5LittleMonkeys Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 How long per day do you spend on these subjects for 3rd grade: Writing Grammar Spelling Literature (Independently Read) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 My 8yo reads throughout the day on her own, but I require her to read for one hour before bed. It's not always that long, but that's our goal. For Writing, she does handwriting most days, copywork or dictation about once per week, and some type of paper" every week or two which involves freewriting with me scribing for her, revising on several different days, and copying the finished work in her own writing. I also have her write letters to Grandma every now and then. So there is no set time, but I'd estimate about 20 minutes per day. Spelling is on an as needed basis. I enter words I see her misspell into Spelling City and once I have 10-15 I let her play on there for a while. That is only once or twice per month, so it's not really worth adding to the total amount spent on LA. Grammar we didn't do at all until recently when I bought MCT Island level LA. And we do that when we feel like it. (I know I'm probably not helping much, am I?!) Maybe 30-60 minutes per week. I also count our read aloud time as LA (vocabulary, narration, etc.) and we do that for about an hour per day. We are pretty free-flow here as far as what we do daily. I plan our week out on Sundays, but we don't do the same things each day or even each week. I basically try to include 2 LA things per day plus our read aloud time. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5LittleMonkeys Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Thanks guys...anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Twain Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Writing: 30 (sometimes up to 45) minutes Grammar: 30 minutes Spelling: 5-15 minutes Literature: 15-20 minutes of reading aloud to me, plus extra silent reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breadnbutter Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 My son is 8/3rd.... For Grammar we do a lesson orally from Rod and Staff, diagram a sentence or two, and he does a page in Daily Grams: 20 mins. Writing: He does not like to physically write, so I'm never sure how much to push him in that area. He does a page of cursive handwriting for practice, a few lines of copywork, a few sentences in his journal. Then every other day he will do a written narration for history/science/lit, etc: 30 mins. And all this is spread out- a little bit throughout the day. I feel so lucky if I catch him writing something for fun :) Spelling: He does a program through BigIQ kids on the computer. 20 mins. Lit: I don't do formal lit with him, but he spends 20-60 mins/day reading lit on his own, plus various read-alouds, another 30-60 mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbridgeacademy Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 How long per day do you spend on these subjects for 3rd grade: Writing-I try to get in a good 15-30 minutes of writing (not including HW) either guided(working on skills) or "freewriting" (she doesn't like the latter). She has pretty decent HW so that's more hit miss. She actually assigns HW to herself. Almost like it's an artistic creation. Grammar- Also hit and miss in the past but we're going to buckle down and finish MCT Grammar Island in next 3-4 weeks by doing 30 minutes 2X per week. Spelling- DD is a natural speller but we still spend about 15 minutes a day on it. Literature (Independently Read) We try for 1/2 an hour a day sometimes less sometimes more. She also does reading for History and Science maybe another hour per day. I usually try to get as much out of her as I can without a meltdown. Some days she's a real trooper others it can be a real pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShutterBug Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Ds is 4th grade so this most likely won't be of any help, lol, but here we spend.. Independent reading - 1 hr. daily Spelling - 15 minutes, 3x per week (Sequential Spelling) Grammar - 20 min. - 30 min. daily (Rod and Staff English) Writing - 1 hour - 1 1/2 hours daily (mix of written narrations and dictation from across the curriculum, Winning With Writing and assigned writing) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 (edited) 30 minutes reading, 15 spelling, 15-30 writing or grammar alternated, 10 minutes handwriting, 5-15 narration (60-90 minutes daily on LA topics). My kids also had free-reading time for 30 minutes before bedtime (they thought it was to get to stay up a little later!) Edited December 29, 2011 by MerryAtHope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeegal Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 How long per day do you spend on these subjects for 3rd grade: I prefer to keep lessons short as long as possible. :001_smile: Writing 10 minutes, but longer on Mondays Grammar 20 minutes Spelling 15 minutes Literature (Independently Read) 30 minutes + more reading on his own :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8filltheheart Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 How long per day do you spend on these subjects for 3rd grade: Writing Grammar Spelling Literature (Independently Read) writing= ~ 30 mins grammar=~ 10 mins spelling=~10 mins Literature= ~30 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2squared Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Language Arts will take about 60 minutes/day, and most of it is one-on-one with me. Writing, Grammar and Spelling will be about 30-40 minutes and Literature about 20 minutes. Writing- WWE 2, copywork, and dictation Grammar- Addressed via copywork Spelling- Addressed via dictation Literature (Independently Read) - 20 min/day using Sonlight Readers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 My dd#2 is "3rd grade." She does: Writing/Spelling (Dictation): 15 minutes, 4x/wk Grammar: 15 minutes, 4x/wk Literature (independent): None assigned. She reads with me 20 minutes per day, 4x/wk. This includes her assigned reading for history. She sometimes does free reading - mostly to the younger siblings. It is not required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Create Your Ritual Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Grammar is 30 min a day (using ALL,SC,MCT, and once done with ALL we will move over to KISS) Writing - 1 hour a day .. 30 min for CC work (moving into CC Narrative/CW Homer) and 30 min for WWS. On the longer WWS Day 4 days we take most of the time for it and skip CC) Spelling/Vocab workbooks were done for 9 weeks straight and we just finished both workbooks. Spelling Workout I think and Sadlier Oxford Vocab. We also do vocab with Caesar's English 1. They edit and revise their narrations in writing also, but we are done with formal spelling for the year. Literature - We will move into a 6 week lit. analysis study in the coming semester, but they also read in their rooms for at least 1-2 hours a day. Sometimes it's at bedtime before they go to sleep, other times it's during their daily rest time in their rooms, or in the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlestonmom03 Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Grammar - FLL 3 about 10 min, 2-3x per week Writing - WWE 3 about 15-20 min, 4x per week Spelling - AAS 3 15-20 min, 2-3x per week Reading - at least 1 hr per day, but he is a bookworm and more often than not I have to encourage him to put a book down and go play :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5LittleMonkeys Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 Thanks everyone! I was changing things up for the new year and just wanted to see if my plan wasn't too lopsided. We were dropping a few formal programs that were eating up time I wanted to be spending with real books and I was worried about reducing times for writing, spelling and grammar. Based on your responses though I seem to be about average...and apparently was WAY above before.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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