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I have struggled with that this year a bit in our current curriculum because bible is "built in" It's nice but it does present a challenge. I would rather do bible TOGETHER but sometimes it's hard.

Debbie

We are using Bigger and Little Hearts and we do the Bible for both. We do them separately if you can say that. Usually the little guys like to hang out with the big guys so they are there. I do not combine them or change it though for the younger guys when we are doing Bigger. We do have additional Bible study that we do together so we have together Bible study time as a group as well as prayer time. I am the queen of excess so I also throw things that are on my shelf to connect to the character traits Carrie has linked to Bible and History. These are Bible based and all are present for that. So if the little guys are not there already I call them in to listen.

Not very precise I guess but this is what homeschooling looks like during our "couch time". There's really no way you can go wrong. We do have a prayer time together and I think that is really very helpful as well. That is together also and obviously not written into the program.

I, too, am wrestling with this.
On one hand the art of streamlining things makes me lean toward doing ONE Bible. And even ONE Storytime.

BUT - I don't want to miss the chance for application for the child whose Bible we ARE NOT doing.

And truth be told, I think I will do both Storytimes with both boys.

We haven't actually started this yet...but here's what I'm thinking will work for our family.

We have family devos...usually at breakfast - it's up to dh's schedule. I plan on doing the Bible portion of Bigger with my oldest. And I'm going to do LHTH with my 4 y/o. We aren't planning on trying to use the Bible part of any of the guides as our family time.

Kathleen

We start the day with prayer time all together, but I do separate Bible times for the boys (in LHFHG and Bigger...). I find they share more that way, but I will say they chime in once and awhile with answers because they're sort of "listening in" on each other's time anyway. (All our main floor homeschool space is pretty open and next to each other!) When they do this, I'm reminded I'm kind of glad they are separate. They just seem more competitive and more trying to beat each other with the answer they think is right when they chime in this way - but, that could just be an issue at my house!

If you're doing LHFHG, BLHFHG, and Preparing - you could probably do the younger 2 together using either LHFHG or BLHFHG. I think you'd want your older one in Preparing to do that for sure. Good question!

Julie

The ladies have really done a good job of talking through this topic! I just wanted to let you know that in HOD guides, the Bible is really tied to what you are studying in history. That makes it harder to lift out and still have the same impact.

However, the "Bible Study" box in "Preparing..." will be its own study of Psalms, not linked with the history. This is because there is so much Bible study already woven into the left side of the plans (throughout our world history study) that the Psalms study is scheduled as an additional separate Bible focus for the "Preparing..." year. So, the Psalms study from "Preparing..." could be lifted out to do with everyone, but the memorization would need to be down-sized for littler ones listening in.

For what it's worth, I have enjoyed keeping the Bible study in our guides separate with my own sons to get that personal, devotional feel and that one-on-one time with each of my kiddos. Boys just don't share as easily in a group at our house as they do when they're alone with me.

Blessings,
Carrie