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Thank you all for your help so far in helping us with starting HOD! You all have been very helpful. I have another question about the guides. I know I'm looking far ahead here but it's nice to know how HOD works So, if we start LHFHG for my 5.5yo's K year, I am counting that he will finish the last HOD guide in 11th grade. Am I counting wrong or is everyone who starts LHFHG for K do something along the way for the child to end up in twelfth grade in the last guide instead of eleventh grade?

Some families only do school 4 days a week, which makes a guide last about 9 weeks longer. (This is in the younger guides- Bigger on down- where a unit is scheduled for 5 days a week)

Others will start off half-speed (left side one day, right side the next), making it 2 weeks for one unit for awhile. This is sometimes necessary for a child who needs a little extra adjustment to a new guide.

Others, (like us), have life get in the way and we have to use the above options and even have short periods of time with no school.

Still, there are a few that can do exactly one guide a year, and have a year to do dual enrollment classes, CLEP tests, or graduate a year early.

Hope this helps some.

TrueGRIT wrote:Some families only do school 4 days a week, which makes a guide last about 9 weeks longer. (This is in the younger guides- Bigger on down- where a unit is scheduled for 5 days a week)

Others will start off half-speed (left side one day, right side the next), making it 2 weeks for one unit for awhile. This is sometimes necessary for a child who needs a little extra adjustment to a new guide.

Others, (like us), have life get in the way and we have to use the above options and even have short periods of time with no school.

Still, there are a few that can do exactly one guide a year, and have a year to do dual enrollment classes, CLEP tests, or graduate a year early.

Hope this helps some.

Yes that make sense! We will just chug along until we need to cross that bridge I just wanted to make sure we weren't missing anything or have gaps/holes in his schooling.

I don't really have any thing to add. Your math is correct, there are (or will be) 12 guides for K-12 if you use LHFHG as your K guide. My DD needed to slow down because things got harder too quickly for her from Beyond to Bigger. Preparing is a jump too, and mainly because of MY time, she is capable and could probably do full-speed but we are doing the 4 days of work in 5 right now. And I only school 4 days a week so it takes more than a week to finish a unit. Having this little extra wiggle room is nice. I still fulfill my state requirements because we attend a co-op on the 5th day that provides P.E., Art, a little bit of Spanish, etc.