Anyone here do one or two subjects per day. ex..Monday: Language and History, Tuesday:Math and Science...and so on? We have never really done it that way but lately it has been more appealing to do less subjects but spend more time in them. We've had days where we will just do Language and History and the next day Math and Science. And so on for the rest of the week. We do Bible and Vocabulary everyday. But here lately they've asked if they can just spend a couple hours in 2 main subjects and do the others later in the week. We more than get our hours in for the day. Just wondering if anyone else does this. And how do your children do when it comes to taking the test in that subject. I have a son that doesn't work well under pressure and he seems to do better if he thinks were only doing a couple subjects per day. Just a wondering and thinking on things!
Well, we don't do one subject per day. But our schedule is set up in such a way that we could spend hours in one subject and then not do it for several days. It works well for us. Some subjects work better that way like history, geography, or science. You can see a link to our schedule in my signature if you wanted to see how I have things set up. It makes every day different which keeps things interesting. I don't give tests on most subjects. Discussions about the subject matter let me know if my children have learned the topic.
If that's what they're asking for, try it. What do you have to lose? If it doesn't work, go back to whatever you're doing. We do certain subjects only once or twice a week, but things like math and Bible are daily.
I don't do it that way, either, but other than reading, math, and LA (very light right now), everything else is on a cycle. 2 days ss, 2 days math. 2 days health, 3 days gym . Supposed to also be 2 art, 2 music but Mom got of track With my two, the repetition daily helps. If, for example, we don't practice her reading, dd forgets whatever we just learned. Mine are young, though. I can definitely see the benefit of longer periods for each subject. I wasn't overly happy at how rushed our sci was last week, which means we really didn't delve into it like I wanted to.
Thanks everyone. We may try it out for this next grading period and see how it goes. I will be discussing this with them tomorrow. Might be what we need to break up the monotony of things around here. Let ya'll know how it works out.
I would love to do this, but somehow it just does not happen. I tried to do Science MWF and History/Soc Studies T TH, but we get sidetracked or something gets skipped, and it just does not seem to work for us. Any advice on how to get this to work?
We've tried to do this too. I REALLY wish we could but it never works out for our family either. Something comes up and I end up having to push whatever subject we were doing that day aside and then I try to squeeze it in with other subjects and we just always end up back to doing it all in one day.
Spoke with the kids this morning about it and they are excited. Until I said we would be spending at least two hours per subject. But they are open to it so that makes me happy they are willing to try it for awhile. I think it will allow for more "fun" learning and more projects. It also got their wheels turning which I liked. We'll see.
That is basically block scheduling, right? I have never done that. But my oldest is trying that out this year with her studies a bit.
Ava - how old is your oldest? My problem is Mondays and Tuesdays are super busy, and on Tuesday mornings, we are at Guitar/Piano for almost 2 hours so they have to bring work with them and for some subjects that is just not feasible. What I ended up doing is trying to block subjects, and on Thursdays when we have park day, there is no science unless something got pushed, and on Fridays before co-op, we don't do history at all (again, unless something gets pushed). Right now that is about as close as we can get.
Gwenny: My oldest is 13. She is blocking her schedule because I signed her up for an online school and she has a lot to catch up on. She doesn't mind...the girl doesn't get enough work. She enjoys that schedule though. So...since we most likely will not stick with the online school (miss homeschooling) she will continue the pattern. She is only in volleyball right now...so it's working out well for her. My son does his daily work...and then focuses on any projects or experiments in the afternoon. So that's not really blocking anything....no reason to mention it..lol
Although I have middle school aged kids, they are adopted and some are language learners home 1 year. That means we work very heavily on Language Arts almost daily, and we try to do math daily as well, but everything else is block learning. We spend 2+ hours on science, geography and history and just keep rotating them on a loose schedule. It works for us quite well, and if I tried to cram it all in every day I'd pull my hair out! As they grow in skill level I can already see all of my kids drifting more towards block learning as they all often ask to do 2 hours of math so they can get a couple of extra lessons done, or to blow out a lot of one of their language arts items at once. They love doing history/science studies for longer blocks, so we will drift towards whatever works comfortably for them. I tend to like the longer and deeper learning sessions myself as well. But really, I think if we allow them to, our kids guide us towards theiur best learning schedules if we just get out of the way. I am learning that over time here as in January I went towards a more self-directed schedule for all of ours, with set times for group subjects but all other learning scheduled by them throughout the week...very easy to see the drift towards blocks of learning. Cindy
Ok so this week has been crazy with sick kids and me not feeling well at all. The whole block-schedule has been way off and didn't really like it at all. We didn't get enough done like I was planning. Will give it another try next week but I don't know.
