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Hi Ladies, It has been a while since I've been on the message boards. Just a refresher, my name is Joy and I have 5 kids and we live in Indonesia. We have used HOD for the last 2 years. This year, my older two are using HOD at our little mission school. 5-8 grade has 5 kids and I convinced them to u...

Thank you so much for your encouragement ladies. I do so appreciate it!! Yes, unfortunately, Julie, they don't have any choice but to take the test since we are with an organization and they pay for our hs'ing materials that gives them say as to what we do. :( Ah well. I love all of your suggestions...

Thank you so much for all of your help! Thank you for helping me to both prepare and not to sweat it!!
Blessings to you!
JoyinIndo

Thank you Melissa, that is very helpful. I would love to get a hold of the Spectrum Test Prep books, however, since I live overseas, the chances of getting them before the test are highly unlikely!! :) I can only find the test preps as ebooks if they are state specific...meaning test prep specifical...

Hi ladies, We are nearing the end of our first year with HOD and I still couldn't be more pleased. My kids are *loving* school and that makes for a fun environment all the way around!! (We have 2 doing CTC, ds 5th grade and dd 4th grade, and a ds 7 doing Beyond) My question is this: our missions org...

Wow!! This is so amazingly gracious! Thank you!! I am thrilled!!!
Joy

Thank you for all your kind responses. I am SOO glad that I encouraged you Carrie! What a blessing to hear! I am thrilled to have so many other like minded women here to share the excitement with me! I'm so glad it is going well for so may others as well. Now, off to read Archimedes! :) Blessings to...

I have not visited these forums for several months because I have been trying to limit Internet time, but I HAD to pop in to say just HOW thankful I am for HOD. We are on week 20 with a 4th grade dd and a 5th grade ds doing CTC and a 2nd grade ds doing Beyond {with 4 yo twins tagging along}. We are ...

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that we just finished our 6th week of the school year with HOD. My older two, 4th and 5th, are using CTC and are LOVING it! OH MY! I have NEVER been so happy with a curriculum or felt SO at peace with our school year. No stressing, no rushing, just enjoying!!...

Thank you everyone for your prayers! I have been on the phone several times yesterday and today, and still no box. I am still optimistic and praying that we will locate the box today, but we'll see.

Thank you!!
Joy

Hi Ladies, I am asking for prayer from all of you. I live in Indonesia and my parents have come to visit and brought with them all of my HOD materials for this coming year. Well, one of the boxes that they brought has gone missing, the one with the teacher's guide and most of the books. It was part ...

Thank you for the help Julie. I really appreciate it!
And I'm glad I could say something to encourage you....since you are the best encourager!!
Blessings,
Joy

Thank you Julie for the examples of the dictation. That is a great help. Can you explain to me a little about how dictation is done over the week, or point me to a place where I can read about it? Do they do a different dictation passage each day, every day of the 4-day week? If they do poorly on th...

Hi Joy, Happy Resurrection Sunday to you and your family, too! As far as the spelling question, I think you can just match the dictation level in CTC that matches your son best. I'm not much help, because our dd is older and spelling has finally become pretty well handled at this point. But, I thin...

The only thing I would do in the interim is perhaps, begin dictation --- if you want to do that. Do you have any of the guides yet? My guys were all weak spellers when we began HOD and my oldest was a 6th grader when we began. He has done fine and his spelling has improved immensely. I'll post back...