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Hi
Can you tell me what a typical day of homeschooling looks like using HOD? I'm just looking for a time when you start how long each subject takes things like that.

Thanks

For which guide? (love your screen name...I have a josiah too!)

There's a few threads that give time for each subject for each guide. I'll have to try to find those later, or maybe someone else can first.
My dd8 (9 in june) doing Bigger takes a couple hours or so to do school.

viewtopic.php?p=43436#p43436

that should give some input. there are some links to go through.

I'm doing Preparing. Thanks for the help!

For Preparing it takes about 4- 4 1/2hrs typically. We use a different math and language arts so ours may take longer than someone using Carrie's recommendations. We were also already doing a 50 state study so we have continued with that. Our day looks like this typically.
8-8:15 he numbers the order he is going to do his boxes for the day and then he does some "Praise dancing" to music. It seems to put him in a good frame of mind for the day so I let him do it.
8:15 he starts always with Bible and then the order changes some depending on the day, but he does the right side of the guide in the mornings. He takes a short snack/talk to the dogs break at 9 or so.
9:15-11:15 he finishes the right side of the book and sometimes we have time for storytime.
I let him have lunch/recess until 12.
Then 12-1:30 or 2:00 he does the left side and any extras like the state study.
We are always done by 2:00 . One thing though, it did go longer at first until he got in the groove of the independent things. Vocabulary cards used to take a while as did Research, but now he does those in 15-20 minutes. The days he does Drawn into the Heart of Reading tend to be our longer days, because he is a slow reader.

Lynn Thank you so much for your helpful reply. I'm going to print this out and use it. I like the idea of letting him listen to praise music in the morning. Thanks for your help.


What do you use to study the states?

Lynn already did an awesome job of helping you out. Isn't this board full of helpful people?!? This link says pretty much the same thing Lynn already kindly shared, but I'll share it anyway since it's in regard to PHFHG's boxes:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4244&p=31219#p31219

In Christ,
Julie