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I totally agree! My son hated math last year and this year he loves it!

What an awesome update this week! I love the idea of math on the windows with dry erase markers!!! I tried it this morning and it wipes right off! This is going to be such a hit with my son today for math. Thank you!!! The pictures are so inspiring! I love all the projects, paintings, copywork, ect...

I have started using LHTH with my 2 year old son. At first I thought it would be too much for him ( and me) since I am using Bigger with my older two right now. But last week we gave it a try and I can not explain how wonderful it is! Because I am "doing school" with him, which totally seems like mo...

I have a big heart for missions and that has passed on to my daughter, so we are always including missions in our curriculum. We are doing a mission study right now through www.mypassporttoindia.com It is truly amazing! It is completely free also. You get to watch videos of a missionary in India and...

Hey Kimberley :) I looked at your blog, you have such a cute family!! Emma and Lottie are BEAUTIFUL!!!! We have two biological boys and we adopted our daughter when she was eight years old. She has several delays from living the first five years with very neglectful parents. She is working in Bigger...

I decided to post this in this folder because it doesn't look like anything new has been posted in here for a while. And I know that when I was trying to select which curriculum to use this is the folder I was looking in. This is our first year using HOD and we love it! My ten year old daughter and ...

We are a military family and currently live in base housing. It isn't bad, but it's not the best either. We had been looking for a bigger place with a nice yard for the kids to play in. We found a house to rent in a much nicer area and I was so excited about moving. But then one of our devotionals w...

The kids learned about Benjamin West this week and his love for drawing and painting. The kids really enjoyed painting with berry juice, the same way Benjamin started out painting! My two year old enjoyed licking his art work!

JULIE!!! Thank you! That is exactly what I was looking for. We LOVE LOVE LOVE using HOD. I just wanted some tips on how to tweak it for dyslexia. We do use the dry erase boards for math, spelling, and our english sentences. And even though DD does not spell well if you give her a piece of paper and ...

My ten and seven year old have dyslexia. They were both tested in August and one is severe and the other is mild. This is a HUGE challenge to me as a teacher. The past two weeks with my daughter has been very discouraging. She is ten years old and is still struggling with reading, spelling, and her ...

I am loving Bible time with my kids! My 7 and 9 year old are really excited about memorizing their bible verses with our silly hand gestures we made up to go with the words. And we worked on dictionary skills as we looked up our character trait this week : persistence. That afternoon my daughter was...

Thanks Julie for the link. I just requested more HOD catalogs to pass out. I already gave away the one that came with my box. We are half way through our first week of HOD and LOVING it. I can't even describe what a blessing this is. My son who complains about everything said this morning " Mom, you...

We have been doing Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day this year. We will be doing Zoology 2: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day this coming year with Bigger. We PLANNED on doing Zoology 3: Land Animals of the Fifth Day the following year. ( We will be doing Preparing Hearts at this time) ...

My package came yesterday for Bigger!!! I was even more impressed with the curriculum in person. Carrie, THANK YOU for everything you have put together for all of us. I will be using HOD every y'ear. My search for curriculum is over. And I feel so blessed and at peace with home schooling now. I am t...

Thank you all! I can't wait to get started!