This was our schedule/curriculem from 8th and 1st grade:

Classical Education

We start our day around 6am. That's when my oldest gets up. By 7:00, he is ready to start studies. On a good day. These are his books and what he does on a weekly basis:

8th grade:

• Bible: Just reads and prays for about 30 minutes. Right now he is reading James. Nothing formal.
• Math: VideoText Interactive Algebra. He usually does 2 lessons per week. That's about 45 minutes a day.
• Writing: Rod and Staff Grammar. He works on 1 writing lesson per week. We work on the writing and grammar separate from each other. For example, he is on lesson 52 in the writing and lesson 70 in the grammar. During the week he complete the lesson and often does other work related to the lessons concept during the week.
• Grammar: Rod and Staff Grammar. Right now we are working on the second half of the level 7 book. We do at least 2 lessons a week. Odds on one day, evens on the next.
• Reading: 1 hour per day. I try to have him complete a book in about 2 weeks give or take depending on the book. I have him write a summary when he finishes.
• Spelling: Vocabulary From Classical Roots: We haven't started this yet, but I hope to soon.
• History: We are just starting a new book. We are using Story of the World for reading, discussion, maps, activities, and tests. Yes, I test. I think it's a necessary evil. I do not base my decisions off of them, though. We also us The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia for reading and outlining. So, during the week, he reads, outlines, maps, discusses and answers written questions, does a history project and writes 1 short report on the topic.
• Science: Apologia Physical Science. We go though 1 module (Chapter) in 2 weeks. During that time he reads, experiments, writes lab reports, and takes a test. THIS is an incredible resource for daily lesson plans for Apologia.
• French: The Easy French. He has a set check list that he must compete daily for this program. A lot of listening, phonogram practice, rule memorization and a semester project. We do one lesson per week.
• Geography: Trail Guide to U.S. Geography. Some say we do too much in geography. It may work better for some to just include what is needed in your history study. I wanted my son to have more than that. So from this guide, we do 2 states per week. He draws locations and landmarks on a map and does a 3 page fact sheet for each state using the Childrens Illustrated Atlas.
• Memory Work: This is an area where he has had trouble, so we are starting slow this year. For whatever we memorize, I have him read it outloud a few times every morning. Sometimes we forget, but I'm working on that.
• Piano: He has a 30 minute lesson once a week and practices for 30 minutes every day. When he remembers. Working on that too.
• Hockey and Gym during the week. He takes a 45 minutes gym class down the road at the Christian school. Mostly just for fun because he gets plenty of activity from the hockey practices that are usually twice a week!

1st grade:

• Bible: God Takes Care of Me. A wonderful devotional. It starts with a few questions to get them thinking and talking. A short story next, followed by more thinking questions and a prayer. There is a scripture at the end that I often have her copy for writing practice.
• Math: Math U See Alpha. We do one page a day, sometimes two if she wants. Takes about 15-20 minutes. Try to do 1 lesson per week. I like to take time out to do activities from Play and Find Out About Math once in a while. Also, she helps me cook. Plenty of math there!
• Spelling: Spelling Workout A. 10 minutes a day, she usually does one page for now.
• Grammar: No formal grammar yet, but when we do, we will use English for the Thoughtful Child.
• Writing: Copywork--I have her copy the scripture from our Bible story, a sentence that I write for her, or passages from good books. We do this 2 or 3 days a week. We write a letter every couple weeks. I also try to throw in fun things. We write character sketches and problem/solution situations from the books we read and put them up on the wall.
• Phonics: Mostly The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading. On other days we use sources from ABeka or early reader books we pick up.
• Reading: Lots of good books. I read a chapter a day from whatever book we are reading at the time and Dad reads a chapter from something during the evening. Since September we have read A Wrinkle in Time (that took a while. More like 1/2 a chapter a day), Matilda and A Cricket in Time Square. Right now we are working on classic Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland (original and unabridged) and Little Pilgrims Progress.
• French: The Easy French. Every day we listen to the lesson's story, vocabulary and do a short activity based on the lesson.
• Geography: Trail Guide to U.S. Geography. Every day she looks at the atlas and answers 2 questions about a particular state and writes it down. We don't always get to this. At 1st grade, I'm not at all worried about it.
• Science: Noeo Science Physics: A wonderful curriculum that has a day by day guide telling me what pages to read out of a particular book, what vocab to define and what experiments to do. It even include all the materials I need. We read a page, talk a lot about it, do a simple activity related to it, write a few sentences about what we read, and draw a picture. On experiment day, we fill out a lab report. She usually writes some of this.
• History: Previously Story of the World. We would read a chapter, color, do some mapping, and do some projects. Now that we are finished with volume 3, I'm going to take some time experimenting where I want to go next. We may be doing a lot of unit studies. She learns well by hands on and I want to expand on that without distracting my older one who needs to hone in on the writing and studying skills needed for high school. See Clever Miners, Forty Niners.
• Piano: Same as her brother. But, she practices whenever she passes the piano. My son is much more scheduled about it.
• Hockey and Gymnastics: She plays hockey once a week on a young team. Really they are just learning how to play. She also is on the Pre-Competition team at gymnastics. That's 3 hours a week. Hard work, but she just recently got her back walkover down pat! Yea!