young 2nd grader in LHFHG?
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:55 pm
As I'm looking at possibly coming back to HOD, I have a couple of placement options. We'd be starting in late-May. My oldest (8 years, will be 3rd grade) places in Bigger. My 2nd child (6.5 years, will be 2nd grade) has an August birthday. Since we school year-round and start our new year in May or June, ds is really on the young side for his grade. So far I've had him combined with dd for science, history, etc. I require more of dd than I do of ds as far as writing (we keep a notebook for zoology). His attention span has improved, but still is not as good as dd's. Then there's my next son, who is 5 and will be starting K. Because of his late birthday, he's 2 years apart from my first son in school, yet they are only 16 months apart. I've always felt that at some point they would be more combinable than my oldest two.
My original plan was to get just Bigger and have all 3 of them participate as they are able. (We already have our math/LA at their appropriate levels). But, I'm thinking it might be better to let dd do Bigger by herself, and put the boys in LHFHG together. That's where the title of my post comes in---- does that sound like it would work? My 6 year old is very bright when it comes to math, but has struggled with phonics/reading and handwriting. He is also wiggly with a short attention span (though he is improving!). My 5 year old is the total opposite!
What do you think?
My original plan was to get just Bigger and have all 3 of them participate as they are able. (We already have our math/LA at their appropriate levels). But, I'm thinking it might be better to let dd do Bigger by herself, and put the boys in LHFHG together. That's where the title of my post comes in---- does that sound like it would work? My 6 year old is very bright when it comes to math, but has struggled with phonics/reading and handwriting. He is also wiggly with a short attention span (though he is improving!). My 5 year old is the total opposite!
What do you think?
One thought I'd had would be for your ds to do R & S English 2 half-speed, as he's on the young side for it. Though much of it can be done orally, diagramming (which starts in R & S English 3) really shouldn't be done orally for its full effect. Since the writing increases and writing assignments begin to be part of R & S English later, you may want to slow it down a tad. For your little guy, you have a super plan in place too. I did think the Earlybird Math was fun, and went so well with the hands-on activities, so I'll just throw some kuddos out for that as you consider it. For DITHOR, I'd really encourage you to do it. It is a rich reading program with so much meat to it. I think you could definitely start it later though. Sometimes stagger starting really helps make it easy to ease into it. Those are just a few thoughts I'd had after reading your post, but they're just some fine tuning type things that you'll know best what will work for you. We did LHFHG and BHFHG as a combo a few years back and really enjoyed it. I think you will too!