Time on School

Today I managed to get a rough outline of the amount of time that Chloe spent on school today.  Does that sound like a run on sentence?

Anyway - here's what I got:

She started school at 9am with maths and this took 1 hour and 15 mins.  It's long because she works slow, maths isn't her best subject, and she likes to get distracted.  We also had to go back and re-do a few sums because they were wrong and I wanted to rework them with her.  Then we jumped straight to Reading for another 1 hour.  Reading is long because of the bookwork that goes with the reader.  After this I let Chloe have a break.

Tally so far = 2 hours and 15 mins.

Resumed school at 3pm.  Doing English, Spelling and History to 4:20pm.

Then we finished off with Art to 4:45pm.

Tally at the end of the day was 4 hours for paper/bookwork.  Personally I think this is too long for a 7 year old.

Reading was separate - and I did that in the car when we were out at lunch.

Phebe also did a serious day of bookwork as well.  She's 5.

Like Chloe, Phebe also started at 9am.  She started with English / a MEP maths page / then Learning To Read.  She took her break at 10:30.

So she tallied in at 1 hour and 30 mins to begin with.

She resumed at 11:15 for 20 mins to do some more English ( an additional lesson ).

This brought her up to 1 hour and 50 mins.

At 3pm she went back to working on an additional Learn to Read lesson, then onto History, and then Art.

I think she might have had a break in there between the Learn to Read and the History.

Then finishing up at 4:45pm

That brought her up to 3 hours 35 mins.  Crazy for a 5 year old.

 Both girls did work on additional work, so that could account for the longer times for today.

Hannah, my Miss 3 also got to do a little work as well.  She did a color and paste activity for the letter /c/ and then played on Starfall.

I'd like to try this again on another day to see what we get, especially when they are not doing the additional catch up work.

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