What would you do? R & S English 3

[John'smom]

We are doing Bigger this year, but ds is doing R & S English 3 which isn't scheduled until Preparing. Preparing is a 4 day program, so I assume that we could do English 3 only 4 days a week and still get done by the end of the year. What should I do? Should I do English 3 for four or five days a week? Just wanting some others' opinions since I can't decide on my own.

[Kims]

I am sure someone here actually knows unlike me but you could just count the number of lessons and divide by the number of days. Or number of pages. That's what I do with the extra stuff I do.
Also if it's scheduled 4 days a week and you do it 5 then you would get done earlier and that's always nice.

[Mumkins]

I'd do 5. Then if you need to have a short day or miss a day, it's one less thing to worry about.

[pjdobro]

Basically we did what Mumkins suggested. We did a lesson a day most days, but every now and then we would have a day that we would not do a lesson. Sometimes we would take 2 days to do one of the reviews. As I got towards the end of the year I paid closer attention to how many lessons and how many days we had left to make sure that we would come out ok. Though Preparing is only 4 days per week, it is 35 weeks so there are 140 lessons scheduled. In Bigger there are 5 days per week but just 34 weeks so that is 170 days of lessons. So you can look at the number of lessons (was it 125?) plus the reviews and get an idea of how many days per week you would need to do a lesson. So roughly 4 lessons a week should work out about right, but like Mumkins I liked doing a lesson every day when we could and having a little wiggle room when necessary.

[John'smom]

Now that's why I asked here. Great idea, ladies. Thanks so much for taking time to respond.