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I have loved HOD since day 1. We finished Little Hearts and Beyond Little Hearts and I was still in love. But Bigger has been tough. My 7yr can do the work, but it is too much. So we backed down to 1 page of the guide per day. Not good. I tweaked it every which way I knew how and failed. The biggest...

Just finished reading it with my 7 year old and he loooooved it. It is quite an advanced book but he would tell me when his mind was going blank and I would explain it. This happened for the beginning chapters. He always wanted us to read more, more, more. He also asked a lot of questions about Worl...

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Dorla

Hi Julia, During week 2 of Bigger we were also feeling like it was too much! But I took a deep breath and made the following adjustments. Maybe they will help you or give you ideas. 2 weeks of only one page of the Guide per day - now in unit 4 we are starting to complete 2 pages of the guide. Englis...

Hi! I am from Costa Rica and dh from Venezuela and we live in Texas. We are doing Bigger as is but at least once a week I find out what was going on around the same dates we are covering in American history, and we add this to our Costa Rica notebook. We are only in unit 4, and the history has been ...

This is beautiful! Praise God!
Thanks for sharing!
Dorla

for what part of the unit? if for storytime - it does not matter.
Science, History, Geography, Devotional - page numbers will be different since you are using different books.
Could you be more specific?
just trying to help...
Dorla

Daisy I enjoy reading your blog! Here is mine:
www.escuelitaaparicio.blogspot.com
Dorla

What a great idea!
Thanks!

My son is 7 and we are reading the last chapter of Amelia Earhart. He LOVED it! It was never an issue that the story was about a girl. And she is so brave and bold and has so many great ideas...especially building a slide from the roof to the ground and then actually sliding on it. My son immediatel...

Check out National Geographic magazine for September 2009 - Excellent go along with Bigger Unit 3 day 3. You will find pictures of New York in 1609 when Hudson arrived contrasted with New York today!
happy learning!
Dorla

MamaMary!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was reading your blog today wondering if you had quit HOD!
I am very excited that you are not AND that we both will be in BIGGER!!!
We begin on Monday August 3rd.
Dorla

Patience, When my 7 yr was moving up in the emerging readers I tried to avoid having him "feel the jump in levels" by purchasing other books in whatever series we had just finished or at that same level. So it took us a little longer to finish them, but he is now a strong reader! I would wait until ...

Srappy11,
I don't have a scope and sequence for DITHOR - but could you use the intro page of the book http://www.heartofdakota.com/drawn-into.php ? It would be a matter of fitting this info into whatever form you've been given.
Just an idea !
Dorla

Laurie Beth, We completed Beyond last school year and loved the left side of the lesson! I think your children will enjoy it and by your descriptions of them it seems like they would enjoy it too. The history stories are wonderful, the science is perfect for their ages, the poetry is excellent and t...