Soror Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I'm making my schedule for next year and thought I would take a survey here to see how we are doing. I think we might be running a bit long in some areas and a bit short in others. My son will be a young 5th grader or older 4th grader, we don't have to declare but I consider him somewhere in the middle. So- how long do you spend on these subjects daily or weekly if you have a 4th or 5th grader? I know often people answer that they spend about an hour per grade level but I'm more curious to see how that time breaks down. Writing (including research related to writing, organization and editing) Spelling Grammar Literature Language (Modern or Ancient) Math Science History Extras- Art, Music, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyP Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 My dd is in the same spot this year - young 5th or old 4th, by my state cut-off she is 4th. She is a motivated worker and a crazy fast reader. Writing (including research related to writing, organization and editing): 30-45 min Spelling: we have dropped this Grammar: 15 min Literature: 20-30 min (only counting assigned) Language (Modern or Ancient): 20 min Latin, 20 min Spanish(sporadically - this is just for fun) Math: 60 min Science: 30 min History: 20 min Extras- Art, Music, etc.: piano practice 30 min, everything else is done on her own time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 (edited) . Edited September 5, 2023 by SilverMoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 4th grade: Writing (including research related to writing, organization and editing) 30 min Spelling- we don't do spelling Grammar- 20 min Literature- 1 hour Language (Modern or Ancient) -45 min Math - 45 min to 1 hour Science - we don't do formal science History - 1 hour spread over two days Extras- Art, Music, etc.: Geography, poetry: 15 min each, 1 day a week Typing daily - 10 min. Piano daily: 15 min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julie4 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Writing (including research related to writing, organization and editing) -60 minutes daily Spelling- 15 minutes (3-4x week) Grammar- 15 minutes (4x week) Literature- reading time is 2 hours daily and this includes literature, poetry, history and science but not all in the same day. Language (Modern or Ancient) latin 30 min. daily Math-60 min. daily Science- see above History-see above Art- 30 min. 3x week Music- 30 min. daily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdybird Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 DS1 is 10. He has his issues and works at a slower pace in areas like reading and writing. Here is my very tentative plan for next year (grade 5 for us). Writing -- Copywork, Penmanship, Paragraphs, Journals -- 30-40 min per day Spelling -- 20 min per day, 3-4x week Grammar -- starting next year, planning 30 min, 3x week Literature -- 60 min per day, every day, maybe more if you include bedtime and audiobooks Language (Modern or Ancient) -- Spanish, no set amount of time as we use a very informal curriculum Math -- 60 min per day, every day. He will do more if I let him. Science -- 40-60 min per day, 4x week. History -- Included in with Literature, no set amount of time. We read from SOTW 3x week and that's about it for history. Extras - Art, Music, etc. -- He spends a lot of time practicing his guitar and playing the keyboard. Also spends a lot of time online watching and listening to music on YouTube. Formal lessons 2x week, kids worship band 1x week. TKD 1x week. Goes outside for "nature time" every once in awhile. Likes to build Lego stuff, spends about 1-2 hours per day messing about with Legos, K'nex or model kits. Will occasionally write terrible "Clone Wars" fan fictions and share them with the family. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 At that age, DD12 took an hour for Literature, an hour for Math (split into two 30-minute chunks) and about 15 minutes for each of her other subjects. She spent about an hour a day on music practice and about 2 hours in physical activity (skiing, softball, walking the dogs). By comparison, this year for 7th grade, she has doubled the music practice time and spends about 30 minutes each day on history and science. Lit and Math are still about an hour each a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deerforest Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 I don't schedule anything daily at all. I know what I want to accomplish roughly by a particular point, and some days we might do nothing but a single subject because we get caught up in it. DD also gets bored doing the same thing so I am usually juggling multiple curricula per subject. I really look at things more broadly in the sense of knowing I want to hit certain topics in each subject so I pull in all my different resources and flip amongst them. It is much more fluid and organic and works really well for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Mertz Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 For 5th grade: Math - an hour a day Reading - 45 min. a day Lit Discussion - 15 min a day Grammar - 15 min. 3 x a week Spelling - 15 min. 3-4 x a week Handwriting - 10 min. 3 x a week Writing - 30 min a day Latin - 20-30 min every other day Spanish - 20-30 min. every other day History - 30 min. every other day Science - 30 min. every other day Geography - 20 min once a week Logic - 15 min. twice a week Art - 30 min a week Music Theory - 15 min twice a week Drum practice - 30 min a day Drum lesson - 30 min a week Voice practice - 20 min a day Voice lesson - 30 min a week Morning Basket - 30 min. a day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 :bigear: rising 4th grader here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abba12 Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 With that subject load this would be our WEEKLY time allotment (don't