Marie131 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 How much time do you spend doing school each day? I'm particularly interested in Core C. I would be using it for my 2 oldest who will be in 2nd and 4th. TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 We're doing Core F with an 11 and 12 year old.'our Sonlight stuff (history, geography, readers, notebooking, bible) without the read alouds takes my kids an hour to an hour and a half. Read alouds add 30-45 minutes. My kids frequently read ahead or finish books way ahead of schedule. Sometimes we move on, sometimes I just let the gap be there. I think having readers (as in kids who read well, quickly, with retention) makes it easier and faster. On top of that we do math (hour+), science (45 min), LA (30-40 min), reading (30 min every other day), writing (30 -45 minutes). Our day runs from 8:30 to around 1-1:30 with lunch. We did Sonlight K, and the American history one, and then broke off to MFW... MOH... And a couple great years with VP. I'm done. We're Sonlightto the end now. I LOVE it, the kids LOVE it. It's great to be back with SL!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athomeontheprairie Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 We're doing Core F with an 11 and 12 year old.'our Sonlight stuff (history, geography, readers, notebooking, bible) without the read alouds takes my kids an hour to an hour and a half. Read alouds add 30-45 minutes. My kids frequently read ahead or finish books way ahead of schedule. Sometimes we move on, sometimes I just let the gap be there. I think having readers (as in kids who read well, quickly, with retention) makes it easier and faster. On top of that we do math (hour+), science (45 min), LA (30-40 min), reading (30 min every other day), writing (30 -45 minutes). Our day runs from 8:30 to around 1-1:30 with lunch. this is pretty much our experience as well. having a good readers my kids would often finish well ahead of schedule. I either left the gap and gave them a break, or found other material from the library that coincided with our history and let them read that at their leisure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marie131 Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 Thank you for the feedback! I'd love to hear from more users :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 I think C was the last year that we were done with school by lunch, so about 3-4 hours for school. Sonlight estimates 2-3 for students, and usually we were in or near their estimates. My kids were 2nd and 4th grade that year too; my youngest was more in the 2-3 range, but the oldest had a few more things to do and probably went over 3. (By comparison, for D they bump it up to 3.5-4.5 hours for students.) Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolamum Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Last year we were in Core F & all up {SL Stuff only} took us about 90 minutes. Then of course we had math & whatnot. We tried to have a later lunch {130} so we could get all our school done prior, but sometimes read aloud waited until after.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschickie Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 When we did C the Sonlight portion of the day(Bible, History, Reading, LA) took us about an hour to an hour 1/2 max for the Sonlight portion (Science add in maybe another 15-30mins, we did Sonlight for that too). At that point I had dd doing her reading out loud to me so depending on how long that took her our days might be longer or shorter. Math took dd about 45-60 min (Horizons). Most days we started at 9 and finished everything by lunch and then in the afternoon did music or art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinmami01 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 We are on Core F and I would say that the core readings and read-alouds take about 1.5 hrs. After we add in Writing, Grammar, Spelling, Math, and Science, our day runs from 5 (on a good day)-7 hours. We are dealing with special needs, so I take that into consideration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bree Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 We just finished up C, ds took 3 hours that was with all the core and sci C, LA, math and about 20 minutes for piano. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.