[Poll: How many hours?]

This is my 12 year old's day: 1.5 hours of table time with family (history, bible, nature science/ journaling, art/ music appreciation), 1 hr of math, 1 hr (Visual Latin, Fix-It Grammar, Copywork/ poetry memorization), 1 hour afternoon lunch break, 1 hr independent reading& written narrations (30 minutes lit/ 30 biography or science), 20 minutes of Jump-In Middle School Writing.  This should all be done by 2:30 at the latest.  At least 4 days a week he has to do piano for 30 minutes (we use Hoffman Academy).  Four nights a week we read aloud for 45 min as a family from children's literary classics. 

[6th grade planning for 2022-23]

• Math- Rod and Staff 6
• Writing & Grammar- Jump In! Middle School Composition, Fix-it Grammar 3, We are going to try Getty Dubay Italics (his cursive is not impressive).
• Spelling- Dictation & McGuffey Eclectic Speller
• History, Literature, Geography, Bible, Memory Work - Using Biblioplan Medieval as a spine, with a lot of my own substitutions thrown in.We will also be using the writing prompts and notebooking pages, but not cool history. 
• Science- Exploring Nature with Children as a Family . Chemistry Unit ( The Mystery of the Periodic Table, Elements: A Visual Encyclopedia, Exploring the World of Chemistry) and Gallileo & The Magic Numbers w/ Exploring the World of Astronomy.
• Music- Hoffman Academy
• Latin- Visual Latin 1

[5th Grade Planning Thread 2021-22]

My son will be 11 in July, but I am planning 5th grade.  We are loosely following A Gentle Feast.  I am making some changes and omitting parts.

Math- Saxon 6/5

English/Grammar/ Writing- A Gentle Feast Language Arts (which includes copywork and dictation and one writing assignment a week.  we will omit the grammar)  &  Rod and Staff English 5

These will each be done 1 time a week

• Modern History- The Story of the Great Republic (read 2 chapters at a time) (keep a book of centuries and write one narration a week)
• Ancient History- Famous Men of Rome (write narration and keep book of centuries)
• Geography - Book of Marvels The Orient.  I am going to print out a the notebooking pages and have him write a narration and we will mark the places on a blank world map.
•  Nature- The Child's Book of Nature: Animals (1 narration a week).  
• Science -Human Body: Blood and Guts and the Way We Work (notebook)

Literature- Tom Sawyer, Bronze Bow, The Aeneid for Boys and Girls,  Little Men, Across Five Aprils

Biography- Abe Lincoln Grows Up, Freedom Train, Galen and the Gateway to Medicine, Louis Pasteur

Piano- Continue Hoffman Academy (he's 3/4 the way through)

Latin- Visual Latin 1 with Lingua Latina (possibly split over two years)- We have already done Prima Latina & Latin Christiana, but took this year off and are going to try Visual Latin

Family Table Time- Picture Study, Composer Study, Poetry, Painting, Handicrafts, Singing, Bible, Catechism, Read Alouds, Church History, Nature Study