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I am trying to plan this week. We are in LHTH. I know that I will do LHFHG for K, but I am concerned that my ds will not be ready for Beyond for 1st grade. Has anyone done LHFHG twice with the same child for both K and 1st. My convention is coming up in two weeks and I am trying to get my shopping list complete before HOD comes my way. Could use some input.

Thanks,
Edie

I believe it is probably best to go 1/2 speed instead of doing a manual twice. Here is a very recent thread on 1/2 speed for LHFHG, viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8367
This allows you to spread the manual out over 1 1 /2 to 2 yrs and let your child grow into the skills and be ready for the next guide. If at some point you feel is ready, you can always go to full speed.

I agree with countrymom and would try to go half speed over 2 years instead of repeating LHFHG. Depending on your child, you can either take the math, fine motor skills, and phonics at half speed and go over 2 years also, or you can do them at full speed using the K options the first year, and the 1st grade options the next year.

What I ran into was this - I started LHFHG a little late in Kindergarten. I then bought Beyond to use in First Grade. Well, when first grade came we started into Beyond and it was too much for my dd. Rather than plod through it, I shelved the box and returned to finish LHFHG. Now if I pulled out Beyond today, she'd be ready but I am glad I went back to where I left off in LHFHG. She will enjoy Beyond all the more next year. So I have ended up doing a slower pace through LHFHG and just working on our reading and math skills, and enjoying great books. I did go buy the 1st grade options since we were doing first grade even though we didn't finish the K workbooks and it was fine - like for science and math, the thinking skills book and the handwriting. For the handwriting and thinking skills we started at the beginning of the first grade book and just systematically worked through it, sometimes more than one page a day. It didn't match up to the unit/day's box, but it wasn't a big deal. We just did whatever pages we needed when those books were assigned. For Science, whatever we don't cover in this book we will just read on our own this summer for our own enjoyment. We will do Beyond for 2nd grade.

BTW, my other hesitation was that doing Beyond in 1st grade would put her in Preparing as a 3rd grader. My current 5th grader is doing Preparing and she is learning so much more than she would have had we been doing it in 3rd grade. Her comprehension and understanding of the big picture is better. So by holding off and doing Bigger in 2nd grade, my younger dd will hit Preparing at 4th grade, which will make a big difference. So you have to look at the long term placements too.

arstephia wrote: BTW, my other hesitation was that doing Beyond in 1st grade would put her in Preparing as a 3rd grader. My current 5th grader is doing Preparing and she is learning so much more than she would have had we been doing it in 3rd grade. Her comprehension and understanding of the big picture is better. So by holding off and doing Bigger in 2nd grade, my younger dd will hit Preparing at 4th grade, which will make a big difference. So you have to look at the long term placements too.

That is my concern too. My dd 4th grade is currently doing Preparing and I don't think my ds as a 3rd grader would do well with it. It is perfect for my dd right now. But my ds catches on to some things as quickly as she did and other things he is way behind where she was at that age.

So if I understand this correctly? I could do the Left Side half speed and the Right Side Full speed then do the 1st grade options on the Right Side when I got to the 2nd year. So I would take two years to do the Left Side and do the Right Side K options in 1 yr and the 1st grade options the second year. Is that right? I also wonder if I could do the Science Full Speed and then do the Our Father's World when I start the other 1st grade books. Am I understanding this correctly? I just feel like I want to be sure I can wrap my head around this plan. The whole half speed, full speed thing is new to me.

Edie

So if I understand this correctly? I could do the Left Side half speed and the Right Side Full speed then do the 1st grade options on the Right Side when I got to the 2nd year. So I would take two years to do the Left Side and do the Right Side K options in 1 yr and the 1st grade options the second year. Is that right?

Yes, that's right.

I also wonder if I could do the Science Full Speed and then do the Our Father's World when I start the other 1st grade books. Am I understanding this correctly?

I think you can just go with whatever your preference is. You don't really go through the science books in order so I don't know if it would be a big deal to switch mid year or not. I ended up buying both books just because I couldn't decide. When we were going half speed, we would do the experiment and read the K book one day and then read out of the 1st grade book the next day. Now that we're going full speed, we just look at both of them. But, my DS loves science and is always begging for more so this worked for him. You could definitely get by with just one of the books though.