Hod question

[scrapper4life]

If you start with little hearts in k, do one guide a year from there, what do you use in 8th? If you just keep going on to high school book, what do you do for high school?

[Tenaj]

There are different approaches to this . .. my approach has been to use the early guides, Little Hearts For His Glory, Beyond Little Hearts and Bigger Hearts for only four days a week.  So we start in Kindergarten and this stretches them to last until approximately the beginning of fourth grade.  I always have the goal of having my kids do Preparing during their fourth grade year.  If they do that, then theoretically there are eight guides left for the rest of their schooling, one a year.

 

To be honest, I wouldn't worry about it.  Move at your child's pace.  Maybe your child will move through them all and graduate early.  Maybe you'll want to do some dual enrollment during high school and won't even use HOD by that time.  Maybe you will hit a guide that your child struggles with a bit and you'll slow down to half-speed somewhere in those middle school years and that child that you were worried would be a year ahead will end up a bit behind.  

 

Best wishes,

 

 

 

 

 

[hollyh]

What she said! ;) 

 

Totally true.  I found that I was not able to stay completely on schedule, about 6 weeks behind a year in these younger years due to field trips, life, etc... So it's nice to have that cushion. We are now on a Jan-Jan schedule instead of Sep-Sep. ;)   And with this type of curriculum, it is not like they are missing skills if they fall a bit behind as long as you keep up with math, really. :) 

 

Great curriculum!!

 

Oh, if you stay on schedule, a lot of people don't feel like their kids are ready for Preparing and want them to have another year- so they do MFW ECC for a year.  Or it's great to have a year to know you can try something different - interest based or something if you want. 

[shadah]

We did Little Hearts in K, Beyond heavily supplemented for first, finished Bigger early in second and went on to a unit study, the Prairie Primer, and I plan to do at least one more long unit study before we get back to HOD. I just got bored with doing the same and needed a change. We started Little Hearts the day dd turned five and probably could have started sooner.