Dithor 2/3 question

[girlboygirlboy]

I will be starting HOD next year with my ds9 and dd7 in Bigger. I am planning to do Dithor with them both, but have ds do the Level 3 book pack and dd do the Level 2. How many of the books in the book packs will they complete in one year? I feel like I read somewhere that they won't complete the whole pack in a year, but I may be thinking of something else.

Blessings!

Jennifer
mom to girl10, boy9, girl6, boy4

[pjdobro]

I believe if you do DITHOR everyday as scheduled in Bigger, you will make it through all 9 genres within the year. I believe the book packs contain enough books to cover all 9 genres. In some cases that is more than 9 books since some of the books are shorter and one would use more than one book in that genre. For example in the level 2 book pack there are two books listed for Adventure, Stone Fox and Dolphin Adventure. Stone Fox would be read over 10 days and Dolphin Adventure would be read for 5 days making 15 days of reading for the Adventure genre. Then the next 5 days after that would be for the project corresponding to that genre. So a total of 20 days are spent on each genre. At full speed that is 180 days and roughly one full year. I guess with the Bigger plans actually being 170 days that doesn't work out exactly, but it's really close.

We'll be doing Bigger this year with DITHOR and I'm planning on taking a slower pace with DITHOR, I think. We just did our first unit in DITHOR over the past month while we are finishing Beyond. I'm thinking that next year with adding all of the other items that Bigger entails, that at least at first we'll slow the pace down on DITHOR to 2 or 3 days a week. So I'm not for sure if we'll make it through all of genres in one year. We might stretch it out over 1 1/2 or two years.