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I'm currently using Bigger with 2 dc. I don't know if this is the best way, but I read half of the assigned pages and ask one of them to narrate what I read up to that point. I then read the rest of the pages and ask the other to narrate the rest. That is a good idea! I don't know why I never thoug...

For History narration for example...I'm reading the books aloud to both my boys and they can answer the questions I guess in turn? But am I supposed to get a "group" narration from them combined or take each one alone into a room to get their narration without hearing their brother's narration?? I ...

I do love all the books so much, that I'm not sure I want to skip any....even if they are not required, however my son may not feel the same way (as he is not one who LOVES to read as I do). My son doesn't know that the Storytime titles are optional with the extensions added! He doesn't really like...

Yeah! We will finish in about 2 weeks. We used it for 8th grade, but I also had my 11th grader do it as an elective. It has been such a wonderful year for both of them. The church history has been so good to learn. Next year we will use Rev2Rev for high school. I think it will be more learning than ...

Oh, I see you said that in your original post. Well, in that case, the possibilities are endless!! :D Enjoy all the wonderful HOD guides ahead of you. I wish so much that I had known about HOD when my kids were younger. We didn't find HOD until my kids were 15, 13, 11, and 9. I didn't know that I co...

My advice would be Preparing for the 10 1/2YO and Bigger for the 8YO. I started HOD with my 4th grade DD in Preparing. She is a very motivated student, bright, and an excellent reader. Preparing was too difficult. She had done some cursive but still had to look at the chart for many of the letters. ...

The guide she just released this spring (Missions to Modern Marvels) is considered age 12-14 as written, but is considered 9th-10th grade with extensions. Rev2Rev is also considered high school if you do extensions and make sure to order the advanced science kit. According to the catalog, Carrie's n...

My background is in education so having a grade was important to me as it was to my daughter who we pulled out mid-year this year. I pulled my kids out of PS also, but even in PS they didn't get grades in elementary school. They got smily faces, stars, or "Redo" if it was done poorly with little ef...

We are doing Rev2Rev for high school. If you add the extension books (or even substitute the extensions for the Basic package), that brings the history up to credit worthy. If you choose the advanced set for science, science will be high school worthy. I assume you are already using something for ma...

This is what we do. Even with the guides that are 4 days per unit, I found we could not make it work out to always be doing Day 1 on Mondays. Sometimes we have a sick day; sometimes there is a holiday (Thanksgiving, etc); sometimes we have appointments, etc. If you get one day off, then how do you g...

My daughter used to write all her assignments in pencil lightly and then go back over them with a thin sharpie marker. After that, she would erase the lines. My ds only uses pencil or colored pencils for the notebook pages. He also uses a ruler to make light lines so that he writes straight. His pa...

may I just say, they will only look BETTER as your dd fills them in. My DD starts CTC next fall and I am really hoping her pages turn out better than my boys'. Two of my boys did RTR this year. I was so excited when I saw the beautiful notebooking pages. Then they started writing on them in their n...

Thanks for clarifying.

Isn't "The Signers" already scheduled in the guide?

Those books were chosen with the intention of the teacher reading it aloud at the Bigger stage, and they are too difficult for a child to grasp on their own. This is true, but she was thinking 7-9 year olds when she decided that. If you happen to be doing the program with a 10 year old, there is a ...