Poll: Please settle an argument between dd and I

[StaceyinLA]

We are having a little disagreement about the hours a teenage home schooler spends doing school. She thinks I'm unreasonable in my expectations, and doesn't believe that other kids are doing as much as I'm telling her.

So, the poll is this:

Tell me what state you live in (don't ask my why she thinks states have anything to do with it, but please just add it for me).

Tell me how many hours your high schooler does schoolwork, and, if you have the time, break down about how much time per subject.

Thank you all for participating. I really appreciate it!

[CynthiaOK]

State: Oklahoma
Grade: 9th

BJU Biology (6 hours a week)
Math (Alg./Geo) (5 hours a week)
Spanish (4 hours per week)
History (approx. 10 hours per week)
Logic/Speech (approx. 4 hours per week)
English (approx. 6 hours per week)

Looks like he spends about 34 hours per week. I think it is safe to say he puts in about 6-7 hours per day as a minimum. Some weeks he spends more time on school due to essays, literature reading, labs, etc.

[GothicGyrl]

Florida
Important note: we have books, but could be defined as relaxed

Our subjects: Algebra 1, biology, english, grammar, history, home ec, spanish, and art.. all subjects except home ec/art, done everyday except monday. We work 9 am until noon or 1/2pm depending.

Too much work creates burn out. We get to everything we need to cover doing this AND I don't have burnt out or worn out kids. I'm teaching a 6th, 9th, and 10th grader on 10th grade work.

I refuse to shove 6 hours of school down them. That's why I pulled them out. :) Maybe I'm the wrong person to ask because it sounds like I agree with your DD. Oh to be fair, I'm not picking on anyone who does this, honestly. I just can't for my kids--they'd shut down. And also in the interest of fairness, we school year round--only taking the month of June off.

[Kelli in TN]

I am pretty laid back with my highschooler because she has a great deal of inner drive. Basically she typically does the following each day; 1 lesson of TT math (45 min to an hour), 30 minutes of Aleks, 60-90 minutes per day of Latin (Wheelocks, ugh), 1 to 2 hours of English/history/art appreciation (these two subjects are generally overlapping as the literature and writing are interwoven with the history, 30 minutes of flute practice. A couple of times per week she works on her Bible study for maybe 30 to 45 minutes per session.

Or something like that. She is driven and so I don't have to keep tabs on her, really. I am much more structured with my pre-highschoolers and if they don't grow up to be like her I will continue to be very structured with them.

[Grace is Sufficient]

It usually breaks down about like this... though often with large variation. This is probably fairly representative of an average day.

Bible or Logic - half hour
Language Arts - two hours (we give it extra time as it's a weakness)
Math - 1 hour
Chemistry - 45 minutes
Computer Science - 45 minutes
History - half hour
Spanish - half hour

He doesn't really like it either!

[Gwen in VA]

My 12th grader does 5 subjects and basically spends "forever' doing them.

AP physics -- unknown time
AP English Language -- probably 10 hours a week
AP Comp; Govt -- depends on the week, but between 8 and 10
Greek 3 -- maybe 7
microeconomics -- 7

If you include Civil Air Patrol and debate, he is pretty much always busy. Occasionally he finds time to play his fife and on the weekends he usually reads for an hour or so, but he is semi-constantly doing schoolwork.

My 8th grader (who would be 9th but we're repeating 8th) (daily)
algebra 1 -- 45 min
geometry -- 45 min
writing -- 30 min
logic -- 30 min
science -- 30 min
history -- 45 min
literature -- 60 min
Latin -- 45 min
programming -- as much as it takes

FWIW, with my older kids we spent most of 9th grade fighting over the amount of schoolwork. Our church mostly homeschools, but most of the kids are done by noon, so my kids were thinking that dh and I were asking way too much. And then you add in the fact that the kids in CAP who went to public school were talking about only having an hour or two of homework a night and commitment to schoolwork was definitely an uphill battle! About the middle of tenth grade my kids got really excited about their work, and since then they just do it and I sit and wonder at their motivation! (I am still hoping that this miracle happens with child #3!)

[Georgia in NC]

We school year round and end up w/about 40-42 weeks of school, so we do not do as much per day time-wise as most others here seem to do. We also did a lot of block scheduling where he would work for a couple hours a day on one subject (his choice). He is going to the local cc but isn't likely to go to a 4 yr so we were not as rigorous as some; he has spent a lot of time on computer training, since this is likely his vocation.

