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We have had an awesome week so far! Yesterday the girls enjoyed playing the jumping game after reading about William Penn. Today we talked about how our body fights illness. The kids had a great time invading viruses with T-Cells and B-Cells, throwing Antibodies at them and eating them up with the K...

We are using BJU English 2 this year and have just completed the 1st 6wks. I find BJU to be very thorough and dd loves it. I like how the chapters alternate between grammar and writing. We are using the BJU workbook along with the CLP TM (which is basically just an answer key). We do not have the BJ...

We are putting together the timeline as suggested in the teaching guide. We taped 2 file folders together and instead of dd drawing the pictures directly in the spaces I cut sticker paper to the size of the spaces. When she is done drawing on her sticker, she places it in the appropriate space as in...

We are using BJU English 2 and dd loves it.

We read "The 4th of July Story" by Alice Dagliesh. The girls enjoyed the book and it helped them understand the meaning behind all of the fireworks and celebration.

We just completed our 2nd week w/ LHTH w/ 3yo dd and she is loving it!

So glad to hear you had a good day! We just started week 2 w/ LHTH and dd is loving it! After we finished the b-b-b fingerplay, she said "Can we do A-A Adam now?"

What a wonderful idea, looks like a wonderful time for fellowship w/ other moms! I love the sticky tabs you use w/ the HOD manuals, I just added those to my Wal-Mart list!

We have been doing the Language Arts/Math side 1st part of the day and the Learning through History side 2nd part of the day. This order works out best for us. When we do the Learning Through History half we do follow the boxes in order, it just seems to make more sense to us in the way it all ties ...

Hi Sam,
We are also new to HOD. We just started with our curriculum this past week and are loving it.
Welcome!

Awesome Kathleen! You are going to love it! I look forward to sharing our experiences with HOD!

We just completed our first week, and what a success! :D I definitely agree that at first glance HOD appears to be "deceptively simple". I am amazed at how thorough and well thought out the lessons are. Both kids had so much fun and we worked through all of the lessons each day without feeling rushe...

This is awesome, thanks so much for shring!

Oh, how wonderful! That is such an awesome idea! :D I think my biggest getaway these days is an occasuional moment when I can close my eyes and just dream of being on a deserted island (with my HOD catalog of course). :lol: When I open my eyes and come back to reality, I realize I would miss my kids...

We had such an awesome day! The words of my 7 yr old dd pretty much say it all. She came up to me about half way through the day and said: "I thought it was going to be like every other school day, but it's much more fun." Come to think of it, I felt the same way! :lol: My 3 year old had so much fun...