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I’m looking for some advice about my dd who will be 5 in October. Last year we finished LHTH and partway threw we added TRL as she seemed bored and expressed a desire to lean to read. We are part way through lesson five. This year we started LHFHG. Everything seems to be going well, except for phoni...

thank you all for the advise, I really appreciate it. Your wisdom has helped me kind of focus and recenter my thoughts and figure out how to get us back on track. I appreciate you all.

Thank you all very much for chimming in with such wisdom. I new things wern't working quite right but I couldn't figure out quite why or what to do about it. I think finally I'm getting it now.

Thank you all very much for chimming in with such wisdom. I new things wern't working quite right but I couldn't figure out quite why or what to do about it. I think finally I'm getting it now.

We are only doing one page of each a day. They take maybe 5 min a piece tops. Maybe it's b/c we have just started though and it will take as longer as we go.

During school time 4 y/o dd showed some behavioral issues that appeared to be related to boredom before Christmas. We decided to add trl and Singapore from lhfhg just doing a page a day though. I didn't want our day to run too long so we stopped doing the math activity rotating box and the count on ...

We are actually doing lhth now; just at a very casual pace as I figured we had 2 years to fill and I wasn't sure with what. Julie, you are probably right, she probably will be ready for lhfhg next year. Guess it's time to start planning for that. What we are doing is kind of a hybrid version right n...

Thanks for the feedback and ideas. I see a couple of good options here. I like the pre work book linkedf to above. I,m also considering just a slate and wet, dry try for the letter of the week. I think that's what I'm leaning toward. Since we have just recently added phonics and math workbooks. The ...

We started lhth with dd just as she turned 4 last fall mostly b/c she wanted to go to school like her friends. My original plan had been to wait another year. She would be a k4 next fall by ohio school ages and one of the many reasons we are choosing to hs is I'm of the slow gentle early years philo...