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I've been looking at HOD for many years now and am looking at it again for my upcoming school year. I'm just looking for history and Bible and not all the subjects. I've been told this is something I can do with HOD. But then I need to know how to best go about doing this. I will have ages 6, 8, and...

Thank you. I think we'll stick with CtoC. I'd rather have a year that is not pushing her and let her catch up and improve her skills before moving on instead of battling our way through a year that is just too hard like we've been doing. I feel better too knowing how I might be able to arrange thing...

I think based on the sample I read she could totally handle what is in CtoC that requires her to work independently. I'm going to look over the next guide and see how it looks. I wish they gave more than just 1 week so you could see what it's like at other points in the year.

I've finally come to a decision and we're going with HOD but I'm still not sure where I should place my 6th grader. She has been struggling a LOT with her science, history, Bible, and reading comprehension. But keep in mind we were using A Beka for history and science, CLE for bible, and choosing ou...

I have them printed off. We tried talking things over some last night and his biggest concern right now is for high school. He wants them to be mostly independent for high school. Will the yet to come out high school materials be more independent? We both want something we can hopefully settle with ...

Thanks so much. I will remember this is a good place to ask for book suggestions if we do settle on HOD.

Good to know. My kids have decided they want HOD after talking with them this morning. I'll have one placed in Bigger Hearts and the other either in CtoC or RtoR. I'll try to do the older's read alouds without the younger if I need to. Hoping I can preread stuff but not sure that will work with the ...

I'm wondering if any of the books I'd be reading to the kids have heavy content that might be too much for a sensitive child? We're still discussing our options for curriculum and have found that several books from another company are liable to be inappropriate for our younger student due to him bei...

Thanks so much. I will be mentioning much of this to DH when we sit down to decide what we're going to do with the kids. Very helpful info all around.

Thanks. I hadn't looked at the placement guide for below CtoC. I guess I just assumed it was below her level but I will look again and see what fits better. I'm not interested in pushing her too fast and she's at a point where she just needs to get her skills improving and move on from here. The onl...

I'm afraid of going too gentle. Next year is a required testing year and she will need to be able to provide the district with a passing test score. In the past going too gentle has bit us badly with test scores. I will look closer at that one though and see if it might work.

My 6th grader is struggling with reading, reading comprehension, composition skills, and needs a lot of work in narration as well. I'm looking to switch her most likely to HOD but i'm not entirely sure which package I should place her in? I'm leaning towards Creation to Christ but would like input f...

I'm thinking about Bigger Hearts for my 3rd grader. I'm undecided between Creation to Christ and Resurrection to Reformation for my 6th grader. She struggles with narration so bad it's crazy and she needs a lot of help with her composition skills. We've worked so much on her grammar type stuff that ...

Thanks a bunch.

Thank you. It was helpful. I'm leaning more and more towards keeping them in separate levels which leads me towards HOD. The more I think about it the more I think the kids need individual levels to work on their personal areas of weakness or interest. After all a 6th grade girl struggling in ELA ha...