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We are currently doing Bigger with my two older boys, eager to move onto Preparing and have worked through most of Little Hands with my soon to be 4 year old girl. Would it be too much to start her slowly(taking 2 years to finish) Little Hearts? If not do you have any other suggestions? Thanks!!
Christa

I started when my daughter was 4. We did half pace and it worked great. We are now going full pace. If you think she can handle listening to chapter books with few pics, K math level, handwriting, and phonics, I'd say go for it.

I am doing Little Hearts with my 6yo, and my 4yo tags along. He does fine in most of it, but I don't have him do any of the writing or reading (unless he initiates it). He does the math games (without the workbook), listens to the stories, and does the crafts, but he has trouble sitting still and will run around for a lot of it. He has had very thoughtful questions relating to the Bible topics that have surprised me, but I don't think he really gets it like my 6yo does.

I haven't decided yet how I will proceed with him when it's his turn for Kindergarten...I'm just taking it a step at a time. But, on the one hand, I would hate for him to "miss" the real meaning of so much of what we're studying because he wasn't mature enough to get it yet. On the other hand, he may be retaining more than I think, and he'll progress just fine with his older brother through the next books (but still on level with the reading and writing). We'll see.

mn_kids wrote:We are currently doing Bigger with my two older boys, eager to move onto Preparing and have worked through most of Little Hands with my soon to be 4 year old girl. Would it be too much to start her slowly(taking 2 years to finish) Little Hearts? If not do you have any other suggestions? Thanks!!
Christa

We started LHFHG when our ds was 4 1/2 yo. If you take around 2 years to finish it, I think it would be just fine. I like Jessi's advice here...
If you think she can handle listening to chapter books with few pics, K math level, handwriting, and phonics, I'd say go for it.

I also like Mariaw's advice here...
I'm just taking it a step at a time. But, on the one hand, I would hate for him to "miss" the real meaning of so much of what we're studying because he wasn't mature enough to get it yet. On the other hand, he may be retaining more than I think, and he'll progress just fine with his older brother through the next books (but still on level with the reading and writing). We'll see.

With dc on the young side of HOD programs, these are excellent considerations. My dc are on the young side of the target age ranges, and I've just taken time to choose the pace carefully, always with the thought of slowing down to half-speed when needed. We've loved it, and things have gone very well.

In Christ,
Julie