I schedule it something like this, about 4-5 hrs per day.

Math = 1hr
Hist/Science = 1-1.5 hrs (either done alternating terms or doing one 2 days a week and the other 2 days a week)
Language Arts stuff = 1-1.5 hrs
Misc. = Economics, Geography, Computer certs, various other stuff 1-1.5 hrs
Reading = fit in throughout the week. He did not do lot of Lit analysis type work since he loathes it. We just did one complete text, I will need way more time with my other kids for this...

He also did co-ops for lots of subjects throughout the years, Astronomy, Latin, Government and more; some were just tidbits really, but fun nevertheless.

He usually got done in less time though. It's amazing what you can do when you want to get to the "fun stuff". lol We never went by time in high school we went by material covered/mastered instead.

hth,
georgia

[kathleen]

My 11th grader's time schedule:

Math--approx 1 hour per day
History--1 hour
Am. literature--45 mins - 1 hour
AP literature--1.5-2 hours
AP Latin--1 hour
Theology--45 mins
Physics--45 mins

Besides this (I counted approx 6 3/4 to 7 1/2 hours), he practices piano for about one hour daily.

Oh, we live in Oregon.

[Kelli in TN]

that another reason for my being so very laid back with my high schooler is that her "free" time is generally taken up with very worthy pursuits. She spent probably 6-7 hours over the last couple of days perfecting her 4H portfolio. She spends time in volunteer work and service. So while I don't count those as school, I do let her structure her academics around them.

My biggest reason for homeschooling high school is to allow the freedom, time and personal space to pursue worthy and noble work.

If she wanted to use her free time to play wii or talk on the phone, she would have a lot more schoolwork and structure.

[Margaret in CO]

Well, I'm in the gap with no current highschoolers, but have graduated two--another one coming up next year! This is what my 2nd dd's senior year looked like:

Bri Lit (at home) about 1 hour a day
Private Pilot license: about 3 hours a week
Computer apps(at home): about 10 minutes a day other than using computer for other things
College orchestra: 6 hours in class a week, about half hour a day practice
cello at college about hour a day
piano at college about 30 minutes a day
high school sports about 2 hours a day depending on season, no spring sport
college calc: about 1.5 hours a day
college physics: about hour a day
college Spanish: about hour a day (one sem)
college architecture: about hour a day (one sem)
overseas college history class: about 2 hours a day prep for 6 weeks, then 24 hours a day for two weeks

sheep flock: at times 24 hours a day (lambing) and hour a day chores rest of the time

worked two jobs: about 2 hours a day
So, she was a busy camper--between work, sports, jobs and schoolwork, she probably was engaged 12 hours a day.

[Janice in NJ]

We start at 8:15 AM.
He gets a 15 minute break in the morning and a 45 minute lunch.
We TRY to be done by 5:00.
That doesn't always happen.

We live in NJ.

Peace,
Janice in NJ

Enjoy your little people
Enjoy your journey

P.S. Are you winning your case yet, momma?

[Kelli in TN]

P.S. Are you winning your case yet, momma?

Yes! Please come back and tell us how the argument ends!!:D

Who knows, we might need your help in an argument next time!:p

[Kris]

If she wanted to use her free time to play wii or talk on the phone, she would have a lot more schoolwork and structure.

This is my problem. My son doesn't want to use his free time in noble pursuits. Actually, I think he considers being the local expert on PS3 games to *be* a noble pursuit! :D

He gets started around 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. and finishes around 4:00 p.m. He takes breaks when he needs them, and usually takes an hour or so in the middle of the day to have some lunch and workout. Sometimes he works on the weekends, but not much, unless it's on his art, which he loves to do.

His friends don't get home from school until 4:00, but that's when the phone starts ringing. So even if we wanted to (which we don't), working much past that just wouldn't be possible.

So he's probably doing 30-35 hours a week of "real" work.

[percytruffle]

Here's the rough break down:

English (vocab, lit, writing, grammar): 2 hours/day

History: 45min - 1 hour/day

Science: 45min - 1 hour/day (longer when he's had lab sciences)

Math: right now about 30-45 min/day, but he is taking a side trek into consumer math and it is extremely easy compared to the Saxon Advanced Math last year which took about 2 hours/day

Art: 1-2 hours/day

American Government: .5-1 hours/day

Most days it evens out to about 6 hours. He begins at about 8 or 9 and is done by about 2 or 3.

