Do you teach all subjects every day?

[Kaitnbugsmom]

Just wondering if I'm alone in my methods? Due to the way the kids work and their attention spans, there are days one kid will whip through 4 or all 5 subjects while the other plods along on 1 or 2. Sometimes I celebrate getting through 1 or 2 with both of them. I am not pushing for perfection by any stretch. But when I look at my grade book and see one or two rows of 10-15 grades for a subject or two, and only 3 or 4 grades in other subjects, I worry that I'm on the wrong side of balance and not pushing hard enough?

[shoefairy3]

I think what you are doing sounds good. As long as they are interested and moving forward, things will be fine. I do make my kids do math every day tho

[elizawill]

math & reading are everyday - but everything is else is 1-3 per week depending on the subject. that's not set in stone of course, but that's usually how it unfolds. hth.

[Kaitnbugsmom]

Thank you ladies. So far the 8 y/o is doing language arts every day, but math is more every other day, or two days in a row then skip a day then do three days, etc. Sometimes several pages in one day. To date the 10 year old has done 2 pages of math and 6 of language arts. She has done two research papers, one three single spaced pages in length. These were not assigned per se, she expressed interest in the topics and I told her to look it up and see what she could find out. She took notes and wrote the reports on her own. I marked them down under research and computer skills though, since they weren't assigned as a part of her worload. Wondering if I shouldn't change that?

[shoefairy3]

Originally Posted by Kaitnbugsmom

Thank you ladies. So far the 8 y/o is doing language arts every day, but math is more every other day, or two days in a row then skip a day then do three days, etc. Sometimes several pages in one day. To date the 10 year old has done 2 pages of math and 6 of language arts. She has done two research papers, one three single spaced pages in length. These were not assigned per se, she expressed interest in the topics and I told her to look it up and see what she could find out. She took notes and wrote the reports on her own. I marked them down under research and computer skills though, since they weren't assigned as a part of her worload. Wondering if I shouldn't change that?

I;d put them under Language Arts

[pageta]

We do our core every day - reading, writing and artithmatic. Then we have our second tier - history/literature and science. I try to do one of those so they each get done twice a week. Then we have our third tier - music, art, etc. Those I try to do once a week so obviously they don't have to be every day. But dividing things into tiers based on frequency and importance really helped me.

[theretohere]

Originally Posted by pageta

We do our core every day - reading, writing and artithmatic. Then we have our second tier - history/literature and science. I try to do one of those so they each get done twice a week. Then we have our third tier - music, art, etc. Those I try to do once a week so obviously they don't have to be every day. But dividing things into tiers based on frequency and importance really helped me.

This is exactly what we've done- and even the same preferences on subjects.

[ALittleBitCrunchy]

We max at a 4 a day but the 4 vary. We have reading everyday but everything else is on a 2-3-2-3 weekly rotation so it's twice one week, 3 days the next, unless it's a unit study, in which case it's every day. For instance, we are doing a science study right now so it's science and reading every day, but those are our only two topics right now. We'll add a 3rd and 4th in late July and subjects 5 and 6 in mid September. As we finish one subject, we slide another into it's spot so some subjects don't begin until January or February. But, it's typically 4 a day during the bulk of the school year (September-November and January-March).

[CariOfOz]

Not us... I have a 'rough' routine set up where we do math & language daily and 3days a week we do history odyssey and 1/2 days a week we do science. Our formal art, we do on fridays. I have enough trouble getting that much done daily lol, everything would burn me out in about 4days. ETA: Our handwriting is part of his history/First language lessons.. he's a grumpy writer so more would cause meltdown. We read something daily, either from one of his history odyssey related books or a library book.

[Ravin]

My plan for first grade is to do skill-subjects (LA and math) daily, and topical subjects (history, geography, science, lit, etc.) weekly. The only exception to that is art, which is really a skill-subject, but we'll only be doing it weekly this year. DD does artsy stuff on her own all the time, so I figure it's no rush.

[onlyzombiecat]

We don't do every subject every day.

[AmandaGRB]

I wasn't planning on doing every subject every day, but that is how it is working out. DS (7 yo) has requested we do every subject, every day. I was working on planning our schedule and asking his input on how often he wanted subjects. I should have known better. He also wants chemistry, life science and earth science, all at once, so having science every day isn't a stretch for us. I don't know how long this will last for either of us. We are just starting second grade so the novelty may wear off quickly, or maybe not.

Amanda

[scheelimama]

I try to do language arts and math everyday. I'm happy if we get those done. After that, we do history/literature, geography, and science about 2 times a week each, and I'm planning to do art once a week. We spend about 2 hours, sometimes more by the kids choosing. This is for pre-k and 1st grade. More for the 1st grader though, I don't push my 4 yr old to do much, but she likes to tag along on our lessons.

[ms.shell]

We are also starting 2nd grade for my ds. He was at public school for K and 1st, so we are starting homeschool just now. We jumped right in and I am certain it will be an evolution as to how we do it, but for now I am planning to get a good piece at least of writing every single day but this may well be in conjunction with science or history. So reading, writing, and math will be done everyday. Science study will be heavy, because that is what he is interested in and so I imagine we will be studying science everyday. Starting with units on the human body and we will be looking at the NASA picture of the day every day. He also wants Spanish so we will have some of that most days as well.
We might wind up with math less than daily except for what we use incidentally (measurements in prepping lunch, shopping, etc).

[Lillian J]

Not at all - but it all worked out just fine. I honestly don't think my son would know anything more if I had tried to cover subjects rather than just taking life as it came. He became very knowledgeable and well educated from our loose exploration of our interests. Maybe the children who are plodding along would benefit from a different kind of approach to those subjects that are bogging them down - it could be that they're very different kinds of learners from the others, or that they have such different personalities and interests that they'd be better off focusing their energy on other things.
- Lillian

[darcytrue]

My oldest does 3-4 subjects per day, usually math, science, history/geog and lang arts. He will do health, bible and other extra classes on alternating days. I am more structured with him.

My youngest I would "like" to see her do math, writing and reading every day but sometimes it just doesn't happen. I plan to get more strict with her. I have started giving her a math worksheet daily and she seems to do okay with that. Plus, we are doing the reading program from the library this summer and she likes that as well. I squeeze in social studies, science, health, phonics and lang arts on alternating days. She is very hyper and it's hard enough to get the three r's in each day as it is. She does good if she can get 1.5-2 hours in daily.