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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just do the history as bedtime reading, thus accomplishing both required reading and supplemental history at the same time. No advice for science, we save it for the summers. Here's what we do:

Penmanship/writing, social studies, and logic are the major subjects I supplement during the school year. We also practice math facts and do daily reading as required by the girls’ school. Since reading and practicing math is required by the school I don’t consider that extra. Depending on the day, our supplemental subjects take my youngest 5-35 minutes and my oldest 15-45 minutes.

We do 5 minutes of penmanship (DD5.5) or 15 minutes of writing (DD7) every day. Every other day, we also do around 30 minutes of logic games and exercises (that they selected). On the days we don’t do logic, we use Story of the World, a non-fiction book about something historical/cultural, or a biography as our bedtime story. This covers the half hour of reading or being read to assigned by their school while simultaneously providing enrichment in Social Studies. Since it is to fulfill a school requirement as well I don’t consider it part of the time spent supplementing. Other days we read fiction and more typical bedtime stories.

Either doing math homework or practicing math facts for a few minutes a day is recommended by their school so we do that but no extra math. We would if they seemed to need it but so far they don’t.

Science and geography are saved for the summers -- we go to museums, go geocaching, do weekly country studies that involve me learning to make something new for dinner at least once or twice, mess around with science kits, or even just make explosions in the back yard with coke and mentos and then explore why things explode and what else we could safely blow up (chemistry, early-elementary style). These are things that at their age I want to just be natural, fun exploration and not a formal curriculum, so I save it for summer when we have more time to dig into a topic in depth.

The above is implemented in a really flexible way at our house; if we need to skip a few days or a week of the supplemental work for some reason, we will. The one standing exception to the above routine is that in the week following a birthday or the two week period following a holiday on which gifts were received, I suspend our “formal” writing practice and we do a “practical” writing program each day – thank you notes as copywork until all the notes have been written and mailed.
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Not the OP, but thank you for being so specific.  This is helpful.
(and you sound life a great mom!)[/quote]

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