How long is your daily kindergarten time?

[eastkygal]

I'm looking across this school year (DD1 is doing k this year) and I am wondering how much time a day I should spend on "school". We do a circle time and then she does some workbook stuff. We have a story time. Then, a craft on some days. It all takes an hour sometimes two if we count the craft time, but I don't always. Then, I try to involve her in daily activities around the house where she learns as we do. We are inspired by unschool, but DD1 also thrives on and thoroughly enjoys bookwork, so that is where the workbooks fall.
Currently, we are reviewing shapes and numbers. She just learned to write 1-10. She is really anxious to learn her letters. I'm thinking I might throw in a letters activity along with the reviewing. Right now, we are only singing our ABCs. DD1 write her name, her sister's name, and she makes several letters on her own (and her own "words"). Would adding that in be too much for a K student? I'm not sure how much is too much for a 5 year old.
I also have my DD2 who is only 2. She has to be involved, but she doesn't like bookwork. hehehe Even coloring. She gets grouchy.
I'm going to have two very different learners on my hands.

[onyxravnos]

my DS is doing K this year. there is about an hour of actual offical 'school' (oak meadows K program + crafts) and sometimes a little book work if he's in the mood that day. and then there is 30min- an hour of reading time at least throughout the day and of course lots of real life stuff. He HATES circle time activities so that's a no go in my house.

For your two year old maybe invest in some special 'school time' toys? Stacking blocks, scoops and containers for water/sand play, other special toys that only come out at school time but don't really require a lot of help from you? montessori-n-such.com has some great things.

[nov05mama]

About an hour of actual 'sitting at the table doing work' time...we read aloud and do other activities throughout the day, but as far as actual school work, we are normally there for about 30-45 minutes...art day is usually longer

[karemore]

It depended on DDs interest level.

Some days she'd want to sit and work for an hour, then do a craft, read stories, other days she'd only want to sit on the floor with blocks or dinosaurs or something.

Some weeks she was very into language arts, other weeks she only wanted to do math. I went with her interest. She learned SO much more when it was coming from her. I just made sure I had everything on hand.

DD would NOT color either, but this past year (5) she started to enjoy it. I think until she could do it well, she didn't want to do it at all. The workbook phases come and go too.

Have fun!!

[rockportmama]

We do our Pre-K/K work during DD's naps. So it's different every day. Sometimes we read books, bake, play, art, or do workbooks. He likes to print & have me read the phonics books from starfall.com or progressivephonics.com.

Most of our homeschool time is when he asks me questions. He's at the "String has a ring in it!" stage. So we sound out the words and I write them down or spell them on the fridge with letter magnets.

Whether it's during our school time or not, I'm learning to look for signs of interest or boredom. That makes everything go smoother!

Now that I think about it, he asked yesterday to cut and paste. Off to search for cut & paste things.

[rootzdawta]

We'd been working for about 30 minutes daily. DS is starting K/1 and so I'm upping the time to an hour.

[frugalmama]

we're planning on about 3 hours a day split in segments, with about a third of that being crafts and another quarter or so read aloud time.

[elizawill]

in kindergarten and grade 1, our days are no more than an hour.

[violingirl]

We take about an hour to do his work. I don't focus on time, but that we do certain things each day. I try to make sure that we work with numbers, do a bit of phonics work, that my son reads to me and I read to him, and that he writes each day. He also practices piano every day.

We've been starting the day with free time for projects he wants to work on and if he covers some of our daily objectives for the more formal stuff during his project time I don't worry about it during our more formal time.

[kgianforti]

Hmmmm...I had to really reflect on this because we are interest led here and I have a very aggressive learner. Today, she spent a large part of the day working on various crafts, coloring and painting which I would count as school. Another day, she happily sits and does 45 minutes of science then another 45 minutes of math work. I read aloud in 30 minute sessions because my voice gets tired. She also reads aloud to me. We don't do any formal phonics or handwriting yet but she'll sit and try and do copywork on her own (which I count for school). She will also observe a snail outside with her magnifying glass for a while or play with her talking globe for 20 minutes - all school.

We have to report hours, I believe so I take into account all the stuff I have curriculum for and all the stuff she does on her own (like the crafts, snail watching, globe playing, puzzles, etc).

We don't work through the curriculum daily so some days it's just time spent on her own things and some days it's a bit of both. But I can't really put hours to it.

I am going to start recording this fall though, like in a planner.

I guess my post wasn't very helpful for your question except if you are following your kiddos interests and lead, then you are doing "enough".