A potpourri of things every day or on a rotation?

[pampered_mom]

Which approach do you take? Do you do a little bit of everything every day (handwriting, math, science, etc) or do you split the main subjects up and teach just that one (or two) subject(s) that day? And of course...why? :0)

[phathui5]

We pretty much do math and Lang. Arts every weekday. History and science we do 2/3 days a week each.

Math is daily because I think it's good to practice it often. Lang Arts is daily because there's a lot I want to cover.

[jessicaSAR]

We do core subjects every day - math, language arts (reading, writing, spelling, grammar) and latin. History, science and literature we do each two days per week. This way we are covering the essentials every day, and have longer blocks for the other subjects.

[nov05mama]

We are doing a more spread out approach this year...although, Language Arts is pretty much daily, the other subjects are more spread out.

Monday
Homeschool Co-Op (subjects vary weekly)
Folk/Fairy Tale Read-Aloud or FIAR story
Story Starter Cards (similar to Tell Me a Story cards)

Tuesday
Math
Geography
Headsprout

Wednesday
Handwriting
Language Arts
Art

Thursday
Math
Geography
Headsprout

Friday
Handwriting
Language Arts
Science

We do other read-alouds through-out the week as well, at the moment, we are reading through the Magic Treehouse series (in order through at least book 5 for now since we own the first 5 already).

[elizawill]

we also do core stuff daily & rotate art/history/geography/science.

[madrone]

Originally Posted by nov05mama

(lots of snips)
Tuesday Thursday Headsprout

What is Headsprout?

[elizawill]

Originally Posted by madrone

What is Headsprout?

it's an online reading program. www.headsprout.com

[skueppers]

We're going to try a weekly checklist method this fall. I'm not sure how it'll work out, but I figure we can always change it if it's not a success.

I've prepared a checklist of all the things we should aim to get done in a week in order to accomplish our goals for the year -- so many math lessons, so many reading sessions, so many science activities, etc.

Then my daughter is going to decide what she wants to do at any given time, and we'll check things off as we go along, remaining conscious of what still needs to get done for the week.

My motivation for devising this method was to give her the flexibility to choose what she wants to do when, but still have us both be accountable for getting everything done each week.

[madrone]

Thank you, ElizaWill!

[emilys_mom1]

Originally Posted by skueppers

We're going to try a weekly checklist method this fall. I'm not sure how it'll work out, but I figure we can always change it if it's not a success.

I've prepared a checklist of all the things we should aim to get done in a week in order to accomplish our goals for the year -- so many math lessons, so many reading sessions, so many science activities, etc.

Then my daughter is going to decide what she wants to do at any given time, and we'll check things off as we go along, remaining conscious of what still needs to get done for the week.

My motivation for devising this method was to give her the flexibility to choose what she wants to do when, but still have us both be accountable for getting everything done each week.

I really like this idea, I think I will do this on a weekly or even daily basis. Thanks