Make Rice Krispie treats instead. They're faster and less work! Make 'em with Cocoa Krispies if you need a chocolate fix.
This year, we have probably hit everything 4 days a week for 45 min. to 1 hour each day, rather than the 5 x 30 minutes that I had planned. <shrug> We get on a roll on something most days, and I've been going with it. It adds up to enough time and he's making progress, so I'm not too worried. My biggest concerns are writing--I think that if you don't practice every day, you can have trouble--and math. But he reads something every day, even if not every subject every day. And he does math and writing *nearly* every day, so I'm giving myself a pass.
Some of figuring this stuff out, I think, is just trial and error. Does 4 days a week work for you? Then go with that. Does he forget/not learn enough stuff if you do that? Then maybe add an hour of work on Sat. and another hour on Sunday or something.
In other words, if you see problems, then fiddle with the schedule. But if 4 days a week (or 3!) is enough to get done what needs to be done, then that's okay. Homeschooling may wind up looking very different for you than you thought it would. And that's okay as long as he's learning.
As for spelling and vocab, we let that kind of stuff just come naturally out of his reading and writing. But vocab and spelling are strengths for him. He picks stuff up easily and has a natural interest in it. If these were weaknesses, I might approach them differently.
FWIW...
