DusksAngel Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I need help! I'm trying to plan how many days/week I should schedule each subject for both a 1st grader and a Ker. And how do I plan how long a lesson should be? I want to do a 4-day plan, schooling year round. 1st will be doing Phonics/Reading, Handwriting, Writing, Spelling, Grammar, Vocab, Math, Science (very informal), History, and Logic. Ker will be doing Math, Phonics, Handwriting and tag along with History and Science. Ideas please?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momtoamiracle Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 For first, and K for that matter,I do math, phonics, handwriting every day. Logic, science, and now history are once or twice a week, depending on interest level. Writing and spelling are integrated in our phonics program, we haven't started grammar yet, but when I do FLL it will probably be three days a week. Vocabulary will be next year, probably three days a week with the program I'll be using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 My oldest is first. She does math and reading everyday; spelling, cursive and writing M-Th; grammar MWF; history MWF; science TTh. This takes her maybe 90 minutes or so. My second oldest is doing K-ish (late birthday, so technically he's preK). He does reading everyday, math when I get to it (he's very much at a standstill developmentally), and tags along with science and history. We are fixing to add in chess on Fridays (because they are light and chess is fun). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceFairy Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 My 1st schedule looks like this: Bible Math Spelling Phonics (including his reading to me) Writing (2x a week) History/ Science (rotating days) Art (1x a week) Our vocab is built into our science and history. Memory work is built into Bible. We read chapter books at bedtime for reading. It takes us 75-90 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewingmama Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I will be doing 1st and K from January. We follow CM method - so short lessons. My K'r does 10 minutes per lesson and my 1st will do 15 minutes per lesson. Honestly I have found it to be more then enough- they get 2-3 math pages done in that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleeplessnights Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I need help! I'm trying to plan how many days/week I should schedule each subject for both a 1st grader and a Ker. And how do I plan how long a lesson should be? I want to do a 4-day plan, schooling year round. 1st will be doing Phonics/Reading, Handwriting, Writing, Spelling, Grammar, Vocab, Math, Science (very informal), History, and Logic. Ker will be doing Math, Phonics, Handwriting and tag along with History and Science. Ideas please?!? I prefer the LCC-style schedule for these early grades. We do Math, Phonics, and a Language Arts block every day. Within the LA block, do two or three activities, making sure there is writing within at least one. Then I work one "special subject" a day, which include science, history, art, geography, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Your curriculum choices may affect the time spent. Some take longer than others, some have more or less lessons than others, etc. My K'er does reading 3 times per week and handwriting combined with reading twice a week. He does math 5 days per week. I spend 10 minutes on reading/handwriting and 10ish minutes on math. We read aloud as well. In first grade, my oldest did grammar (FLL) 3x/week, writing (WWE) 4x/week, math (MM) 5x/week, spelling (AAS) 4x/week, history (SOTW) 3x/week, science (homemade) 2x/week. I didn't do vocab or logic, and once we had good letter formation, I used writing as handwriting also. Grammar took is about 5 minutes, writing 10-15, spelling 15-20, math 20-30, history 30, science 30. So about an hour and a half total. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 My kindergartners did phonics, penmanship and a gentle math lesson daily. They often tagged along for a sibling's science or history lesson, but I never required it of them. My first graders did all their math and language arts daily. That was done in around an hour or so, usually broken up into smaller blocks. History and science took turns with each other, and weren't a part of the daily seatwork. History was on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and science was on Tuesday and Thursday. One of those history days was geography heavy. I didn't expect spelling or vocabulary from kids who still needed daily phonics instruction. Spelling took over for phonics when they were reading well enough for a spelling book to be their main phonics instruction. Vocabulary was added around 4th-5th grade. We didn't add logic until 4th grade at the earliest, and then it was just the Mind Benders puzzles recommended in TWTM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I need help! I'm trying to plan how many days/week I should schedule each subject for both a 1st grader and a Ker. And how do I plan how long a lesson should be? I want to do a 4-day plan, schooling year round. 1st will be doing Phonics/Reading, Handwriting, Writing, Spelling, Grammar, Vocab, Math, Science (very informal), History, and Logic. Ker will be doing Math, Phonics, Handwriting and tag along with History and Science. Ideas please?!? We do a 4 day schedule with Fridays being a lighter day devoted to art and music and nature study. For those ages do your lang arts (reading/read alouds/phonics/spelling) and math every day. Shouldn't take longer than 2 hours for each of them. I'm not sure how much writing, grammar, logic, or vocab a 1st grader would need really. Unless you're using something like WWE or FLL then those shouldn't take longer than 15-20 minutes a day. Whatever else you're planning for that could be done 2 days a week maybe. History and science could also be done 2 or 3 afternoons a week. As far as lessons,I just work until they're done. 2-5 pages depending on my Kinder's mood. Or a chapter or two a week. Or a few science experiments a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusksAngel Posted November 27, 2012 Author Share Posted November 27, 2012 This is our tentative plan. Any suggestions? ETC A Reason for Handwriting WWE (1st only) FLL (1st only) AAS (1st only) Singapore Math SOTW Science (books and videos) Logic (Mind Benders, puzzles, games (both hands-on and online)) (Ker won't do the Mind Benders) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm4him Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 I think it totally depends on what curriculum you choose. Until you know that it is hard to guess how long they will take. Sometimes the author or publisher can tell you how long a lesson is supposed to take and sometimes you just have to ask around. And if that still doesn't lead you to an answer then you have to do a few trial runs but things don't always stay that length. Sometimes in the beginning lessons are shorter than they will be later as the curriculum eases them in or reviews things they already know and sometimes it takes longer in the beginning to learn to get into a routine and understand how the curriculum works, etc. I can tell you what I'm doing with my K'er who is mostly doing 1st grade level books and my preschooler who is doing mostly K level books and an estimate of how long they take. We do every subject every day 6 days a week for 7-8 months and the rest of the year some subjects drop off and we focus more on history and science . K'er: Saxon Math 1- about 45 minutes CC Memory work- Math, Latin, and English- 5-15 minutes Building Thinking Skills Hands On- about 5 minutes Hey Andrew, Teach Me Some Greek Reader- about 5 minutes Saxon Phonics 1- about 45 minutes Logic of English Manuscript- he does this independently....about 20 minutes max Bob Books Set 3- about 15 minutes Poetry Memorization and presentation preparation for CC...5 minutes So we do about 2 hours together and he does 20 minutes or less on his own. We usually do this around 2:30 when my little ones are down. PreK'er: Saxon Math K: 30 minutes or less CC Memory Work- Math, Latin, and English Building Thinking Skills Beginning- about 5 minutes Saxon Phonics K: 30 minutes or less Writing Road to Reading Manuscript: 15 minutes or less Bob Books- Alphabet...about 5 minutes Poetry Memorization and presentation prep for CC...about 5 minutes So we do about an hour and a half together. We usually do this around 1:00. From 4:30-6:30 we do group enrichment subjects (geography, science, and history or fine arts). I often don't make my preschooler stay in the room with us but sometimes she does. During geography we review any memory work, draw/trace maps, and do geo puzzles as time permits. During science we review memory work and then they are to either listen to me expand on the memory work or look at science or nature related books or coloring books. Right now the books are plant related. During history we review memory work and they either listen while I go into more depth on it and/or color history related coloring pages and/or look at history related books. On fine arts day they do the project with me or they can go practice tin whistle, listen to classical music and dance, draw, etc. and/or look at living books related to art or music. Again, we are easing into requiring them to be present during this time. This does not include anything Bible or character related that we do at night. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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