Any first grade homeschoolers here? What is your weekly schedule?

Question

There were months that I'll have a strict schedule and we do get a lot of things done but I get so stressed out. During those times that I'm lax and just goes with the flow I would sometimes be surprised on how much my child had learned. I was wondering though what is your typical homeschooling schedule. I'm creating mine and would like more inputs. Thanks for reading and taking time to answer this.

Answer 1

We're the relaxed type. Other than 30 minutes with me a day with my now gr. 2 son to work on reading, handwriting and math, the rest is kind of go-with-the-flow. You don't need a schedule to learn, as you have discovered. He does lots of other stuff that comes up without me having to specifically plan for it in advance.

As I shared in another answer, a local principal told one homeschooling mom that homeschooled kids in gr. 1 shouldn't spend more than 1 hour on formal work a day. He didn't say should spend 1 hour--shouldn't spend more than 1 hour. Some kids will naturally want to spend more than that and that's fine.

Answer 2

I spend 1.5 hours homeschooling my first grader.  We do math, phonics and language arts for about 1 hour first thing in the morning.  Then in the afternoon we spend another 10-15 minutes on handwriting and math drill.

1-2 hours a day should be plenty, if you add to that reading, nature walks, projects, field trips, activities and learning through the course of daily life.

Answer 3

We used Five in a Row at that age and it took us less then an hour a day most days.   Some days the kids really got into our projects and it went for hours (for the "formal") parts.  

After the formal stuff was over we would spend our time reading, doing fun projects, taking walks, making collections of leaves or whatever, etc.  

It's fun when they are in the younger grades.   I miss it a lot.