Evelyn2108 Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 (edited) Hello wise homeschool mamas, My son is ready to start WWS level 1. I’m reading through it very carefully, and the workload looks substantial. How long do you plan for a typical day if you follow the recommended 4 school days per week? I’m thinking 1hr…. But hoping it would be faster! If your child has done the online course through wtma, do they only cover partial material? I can’t imagine 2 hours of class plus trying to faithfully complete all the weekly assignments. Thank you for your thoughts, Evelyn ps-I should probably add that my son is a strong writer. The content in WWS will be new and a good challenge, but I think he is adequately prepared. Edited July 31, 2023 by Evelyn2108 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeineandbooks Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 The time needed varies day by day. My sixth grader found outlines and narrative summaries might only need 15 minutes, copia exercises maybe half an hour, but the composition (one per week) took closer to an hour. We didn't use the WTMA class. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted July 31, 2023 Share Posted July 31, 2023 I highly recommend doubling up on easier days when they happen. Some of the paper writing days and weeks later in the series took us much longer than anticipated and the series dragged out longer than I had hoped. No regrets about doing it, but I wished we had moved faster in the first book and kept going so that talking the time we needed in later lessons didn't feel like we were getting behind. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted August 1, 2023 Share Posted August 1, 2023 11 hours ago, Miss Tick said: I highly recommend doubling up on easier days when they happen. Some of the paper writing days and weeks later in the series took us much longer than anticipated and the series dragged out longer than I had hoped. No regrets about doing it, but I wished we had moved faster in the first book and kept going so that talking the time we needed in later lessons didn't feel like we were getting behind. I've used WWS1 twice and this is what we did. We condensed the easier days to Monday and then usually left the writing to the rest of the week. I also let dd2 skip some sections if it was a skill I thought she had mastered so she had more time on other skills that were difficult or time consuming. I like wws but feel it overly complicated at places. I also felt if didn't leave enough time for compositions for mine. We modified it to work for us. Both of mine used it in 7th. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyn2108 Posted August 2, 2023 Author Share Posted August 2, 2023 Thank you for your thoughts everyone. I’m definitely thinking modifications are in order. Which wtma must do for the online class, otherwise they would never get through the content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted August 4, 2023 Share Posted August 4, 2023 After about the halfway point of the book, the assignments take longer. If starting with a seventh or eighth grader, the books are doable one per year. We start earlier than that but move a little slower when more time is needed for the longer writing assignments. So for fifth and sixth grades, the pace we took has been a little less than one complete book per year. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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