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I am curious- how many hours a day do your 6th, 7th and 8th graders work on prepared lessons each day?
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Good question. My 5th grader works about 3 hours/day, but I'm wondering if that seems on target or not. That includes morning readings (as a family) and his individual subjects.
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By 8th, my current 9th grader was doing . . . 4 hours/day? 5? It's hard to say, because often his lessons would go on more or less all day, but he took lots of breaks.
I'd say that by 6th grade they're doing 3-4 hours/day -- you're definitely out of "2 hours and we're done!" land by then. I'm thinking in the ballpark of 3 hours for my rising 5th grader for next year, for example. And in 7th and 8th, I'm definitely trying to acclimate them to the idea of a full high-school schedule, even if we aren't quite there yet.
It's easier for me to think in terms of time frames for individual subjects -- by 6th grade they're doing 30-45 minutes per subject, say, as opposed to a good hour/day/subject in high school (and often 2 hours for math). In earlier grades they would have been doing 20-30-minute lessons. By 8th, we're a lot closer to that hour/subject/day. 7th is sort of in between -- we're looking at much closer to 45 minutes than 30 for a lesson. How long it actually takes a person to get through this is up for grabs, of course . . .
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My very serious 9th grader does about 4 or 5 hours a day. That does not include piano practice or running. My less serious 11th grader does what he needs to and gets done in about 3 or so - but then I find out he didn't really get everything done! i should also mention that both boys work independently with very little time with my direction.
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My 8th grader does about 5 or 6 hrs a day and my 6th grader does about 4 hrs a day.
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In 6th grade, my kids spend about 4 hours on work a day.
My 7th graders do about 4 - 5 hours of work a day.
By 8th grade, it's about 5 hours of solid work.
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I'm glad to hear that others are taking 4 - 5 hours per day to accomplish their work. I still hear so many say that they have everything done in 3 hours and wonder why it takes us so long to get our work done! My daughter is in seventh grade and some days we can be finished in about 4 hours, but most days we work about 5.
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F/U question:
Do your estimates include family read alouds?
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Yes, though as mine have gotten older, more of the reading has shifted to them. I don't have littles any more (snif), so our read-alouds are geared at the moment to grades 3 and 4. We read for typically half an hour-45 minutes (I'm guesstimating), and then the rest is their independent work. For my rising 5th-er, I'm seeing this staying about the same, proportionally speaking. Possibly it will for 6th, too, as I have the two of them, and they function well as a "class," which my older ones never did. So I am anticipating more face-to-face time with the two of them at later stages than I had with the olders, and yes, I think I'm including that in my estimated time.
Make sense? I feel very muddled this rainy day!
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eta: I am thinking ahead about the current 3rd and 4th-ers, by the way, not including my one older one in that routine. He's pretty much off on his own. He was in 8th, too, by his own choice, so my estimate of his time spent on schoolwork did NOT include family read-alouds.
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SallyT wrote:
| We read for typically half an hour-45 minutes (I'm guesstimating), and then the rest is their independent work. |
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This is the same for us. In the morning we do family readings and our scripture memory work. That takes 30-45 minutes. My 5th grader then has about 2 hours (or a little more) of independent work.
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