 6 yo son and me, oral narrations, copywrk and cursive in personal letter writing and poetry, and scripture, science abeka read aloud and mcgaffey 3rd grade reader, Rest she does with brother or family.

6yo son, he plays mostly, just started on large lined writing paper copywork of name and abc’s letter formation. more math after sisiters time and family time too.

I have spent the last three years tweaking scm methods to include most things done as a family.

also, I plan to spend a lot of time outdoors when weather is nice and when we have to be inside the kids play and I read. we get a lot accomplished and my favorite parts are the read alouds. Legos are a whole family involvement and they even made their own boxes to keep sorted parts in that they swap out if they need a part they don’t have. one is a fishing tackle see through compartmented box and one is the plastic box from the pre-cut up fruit from the grocery store. They could spend 8 hours a day playing and I encourage it and they have become fabulous listeners and narrators because of it.

Feel out all these ideas and make your homeschool your own!

Don’t sweat it. Martha