I've been homeschooling my 6 year old since the beginning of covid when his preschool went full retard.

We've been using the Abeka curriculum for the last couple of years. It's a great curriculum and very detailed,  but I don't understand how to get through everything in a typical 8 hour day, let alone half a day. Adding in the separate Bible study curriculum,  outside time,  breakfast and lunch,  it usually takes a solid 9 hours to finish all of it. That's going through each new lesson and all the reviewing. I like to do all the review as does my boy, and I make sure he understands everything before moving on.

What's been working for us lately is to do half a lesson each day. 2 lessons per week. Pretty much have been treating it as year round school. Take Fridays off to get to the climbing gym, batting cages, or go out and shoot. He's a year ahead anyways (half way through second),  and we'll go deep into the summer before finishing everything for the year,  but that includes about 4-6 weeks of vacating/travel time throughout the year.

Any suggestions,  or keep doing what we're doing?

ETA: the above time also includes doing his "homework"

We've thought about homeschooling. I'm interested in learning more about this.

My son does Abeka.  He’s done 4-8th grade.  It’s so routine.  My wife used to teach the lessons, but wanted to go to work from home.  We did the video lessons for this year.  He’s ok with them. He usually finishes in 4-6 hours for the day.  My wife might have more insight into this than I.