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I think this is the post you are referring to. http://www.heartofdakota.com/board3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7895&p=58349&hilit=5th+grade#p57498 BTW, I am using Bigger with extentions with a 5th grader. I had concerns if it was challenging enough for her. I wanted to keep her and her brother together and ...

I am very interested in the answer to this as well. I have a 5th grader doing Bigger this year and I am considering skipping Preparing and moving right into CTC.

Right now we are doing Bigger with a 3rd and 5th grader (with Extensions). It is going well and they like it. However, I sometimes feel that I am not challenging my 5th grader enough. So what are your feelings on doing two guides vs. one guide with extensions. Also, since I will be doing Preparing n...

Christy, I'll just add my two cents worth - I love Disney! We have gone to Disney twice. Once on our honeymoon and once when our kids were 7 and 9. The ages of our kids were perfect of the kids. They were old enough where we didn't have to use a stroller (I would NEVER do that there!!), and the wond...

Julie, Can I just say that I LOVE your heart! You have spoken to me more times than you know in your responses. I love how you take the time and care to truly understand your children and work with them. Thank you for sharing! :) This is so true! Julie, you are an inspiration. THANK YOU for caring ...

NIrV Adventure Bible is a hit here. My DS loves it. He can understand it and doesn't become frustrated when he comes to difficult words.

I want to thank you all for your wonderful responses and encouragement.

I look forward to Monday as we make some changes. Hopefully, it will be a much more relaxed last half of the year.

This is our third year homeschooling and our first with HOD. We are loving the ease of HOD and it is working so much better for me to implement. My DS is a breeze to homeschool - compliant, easy going, willing to do most anything I ask. My DD is a different story. She is very strong willed, a totall...

Congratulations! She is beautiful!

I want to thank you all for your wonderful encouragement. I felt renewed this morning as I faced another day. I am implementing many of your ideas...and I am also letting go and letting God. He is the one to make the changes we need...in both of us! I am printing off all these wondferful words of wi...

That is beautiful work! I would frame it!!!!!

I am so excited to be using HOD - we really need to work on some heart issues at our house, but today was rough. I look at the pictures that many of you post and see happy, excited children eagerly doing their work and I long for that! My dc are just not there yet. Right now it is a struggle to get ...

Thank you all so much. I know have a clearer picture of what I need to do and how it is supposed to work. I appreciate you all so much!

Thank you Julie!

Wonderful ideas from all of you. He has done two days of cursive. He says he hates it, but proceeds along! His "l"s and "h"s are beautiful when he takes his time!

I am very interested in this also.

Science is such an issue in our house. It is difficult to find a program that is complete but doesn't take the whole day to implement!