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I have been told they are expected to be released in late summer. We are looking forward to doing Preparing also next year.

Last year I bought Bigger and then realized a couple months later that a new edition had been released with notebooking pages. I wish I had waited and bought the newer edition. Does anyone know if there will be a release before July this year for Preparing? It seems like it is the only level without...

I have a 11.5 year old who will be in 6th grade next year and starting RtoR. He is incredibly intelligent, but he seems to fall so easily for the junk mail we get daily. I decided to add The Fallacy Detective to his curriculum to help him spot false logic. I just saw that The Fallacy Detective is pa...

Hmm. I wrote my reply on a phone while rocking a wiggly toddler. Being real, it's about the only time I get to sit down to do such! Please excuse the plethora of auto corrects!

We also are about a year "behind." I do understand they are advanced programs, however, do it brings me a level of comfort. Also, we plan to try to get in about 3 math lessons a week over the summer to try to make some headway even we have less school going on. I was surrprised when I mentioned that...

Thank you! Those are good ideas! And I just saw tonight that in Resurrection to Reformation, my son can read his read alouds himself which would bring it back down to two a day. I'm not sure if I like that idea completely as I love to read to them, but it might just be a necessity next year. And the...

I had a question about the read alouds. They are one of my favorite parts of HOD! That being said, I am currently running three guides with one only being LHTH in which I don't really have a read aloud this year. Just doing the read alouds for Creation to Christ and Beyond is a bit of struggle to ac...

I had a question concerning completion of guides. This year has been full for us, and although we have been diligently working on school daily, we have been focusing more on our three R's and making strides there. In fact, my daughter went from barely able to blend a three letter word to reading cha...

I hope this isn't a silly topic, but I was curious: if a child seems like they will be ready for the emerging readers, but it is partway through a guide (in this case Beyond), should we wait until the next guide (Bigger), or start the Emerging Readers with the current guide? Would you begin from the...

I haven't yet tried it yet as we just started summer break, and I'm hoping to have some time to watch the DVDs I bought concerning it. I'm really curious if it might help some though. I'll write back after I've tried it. She said it needs to be for 4 months daily to establish new connections in the ...

I am glad we can both be an encouragement to one another! :D It sounds like we are in similar boats. My daughter also rushes her handwriting. I just tried throwing out my Bob Jones handwriting this week and doing as HOD recommends: writing a bit of her poem for her on her handwriting paper and havin...

I have struggled with this same question the past couple years as I have two middle children with late summer birthdays. My third one will turn six this August. My brother was a September birthday, and I remember he had to repeat kindergarten as he wasn't ready. He always felt he was held back and b...

Thank you so much for your reply as well. I am realizing, although we've been homeschooling for five years now and will soon be starting our sixth, I have not done any deep research into educational philosophies. I know what I feel and what I've experienced while teaching (both substituting and teac...

Thank you. Sorry. We had VBS and I was working with two year olds all week, so I was exhausted when I wrote that. We are finishing our "last" week of school next week (though we really school year round), so I've been deep in school planning mode. I will have so much more peace knowing what the plan...

Thank you so much ladies for taking time out of your busy days to help me! You have encouraged me so greatly! I feel like I can take a breath now (and a break!) :D Gleaning from your wisdom, I think I will continue LHTH with my third born over the summer and into the fall. :) He loves "Mommy time," ...