We live in NY state.

[StaceyinLA]

The deal with her is that she works Tuesday afternoons and all day Wednesdays. We have Spanish tutor on Tuesday mornings (she goes straight to work after). Monday and Thursday mornings she is tutoring with Jann on the phone for about an hour or so (thank you Jann!!) After tutoring on Thursday mornings, we go to Biology co-op with a friend. This is fairly close by and we are gone about 3 hours (2-2 1/2 hours of actual class).

So, where we are is Mondays we have a full day at home to do school. Tuesdays, she has late evening/night to do school. Wednesdays - same. Thursdays we have afternoons/evening and Fridays we have another full day.

Generally, Spanish and Biology are getting some priority because they have to be done for class. This is good because the Bio should have been completed by the first half of this year (she is doing 10th/11th grade so this is really her first semester of 11th grade). The Spanish is awesome and I know she will be MUCH better prepared than dd#1 who did SOS for 2 years. My 3 in Spanish now have had more Spanish in under a year than all of SOS, so I'm not complaining.

Math is now getting more priority because Jann is giving her work and she is needing to have it done for tutoring sessions (a good thing).

We try to get grammar in daily, and she is pretty good at it so that's working. History is suffering some as she is barely working it in. Writing is suffering terribly, as there have been NO papers written this year.

I just don't feel like we're getting the hours in, and she thinks I'm being unreasonable about the amount of hours necessary. When she comes down for me to check her work shortly, I will share what you guys have posted - then I'll let you know who wins!

[Kelli in TN]

This is my problem. My son doesn't want to use his free time in noble pursuits. Actually, I think he considers being the local expert on PS3 games to *be* a noble pursuit! :D

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Oh, my oldest was the same way. And at the time I still had toddlers and babies. So, while I would push and nag and beg and plead, he usually did not accomplish anywhere close to what I needed him to accomplish to call it a day.

That boy made me about crazy sometimes. But he turned out okay in the end!:)

[JennW in SoCal]

My son spends lots of his time pursuing worthwhile interests in the field in which he wants a career (technical theater). He will get high school credit for all the hours he puts in each week, but I don't think of that time as part of his academic workload. It looks like this:

10th/11th grade:

The academic part of his day starts at 11am, and can last anywhere from 3-6 hours, depending on whether he is writing a paper, doing a project or being plain ol' pokey!
Geometry
Spanish
World History
Literature
Biology

He puts in anywhere from 10-20 hours per week working in a youth theater and doing tech at church. There are a few weeks each year that he works more, and we adjust the academics those weeks.

I'd like to add that this isn't a college prep workload as my ds is not looking to apply to a competitive 4 year college. He will likely start at a community college and perhaps do an internship at one of the local theaters.

You'll have to share with us how the poll goes over with your own kids -- and why our state matters!!

[Sandra in NC]

My 15 yo son is in the 10th grade and spends from 8:30 a.m. until 6:00 pm Monday-Friday on school work, with a break for lunch. He has 2 Stanford EPGY courses and a Pennsylvania Homeschool AP class. These take a lot of time! We are doing Apologia Chemistry and Rosetta Stone German together. He usually works on all 5 classes each day.

He's "free" after 6 pm during the week and on weekends. He's only had to do school work on one or two Saturdays so far this year.

Sandra in NC

[Bev in B'ville]

Okay, as a member and cofounder of the Draconian Homeschoolers.....

Georgia: 14 yo dd
AP Biology - 15+ hours/week, depending on labs, quizzes, etc.
Bible - 30 minutes/day
World History - 1.5 hours/day
Literature - 1/5-2.0 hours/day
Spelling - 30 minutes/day
Writing - 15-30 minutes/day (does not include writing for other classes)
Grammar - 15-30 minutes/day
Algebra 2 - 1 hour/day
Geometry - 1 hour/day
Latin - 30-45 minutes/day
Test Prep (PSAT, ACT, SAT-II, & AP Bio) - approx. 3 hours/week
Consumer Economics - 30 minutes/day
Logic (just finished) - 1 hour/day

Dd is VERY self-driven. She wakes herself up at 5:30 to start her day, occasionally working well into the evening. I don't push her, she pushes herself. Also, she works part-time as a certified soccer referee.

