Our Classical Education Schedule

Spelling:  10-15 minutes daily of Modern Curriculum Press' Spelling Workout

Grammar: 15-20 minutes daily of "First Language Lessons For The Well Trained Mind"

Reading: 30-60 minutes daily of reading myths and stories from ancient times, followed by her narrating a few sentences and illustrating them

Writing: 10-15 minutes of "Handwriting Without Tears"

Math: 30-60 minutes of working in "Math Mammoth 1B"

History and Geography: 1hr/ 3 days a week from "Story of the World"
Day 1: Read the text and she narrates and illustrates what we've read
Day 2: Map work and the coloring page, any additional books on the topic
Day 3: Activity

Biography:  20 minutes daily, from various sources
Read a short biography of a notable person from ancient times, narrate it back to me and illustrate. Then add that name to our timeline.

Science:  60-90 minutes/2 days a week from "R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey Life Sciences"

Nature Study: 20 minutes daily, various sources.
Read about a bird, tree or plant from our area, do a narration and illustrate.  If it's a tree or a plant find an example and paste a leaf in the nature notebook.

Latin:  20 minutes/2x weekly from "Song School Latin"

We've been following this for a few weeks now and it's been working out well.  It took us a long time to tweak things but I think we finally found what worked for us.

A few things have changed.   One was science.  I didn't like just doing an animal a week, it felt like twaddle.  Now we've switched to a science curriculum that she really enjoys.

She is still doing Mango Languages Japanese now and then.