In our homeschool, we did all of our assigned course work in 4 days each week. The fifth day was reserved for my kids to explore their areas of special passion. It was still a "school day" but we left it generally unstructured. When my kids were younger, that fifth day was reserved for "park day" or "book report lunches. " As they got older, however, the fifth day was left for them to study there areas of passion (in our case, chess and economics) and also to work at meaningful employment.
I am typically asked how we managed to "do it all" in four days. To put it briefly, the answer is - we didn't!
We used Sonlight for nearly all of their elementary and junior high. Many of the things my children could accomplish in 4 days. We didn't "do it all" though. We seldom opened the instructors guide at ALL - we only did the assignments as shown in the schedule, without all the analysis and discussion. Some of their reading that was on the Sonlight schedule wasn't something they considered to be work, so they would read that during the 5th day without me telling them to. They also did a complete math lesson together with a complete foreign language lesson on the fifth day with home school material. With Apologia, we could complete science in 3 or 4 days a week, and a great deal of the other stuff wasn't as rigid as the math, foreign language, and Sonlight.
I feel it's RATHER significant not to overwhelm your child, and you are in the perfect position to recognize what that looks like. You should not encourage your child to do too much so that their absorption of the content slips.
In brief, you shouldn't do what I did - do what will work for YOU and your homeschool.
Usually, homeschooling normally allows adequate time for specialization. Provided you schedule time for fun, it won't make any difference if it's a little bit every day, or a whole bunch once a week (like I did it. )#) I regularly see kids doing stuff for fun, for specialization, and the mom is listing it as school. It IS school, and it SHOULD be put on the transcript. At the same time, those fun things are specialization. You don't have to leave time for further specialization if they are already doing it.
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