I have two girls and we've been home schooling for two years. I have used Sonlight and Oak Meadow. I love Oak Meadow for the art, nature study, and drawing mostly; but I need to add literature. There's not enough until 3rd grade, and since we are all voracious readers here I turned to Ambleside Online. My oldest is 6.5 and we are finishing up Oak Meadow K with extra literature selections from Ambleside Year 0, but when I tried to read some Year 1, she's completely lost. She's a strong reader on her own, but I think we need a change; hence this post. There are a lot of similarities between HOD and Ambleside, some of the same selections. I am very pleasantly surprised and actually excited.
I bought Little and Beyond used last week and from the looks of the guide, I think we will enjoy most of it. Placement questions. What should I do? My oldest has just finished 1st grade Pathway Readers (we have up through 3rd grade, so we can continue with those), but I think she would love the animal stories in Little. We would use Singapore along with Miquon probably, and maybe Queen's Language Lessons, not sure. We've already read Beatrix Potter with Oak Meadow, but we can substitute that fairly easily, maybe even do the activities for those lessons. Anyway, should I combine my girls and do Little or just do Beyond with my oldest?
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Have you had a chance to check out the placement chart? It is a good way to properly place dc in HOD. We have 3 sons we use HOD with, and it has been accurate each year in placing them. The first page of the placement chart is the most important to consider. If you could check out the chart and share a bit about each of your dc in regard to the first page of the chart and where you think they place, we'll all chime in and help you fine tune your placement:
We are currently doing LHTH for the third time with our third son and still loving it.