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Julie, Thank you so much for your in-depth response. It really gave me some good things to think about! I especially like your ideas for the afternoon. :) To answer some of your questions: Do you all like this start to your day? The kids seem to. I've never heard any complaint about it. It's a nice ...

Thank you all for your words of encouragement! There are so many days I fell like we should quit and send them back to public school. Half the time, I'm not even sure they're listening to me and the other half I know they're not! Our day starts all together with the Pledge of Allegiance, recitation ...

We are on Week 11 of HOD and are a first time homeschooling family. My kids are 4,6 and 8 and we use Little Hands, Beyond and Bigger. For the first few weeks the kids were so excited about homeschooling, but as the weeks have drug on I feel like they are becoming bored with it. We spend no more than...

Thank you for your help and encouragement!

We just finished our first day of Bigger and Beyond and I'm worried I must have missed something. :? We did all the boxes just as it said but both kids were done in an hour and a half. The introductions say Beyond was supposed to take 2-2.5 hours and Bigger 3.5 hours. What did I do wrong?? Also, I s...

This is our first attempt at homeschooling and our first time using HOD. When I ordered our books, I didn't order the Bible as a part of the Emerging Readers set because it said I could use my own. But then I got the teacher guide and found out I only have the choice of the two listed. When I was lo...