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Hello,

I have a 7 year old daughter who is in Bigger this year. We are slowly but surely getting more confident and quicker at the workload this year. But I am just wondering if anyone has any "times" for how long each box should take. I've been searching the forum and I saw the "times" that my3sons posted for Preparing and LHTH. But I couldn't find any similar posts for Bigger. I'm just wanting to see a ballpark for how long all of this should be taking. Right now we are getting it all done in about 5 hours. That's with a lot of interruptions from her siblings etc.

Thanks for any info!

Julia
Daughter - Bigger
Son - LHTH
Daughter - 3
Son - 9 mo.

I am interested in this as well...last night, I planned out the order I thought best for doing the boxes, for my situation. I wanted to ahve an order for each day, and I put the longer and more creative/independent things last. My 2yo sleeps late in the morning, so I try to do the things I need to concentrate on during that time. The things that the kids can do on their own I put later. I think part of my stress the last few weeks has been not having order! I wanted to enjoy the cuddly time on the couch first, to discuss, have patience to listen, etc. Then comes the bookwork, english and math and the like. Then the longer stuff that I can set them up with but also be dealing with our little 2yo! I am using Bigger. Here is what I came up with:

History reading - 15 minutes
Bible - 15 minutes
Poetry - 5 minutes
Math - 40 minutes (we are doing extra math, we use TT and MUS not SIngapore so this might be very different for you)
English - 20 minutes
Spelling / Dictation - 10 minutes
Science - 30 minutes (might be longer, or shorter, depending on day)
Geog/Art/Vocab/Hist Project/Timeline box - 30 minutes
Story and DITHR - 30 minutes (I am using the storytme books for our DITHR right now, instead of assigning a separate book. This way, both kids who are at very different reading levels, can still both use DITHR--my DD likes to do whatever older brother is doing!)
Extension books for older child/Pathway or Emerging readers for younger - 20 minutes

Then, if there is time later in the day, they can work on other fun/independent stuff like Spanish, typing, Geosafari, puzzles, games, etc My times here are guesses after using BIgger for one week. I would love to hear from someone with more experience!

Here's a past link that should help:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=702

I found the CTC ones very helpful too when making my schedule this year. I hope this helps you fine tune your day too!

In Christ,
Julie