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Has anybody done BLHFG 4 days a wk? What did you week look like?

Thank you
Monique

We do four days a week. We started Unit 1 Day 1 on Mon, Unit 1 Day 2 Tue, Unit 1 day 3 Wed, Unit 1 day 4 Thu, then did Unit 1 day 5 the next Mon, Unit 2 Day 1 Tue etc....

So for us to do the 34 units, it will take us almost 43 weeks. My children didn't have a hard adjusting to this, and they are doing well.

Hope that helps.

Kellie

We need to do four-day week some weeks (which is one reason we school year around), so on those weeks I just do one day each day and continue where I left off the next week. I am never on a Mon-Fri schedule and it works out fine. I just mainly try not to split a unit between a vacation. I may even give my son a couple of extra days off rather than do two days of a unit and then go on vacation.

I haven't done it yet, but plan to do it this coming year with my 2nd son. I will be doing Preparing with my older son - and since that is a 4 day week, I want my 2nd son on a 4 day week as well. I haven't decided yet how I want to do that, though. I was thinking that I would figure out a way to work it out to get all 5 days done in 4 days. I am just not sure yet how it will look. Just for my own sanity, I need the boys to stay in the same unit week.

Thank you for your responses.

I have an older dd who will be doing RtR and we have been doing a Coop for 3 yrs and my kids love it.

I will be doing 3 guides next yr so I was trying to fit the younger 2 into a 4 day wk.

We did 4 days a week of school instead of 5 with both Beyond and Bigger Hearts. We just took longer to finish them. This adds 9 weeks to each guide, but it was worth it for us. We just took our summer break wherever we were, and finished up the next year. I liked this as I was starting my oldest ds in a new guide, and it was nice to come back to a guide we'd already been doing with my middle ds (and my youngest ds). However, some families to 5 days in 4 days of school and make that work well for them, so somewhere within all of these ideas is the right one for your family! HOD is very flexible, so many options are possible. HTH!

In Christ,
Julie

Thank you Julie.

This will be our first year using HOD and my kids and I are so very excited for next yr. This will be our 4th yr homeschooling and I have never seen them this excited to start school!!

I think I have decided to start our school year early this yr and end and little latter next summer.

Thank you again for the responses.

Monique

I only have 4 days in a week to school my children because I work a part time job, I tried to do Bigger each day as written and then pick up where I left off the next week but I did not like it. I like to start a unit and finish a unit in the same week, it's just my preference. It was pretty easy for me to get all 5 days into 4 without adding more then 20-30 minutes to our day. They way I do it is to double up on one or two of the boxes each day. It works well for us and I am very happy that there is flexibility with HOD.