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I have my two oldest children using HOD together, however my oldest is a year ahead of the scheduled singapore math. This year they used Bigger and she needed the math schedule for Singapore 4 a and 4 b. So I purchased the Preparing teacher's manual. However, this coming year I don't have the funds to get the next teacher's manual to get the Singapore 5 a and 5 b schedule. (We will only be using Preparing.) Any ideas how to go about this, year after year. I love how Carrie has divided the Singapore lessons. Previous to using HOD, figuring out what to assign (since some of the lessons are quite long) was a task I didn't love.

I hope this makes sense.

Thanks,
Christine

I am in the same boat. I really need the Singapore 4A/4B schedule, but we're doing Bigger and it's not in there. If you wouldn't mind sharing what your schedule was with this, I would sure appreciate it. Most say that one lesson per day is about right, but I don't know for sure.

Sahervey, I sent you a private message.

If I were you, I would go ahead and purchase the CTC guide (since you will be using it next year anyway) and that will include the schedule all the way through Singapore 6.

Tree House Academy wrote:If I were you, I would go ahead and purchase the CTC guide (since you will be using it next year anyway) and that will include the schedule all the way through Singapore 6.

If I read her post correctly, that isn't possible in her budget at this time.

I'm interested in other responses as well since I can not purchase 2 guides for one child this year but if I go with what was suggested for my oldest son he will be out of the suggested guide for many of his subjects.

Tree House Academy wrote:If I were you, I would go ahead and purchase the CTC guide (since you will be using it next year anyway) and that will include the schedule all the way through Singapore 6.

Also, I believe that it is the RTR guide that goes through 6A/6B, and that CTC only goes through 5A/5B.

You can just divide the math into 140 days of plans, which matches the number of days in PHFHG. It works out to be about a lesson a day, except for the Reviews, which usually are lengthy and require 2 days to complete. If you want the ease of HOD planning it, then you'd get the next guide. When I am in a pinch for funds, I sell something (i.e. my dc's past season's clothes/toys to Once Upon a Child, a desk we are not using to a furniture consignment, etc.), or I try to earn some funds (i.e. by watching someone else's dc for a few afternoons or doing an odd job for someone). I have done all of these things before to earn some extra money, and then been glad the whole year afterward because I got the book I needed! Otherwise, simply sitting down and dividing the days of math out would work too. HTH!

In Christ,
Julie