Activities in LHFHG

[Samuel'sMommy]

I should know this since we've been doing LHFHG for over a year now, but I'm trying to work out a new schedule due to some changes in our life. Anyway, when the guide has activities scheduled like the games for memorizing the verse (toss the socks in the basket, roll the ball, etc) or thinking skills kind of games in the rotating box do you have a time limit for how long you spend on them? DS would play all day if I let him. I always feel like I'm cutting him off too soon, but was just wondering how others do this. Do you set a time limit and then say stop? Do you set a certain number of times (like 5 tosses in the basket)? Or do you have something else that works?

Also, for math, when we do the hands on activities to teach the lesson, do you set a time limit for those activities or do you just do them over and over till they click?

Thanks!

[creativemommy]

We did LHFHG last year with my oldest. The days when he did games/activities that he really enjoyed, I let him do them for 10 min or so. If he begged to keep playing, I would leave the items out and let him do them after "school time" on his "own time" so we could move on through the boxes. However, if it was a day when we had nothing going on after our "school time" I'd let him keep going at the time we did the game/activity. It just depended on our day.