Both daughters are reading their own biographies and diaries of those coming west. Oh, besides the girls are both knitting mittens for themselves while I read and have almost completed one each. My son loves to draw while I read. We looked at maps, and pictures of pioneers. Could never have done all this if I had to do all the other subjects today too.
Tomorrow is math day.
Our schedule is really choppy on Tuesdays, so it works out well for doing an assignment and then running off for our daughter's tutor and then back to more math, then lunch and more math and then soccer practices. Gotta do what works. I was just trying to figure out a better way the other day. Now that you say that, a longtime homeschooling mom near us uses that approach. The only negative thing I ever heard her say about it was that when her older son transferred into school, he had a bit of a hard time adjusting to spending 45 minutes on one thing and then transferring to another subject.