Using Times in a Flexible Schedule
I've always used flexible schedules for our school time. When my oldest was in the early grades, one year I tried putting together a detailed schedule for her with specific times for each subject. We couldn't stick to the times, as anyone with several young children at home (especially with a baby) will understand, and my estimates for how long things would take were usually too high, but just plotting the work out like that gave us a sense of how much was realistic to expect in a day. Since then, I've used other scheduling methods to help juggle the needs of multiple kids (I have four school-aged and one preschooler right now) as well as to train for independence. You can see more about how this has worked for us in these posts: Sample Term Schedules Organizing Our AO Year Categorizing Our Schoolwork Organizing Our Homeschool This type of organization of our day really worked well for us, but for two of my four school-age kids it wasn't working as well...