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That's ok--the way I wrote it was confusing. Yep, I'll definitely do discussion regardless of whether we read the material together. Thanks so much for your help!

Glad to hear that it would be possible for dd to do Prep alone Julie! I'm hoping she'll want to do quite a bit by herself since we have several other things that we either do all together or with the two of us.

Thank you both! I'm still not sure what I"ll do re: dictation & spelling. I'll just have to see how things go. I was considering switching out the book's dictation passages for passages from the reading, but if the Prep dictation is the spelling... Thank for the ideas re: the independent work as wel...

I just started Beyond with ds this week & I'm continuing with Zoology 2. The science in Beyond is very light so it's not a big deal to add in the Apologia. We don't do it full blown though. I read about 3 pages/day, they narrate, & we do some of the experiments, but we don't do any of the notebookin...

I will be starting Preparing w/dd in July & I have a few questions. First, do the dictation passages serve as spelling practice? We've been doing All About Spelling & I'm debating on whether or not I should continue with that, do a modified version of SWR or just do whatever is contained in HOD. Sec...

Me too, please

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I just started Beyond with my ds today & won't begin Preparing w/dd until our new year officially begins in July. My original idea was that I could *easily* get him 30 lessons into his new year while dd is finishing up her old stuff & then they'd finish the year at the same time. Then I realized tha...

You're welcome Paige!!

I use the newest version of Firefox as well & it worked for me. However, when I first tried to download it I kept clicking on the wrong link. I finally clicked on the one that's on the left side of the page & kind of looks like it's going to be an ad for something with yahoo. It did open some yahoo ...

Thank you Kay!!! That will be so helpful when I'm figuring out what to have the kids read.

I can pm you my e-mail address...or did you mean that you wanted to upload them someplace else & then give a link?

We use Right Start: http://www.alabacus.com/pageView.cfm?pageID=270 The TM directs the parent very well & I feel like my children have a good grasp on the whys of math. The downsides are that 1. it's pretty expensive b/c there are so many manipulatives involved & 2. there is a ton of parental involv...

Reading these threads has me so impatient to order my stuff! Then I'll have the loooooong wait to get started with dd, but at least I'll be able to get going with ds right away!

That sounds fantastic! I'm going to friend you now. I'm lostinabook there as well.

Ok, thanks!