Help! Not sure where to start?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 3:16 pm
Hello all-
I am homeschooling my children and started this year off doing Bigger Heart for His Glory for my 9 and 7 year old. I had all the stuff for it and it seemed like the right age ranges for my kids, but it didn't seem to be working well. It was to much in the language arts and while they comprehened the History, Science,and Geography it seemed to be to much in the writing department. So I went to Lifepac, I had that on hand also. I am currently doing Lifepac Language arts 1st grade for both of them and 2nd grade in History and Science and 1st grade math for my 7 year old and 3rd grade math for my 9 year old. We are doing The Reading lessons for reading with both boys and they are both struggling with that, but my 9 year old is sturggling much more. He can not seem to remember one lesson to the next:( I now wish I would have just stayed with HOD becuase I really HATE how lifepac is going. too much worksheet work and the language arts, even though it is for 1st grade is to hard for them when they are still in the begining stages of reading. They are expected to be able to spell and read things at this point and they cannot. It leads to alot of fustration for everyone! Now I am wondering if I should get Beyong Little Hearts for his Glory for them instead. the Language arts part seems more on their level and the HIstory, Science, Geography may be a little to easy for my 9 year old when it comes to comprehension, but the work it entails may be more at his level for writing etc. A little history to help out. I have homeschooled my children on and off the past few years, due to some family issues I haven't been able to do it all the time. However from this point on I do plan on homeschooling until high school at least. My 9 year old son has autism and I am wondering if he has other issues with reading and my 7 year old may have ADHD and be on the speturm also but not as sever as my 9 year old, we are currently going through some testing to help determine if he is or not. So with that said it can be a challenge to get school done daily. I really think BLHFHG would be a better fit but I have worries too. One it is already well into the school year as we need to be done with school by the end of May. We cannot do school during the summer because they will not be here for the entire time and we have other things planned. So where would I start in the program? Two I fear that my 9 year old will get even futher behind, however when he was in school they didn't seem to worry that he wasn't reading at all yet and often they didn't require him to do the work at 2nd grade level. With that said I am worried that I will set my children up for failure by not keeping up with their actual grade levels if I switch at this point and again where would I start in the program? could I start in the middle or almost middle to make sure we finish in May? Would that confuse them too much? I believe you go over alot of the history and stuff again in Bigger hearts for his glory right? So they would get it again anyways if I did bigger next year right? Ugh. . . it is so hard at times! I know my 7 year old is pretty much right on track for his age and it seems like BLHFHG would be a good fit for him and my 9 year old is at about or even at a slightly lower level in reading and LA, but ready for more information with the read out louds in History and Stories. I would really like to keep them together as I will be starting my 5 year old soon in Little hearts for this glory and still have 3 year old and a newborn at home to take care of. I do not think I could manage three different programs! So ladies I know this is long and may even be confusing, but over all I am wondering if I got BLHFHG and started close to the middle would that work and then my plan would be to do BHFHF next school year. Any thoughts? Please!
Thanks
Sheila
I am homeschooling my children and started this year off doing Bigger Heart for His Glory for my 9 and 7 year old. I had all the stuff for it and it seemed like the right age ranges for my kids, but it didn't seem to be working well. It was to much in the language arts and while they comprehened the History, Science,and Geography it seemed to be to much in the writing department. So I went to Lifepac, I had that on hand also. I am currently doing Lifepac Language arts 1st grade for both of them and 2nd grade in History and Science and 1st grade math for my 7 year old and 3rd grade math for my 9 year old. We are doing The Reading lessons for reading with both boys and they are both struggling with that, but my 9 year old is sturggling much more. He can not seem to remember one lesson to the next:( I now wish I would have just stayed with HOD becuase I really HATE how lifepac is going. too much worksheet work and the language arts, even though it is for 1st grade is to hard for them when they are still in the begining stages of reading. They are expected to be able to spell and read things at this point and they cannot. It leads to alot of fustration for everyone! Now I am wondering if I should get Beyong Little Hearts for his Glory for them instead. the Language arts part seems more on their level and the HIstory, Science, Geography may be a little to easy for my 9 year old when it comes to comprehension, but the work it entails may be more at his level for writing etc. A little history to help out. I have homeschooled my children on and off the past few years, due to some family issues I haven't been able to do it all the time. However from this point on I do plan on homeschooling until high school at least. My 9 year old son has autism and I am wondering if he has other issues with reading and my 7 year old may have ADHD and be on the speturm also but not as sever as my 9 year old, we are currently going through some testing to help determine if he is or not. So with that said it can be a challenge to get school done daily. I really think BLHFHG would be a better fit but I have worries too. One it is already well into the school year as we need to be done with school by the end of May. We cannot do school during the summer because they will not be here for the entire time and we have other things planned. So where would I start in the program? Two I fear that my 9 year old will get even futher behind, however when he was in school they didn't seem to worry that he wasn't reading at all yet and often they didn't require him to do the work at 2nd grade level. With that said I am worried that I will set my children up for failure by not keeping up with their actual grade levels if I switch at this point and again where would I start in the program? could I start in the middle or almost middle to make sure we finish in May? Would that confuse them too much? I believe you go over alot of the history and stuff again in Bigger hearts for his glory right? So they would get it again anyways if I did bigger next year right? Ugh. . . it is so hard at times! I know my 7 year old is pretty much right on track for his age and it seems like BLHFHG would be a good fit for him and my 9 year old is at about or even at a slightly lower level in reading and LA, but ready for more information with the read out louds in History and Stories. I would really like to keep them together as I will be starting my 5 year old soon in Little hearts for this glory and still have 3 year old and a newborn at home to take care of. I do not think I could manage three different programs! So ladies I know this is long and may even be confusing, but over all I am wondering if I got BLHFHG and started close to the middle would that work and then my plan would be to do BHFHF next school year. Any thoughts? Please!
Thanks
Sheila