How much time do you (parent) spend on Home Ed?

[Guest clearskies]

Hi there,

 

I'm fairly new to WTM. I've read the book and read through some threads here. I have a dd5 and a dd3, who are both still in school/nursery in the UK (West Yorks). I am planning at the moment on pulling them out within the next year.

 

One question I have is - how much time per day do you spend as a parent on "doing" WTM with your children? I imagine this varies from parent to parent, and from curriculum to curriculum - I just want to guage it so I know what to expect at the various ages!

 

Thankyou in advance!

 

* On having read some responses I thought I would clarify that I don't mean how many hours per day the child spends on study - I mean how much time do you as a parent spend per day on homeschooling - thanks!

Edited June 8, 2012 by clearskies
To clarify my question

[boscopup]

At that age, an hour to an hour and a half.

 

I just today looked at our plan for third grade, and my son will be doing 4 hours of school, but I should only be needed for 2 hours. My K'er will need me for his whole time, so hour to an hour and a half. That included read aloud times, btw.

[*Michelle*]

For our soon-to-be 5 year old, I'm planning on 70 min/day for phonics, penmanship, and math. The breakdown will be 30/10/30.

[SkateLeft]

In K - 1st, I spend about 1 - 1.5 hours a day, but only about 30 minutes of that is seatwork.

 

From 2nd - 5th that goes up to 2 - 3 hours.

 

In middle school, my kids usually work up to about 4 - 6 hours a day.

 

High school is tough to gauge and depends on the kid and their goals. I'd say that 9th grade starts at about 7 hours a day. This past semester, my oldest was on campus all day twice a week from 8am to 8pm, did schoolwork until mid afternoon the other three days of the week and studied over the weekends.

[PeterPan]

The usual advice is grade + 1. So in K5 basically 1 hour. In 1st around 2 hours, that sort of thing. For us it was broken up into short sessions and we did a lot of read alouds that were technically school but didn't feel that way. I'd let her play in the yard while I read to her, that sort of thing. :)

 

The real issue is to give *yourself* time to plan. If you do things eclectically, that's where the time is, sigh. Of course now they have a lot of options that weren't out when I started with my dd. The more open and go it is, the less time you spend planning and fretting. Just saying. :)

[thefragile7393]

I'd say 2 hours a day at the most, depending on how long certain things take to accomplish things.

[redsquirrel]

With a 5 or 6 year old? 90 mins tops, and that counts stuff that might not feel like school. My 12 year old does about 6 hours per day this year.

[MinivanMom]

For those ages I don't spend more than 30-45 min daily for formal work. For my older children 6-8 yrs, I spend about 2 hrs daily.

[Mrs.Gregg]

K/1 this year we spent an average of 45-1 hour in "active" lessons. Another hour or two in activites that could be considered "learning time" but where we arn't sitting down having a "lesson".

4th grade this year we spent an average of 2-3:30 hours on active lessons and another hour or two in activities that could be considered "learning time".

I personally average in a typical week an hour reviewing workbooks,correcting papers and organizing supplies/activities.

In a typical week I spend an hour-90 minutes lesson planning.