No, they don't spend five hours.
I think some days we were up to 3-3 1/2 hours but those were typically days where we were working ahead, or where we went far afield (ie, history lesson on Australia that ended up becoming an online search through Australian animals and the sounds they make, and making anzac biscuits) - far beyond what the lesson wanted you to do.
Most days for us with dd1 were about 2 hours - sometimes more, sometimes less. However, they DO want us to put in the hours they expect (accountability thing since brick and mortar kids are putting in the LONG days I guess). Anyway, I would just let the default 'hours' be the hours I submitted when I would do attendance. So, even if we finished math in 10 minutes, I'd enter as if we'd done the full hour.
When you know your dd 'gets' something, then you don't have to keep going through more iterations of the same lesson - most lessons have 3-4 or more different ways of doing the learning goal for that lesson; once they get it, do the assessment and move on to a different lesson. I knew this intellectually but struggled with doing it in practice at first, I felt like I was skipping or cheating or something. But really, they themselves emphasize that once your kiddo understands, say, that 2 + 2 = 4, then don't waste their time and yours continuing to repeat that knowledge.
I think some days we were up to 3-3 1/2 hours but those were typically days where we were working ahead, or where we went far afield (ie, history lesson on Australia that ended up becoming an online search through Australian animals and the sounds they make, and making anzac biscuits) - far beyond what the lesson wanted you to do.
Most days for us with dd1 were about 2 hours - sometimes more, sometimes less. However, they DO want us to put in the hours they expect (accountability thing since brick and mortar kids are putting in the LONG days I guess). Anyway, I would just let the default 'hours' be the hours I submitted when I would do attendance. So, even if we finished math in 10 minutes, I'd enter as if we'd done the full hour.
When you know your dd 'gets' something, then you don't have to keep going through more iterations of the same lesson - most lessons have 3-4 or more different ways of doing the learning goal for that lesson; once they get it, do the assessment and move on to a different lesson. I knew this intellectually but struggled with doing it in practice at first, I felt like I was skipping or cheating or something. But really, they themselves emphasize that once your kiddo understands, say, that 2 + 2 = 4, then don't waste their time and yours continuing to repeat that knowledge.
With my oldest he already knew everythign that K4 and K5 was supposed to teach (it's pretty basic), but they had to have him do the assessments before he could move up, so they said "Well, just do the send-in pages, don't worry about hte rest of it." So we did. 
Up to now our hs has been *very* relaxed. The online courses will be a new experience for us.
nice job for me remembering this early in the day). I'm literally bouncing at the fact that we'll be starting soon. In just under an hour my dcb will be here with his mom, and I have figured out my block scheduling already. I'm doing art on Mon, history on tues, science on wed, piano instruction and our appreciation on thurs, and then health and PE on friday. We bought Horizons health to do this school year, so it'll go perfectly with our needs I think (I hope!). Oh, and we'll also do Spanish lessons on Thursday along with music stuff (piano practice will still be done daily but the actual lesson is on thursdays). So that's how I *think* its going to go, but don't hold me to that just yet......... lol Oh I also have one extra of every lesson listed on Friday just in case we decide to do an extra lesson or two on our scheduled day.
Connections won't go any further without knowing for sure if he had a 504. Mind you that this was from 3 years ago..but whatever and apparently she's the only one in the whole school that can tell me yes/no.
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