Friday, October 23, 2020

Do you work on every subject every day?

 Do you work on every subject everyday?  It depends.  Our little household is working to complete quarter exams.  This week the bulk of our energy has gone into studying and testing.  Usually, we make the Core Four, Math, History, Science, and English a priority.  We make adjustments.  If Paul is writing a book report, we do Vocabulary, and ease off Grammar that day.  If we are doing a science lab in the afternoon, we do one page in the Science workbook.  

I home-school a teen, too.  She does much better with blocks of subjects on different days.  Together we save blocks of time for editing papers.  We meet by Zoom frequently, sometimes daily to assess progress.  We make adjustments all the time.  

Young kids thrive in structure.  Assign a bit of work in every subject every day.  As the kids mature, try to balance the work.  If we have a heavy load of tests, we assign reading in the textbooks, rather than loads of written work.  If a science model takes an hour, I divide the Grammar into smaller chunks.  How does your child thrive?  Go ahead and make adjustments.

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