Future Placement Question

shera · Post by **shera** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:56 pm

I am currently working through LHFHG for everything but LA and Math. For LA and Math I am using BLHFHG. My question is when I finish these should I skip BLHFHG for History, Storytime and all and just move on to Bigger since that is where my ds will be for LA and Math? Does Beyond cover a different time period of US History then Bigger?

Thanks
Sarah

netpea · Post by **netpea** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:34 pm

If you were placing him for the first time, would the placement chart lean toward Beyond or Bigger? How old is ds? Have you looked at the sample week of Bigger, does it look like something he can do?

Melanie · Post by **Melanie** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:45 pm

He's 6, right? I think I would do Beyond. They do cover different aspects of history.

shera · Post by **shera** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:29 pm

My ds is currently 6. He will be 7 in Nov. When I started with HOD, skill wise he placed into Beyond. My husband wanted son to have the overview of world history first since son had no history. We are currently doing Singapore 1a/1b with the activities in Beyond. We are also doing the spelling and la from Beyond. Obviously when he finishes this he would be ready to go to Bigger for math and LA. Should I just put him into that for History and Storytime as well?

Sarah

netpea · Post by **netpea** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:16 pm

shera wrote:My ds is currently 6. He will be 7 in Nov. When I started with HOD, skill wise he placed into Beyond. My husband wanted son to have the overview of world history first since son had no history. We are currently doing Singapore 1a/1b with the activities in Beyond. We are also doing the spelling and la from Beyond. Obviously when he finishes this he would be ready to go to Bigger for math and LA. Should I just put him into that for History and Storytime as well?

Sarah

Hmmm, I would lean toward skipping Beyond and going straight to Bigger.

An option you might consider if you have access to the books is to read the History Books from Beyond over the summer as read alouds. You wouldn't need to do the activities with it and you would be able to read several days worth in one reading. This would give him some of the background before diving into Bigger.

Post by **Carrie** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:18 pm

Sarah,

I can't remember if you were combining your son with another child? If so, then "Beyond..." would work best to keep on combining.

If not, then I would take a hard look at the placement chart to make sure your son would be ready for the writing that is required in "Bigger..." and also to make sure that he is ready for the jump to lengthier readings with few to no pictures.

If he places into "Bigger..." on the chart (and you think he can handle "Preparing...." the following year), then you could go with "Bigger...". However, if you think the writing would be too much, I would go with "Beyond...".

Let us know what you think. Here's the link to the placement chart:
http://www.heartofdakota.com/placing-your-child.php

Blessings,
Carrie

netpea · Post by **netpea** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:27 pm

You know your son best, but the thought occurs to me that even though my son at 7 was doing Bigger level math and could have done Bigger level LA, we are doing Beyond.

My son is not ready to work independently at all, and Bigger would have been difficult for him, but by fall he will be ready.