Here's what I have planned - Spelling: one session per day, five days a week. We use All About Spelling. This is one of her overall weakest areas. Handwriting & Copywork: again, five days a week. This is HWT for practice plus copywork that I come up with. This is the other weakest area. (My mom has a background in LD/SpEd, and says if she were in school, we'd probably want to pursue a diagnosis for an LD in written expression, but since she's not, we just work a little harder on it!) "Actual" Writing: we won't be starting this for at least a couple of months into the schoolyear... the plan is either three or four days a week depending on which program I finally decide upon. Grammar: Three or four days a week - Growing with Grammar Grade 3 at first and then she'll move into the Grade 4 book. Reading: Approx. 30 minutes to an hour of reading daily, first the 'required' title for that week, then her pick from a big stack of 'extra' books.

Officially, we do 36 weeks. It's what's required for our state reporting and it's easiest to plan that way. Practically speaking, we usually do some work over the summer, though not all of our subjects, so we do between 40 and 44 weeks total. (This summer, for instance, we're doing spelling, Latin, history/science [one for four weeks, then the other], and working on math facts.)

In an ideal world, the only subject we would do daily would be Latin and math, with time for memory work and reading each day as well, and composition/writing/copywork - whatever was age-appropriate. I have a dd that is weak in handwriting and spelling, though, so we work on those every single day. Grammar is 3-4 times a week (she actually asks to do grammar sometimes!), history is 1-2 times a week, ditto science. I outsource music/art/drama, so that's all done in one day per week. :) As she's getting older, I'm going to get my dad (the actual artist in the family) to do drawing/painting lessons with her once a week in addition to the projects and art history she does at MAFA.

All About Spelling has been a terrific program for my very reluctant speller. It & Growing with Grammar are the two things I can't see changing with my younger two.

I actually am looking forward to doing GA state history... despite growing up in GA, I went to school across the state line in TN and had to sit through two different semesters (4th grade and then 8th grade) of TN state history. So I figure at least now I'll get a crack at my own state via the kids! :) But, no, as far as I can tell, it's not specifically required.

Nope... I think that age is really too young for a formal 'writing program.' We did, however, do copywork daily, and dictation through our spelling program. :)

We're doing math drill work but not continuing in our usual books. No grammar. Spelling once or twice a week because it's a weak area for her. Then we're doing a lot of history, a regular amount of Latin, and some science starting in July. We count our school year for reporting purposes as the day after Labor day to the first week of June.

For my nowhere-near-natural speller :), All About Spelling was a godsend when we discovered it at the end of 1st grade last year. For the same reason, Spelling Workout was a complete bust for us. Most of our other curricula were 'good enough' but not huge standouts.