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Thank you all once again. I am so sorry that I was confusing with my mix-up of Beyond and Bigger. My oldest will be 9 in November, and is your typical firstborn who is eager and ready to learn each day. My younger son is 7 on Monday and readily does his work, though may complain from time to time si...

Ladies, you have all been so helpful. Can you forgive me when I tell you we were on Beyond this year and not Bigger? I have Bigger ready for the fall. I got them mixed up as I wrote!!

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I would really love to hear from some of you seasoned HOD users, and even Carrie herself! I have no idea what to do... I am at a loss as to how to move on. We began Bigger this year and it started well. As the year progressed, I found myself not knowing how to balance preschool for my 3yo, caring fo...

Kathleen, I have not been on the boards for a long, long time, but found this post and remembered when you posted it. How is everything going? I hope you don't mind my bringing it up again. I just recall that you were an encouragement to me when I started our HSing journey and wanted to check in wit...

Thank you so much, Mel! I appreciate your words and encouragement. I love the HOD boards! They were so helpful to me when I first started two years ago. I'm excited to get to know everyone here better.

Thanks, ladies! I appreciate all of the feedback. My older one is reading at about a 4th grade level and can certainly do the comprehension aspect of DITHOR, but I want him to have neater printing before we delve into cursive. Maybe I'll have that as a goal for the second semester. This will be our ...

Thanks, countrymom. I did plan on doing DITHOR and R&S 2 with my older son. Why do you think I should do it orally? I have it but need to look at it more in depth. He's definitely not ready for cursive yet. StephanieU, the boys are in K and 1st right now. My oldest will be 8 in November and both boy...

I will be doing Beyond this year with my 2nd and 1st grader. Has anyone ever combined this with their two boys? I wonder if it'll go by too fast for my older one and I'll end up having to sub out Bigger for him, ultimately leading me to do two different guides.

Can anyone direct me to a place on these boards where I can find examples of IHIPs, quarterlies, etc. that are specific to HOD? I live in NY. TIA!

Kathleen, I haven't been on here in quite a while and as I was reading through the threads tonight I came upon yours. I am so very sorry to hear this news. Please know that I will pray for you both as well as for the doctors and everyone else involved. May the Lord's peace be your comfort and your g...

This is super helpful, ladies! Thanks so much!

Julie,
This is wonderful, thank you so much! I'll be checking these out in depth later tonight after the kiddies are in bed! I'm excited!
Thanks,
Kelly

Good morning, fellow HODers! I am looking to display a map of the US in our homeschool area and would like it to include state borders and capitals. I see a lot of maps with a ton of info on them and my children are not ready for that yet. We could possibly do one with the various state "sights" suc...

Thank you for your in-depth reply, I appreciate it!

I was ordering my curriculum tonight for LHFHG. I was hoping to order two sets of Singapore Math Kindergarten so that my younger son (who will be in K next year) would also be able to use these books since in the catalog it states that they are going out of print. I was unable to do so because of gu...