Mrs. Ward has designed this curriculum to take 1 1/2 hours per day, five days per week, 36 weeks per year.  That's a hefty chunk of time!  If you don't have that much time, you could leave out some of the topics and still cover a lot of material. Or perhaps work on some of the units during the summer. (Gardening, of course, lends itself to this very well!)

Although primarily a homemaking course, many of the topics covered   could provide junior high and high school credit for your daughter.  You will have to have other materials to meet the requirements for high school graduation. Here's how we plan to assign this credit for our own daughters (the numbers in parenthesis refer to the year in TOD.)

     Junior High School    

Bible -
          Godly womanhood (2, 3)

Science -
          gardening (2)

Practical Arts -
          sewing (2), cooking (2, 3), home management (2), crocheting (3),
cross stitch (3)

     High School      

Bible -
          Godly womanhood (4, 6, 7) and A Day of Delight (5)

Science -
          gardening (4, perhaps 5, 6, parts of 7), raising animals (7), some of Caring for the Sick and Injured (medicinal uses of herbs) (12)

Math -
          family finances II (10), home business (11), How to Manage Your Money study (3).   Supplement with hands-on activities such as an exercise in using the checkbook and filling out income tax, as well as other consumer information such as loans, interest, etc.

Art -
          greeting card making II (6), the herbal crafts under gardening (7), embroidery (4), rug braiding (7)

Practical Arts -
          sewing (4, 5, 6), cooking (4, 5, 6), gardening (10), crocheting II (4), soapmaking  and candlemaking (7), hospitality (6), home management II (6), making a house a home (7)

Family & Child Science (elective) -
          training children (5), caring for the elderly (5), comforting those who mourn (5), caring for the sick and injured (7), motherhood (7), woman's health (7)

 Some of these will have to be supplemented with other material to make complete courses, but this covers at least four electives, plus a consumer math credit, art, and an agriculture course (for ideas about supplementing this, see Kathryn Stoudt's Science Scope .  The book that Christian Light Education uses for its "Agriculture" elective would be a worthwhile investment.)

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