Flowergirl159 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Just wondering how much time each day, does your first grader spend doing school? Not counting any of our group activities or read alouds. Just counting work pertaining to first grade. For example, during the week we cover these subjects: Phonics - Word Mastery Sight Words McGuffey First Reader FLL1 WWE1 AAS1 ARFH book A SM 1B Miquon Orange It has been around 90mins daily and is usually split in half, so she has a break to run outside and refresh her mind. Some days, she wants to do it all in one sitting. How long do you spend? Do you split it up over the day or do it in one chunk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnMomof7 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 2 hours tops. It's split up. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowergirl159 Posted June 29, 2015 Author Share Posted June 29, 2015 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiara.I Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Just out of curiosity, are we talking about days where it goes well? Or days where 4 math questions (not the whole worksheet, we're not even there yet) have taken 2 hours, have involved at least 18 shrieking, giggling fights with his brother, leaving the table 46 times, and talking in nonsense language every time I try to speak to him? Days where I've broken open the chocolate stash, because....REALLY???? :cursing: Er, I mean....I think it takes us roughly 90 minutes too, but it's broken up between the basics (handwriting, spelling, math) and the other stuff done with siblings (history, science, art.) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Just wondering how much time each day, does your first grader spend doing school? Not counting any of our group activities or read alouds. Just counting work pertaining to first grade. For example, during the week we cover these subjects: Phonics - Word Mastery Sight Words McGuffey First Reader FLL1 WWE1 AAS1 ARFH book A SM 1B Miquon Orange It has been around 90mins daily and is usually split in half, so she has a break to run outside and refresh her mind. Some days, she wants to do it all in one sitting. How long do you spend? Do you split it up over the day or do it in one chunk? sounds about right for a little 6yo person (grade level is irrelevant :001_smile: ). I didn't have to keep track of time or anything, so I didn't, but that's about how much time we spent doing Official School Stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndGenHomeschooler Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I'm planning to have my 1st grader done in about an hour (not including family subjects he tags along on). We'll be doing LOE Foundations, SM 1A, and piano practice in that hour. He's a young 1st though with November birthday. I'm calling him 1st for outside purposes but I think of it more as "K-and-a-half" as far as my planning/expectations go. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 My current 6yo takes 90-120 min on average. Her school time is broken up with play time and chores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternallytired Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Just out of curiosity, are we talking about days where it goes well? Or days where 4 math questions (not the whole worksheet, we're not even there yet) have taken 2 hours, have involved at least 18 shrieking, giggling fights with his brother, leaving the table 46 times, and talking in nonsense language every time I try to speak to him? Days where I've broken open the chocolate stash, because....REALLY???? :cursing: Er, I mean....I think it takes us roughly 90 minutes too, but it's broken up between the basics (handwriting, spelling, math) and the other stuff done with siblings (history, science, art.) LOL--I've taken to keeping a bag of M&Ms in the fridge at all times. Glad to know I'm not alone. Now that we have some meds to help with the ADHD, my life is much more sane and we're no longer spending 2 hours on just math and spelling. But I still love having an M&Ms stash! After our read-aloud during snack, we spend 1-2 hours on work depending how involved our "special" subject is. (We do project-based history, science, Spanish, and art--one per day of our four work days.) Our core subjects (math, reading/spelling) are almost always done in 45 min or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 1-2 hours is about right here. My current first grader probably spends 1-1.5 hours, all in one sitting. He's typically a fast worker. He's like the unicorn of homeschool students. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Yup, an hour or two. We have couch time (phonics, history, etc.) and table time (math, handwriting, etc.), typically separated by morning snack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butter Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Last year I had a 6 year old first grader. All of his school took an hourish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusyMom5 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Last year was about 2 hours per day, broken up- sometimes more, sometimes less. We just do 4 days per week, and I am not including fun things like art ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebcoola Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 1-2 hours of alone work we are also doing a geography unit study along with her sister. She will be doing Write through the bible, Lexia reading, Math, silent reading & violin practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowergirl159 Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 Thanks so much everyone for your replies :) Sounds like I am on the right track ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. B Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 About an hour and a half for 1st grade here as well. I was shocked they learn and retain so much in such a short, focused time period. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdrinca Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 We do about two hours, three days a week, inclusive of piano practice, snacks, bathroom breaks, philosophical discussions about word problems, staring off into space, picking up dropped pencils (I think there must be a weird gravitational vortex at my daughter's seat). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wabi Sabi Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Hard to say because for us time listening to read alouds, audio books, independent reading, hours spent cutting and taping and gluing and playing with clay, music lessons and practice, etc. are all an integral part of what I consider schooling. Her writing, grammar, math, phonics, etc. last year were all done in bits and pieces throughout the week. All in all I'd guesstimate that was maybe a couple of hours most days, but then again there were plenty of days when her "work" for the day consisted of listening to an audiobook while building with Legos all morning, then going to park day with other homeschoolers for the afternoon followed by choir practice and a trip to the library. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 We do about two hours, three days a week, inclusive of piano practice, snacks, bathroom breaks, philosophical discussions about word problems, staring off into space, picking up dropped pencils (I think there must be a weird gravitational vortex at my daughter's seat). LOL! The picking up dropped pencils...I can SO relate! I'm sure he must spend an hour each day dropping pencils, awkwardly leaning down to reach the pencils without leaving his chair...eventually falling off the chair...finally getting the pencil & sitting back down...repeat multiple times! Some days very frustrating...helps to laugh about it and realize we are not the only ones :lol: My little guy just finished 1st grade. We took about 2-3 hours start to finish. However, he had quite a few breaks to play and run around while I worked with his 3 older brothers. If we worked straight through everything we would probably finish in about 1 1/2 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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