) with our studies since then. In spite of this, they have done well this year and made great progress. Here is a summary of what we've done and where we are now.We've mainly focused on learning to read and they are both reading now. My dd is able to decode at least a 3rd level though she still is insecure and doesn't do much independent reading. My ds is still an emerging reader and decodes at about a late 1st or early 2nd grade level but is very slow in his reading. He has to take time to sound everything out.
For writing we have done basic writing sheets along with some of the phonics work we did (mainly Adventures in Phonics). My kids didn't like doing them and this is the one area where I think we have fallen behind. I've recently gotten the Abeka Handwriting with Phonics books and they are working through those and making steady progress. Though they spell well and compose their thoughts well orally, their ability to actually put it in writing is not great.
In Math, we've been using Miquon, math literature, and games. We haven't even completed the first Miquon book but when I gave them the Singapore placement test, they easily completed the 1A test.
In history we used History for Little Pilgrims but only completed up to the time of Abraham. We also did a few of the stories from History Stories for Children in particular the ones about the presidents. We did a huge unit lasting about 6 weeks last fall using Stories of the Pilgrims as our basis and Evan Moor history pockets. We read almost the whole Stories of the Pilgrims but I ran out of steam after the first Thanksgiving so we didn't read much after that.
In science, we used a combination of The World God Made and Our Father's World focusing on the days of creation and how they relate to science. We've also done a few Five in Row units that incorporated both some science and social studies.
For Bible, we completed What Every Child Needs to Know and have been reading Bible stories in the Read With Me Bible.
I'm sorry that is so long and detailed, but I wanted to let you have an idea of what we've done so you can help me figure out how to proceed. As you can see, I've used a lot of the same resources as the basis for our study that HOD uses. I know I haven't used them as well or as completely as HOD nor have I included all the wonderful hands on learning experiences that HOD offers. When I found this a few weeks ago, I was kicking myself for not having found it last fall and started with LHFHG then. It would have saved me so much time and energy and my children would have gotten a much more complete, organized approach to everything. So now I've been looking at what to do for next year and I love the detailed plans and flexibility that HOD offers. I've looked at the placement charts and I think my two fall mostly into Beyond and I went ahead and bought the book.
We've covered probably 1/2 or more of the math concepts in Beyond so I'm not for sure what to do about the math. I'm thinking about possibly using the math explorations and continuing with Miquon though I have heard great things about Singapore and I'm wondering if I should switch to it or perhaps do both. Can anyone tell me how long it takes to do the Singapore math on a daily basis? I would hate to overwhelm them, but at least the first half of the year would be review. Hopefully it would just help solidify all of their knowledge and not bore them if I did this. I hate to skip ahead a half year in the book for the math explorations and I really like the hands on math activities presented in Beyond so I would like to incorporate them. I would love to hear some suggestions of how best to handle this.
For reading I'm thinking the emerging reader schedule is the way to go, but I'm not for sure about having both of them do the same reading. I'm not for sure if ds is quite up to the emerging reader titles but I want him to practice reading. He knows his phonics pretty well, but just needs practice so that he can increase his speed. I was thinking about using some of the actual readers like Abeka of CLP (I have some of each), but they are not nearly as exciting as the real books. I fear that if we try to take turns and have them both read the emerging readers together, my dd will be bored with the slow reading of her brother and he will feel badly when he hears her reading so fluently. I don't feel like I can turn her loose quite yet to read by herself (maybe by mid year?). What do you all suggest?
My biggest problem is with the history reading. Since we already did a huge unit on the pilgrims and read most of the Stories of the Pilgrims, I'm not for sure what to do with all of the units on the pilgrims in Beyond. I've thought of doing it again since I'm sure they won't remember everything and all of the tie ins that Carrie uses will be new. I've also thought about getting LHFHG and using some of the history parts in it from where we left off in History for Little Pilgrims during those weeks. I don't want to confuse them though with getting everything out of sequence. I'm torn because I know there are probably great things in LHFHG that we didn't cover and I hate that we missed them. I also hate that we missed the great story time reading in LHFHG. I recently got the Thorton Burgess books used in LHFHG and I'm wondering if I should get LHFHG just to use along with them. I'm not for sure how to fit in that story time with the Beyond Story time if I do this. I already have most of the history and science books for both LHFHG and Beyond as well as many of the emerging reader books and other supplements. I guess I have a lot of the same taste in books as Carrie
So given all of that info (I know it's a bunch
), where do you think I should start and with what? 
Thanks!
Hello from another mom of b/g twins! Mine turned 7 in Dec. 