LHTH with K?
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:04 pm
Hi - I'm trying to figure out where to place my dd who will be 5 in June for this fall. I wish I would have found HOD last year, but since I didn't, I'm going back and forth between LHTH and LHFHG. Then I saw a few posts on this board about people doing LHTH with K options...what does this mean? Are the options in LHTH or would I need both books if I chose to go this route?
On the placement charts she places with LHFHG (I think), but as I look at the posts of what people are doing in LHTH I keep thinking about how much she would enjoy parts of it and wish we had done it this year. Then I've also thought about doing some LHTH starting now (or when my dh tells me I can place my order...) and go through the summer and then start LHFHG sometime mid-year. Or is that a bad idea??? She taught herself to read this year and reads very well, very fluidly. (She's read a lot of the books on the emerging readers list...she reads her Bible storybooks, and pretty much anything she can get her hands on...she's even read some of Little House in the Big Woods) But, she hasn't had any phonics yet, which my dh and I both think she needs if only to help her when she can't figure out a word. While she's soaring in reading, her writing is not as good - she doesn't write letters the correct way yet - starts at the bottom sometimes, etc. She also doesn't really do math yet. She has a great attention span - we've read some chapter books with very few pictures (like Charlotte's Web) which she loves. So, I don't know. I'm just really feeling torn between the two. The Bible portion from LHTH looks like something she would just LOVE from the pictures I've seen on these posts. If she wasn't such a great reader, I would probably pick LHTH just to give her a light K year. Which one is *supposed* to be the K year? I know there is flexibility, but I am not really understanding which one was written for K. Anyway, I'd appreciate all of your opinions so very much!
Erin
On the placement charts she places with LHFHG (I think), but as I look at the posts of what people are doing in LHTH I keep thinking about how much she would enjoy parts of it and wish we had done it this year. Then I've also thought about doing some LHTH starting now (or when my dh tells me I can place my order...) and go through the summer and then start LHFHG sometime mid-year. Or is that a bad idea??? She taught herself to read this year and reads very well, very fluidly. (She's read a lot of the books on the emerging readers list...she reads her Bible storybooks, and pretty much anything she can get her hands on...she's even read some of Little House in the Big Woods) But, she hasn't had any phonics yet, which my dh and I both think she needs if only to help her when she can't figure out a word. While she's soaring in reading, her writing is not as good - she doesn't write letters the correct way yet - starts at the bottom sometimes, etc. She also doesn't really do math yet. She has a great attention span - we've read some chapter books with very few pictures (like Charlotte's Web) which she loves. So, I don't know. I'm just really feeling torn between the two. The Bible portion from LHTH looks like something she would just LOVE from the pictures I've seen on these posts. If she wasn't such a great reader, I would probably pick LHTH just to give her a light K year. Which one is *supposed* to be the K year? I know there is flexibility, but I am not really understanding which one was written for K. Anyway, I'd appreciate all of your opinions so very much!
Erin