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So, how do you do the narration when you have 2 listening in at the same time. Do you just alternate who goes first? Do you do it separately? I haven't really done the narration.

Nancy

I have three children doing narrations. I take the child who has read the book first into their room. After the first one is finished and goes back to their work I bring in the next child. I always have my oldest child go last and in front of her sisters. I love for her sisters to hear her narration. She does a beautiful job. My youngest always gleans some information from her older sister.

I usually have one narrate on one day and the other on the next day. If it is a longer reading, I'll read part of it, have one narrate, then read the last part and have the other narrate.

Here are a couple of links from the past that will give you more ideas of how others handle this:

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viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5061&p=37100

Blessings,

Thanks! Those links are great and the ideas really help. I'm new to this whole narration and dictation thing. Makes me sad for my older children who never got a chance to to HOD. Can I have a do-over and have my old teens (and my 20s) children go back to being little???

Nancy

I hear you Nancy about a do-over. I wish I could have one with my own education! I guess I just have to be happy that I'm getting that education now. I wish I could go back to preschool and do LHTH with my dc. I hate we missed out on that. I guess the great thing is we have HOD now! I'm learning a lot about dictation and narration now and enjoying learning more about the CM methods and all the wonderful material that HOD has.

I'd love a do-over on many things in life, but not our schooling! I have used HOD from the start and loved it - BUT I bet your kids will really know how much they should appreciate HOD because of the other things they have done. Sometimes I want to shout out to my dc - "Do you know how blessed you are to be doing school this way?!? My school was sooooooo inferior to this in sooooooo many ways - it was not as fun, it was twice as long, it had me reading dry textbooks, it had me doing a kazillion worksheets, taking a hundred meaningless quizzes and tests, never doing hands-on projects or experiments because 30 kids were sharing one balloon or balance scale, I never got to 'talk' to the teacher and just enjoy my learning talking-wise like oral narrations let you do, I had no lovely portfolio of what I'd done from the year and even if I had it would have been filled with black and white worksheet after worksheet, I never got to see my sisters during the day or have a snack or even use the bathroom when I needed to, and yada, yada, yada." Anyway, I think my dc just don't know how thankful they should be sometimes, though they are happy with their schooling and they love so much of what we are doing - I guess maybe they just will never be able to love it enough for me - maybe because I wish I could look back fondly on an HOD style education of my own when I think back through my schooling, but that's just not how it went. Soooooo, all this to say in a roundabout way - I bet your dc are going to really appreciate so many things about HOD that maybe mine take for granted! A blessing in disguise to coming to HOD later.

In Christ,
Julie