[Michelle in MO]

Grammar - 30 minutes/day
Vocabulary (WW-11) - 15 min/day
Writing (now, two overlapping tutorials) - 2-3 hours/day; this will drop off by the end of February; Bravewriter tutorial ends tomorrow; Intermediate Progymnasmata tutorial with Cindy Marsch ends at the end of February
Math - 1-1/2 hours day - Geometry
Apologia Chemistry - 6 hours/week
Omnibus II - 1 to 1-1/2 hours/day
Piano - 30 min/day (not as much as I'd like, but it's our compromise)
Voice - 15-30 min/day

Altogether, probably 6-7 hours a day.

I get plenty of complaints from my dd about our schedule! I'm trying to learn to spread things out and lighten things up when I can, but it's not always possible!

[FloridaLisa]

This is a very rough estimate, as my ds is usually *up in his room* and I don't know exactly how much time is spent on what. Some weeks are particularly busy and he needs lots of weekend time; other weeks aren't quite so busy.

Here's the breakdown in Northeast Florida:D:

Alg. II review w/ ALEKS -- 5 hours per week; Jacob's Geometry - 7 hours per week.

AP Biology: 10 - 15 hours per week

AP Human Geography: 7 hours per week

Logic class: 3 hours per week

Literature class: 7 hours per week

Writing/Shakespeare class: 5 hours per week

Debate: 5 hours per week (varies widely depending on whether gearing up for tournament).

His outside commitments include youth and youth leadership, JV Basketball, Track and self-employed yardwork :).

HTH,
Lisa

[Jane in NC]

Okay, as a member and cofounder of the Draconian Homeschoolers.....



The times below are rough daily averages for my 15 y/o (10th grade):

Alg II/Trig 1.5 hrs
Biology 1.5 - 2 hrs (Additional 2 - 3 hours of work on the weekend)
Latin 45 min
Language/History ala WTM 2 hrs (plus Teaching Company CDs in the car as we go back and forth to hockey and additional reading time)

French 45 min

My son also enjoys team competitions, so depending on the season he studies forestry, thinks about robotics, or is working on Environmental Issues for the Envirothon competition. As I write, he is assembling his 4-H project books which are due tomorrow (Yikes! Nothing like procrastination to drive a Mum nuts!) Weekend work is expected here. My husband and I spent many Saturday afternoons of high school in the library, so we expect my son to do the same.

Like Bev, I have a motivated student. My son is not much of a television watcher and is an avid reader. Granted, much of what he reads I consider "junk" (sci/fi or fantasy that I'll never understand) but at least he reads not only his assigned material, but a variety of other things.

[percytruffle]

We try to keep our days just for school, except every other Friday when he goes to co-op to play chess for an hour, just for fun. Other pursuits are left for afternoons or evenings. Two nights he plays floor hockey, one night he has fencing class, and free time is often spent drawing or woodworking. We are not big tv watchers. We do watch House and StarGate Atlantis, but that's about it. He also plays computer games with some of his free time, but he is pretty good about self-monitoring the time spent. He is also learning to drive and looking for a job. If we didn't have those daytime hours dedicated to strickly schoolwork I'm sure we'd become sidetracked!

[Barb F. PA in AZ]

Since January 5th, Jenna has a standing babysitting job working 12-16 hours per week, so we've let a couple of things slide until she adjusts to the new schedule. She used to work 6-8 hours per day, but now it's more like 4-6 or so. She's in 9th grade in AZ.

Approximations:
Trig - 1 hour
Latin - 1 hour
Language Arts (inc. grammar, voc, comp. and lit) - 1 or 2 hours
Logic - 30 minutes
History - 30 minutes

We'll pick back up with Biology later in the semester, but we've dropped it for now.

I also have a 12th grader, but she takes all of her classes at the CC.

Barb

[Chris in VA]

Guess I'll jump on this bandwagon!

Ds 18 (Junior)

Sonlight 300 Just the History portion takes about 30 minutes of reading a day, plus we discuss for about 30 minutes 3 or 4 times a week

Math--with Dad. Takes about 30 minutes 4 days a week for a lesson, then 45 minutes or so per lesson to do the "homework"

French--maybe 30 minutes a day, some days we skip

Lit--Reading alone probably takes about an hour or maybe longer everyday. We don't do much writing right now.

