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Excitement is in the air for me! We start our homeschool journey tomorrow. I wish my kids were as excited as I was....I know it will come once we start though. I just ask that you pray for me this week, it will be a tough transition week from traditional ways to homeschool ways, and I know that after several weeks and a groove is made, we will be enjoying this journey together.
I am not going to start my 3rd grader (Bigger) with DITHOR right off the bat...(I hope that is ok). I just feel like we need to get everything else going and working out before we jump into that too. I think after a couple of weeks getting Bigger and Little Hearts on a good schedule, I will implement DITHOR.
I cannot wait to post at the end of the week, with exciting details of what HOD and our Lord has done for us this week.
Thank you all for your prayers and thank you for just being their with your wisdom and experience.
Blessings....

You and your dc will have a blast!

Praying for a good start - but remember to give your dc and you some grace at the beginning. My good start often comes a few weeks in - so don't be hard on yourself if it all doesn't go just so, alright? I think it makes good sense to start first with just Bigger Hearts and then add DITHOR. You could probably do one month of Bigger Hearts and then start DITHOR on Unit 5, since then you'll be starting it at the beginning of a month of plans. You're going to have a wonderful year - have a super day!

In Christ,
Julie

I just want to tell you how well our first day went. We started at 9 and ended at 12:05 and that was with a 20 minute outside break in between! Now I realize it wont be like that everyday, but it made the first day a breeze! Things really worked out with juggling LHFHG and BHFHG, although I have not added in DITHOR yet. Tomorrow is more "crafty" type stuff for my dd who is doing LHFHG and she is excited!
However, with the first day, I do have a couple of questions...
1. Are there any worksheets that go with the RME? When I ordered, I only received the manual, but not a workbook or anything...just dont know if there is something else I should be doing?
2. Tomorrow we start science notebooking....is there a specific sheet or outline I should use that has writing lines and a place to draw also? Just asking....
Thank you for all the prayers and thank you for HOD for being such a wonderful program:)
Blessings...

cdrx4,

I'm so glad that your first day went well! That is something to celebrate.

As far as your questions go, the worksheets for Reading Made Easy have to be ordered separately, as they are on a separate CD. Here's a link to that CD (scroll down to see the worksheet CD): http://www.heartofdakota.com/independent-reader.php

As far as the science goes, for notebooking we just used typing paper. If your child needs the ruled lines to write on, you may consider cutting off the bottom part of a lined sheet of loose-leaf paper and having your child copy on that. Then, you can glue the sheet to the top of the typing paper, and the child can sketch below it. Just a thought.

Blessings,
Carrie