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Thank you for all of the helpful suggestions!! I really appreciate everyone's input!

Hi! Sorry for the late reply, we decided to take a long spring break trip to the states while my husband is deployed. My oldest girls currently attend the local elementary school for specials (art, Japanese, pe, ect), science and social studies. The science and social studies are practically non exi...

Thank you for your insight. The 8 year old will be repeating 2nd grade next year because she has been a struggling reader and this year has been a combo of 1st and 2nd grade material, 3R's only and huge focus on reading. She places pretty squarely into Bigger, especially 6 months from now. I will al...

In the fall I will have a 9 year old 4th grader and an 8 year old 2nd grader. I have tried to combine them in the past, but because of differing abilities, that didn't work well for us and we left HOD. According to the placement chart they would fall into CTC and Bigger, but after reading advice on ...

What a tough spot Prayers for your family.

Saying a prayer for your brother and family.

amysue277 wrote:Do you mInd sharing with me what you did this year?

My girls went to Catholic school this year.

How many other Military HOD families are around? What branch and where are you stationed? We are a Navy family and are currently in Newport, RI, but PCS this summer to Yokosuka, Japan. This will be our first year with HOD and I am trying to decide if I should take the schoolbooks with us to work on ...

How exciting!!

I love the new catalog!!!

Tammy has a wonderful idea! My girls are 15 months apart and will be combined in LHFHG this fall with one being 6 and 3 months (1st grade) and the other just turning 5 in August (kindergarten). If you really want to combine, someone is always going to be on the young end of the guide. I believe that...

Congratulations!! We got our little boy on our 4th try also!

I had the bindings cut off my guides at Staples, it was $2. I haven't put mine in page protectors, but just in a binder. Since we're using LHFHG for K and 1st I needed some of the appendices from Beyond and it was much easier to make copies and add them to my LHFHG binder than try and keep up with t...

I ordered online and posted the book I wanted to substitute in the order notes box.

Thanks Carrie, I sent an email