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Yeah I was worried that my son might have a hard time with some of the things in Bigger (like spelling), get frustrated and not want to do the work. He is doing awesome! He doesn't get all the spelling words right but he just laughes at himself, erases, studies the word again and spells it right the...

I will be using Beyond with my 10 year old autistic boy. Right before I ordered my books I found out he could read! We worked on phonics all last year. Tried out 100 ez lessons but at about lesson 30ish it started to get too complicated for my son so I turned to the MacGuffey reader. We were halfway...

I am due Jan 7th 2009 just a week behind you! :o I am planning on starting school next week just a little bit early and not taking our usual month off for Dec. I will be taking the first month after the baby is born off cause I know I won't feel like nor beable to get school done that first month. I...

I am going to be starting Beyond with my youngest son next month and I was just looking at the books for the emerging readers on Amazon. I saw the beginners Bible and wondered if my son could read it. We have taken a 2 month vacation from school due to me being pregnant and sick so I haven't tried h...

I have used the CM method of homeschooling for 11 years now and this is my first year of HoD.... that being said if you want to go the CM route with storytime she advised using books, stories and biographies from the same time period. I think that using books that go right along with history is ok f...