musicianmom Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 How much writing does your second grader do for school on a typical day? By writing, I mean the physical act, not composition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ednkirstin Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 1 handwriting page, Saxon math lesson, Easy Grammar Daily Grams page, plus whatever cards/coloring they create on their own throughout the day. I will be doing Writing Tales 1 with my 2nd grader this year, but she's more advanced with her writing abilities (I'm talking the physical act, not composition - she's very artistic). I don't usually expect a lot of writing at this age, however, my kids do love to make a lot of cards/letters to give to family and friends in their own time. They do this almost every day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleeplessnights Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 How much writing does your second grader do for school on a typical day? By writing, I mean the physical act, not composition. We do our cursive copywork (a couple sentences), AAS dictation sentences (5), math assignment, grammar (maybe about 10 words). Everything else is done orally. Because I have them write so little, I expect their best handwriting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 This is for a rising second grader who doesn't mind writing, and does more in her spare time. Grammar: a couple simple sentences, or so (FLL) Spelling: a workpage in her book or writing all 16 words once Writing: a longer, more complex sentence for copywork, or a couple simple ones for dictation, and she works on a cursive letter Literature: writing the title and author of finished books Math: two pages of problems, and a small drill sheet every other day History or science: just starting to write out a bit of her own narrations, and any writing on paper crafts Latin: 6-10 words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narrow Gate Academy Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 We kept it simple this past year... a few lines of cursive copywork a line of printed dictation writing for math and spelling everything else we did orally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshet Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 With eldest, I don't honestly remember. For youngest, it was a decent amount, not too much. Spelling - words & dictation sentences daily Writing - whatever that day's Writing assignment was - from couple of sentences to pre-writing for longer assignment to working on longer assignment Grammar - 1 page a day Latin - 1-2 pages per day Math - 1-2 pages per day Science/History - either oral narrations, which involved no writing for youngest, or 1-2 paragraph (on average) written narration, plus all writing for projects, filling out lab sheets, etc. Logic - 1 page a day (well, that's what was scheduled, youngest really enjoys Logic & finished book less than halfway through school year) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 We do different things for writing every day so sometimes this is freewriting or the like, sometimes it's dictation or copywork, but I would say on average, they write between half a comp. page to a full page a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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