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I am so excited that we are getting ready to start LHFHG for the second time! I am a bit nervous about doing both BHFHG and LHFHG at the same time. I am afraid I will go hoarse or need to get a stronger prescription for my reading glasses.

I do have a quick inquiry for those of you who have used Reading Made Easy multiple times. We made the sight word worms the first time around and then I kept them. (I always think I'll use something again. ) Did you make a duplicate copy for the second student, or did you reuse the first one? I am leaning toward making new, but I thought I would throw the question out there to see if anyone had any other thoughts on how to make reusing the previous one fun for the second one.

I had just as much fun with LHFHG the second time, and it felt very different because our oldest and middle ds are about as different as day and night! I did it along with Bigger Hearts too. It's very doable - I found it ideal to have blocks of time both dc are working, one with me, one more independently (the independent one would be the Bigger Hearts child primarly ), as well as blocks of time where they worked at different tables and I popped back and forth between them to oversee their work (good for math and grammar type work). HTH!

As far as your phonics question, I haven't done that program, but since no one's responded I will try to help. I am familiar with Reading Made Easy, but not the details of it. I'd say if you are to make the worms in front of them progressively, and that's a part of the learning, I'd remake them. If it's not the making of them but rather used as a reference, I'd just use the ones you made. Or, if you are able to cover the upcoming segments with sticky notes and take them off to "reveal" the words as you go (and that doesn't take away from the learning), I'd do that. Does that help at all? If not, maybe someone else who has used Reading Made Easy will respond.

In Christ,
Julie