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I haven't started R&S with my youngest yet, but used the grammar quite successfully with both my older children. I like to get the TM because they often have an oral review of previous lessons to start off a new lesson--or an oral quiz. As you get into diagramming sentences, especially more complex ...

Short version--I used TOG for five years with two kids who were dialectic and rhetoric stages at the time. If HOD had been available back then, I never would have touched TOG. It burned us all out. I see you'd only have one child in TOG--TOG is at it's best in a co-op situation with more than one ch...

Catching this topic late--ds #1 is home from college on spring break. Next year he'll be returning home to attend a local university due to financial issues. Sigh. Dd will be a senior next year. She'll likely start taking some courses at the local community college--we did this with our eldest, too....

I'm in the same boat with my son who turned 6 in October. We're going to finish LHFHG, but we haven't yet started Singapore 1A/1B as I have found a couple of workbooks to supplement some of the concepts in Earlybird and IA/1B (I looked ahead). Both levels introduce telling time and money, but neithe...

My son will also be 7 in October, but works ahead of where the ps would have placed him for the year. I faced the same decision last spring/summer, only I had to decide between Little Hearts and Beyond Little Hearts. According to the math/language arts, he should have gone into Beyond for this schoo...

The post on Mama Mary's site on Cheerful Cursive was three pages back. This link should take you directly to the post with a photo of the Cheerful Cursive page. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/MamaMary/522259/

Hi Judy! The plan sounds great. If you are doing a history, why not just relate the geography to that instead of doing another whole subject. Just use blank maps/globe and have your child locate the places/events you are studying, shading the map as needed. If it were me, I'd do some unit study type...

Thanks! I appreciate all the wonderful advice and will just get over using two guides at once :wink: We're at the end of EBK 2B, but I have a book on counting money that I will use to supplement what is covered in EB 2B. I went ahead and looked at 1A/1B and saw that there isn't much practice in that...

Hi Kyle and welcome! You don't say how old your eldest is, but you could do Bigger with the extension pack for older students (says 4th-5th grade kids.) I just read further down again, and it sounds like your dd is/will be in 5th for the coming year, and since she's in Core 3 will have covered the f...

My oldest is a boy, almost 20 and in college, and a voracious reader. Even at school he has a fiction book going most of the time to give him a break from his engineering course work. As a kid for him I used a list put out by a defunct classical Christian email group. The list was called The 1000 Go...

After a long hiatus from the board, I'm back. During my absence ds and I have continued to work through Little Hearts. We are a little more than halfway through the guide--right to the end of the readings from the Bible story book. During the past six months or so we've continued with phonics and ma...

I'm a former Homesat/BJUP math mom, granted, for the higher grades, but still. BJU's math is an excellent program, so you can't go wrong with that if it is working for your son. Homesat worked great for one of my children--high school level--but didn't for my second. The elementary programs are very...

Our first official week of school for this year was a bit of a mess as I have been hit with a stomach bug that left me in bed Tuesday-Thursday last week, and then decided to rear it's ugly head again yesterday. Sigh. The best laid plans......, but maybe there was a reason for that. Anyway, on Friday...

When I was going through this decision back in April, I found that my son also placed very well into Beyond on the LA and math charts, however I knew that he would struggle with the longer readings. So I went with LHFHG instead and have been very pleased with the results. He is doing much better sit...

My son is 5.5 yo and we're using Little Hearts. We started out with Handwriting Without Tears, but once he had the letter formations down I switched him to copywork (not called for in Little Hearts). At first he was very much into having me say a word and he would write it as he sounded it out. Now ...