How much time do you spend in your home-school studying books & how much learning is activity based?

Question

We spend anywhere from 1 to 2 hours completing math from Saxon text-books, 30 min. to 1-1/2 hr writing, varied time for vocabulary, and 2+ hours reading.

The remainder of the day is spent learning everything from cooking and cleaning to team-sports and hobbies, including hands-on projects. Every moment of every day is a learning experience for us.

Answer 1

It has really depended on the children's ages and learning styles. This year I have two boys at home, 7th gr & 5th gr. We read Bibleand history together and do memory work together, this takes about 1.5 hours; their independant and computer work probably takes about 2+ hours; the rest of the day is LIFE learning--taking care of animals, chores, reading, working on their businesses, etc. If we want to do an activitiy for school, I usually schedule a special day of mostly activities, because otherwise we have trouble finding time!

Answer 2

My kids (ages 6 and 9) actually don't spend a lot of time studying books, probably because of their age. We don't use a textbook or workbook for the bulk of their math because I create things for them as we go along or do lots of hands-on math activities. We don't use a set text for science, but Magic School Bus and other books and videos are great fun, especially those with science experiments. Our social studies is not from a text, but from a variety of books we've found or maps I've prepared, making timelines and current events. I don't use anything structured for language arts, just lots of reading and writing for my 9yo and my ds is currently at the beginning stages of reading and writing. We just use individual words or small phrases for now or little games like he picks out a particular word every time he sees it in a story I'm reading to him.

My dd probably spends at least an hour, if not closer to two hours, reading every day. She then does about 20 minutes or so of math. She's very good at math and doesn't need more than that. I read to them for about 30 minutes, sometimes as much as an hour, each day. Then everything else is discussion, project or hands-on based activities. Some days dd will escape to write something and will spend two hours on writing. She may go through a few days of this, then be saturated and will need a break from writing. So there's no consistent amount of writing done each day.

Our mornings are our main school time. In addition to that, they'll spend time drawing, cooking or baking, playing music, time outside, time on field trips, and time to just be kids and have fun. We're fairly flexible. And I agree--every moment is an opportunity for learning something!

Answer 3

I LOVE Saxon math! My kids are 6 & 3 (2nd grade & kindergarten). We do an hour of math a day and an hour of reading lessons a day. Then we do hands on activities. We have a weekly cooking project, science project and history lesson. Often I base the cooking and science project to go with the history lesson, if I can. We work four days a week. Friday morning is our review day and if they both do well in review then they have the rest of Friday off.

Answer 4

Aside from math, nearly everything we do is either activity based or done verbally. Reading is included in the verbal as much of it is done outloud. My daughter has a learning disability and learns much more effectively and much more quickly when we do the work outloud. We spend anywhere from an hour to hour and a half on math, and usually there is another 45 minutes of reading comp work (on any vairety of subjects) each day.

Answer 5

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