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I do actually squish Bigger's 5 days of work into 4 days a week, but it is quite intense. I'm very comfortable with where my dd is in math, reading, and grammar, so we only do those 4 days a week (still, she is almost done with Singapore 3B and half-way through R&S English 3). I really prefer to kee...

My catalog came yesterday, and I immediately took it with me to read while the kids played at the park! Couldn't help myself. I find myself reading it over and over throughout the year just for fun!

I'm looking at next year's plans (because I need to budget and because looking at my HOD catalog is one of my favorite pasttimes!), and I was wondering about how DITHOR and PHFHG mesh together. We're currently using Bigger and DITHOR, so we're used to the program in general, this is more of a schedu...

I'm definitely not an expert, but I try to judge from my dd's capabilities. Most of the time, if I use the books from the DITHOR book packs, I pretty much follow Carrie's suggestions. If there are two books for a genre, I decide whether to use our 15 days of reading evenly for both books or take an ...

First of all, I'd definitely slow down on the math lessons to a pace of one lesson a day. Make sure that you are doing the hands-on activities with it, as they are essential to understanding the Singapore way of thinking. A question of clarification for you, Carrie. I agree about not doing more tha...

We've experienced that so far, as well! We're in week three now, and last week we were already working through things more quickly. Today (after being off for Labor Day yesterday) was another slow one, unfortunately! I'm thinking that within a couple of weeks we'll be settled in to a good routine th...

Not to be disrespectful, but I cringe when I hear someone say to slow a kid down on the math just to stay on schedule! Isn't one of the great benefits of homeschooling to be able to teach you kids at their own pace? Slowing down a kid who is zipping through math is asking for him to be bored. The sc...

I was just looking at this thread the other night, and I was so glad to find the link from InHisTiming to a previous thread, and there finding Carrie's links to several discussions on the subject. We started Bigger this year, and I quickly saw that we no longer had spelling lists available because w...

I was planning on using Singapore, but now I am concerned. Will they not be able to memorize the facts with Singapore???? :? I had been using MUS with my oldest and math drills and she still needs work memorizing. Singapore is not built to really practice math facts. It is great for mental math, an...

We are finishing up our second week in Beyond. (We started school on a Tuesday, so our week always drags over to the next Monday!) My dd is loving the DITHOR the best still. Her only problem with it is wanting to read MORE. History has been like that, too. She can't stand the way each day's reading ...

I surely can't do an "splaining" but I join you in your question. My dd is doing Beyond as a 6yo 1st grader this year, and it fits wonderfully. That puts us in Bigger for second and so on. We can't know where our kids' skill levels will be, but does CTC work fine as 4th grade? I don't stress over th...

Wow, she really does sound like my dd! What do you plan on doing with her to get her math facts memorised? That is something I really need to do with dd but I am not sure of how to go about it in a fun way. Nicole I've decided to do a "Number of the Week" with her for a while. I have never bought f...

You probably should find the placement test online for Singapore, but my bet would be 1B. 1B will get into multiplication and division and I think you'll want that introduction before hitting it again in 2A. I started with 1A/1B last year with my dd (age 5) who does very well in math (skills sounded...

We've started our second year with HOD now, and we're loving it. DITHOR has been a huge hit with my DD! She spent the summer reading, and she always wants to choose her own books. I was worried that she wouldn't want to read what I offered or do any "activities" with her books, but she has enjoyed i...

We have been loving school so far this year, and it’s even better now that our shipment came on Monday this week with Beyond… and a few other things to go with it. So now we are in LHFHG on the left side (plus Storytime) and Beyond… for the right side of the page. We aren’t exactly in one spot in Be...