Nevermind, found my own answer! About doing Bigger twice....

[Tabitha]

Here's what I posted before...and I sooooooo forgot about Beyond Little Hearts - lol. YAY! That is my answer.

Still, if you are gonna do a program twice in a row with the same child, how would you do it?

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Original Post:

Taking a break while the girls do their handwriting...and pondering a question here.

We're not ending until mid-June. Slightly behind in our school work.

However, when we resume after summer, what do I do with my 7 yo (she will be 7 in May).

Right now we are using LHFHG. I have Saxon 1 for Math, along with Singapore (these are like fun workbooks for her). We are half way through The Reading Lesson. I am using the K for Science. She is a slow reader at the moment, just really learning. I don't do any spelling or anything at this point with her. Next year I would like to do First Language Lessons with her for 2nd and 3rd grade...I really like FLL and think she'd have fun with it. I'd wait until FLL is completed to add in other grammar programs like those suggested by HOD.

My 9 yo will be finishing Bigger, and moving onto Preparing.

For the 7 yo, do I move to Bigger next year, and do all the low end stuff. Then, the following year, repeat it all with the higher end stuff?

I was unsure how to work one of these programs going through twice. Would the history get boring doing it 2 years in a row? She definitely won't be able to do all the reading the first go around and most will be via oral narration for her. DITHOR, I would definitely wait on that for her.

Any advice on how to proceed would be awesome. I think she needs to move on from Little Hearts, and can see her getting bored with that if I do a repeat of it. Somewhere along the line, it would be too low for her.

Thanks.
Tab

[my3sons]

Well, it does sound like you've answered your question very well! Just in general though, if you're still asking about using a program twice - instead of repeating an HOD program, it is better to do the next level half-speed, taking 2 years to do it. That is probably the best way a program can be used over 2 years.

In Christ,
Julie