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One thought with the slow reading-would it help you to move that outside of "school time"? One thing I've tried for my children at different points is to have special reading times. Build it up, make it a really fun time-maybe they can snuggle in a favorite chair, or on Mommy's bed with lots of pill...

I think there is still a skill gap between LHFHG and Beyond with the History read-alouds. Your child will get much mroe out of the readings if they are on his level. Beyond requires a longer attention span that at best could not sink in with a student who wasn't ready, and at worst leave them frustr...

I'd second the recommendation to look at LHFHG instead. In addition to the reasons Tidbits of Learning already mentioned, a big difference I noticed between Little Hearts and Beyond was the way Beyond requires an already-developed attention span, whereas LHFHG trains that. When you mentioned this in...

(((HUGS))), Melissa! I can hear through your words how overwhelmed and frustrated you must feel. Perhaps because I'm reading my own feelings into your post, though! :lol: We chatted a bit on another thread recently about a similar issue in my home, and your advice has helped me immensely (to utilize...

I know that my attitude rubs off on the kids, and I'm wondering if you're bored with Bigger how your DD2 is doing with it? What about stopping that right now, finishing out her year with something else and coming back to it next year with both of your children (DD2 and 3?) I think Bigger is a great ...

Pam did a terrific job of answering your questions above! The one thing I wanted to build on was the creative writing-HOD begins to systematically teach this in CTC with Write With the Best. The time factor was the reason I had to switch from CLE math...I loved their spiral approach and my kids lear...

You wouldn't want to do Preparing twice. If you can't afford to change to Bigger (although I think if you bought from HOD they do have some sort of return policy if you bought the wrong level, but I am not sure of the details), then you could do Preparing half speed. You are technically a grade ahe...

One thing I'm trying this year-and so far really like it-is to run our guides for about 6 weeks and then have a "reading unit", running a modified DITHOR, for 2 weeks (we also go year round.) During our reading units, I'm trying to get the kids through a genre in that 2 week time frame, so I'm picki...

Molly wrote:If he places solidly in Bigger, I would definately change him. Even if you go at half pace for awhile to just get him used to the different boxes and skills.

I agree.

I have skipped the end of a guide before...a couple of times... :oops: but don't feel there are problems because of it now. For my dd the guides we missed the ends of were below where my she should have been placed in the first place and she was more than ready to handle the next one. It just took m...

THanks for this reminder! I've been one of those moms frustrated by our continual failed experiments in Science, thinking that my kids can't possibly be learning anything from this. I't a great reminder for me that there is definitely learning to be done from even the "failures".

I have a 6th grader, whom I consider to be at grade level for reading and comprehension, and she's very challenged with CTC. This guide is so largely based on the child's growing independence that I don't think I'd recommend it for a struggling 6th grader. They are expected to read their own history...

My kids are only on Unit 11 and Unit 9. :) Don't feel bad! Our main goal is to teach them how to learn-they'll be learning for the rest of their lives, after all. :D It is an easy thing for me to get caught in the trap of having a goal to just.get.it.donealready!!! :wink: There's always some adjustm...

That does help some, thank you, Julie.

I have a dd that is a reluctant writer. How do I encourage her as she develops new skills in this area? Right now her writing is very basic, and sometimes vague. For example, today she was to write a sentence in the Genesis book to describe her beliefs about our fall into sin. Her sentence was "Adam...