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Hi! I will be using LHFHG and PHFHG with my 2 dc in the Fall and since my ds Preparing.... is to be done in 4 days, I was wondering if it is possible to make Little Hearts.... into a 4 day schedule too?

If it is possible, how would you go about doing this? Anyone doing this already?

Thanks a bunch!!!

I did this for Little Hearts this school year for my kindergartner. She had an enrichment class on Fridays, so I just did extra work other days. It was pretty easy to double up for one day on history, science, Bible, storytime. Sometimes it seemed like two history readings went well together for 2 days, so I would choose that one to double up. For seatwork (language, handwriting, math) I just did 4 normal work days/week. This made my Fridays very light and alone with ds who was doing Bigger. We really loved it. Little Hearts was easy for her and she loved it, so she would have let me double up every single day. The stories are just great! You can do it!

Has anyone out there made Beyond Little Hearts a 4 day schedule? I'm wanting to do that next year to match up with Preparing.

I am finishing up LHFHG doing a 5 day schedule, but if I had it to do over again, I think I would have done it 4 days a week. I will be doing Beyond this fall, 4 days. Part of the reason, is to fill up that one year gap... also, to allow my younger to develop more in some of those tougher skills.

LeAnna

Michelle,

We did LHFHG at a 4-day pace this past year and really enjoyed it. We just did it as written 4 days a week, taking Fridays off for my 6 year old. (My other boys still had school on Fridays though. ) Then, on Mondays we just picked the guide back up where we left off and went forward. In doing it this way, it takes an extra 9 weeks into the next school year to finish the guide. However, we've actually found that to work well, as it's easy to start back up in the fall, and then 9 weeks into the new year we get to start something new when we move on to the next guide!

Just another option!

Blessings,
Carrie

Carrie,

Question for you.... So, stopping with each guide in the last 9 weeks of each manual.... starting with LHFHG and ending with 8th grade, should fill in that 1 year gap? Is that doing a 4 day schedule or going at full speed??

Thanks!
LeAnna

We did part of it on a 4 day schedule along with Bigger on a 4 day. They both worked great. The flow is there just the same. I ignore the unit numbers in the sense that I do not match them to days of the week and it is just fine.

water2wine wrote:We did part of it on a 4 day schedule along with Bigger on a 4 day. They both worked great. The flow is there just the same. I ignore the unit numbers in the sense that I do not match them to days of the week and it is just fine.

This is what I've done as well. We'll finish somewhere in the middle of Beyond this year, and then pick up where we left off next school year. We are doing it 4 days a week along with my older ds's plan of doing PHFHG 4 days a week. It's worked out great!

In Christ,
Julie

LeAnna,

We've done LHFHG, Beyond, and Bigger on a 4-day schedule with our boys in the past and found it worked out well. We've discovered that there really isn't a gap to fill after doing school in a way that fits our schedule, so you'll find the best fit for you too as you go.

With my third little guy who was a very young 5 year old, we even went half-speed with LHFHG for a year, so you never know how welcome having a built in year of breathing room may come to be!

Blessings,
Carrie