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Well, I'm not sure if this is "normal" for a 4th grader, but this is what we do.

 

Morning time. 30 min - This varies - reading Narnia books, composer study, artist study, states and capitals flash cards, memorization of poems, etc....

 

Bible - 20 min

 

Language arts - (writing, reading, grammar, spelling, copywork/handwriting) Approximatley 1 1/2 hours

 

Math - about an hour including reflex math

 

Latin - 20 minutes or so

 

Lunch

 

History - 30-60 minutes

 

Science - 30-60 minutes

 

We also add typing some days. One day they have speech and debate club. They take weekly piano lessons and we aim to practice each day. Other extracurriculars as well. Hope this helps.

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Fifth grader

 

45-60 minutes for math

45-60 minutes for writing/grammar

 

15-30 minutes for science

15-30 minutes for history

15-30 minutes for japanese

 

Some days not everything gets done, but math and writing are the most important things and are my first priority. Japanese is next. Science and history get done as best we can.

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My kids are in 4th and 5th grade.

 

 

Math (daily): 45 minutes

 

Copywork (2x/week) or journal (2x/week) or vocabulary (1x/week): 15 to 20 minutes

 

Independent reading (daily): 60 minutes

 

Spelling (daily): 10 minutes

 

French (daily): 20 minutes

 

History (3x/week) or Science (2x/week): 45 minutes

 

Other language arts (free write, poetry tea, grammar) or project work: 30 to 45 minutes

 

Latin (daily): 20 minutes

 

I also have a read aloud going, usually while they're eating lunch or before bed.

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This is for DD 9, 4/5th grade

 

 

Monday - Thursday

Devotions (all children together) (10 min)

Together work just her and I (oral review for grammar, flashcards for Latin, sometimes other things...) (15 min)

CLE Math 5 (35-50 minutes)

Key to Series (right now fractions) (10min)

R & S English 3 (20 min)

R & S Spelling 5 (10 min)

GSWL (20 min)

Word Roots (20 min)

 

Lunch

 

Break

 

Vp Literature reading (30 min)

VP Sp History (30-40 min)

 

 

Friday (all in the morning)

Devotions (10 min)

CLE Math 5 (30 min)

Spelling test (15 min)

VP SP history test (20 min)

Science Detective (20 min)

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5th grader:

 

Math:   30-45 min.

English:  20 min

Reading/Literature:  20 min (assigned reading and discussion--free reading not included in "school time")

History:  30 minutes (includes read aloud; usually historical fiction)

Science:  15 minutes daily with project/experiment day adding 20 minutes, but we skip history on project days

Writing:  20 minutes

Bible:  15 minutes

Spelling: 15 minutes

Vocab/Geography/Poetry/Art Study (rotates):  20 minutes

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My 4th grader has a checklist.  On a motivated day she can finish it all by 11:30, on a 'normal' day she is done about 1:30, today, it took until 7:30pm, but we did have friends come over for our two most productive 'school hours', and DH is out of town so I felt no pressure to get done before he came home.

- 1 'multivide' (basically multiplication and division review sheet, can take 3 minutes or 30 minutes . . . .)

- 15 minutes of copy work (generally something to do with grammar, but could also be geography, Bible, Latin, etc.)

- 20 minutes writing (she generally writes a 3 paragraph paper most weeks, we use IEW)

- Math lesson

- diagram a sentence

- play math game (with me, with sibling, or on computer, this can take 15 minutes or hours)

- spelling lesson

- memory work

- I read aloud from a selection of novels, math readers, science books, geography, history etc. I generally ready for 30-45 minutes - they are generally working on something that they can do and listen at the same time, sometimes cursive, artistic math or music papers, coloring pages of some sort, geography map work, making patters with blocks, or other math manipulatives, basically anything they want to as long as they can still listen, we also stop and discuss what we are reading.

- 30 minutes of piano practice on non-lesson days

 

Once a week we also watch our Latin lesson, and then the Latin exercises are woven into the other areas daily, it is not a specific checklist item by itself.

 

We also do several activities as once a week classes: chess, science, sewing, pe, music, horse 4-H which many weeks have 'homework' that needs to be done, and while I do not consider that schoolwork, it is also completed most weeks. In the car we pretty much only listen to things I consider to be academic in nature; audio books of novels, songs for music/piano, songs for Latin, songs for memory work, songs for math, SOTW in audio, classical composers.

 

As I write this all out, I feel compelled to add that my kids also have plenty of time for doing their own thing, playing outside, reading books for pleasure, art projects and using their own imaginations.  One thing we do not have is tv or video games (just a few select math games that really are mostly math) and do not get on-line except strictly supervised doing some kind of research, so they spend almost no time on that.

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We work together for about 2-3 hours from 7-10am. Then she has independent work that takes 1-2 hours. Then she has afternoon activities after lunch. We don't have a set time for any subject.

 

I work full time from home so I switch to that around 10, and DH who also works full time drops her off at her various afternoon activities.

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For my 4th grader:

 

30 min - 1st Math session

15 min - Lang Arts

15 min - Spelling

1 hr - piano practice

30 min - 2nd Math session

20 min - Writing

20 min - French

 

1 hr break to eat lunch and play outside

 

20 min - Reading aloud literature (me reading to him)

20 min - Reading aloud history or science (on alternating days)

10 min - Writing a summary for the history/science reading & adding events to his history timeline

 

On Fridays he does only:

30 min - Math

30 min - Art

1 hr - piano practice

 

So he averages about 3 hrs of schoolwork on Mon-Thur and 1 hr on Fridays. He also reads for at least an hour each day, usually in the evening and when we're driving to activities in the afternoon.