work in daily schedules here, so a child might spend 3 hours on writing, and 2 hours on math one day, while another child might do an hour each of math, science, history, foreign language and language arts) Writing - 4 h (all writing included, eg history reports, science 'papers', lit reviews and general creative/LA) Spelling - 45 min - 1 h Grammar - 45 min - 1 h Literature - 2 h (if you are only including LA lit. I am placing history and science reading into history and science) Foreign Language - 4 h Math - 5 h Science - 3 h History - 3 h Extras - 6 h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivey Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 My 5th grader averages around: Writing - 45 minutes/day Vocab - 20 minutes, 2-3x/week Grammar - 10 minutes, 2-3x/week (we're just reviewing, we spent 20-30 minutes/day in the fall) Literature - 1 hour/day French - 20 minutes/day Math - 1 hour/day Science - 30 minutes/day History - 30 minutes/day Piano practice - 30 minutes/day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeAndTheBoys Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I'm making my schedule for next year and thought I would take a survey here to see how we are doing. I think we might be running a bit long in some areas and a bit short in others. My son will be a young 5th grader or older 4th grader, we don't have to declare but I consider him somewhere in the middle. So- how long do you spend on these subjects daily or weekly if you have a 4th or 5th grader? I know often people answer that they spend about an hour per grade level but I'm more curious to see how that time breaks down. Writing (including research related to writing, organization and editing) Spelling Grammar Literature Language (Modern or Ancient) Math Science History Extras- Art, Music, etc. I have a 4th and 5th grader this year--so I'll attack this :) Some of this is hard to break down--our LA program integrates creative writing, grammar, spelling and penmanship. And literature--I'll try to think of individual reading as well as our read-alouds in MFW and our reading curriculum---- Writing--mostly just included in other subjects; specific assignment, 2 hours/month Spelling--10 min/day Grammar--20 min/day Lit and Reading--45 min/day Language (Spanish)--10 min, 3 or 4 days/week Math--30 min/day Science--20-30 min most days, at least 3 per week History & Bible--30-45 min/day Extras--Art, 15 min 2xweek; music apprec, 10 min 2xweek Betsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted April 20, 2014 Author Share Posted April 20, 2014 I'm loving reading about everybody's schedules- my tentative plans are: Math- 60 min- Fact/Fluency Practice- 15 min daily (this has been our current schedule but I'm considering cutting back to 45/15) Latin- 15 min (just starting this year) daily Writing 30-45 min daily Spelling: 15 daily Grammar: 5 min daily (practice)- 15 min 2x a week, until we finish Paragraph Town and then it will be Poetry Vocab (CEI): 15 m- 2x a week History/Lit/Science (read aloud) 1.5 hrs- 2 days a week- 1 hr- 2 days a week- still trying to decide how to divide this up- ds does at least 60 min reading per day on his own Geo- Art- 30 min - 1 x a week each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Governess Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Mine are by week for a fourth grader: Writing (including research related to writing, organization and editing) - 2 hours Spelling none Grammar - 2 hours Literature - 2 hours plus another 2 of read-alouds Language (Modern or Ancient) 7 hours (2 languages) Math - 5 hours Science - 3 hours History - 2 hours Extras- Art, Music, etc. - piano - 1 hour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicia64 Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Mine are heading into 6th and I wished I'd made more of an effort to do "experience" learning through field trips. I was so workbook orinted. I still am, but I'm pushing more on field trips and in-person classes now than I used to. Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I didn't really think to include field trips and such. We take about 3 a month. Lately we've been hitting the outdoorsy nature stuff before summer heat traps us indoors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted April 20, 2014 Author Share Posted April 20, 2014 We do a fair amount of field trips as well, although not always big ones. Most of our time is reading together and discussing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinivanMom Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 For my 4th grade girl: Writing (including research related to writing, organization and editing) - 30 min daily Spelling - 0 min required, but she spent much of the fall prepping for the spelling bee which ranged from 15 - 30 min per day (usually in the evening) Grammar - 15- 20 min daily Literature - 30 min formally with me daily & 1-4 hrs of additional free reading daily Language (Modern or Ancient) - 20-30 min daily (French) Math - 1 hr daily Science - 20-30 min 2x per week History - 30 min 2x per week Extras- 30 min of Art 1x per week & she studies 2 instruments which means 2 private lessons each week and about 2 hrs of practicing each day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovinmomma Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 :lurk5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeachyDoodle Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 My 5th grader is doing: Galore Park English Galore Park Science Maths Geography Reading SOTW 3 Australian History - spine plus field trips Drama Swimming/soccer Readalouds and this term we're adding in graphic design using Chip Kidd's Go. It's been working out well. Sadie, would you mind sharing more about what you're doing with Go? I have a graphic design background myself and I think my dd would enjoy this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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