displace Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Just an idea needed on how long it takes your DC to do a level. We are on A book and take about two days to do a level/lesson (15 min per day). Can you give me an idea of how many min your DC works and how much they get through? I suspect the writing is slowing down DS and I will need to adjust our schedule some. I'm just wanting an estimate to help me schedule better. I originally planned on 4 lesson/levels a week. Now it's more like two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 My last 3 started level A in second grade and work through 2 levels a week. We do half a lesson/level a day and take off one day a week. So, they finish a book a year. Your pace is fine. I would rather pull my eye lashes out one at a time then do more than 1/2 a lesson and I have no idea how kids who struggle with spelling could do a whole lesson a day. For the record, I am now on my fourth child doing the program and I am very pleased with the results (always doing 1/2 a lesson a day). They are not Spelling Bee winner level spellers, but are at least average for their age. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 It takes us two days to do a level for the same reason. We only work on it for 15 minutes and with the amount of writing in A&P that's about half a level. Even doing only two levels a week, you can easily get through an entire book in a year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
displace Posted January 23, 2017 Author Share Posted January 23, 2017 Ok. I wasn't certain how long it'd take so I scheduled 4 lessons/levels in a week. As we've been working over the last two weeks it's much slower, probably like your experiences. We switched over from AAS, which we didn't really like. DS doesn't like A&P either, but he hates it less. I was worried all the writing was slowing us down. DS is most behind in spelling (about a year), and I'm going to try to continue sight words as well until I see how A&P works for us. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 (edited) I work mine by pages not levels as it is easier to schedule. My 4th grader doing level A does 1 page(1 side only) per day and takes maybe 10 min. She is actually my faster worker. My 12yo is finishing up Level D and can now do a page front and back at a time, we didn't start until he was 10 I think with Lev. b, I don't know that he could have handled the writing before then. Edited January 23, 2017 by soror 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lots of boys Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Hi, I have my DS12 and my DS10 both working together on this and we only do two pages (or one page, front and back) at a time, we also only do spelling every OTHER day. My boys are the same - they don't hate it but they tolerate it well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
displace Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 Ok. Today we got through about half a page... :). My word for the year is patience, thankfully! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooksandBoys Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 We're in A and still doing a lesson a day, but now that it's taking FOREVER to complete the lesson, and he's needing multiple breaks, I've just this week decided to change it up. I think I'm switching to half a lesson a day and we'll try to do it 6 days a week. Half a lesson should take about 15 minutes because he shouldn't need the breaks, or at least one one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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