Language Arts, do you "bulk" them or keep separate?

[Bang!Zoom!]

Language arts:

 

spelling

grammar

reading

writing

 

Are others bulking these, one after the other, or spacing the teachings throughout a schedule?

 

Any particular order seem best?

[staceyobu]

We do CLE, which contains grammar and spelling, in the morning and WWE in the afternoon. We do a bit of reading in the morning and a bit in the afternoon. CLE and WWE both contain writing and are both a little more "seatwork-ish" so I try to break them up a little.

[Farrar]

We don't have a set schedule where we do certain things at certain times anyway, but we treat them as basically separate things.

[Bang!Zoom!]

Thanks, I'm experimenting with stamina this week, one schedule will be assigned, strict, disciplined without choice or order.

 

Version 2 is choice in any order.

 

I was wondering if the strict menu needed a "bulk" area for topics one after the other as best practice.

 

We'll see how this goes.

 

I'll probably end up using both methods. One for crabby days, and one for sunshine delightful child days..lol :)

[Samiam]

I consider those each their own subject.

 

I never say "Language Arts" to my children, we just call it Spelling, Reading, etc.

 

I do break them up in the workboxes, but each is it's own curriculum anyway, nothing is a curriculum that covers it all. So one workbox is Reading, another Spelling, another Handwriting, etc.

 

The workboxes are arranged in a way to try to balance out one child needing my help while the other child does something a bit more independent. So at no point is the fact that they are all "Language Arts" come into the schedule.

[elise1mds]

My son picked his schedule this year. He starts with spelling and grammar, then math, then writing, history, science, and electives. Reading is done on his own time since he loves to read, though I do give him one book each week that he wouldn't have picked on his own (last week was "Dear Mr. Henshaw" and this week is "Mr. Popper's Penguins," for example). I don't consider them all one subject, though.

[ChristusG]

Those are the first four things that we do every day and I just call the whole subject "reading" for DD7.

[sagira]

Separate and together :) I'll explain. We do separate Reading, Spelling, Grammar, and Writing. However, we also do spelling and vocabulary through copywork, narration, and dictation.

Edited August 15, 2011 by sagira

[SeekingHim77]

I've always tried to break my kids school up by going back and forth between writing intensive subjects and reading intensive subjects so I just work things in throughout the day that accomplish that goal.

[purduemeche]

We always separate that work, and it usually depends on how independent the work is. Example: handwriting and spelling don't require supervision, so those are kept "in reserve" for when mom and dad are busy.