Bible--This is just daily devotions for the next several weeks; ds reads the One Year Bible, so they take about 20 mins

Chemistry--30-45 mins a day, plus study time for tests

Music History--three to four times a week, readings take about 30 mins, listening takes about 20-30 mins

Driver's Ed--1 hour everyday, or less if he wants; when he's done, he can take the driving portion, so he's motivated.

I also assign chores, and those take about 30 mins everyday.
Ds can wake up whenever he wants, but is usually working by 9 am. He does not have a job outside the home. Dh does math with him at night, after dinner. And, we haven't assigned ANY papers this year.

[Karen in CO]

He is a senior this year and takes cc classes so his classes are a bit different.
Japanese - 4 hours per week in class with about equal time outside class studying.
Philosophy- 3 hours per week in class with 6 hours per week reading for class more studying for tests and working on papers.
Italian - 3 per week in class and 3 doing homework out of class plus about 2 per week in language lab.

British lit at home - 6 hours per week.

WHo is winning?

[Blue Hen]

Delaware (very relaxed hs'ing laws)

10th grade
AP Biology; 2hrs/day + Plus there are once/week chat sessions in the evening for an hour.
Pre-Calc; 1hr/day +
Great Books; 2 - 3hrs/day (this history & English)
Computer Programming; 1hr/day +
Rhetoric: 1hr/day
Spanish; 1hr/day
Industrial Arts; 1hr/day plus weekends --- DS is building a strip-built kayak
grammar; 30min/day
PE; 1hr/day (walks the dogs and works out)

Yea, that's right. He starts school by 8am and finishes up around 4:30pm. He does PE and more boat building in the evening.

[DollyM]

I can't break it out by subject. DS pretty much spends 9-3 on school work.

Monday - 9-3:30 with a one hour break for Piano (less lunch)
Tues - 9-3pm or so including a 1.5 hour history seminar outside the home
Wed 9-3:30 school all day
Thu 9-Noonish and then typically slacks off
Fri 9-3:30 at co-op all day.

He has youth group on Tuesday nights, and Fencing on Mon & Friday nights so there's no school then. He might read on wed or thur afternoon/evenings.

I dunno: that looks like about 30 hours a week.

Subjects: Spanish 1, Geometry, History, English, Biology, Java programming.

[Linda in NM]

[quote=Bev in B'ville;28781]Okay, as a member and cofounder of the Draconian Homeschoolers.....

Georgia: 14 yo dd
AP Biology - 15+ hours/week, depending on labs, quizzes, etc.
Bible - 30 minutes/day

[Bev in B'ville]

through Scholar's Online. She's working VERY hard for this class, but it's her favorite class. I highly recommend it.

Bev

[MelodyInTx]

Well I guess I will jump in.

Language Arts- LL, with supplements. 1 hr of class time daily and 30-45 minutes of homework

Math- Saxon Adv Math- 1-2 hrs in class 3 times a week

Latin Henle 2- 45 minutes per day

World Geography 1 hr 3 times a week class time, then ~30 minutes a day of homework

Apologia Physics about 5 hours a week [I thought this would be hard for my daughter and she is just blowing right through this. She is averaging a module every 6 days.]

How Great Thou Art - 45 minutes - 1 hr a day. They are really enjoying this.

Sociology and Computer class at local college.

My daughter justed asked if we can do some personal finance, so we will be adding on a 1/2 credit for that. I anticipate that will add 15-30 minutes a day in class then another 45 minutes homework daily.

[Kareni]

I have an 11th grader here who is taking all classes outside the home this year.

She has 12 hours at the Community College:

Trig
Composition
Geology

plus two AP classes:

Latin
Comparative Politics & Government

plus one hour of Chalkdust SAT Math review

I can't begin to count hours but basically she works almost all evenings and a good chunk of time on the weekends as well as around her daily class time.

Regards,
Kareni

[ereks mom]

ER is a senior this year. We school Monday through Thursday. Here are his courses for first semester this year and the estimated amount of time he worked per day, including "class time" and "homework":

Worldview & Apologetics (Starting Points) - 1 to 1.5 hours
Apologia Advanced Physics - 1 to 1.5 hours
TRISMS (history & literature 1800-present) - 2 hours
Lial College Algebra - 1 to 1.5 hours
ACT Test Prep - 30 minutes
TOTAL: about 6 to 7 hours per day

In addition to this, he also:
has a part-time job two afternoons a week
practices piano daily & has a weekly piano lesson
goes to church praise band practice once a week
bowls in a league once a week (counts as P.E.)

