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I was very excited to look through our "box" when it came. This is our first year with HOD and first year homeschooling. We can't wait to get started! My daughter pulled the science book (God's Wonderful Works) right out and looked through it for a long time . My question though is this: We are doing LHFHG and pretty much each subject is following a different schedule than the one listed in the daily plans. It seems like a lot of flipping through different books to get the schedule each day. I was thinking I'd just go through the book and write in the pages from the different schedules, seems pretty tedious and I hate to mark up my books . Is this how others do it? Our math activities are in the Beyond guide which is okay to go there for math, but I really don't want to be flipping back and forth a lot. Just wondering what methods other use. Thanks for any responses!

We got these little removable plastic colored flags by Post-it in the office section of target etc... they're great. You can write on them and just move them as needed, and they last a lot longer than postit notes, and they don't rip the page like a paperclip does after prolonged use. Still need to flip pages, though...

Hi! Our math has always been one guide ahead. I either write the day's math below the Math box in our current guide or at times I have copied the schedule from the back, cut apart and taped it in. If I'm writing it in, I do a week at a time, if I've copied the page, then I do whatever is on the page. I also use the little post-it style flags. They hold up great and I've not had an issue with damaging my guides.

Amanda

We use post-its, and here's a link where I describe what things I marked with post-its for Bigger:
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When I had a child ahead in math in a different guide, I copied the math schedule and stuck it in his math workbook to check off as we went. After the first 2-4 weeks, you'll be in your groove and find it super easy to use the manuals! HOD's manuals make it pretty easy on us moms. I always joke that to get ready for each day, I have to just move the sticky notes. Not too bad of a prep for an entire day of school for my 3 little munchkins!

In Christ,
Julie

We're fans of the moveable little tabs here, too! They make it super-easy to keep track of right where I am in the guide. It sounds like you'll need one for the main day's plans, I put in one for the rhyme in the appendix (which I needed to look at for the 1st 2 or 3 days we were on it), and then one for your alternate science schedule in the appendix. Then you can put one in your Beyond guide that you pull out for math. 4 stickies instead of 2 or 3 may up your "prep time" to about 30 seconds per day. I seriously think it will be easy to manage when you have the guide in hand and get started with it. I also make check marks in the corner of the boxes as we finish them. My oldest uses an orange colored pencil. Next - pink. 3rd - doesn't have a color yet, but will. And, if it made it easier you could still check off everything on the main 2-page spread in front of you so that you can see what's left for the day. So, for example you do phonics/reading - check. You do math - check. (Even though you're doing a different activity.) You do science - check.

Kathleen