 

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I don't consider our schedule to be great...it takes longer than I think it should and we often don't get to all of it before burning out for the day...

 

But anyway...

 

Math 45 minutes

Spelling 30 minutes (we use a fairly intensive remedial program)

snack and break

Grammar or Writing 30 minutes

Rosetta Stone Spanish 4x/week 20 minutes

lunch

What Your 5th Grader Needs to Know - reading and supplementing with library books 3x/ week 30 minutes

Piano 45 minutes 

 

so, if we start at 8:30, the earliest we can be done school is 1:45 but more realistically 2:00

 

Currently, we are doing Bible at bedtime but we may add that back into school time.  That would easily be 30 minutes.

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Fwiw I would put ds in 4th if he was enrolled in school but at home he is 4th/5th

 

His current schedule:

 

Math- 1hr

 

Spelling- 15 min

 

Writing -30-45 min (no grammar currently it is integrated into writing and we front loaded at the beginning of the year)

 

Lit, History and Science- 2hrs

I try to keep read-alouds to 2 subjects daily between Lit, Science and History and the same for his reading, so generally during a day he has 1 hr of him reading and 1 hr of me reading.

 

So, the average is about 4 hrs, not counting things like current events we watch in the am, typing, free reading he does (which is considerable), educational shows he watches (this used to be every day after lunch but now him and the girls rotate and he plays an educational app during this time instead), various extra-curriculars (TKD, Scouts, robot programming etc.). Next year his language art time will increase as will his content work and maybe just maybe we'll start in on a foreign language :)

 

Schedule- what we were doing and are going back to:

 

8am- breakfast- current events (10 min) and read-aloud (usually start reading around 8:30)

9am-Math

10am- Language Arts

11-11:30 break

11:30am- Read-Alouds (for everyone, I have the girls to read to as well, so it depends on what got hit earlier and their attention span- he can read at this time or before we start at 8)

12:30- Lunch

Educational Show or App 20ish min, He has this time to also finish any reading before 1 hr free/computer time at 2:30 (this was 3:30 but we are doing daily Tae-Kwon Do so it is shifted for now)

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My current 4th grader:

 

30 minutes -- group memory work, reading, vocab review, etc.

 

45 minutes -- literature reading

 

20-45 minutes -- history reading and mapwork -- either several pages from SOTW or a couple of pages from Usborne plus a map, and sometimes a couple of notes

 

30 minutes -- math (Singapore) -- might be 30 minutes with me if we do the whole thing orally, or it might be 5 or 10 minutes with me and then 20 minutes working on his own

 

10-20 minutes -- writing (WWE) -- depends on whether its just a dictation or if he has a passage to read first

 

10ish minutes -- General skills -- spelling, poetry, etc., depending on the day

 

10 minutes -- language -- alternates between Latin with me and Mango Italian on the computer

 

15-30 minutes -- science, not necessarily done every day, some days of reading on his own and some days of projects, which we all do together

 

10 minutes -- typing

 

20-30 minutes -- music practice

 

Art, picture study, music study, geography, Shakespeare -- we do on a separate day of the week.

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4th grade 4 day/week schedule

 

Morning work (handwriting, Xtra math, spanish, science, group read) 2 hrs

lunch

Math Mammoth 30 min

Spelling/phonics 20 min

grammar/composition. 30 min

history. 20 min

quiet reading. 20 min

 

Day 5

 

Math Mammoth. 30 min

Geography. 20 min

Greek Myths. 20 min

Recorder. 20 min

 

This is the goal anyway. Some days we get there, and some we don't. The 3 Rs are the priority.

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Letz see...

Latin 45 min to 1 hr (5 days a week)

Math 1hr (5 days a week)

Grammar and Composition(for lack of a better word to describe what we do) 2 hr (4 days a week) 

History 1hr (2 days a week)

Science 1hr (2 days a week)

Reading is daily for anywhere from 30 min to an hour. Both boys typically spend an additional hour in the evenings writing when I'm writing. 

Poetry and Tea with a read-aloud 1hr after lunch five days a week give or take.

 

Our formal school day starts between 8:30 and 9:00 in the morning and goes to 3:00 in the afternoon.

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5th grader here -

 

math (45 min - 1 hour)

content subject/reading (1 1/2 hours) - we alternate weekly between history, science, and interest-led

lunch

afternoon meeting (30 min) - Bible, read aloud, etc.

foreign languages & language arts (1 hour) - whatever work I need to go over with her

independent work & reading (1 - 1 1/2 hrs) - depending on the length of daily assignments

 

 

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5th grader:

 

Math: 30-45 min.

English: 20 min

Reading/Literature: 20 min (assigned reading and discussion--free reading not included in "school time")

History: 30 minutes (includes read aloud; usually historical fiction)

Science: 15 minutes daily with project/experiment day adding 20 minutes, but we skip history on project days

Writing: 20 minutes

Bible: 15 minutes

Spelling: 15 minutes

Vocab/Geography/Poetry/Art Study (rotates): 20 minutes

 

Our 4th grade schedule is very similar to this. :-)

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