[Vicki]

We're in Tx. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we generally work from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. On Tuesday we work from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM and then go to choir from 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM and then guitar lesson at 3. On Thursday we have co-p. My dd often works in the evening on co-op homework.
God bless,
Vicki

[Michelle in GA]

My highschooler does...

1 hour a day of reading for literature.( He just finished Of Mice and Men)

15 minutes per day working through Abeka Grammar&Comp III

45 minutes per day writing(We were using Wordsmith, but IEW, Level C is on the way)

15 minutes per day on Vocabuary (Vocab. Cartoons)

1 hour per day on Spanish I (BJU DVD's)

1 hour(sometimes 1 hour and 30 minutes) on Physical Science(BJU DVD's)

1 Hour per day on History (Truthquest History-Rome&Middle Ages)

20 minutes a day on geography

30 minutes a day on Health


With lunch and a few short breaks, we work from about 8-3pm, sometimes 4pm(but rarely)


Hope this helps!!

Also-My son is a freshman at college and his work load is quite large. It is good to build up the stamina required while in highschool. Just my extra $.02 :)

[Kris]

Oh, my oldest was the same way. And at the time I still had toddlers and babies. So, while I would push and nag and beg and plead, he usually did not accomplish anywhere close to what I needed him to accomplish to call it a day.

Now you've got me wondering if he was asking for brothers and sisters as part of some nefarious plan! Hummmmm :D

That boy made me about crazy sometimes. But he turned out okay in the end! :)

Not too long ago, that wouldn't have seemed possible. Now that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't always a train, I'm starting to have hope!

Will probably still be crazy -- and bald -- and grey -- but I'm sure *he'll* be okay. :D

[Deb in NZ]

45 minutes daily in the following subjects: ( usually 9:00-12:00)

Math
English (spelling & composition)
Science
Languages (Latin + their chosen modern language)

Lunch break is 12:00-12:45

Afternoons (12:45-3:00) vary due to activities.

M / W / TH = 45 minutes each of Geography, Literature, & instrument practice
T = Flute Lesson & SPCA for dd, errands & library for ds
F = HS swim

I try to give a bit of time for interest learning as all 3 dc have a full week of "extras." Dd is a Young Mariner (2hrs/wk + sailing & camps), Venturer Scout (2hrs/wk + camps), sails 2-3 times a week, volunteers at the SPCA (2hrs/wk), takes gymnastics (90 minutes/wk), plays flute in the Youth Music concert band (2hrs/wk). Ds#1 is a Sea Scout (2hrs/wk + camps), is a competitive gymnast (4-6 hrs/wk), coaches beginning boys gymnastics (1-2 hrs/wk), plays drum in the local pipeband (1-3hrs/wk), & wants to start karate (2hrs/wk). Both dc have paper routes that take up 2-3 hrs/wk.

We want to balance booklearning with real life learning, thus make sure to take these outside activities into consideration when making up the year's goals for HS/ing.

JMHO,

[petree]

The following is my 7th grade daughter schedule:

7th grade:
1st) Saxon Math 1.5 hr.
2nd) Rod & Staff Grammer (2 lessons daily) 1 hr.
3rd) Vocabulary/Spelling Workout 15-30 min.
Lunch
History (Mon-Fri: Reading, Outline, Report, Map/Timeline, Test) 1.5 hr.
Intro. logic video & workbook pages 1hr.
Latin (memorize 10 new words ea. wk: English from Roots Up) 15-30 min
Music (Violin ) 30 min.
Science (reading, research, experiment or sketch)1-1.5 hr.
3 days a week: Poetry memorization
One hour of pleasure reading at bedtime

She can choose order of schedule after lunch.
Anything left incomplete or marked incorrect is evening "homework".
The thing that has helps us stay on track (2 girls ages 10 & 13) is noting a set amount of time per subject.

Generally keep this schedule 3-4 weeks in a row with a couple days to one week off year round. (I try to get some type of field trip in during an "off week".)
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