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I tried HOD last fall and had some health problems and never found a rythm and gave up. I want to try again. My oldest is in high school next year doing MFW high school. My twins are 8 (boys) and have bee working in rod and staff 2, singapore 2A and just listening to other read alouds and SOTW this year. I was thinking of placing them in Preparing and do 1/2 speed since they have done LOTS of american history already. I think they would be fine. My question is with my 11 year old. She is working in Rod and staff 4 but at the beginning(lesson 20 or so) She has had ALOT of history and doesn't want to do the ancient times. I was thinking of putting her in RTR--she is very independent and likes to work alone with her older sister. She did the beginning of preparing last year until my health became poor and stopped. She did like it but mostly because she had individual time with me and was doing her "own" thing. So.....this year-RTR knowing that she will grow into the writing and narrations(she has actually done IEW before so knows the set up of that)-or place her back in preparing with her brothers and risk of "this is too babyish" type of thing (which she has known to do when she does things with her younger brothers) and adivce?oh yeah, she is able to write a 6 sentence narrations but needs some work on adding more info.
thanks for any input!
pjean

My 11 year old daughter is doing Preparing with her 8 and 9 year old brothers right now. She is doing 6th grade CLE (very similar to R & S), TT 7, and writes well. She does not feel it is babyish at all. However, she does not want to do her own program. She says it is "lonely". I like to have all of mine in one program, and if you add the extensions for your daughter in Preparing she still has her "own" thing without making more work for you. Only you will know best.