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I'm curious about something. Looking at the guide just a little bit, I see that we don't necessarily go through the books and workbooks in order (science especially). So can anyone tell me if we are actually going to cover all of The World God Made, or will there be pages we never do? And what about the workbook Finding the Answers and/or Thinking Skills Grade 1? I'm still deciding there.

Thanks!

I think we did all of The World God Made. But, I haven't actually checked. I know that there were some pages we read more than once because they were the right theme - with a different experiment.

I have used both the Rod and Staff workbooks and the Thinking Skills one, and I personally perfer the Rod and Staff ones. They had more cutting and fine motor skill practice in my opinion. And, my kids loved them! The Thinking Skills one doesn't really work on cutting. There were just a few pages in the Rod and Staff workbooks skipped, but those were the ones with "handwriting" practice of a few letters. Since you're alternating the Rod & Staff book with the handwriting book you choose, those aren't as necessary as you're actually covering the correct formation of letters more thoroughly there.

Kathleen

True confession: I didn't actually do all the readings in "The World God Made" that I was supposed to. So I can't tell you if the whole book was used. The R&S workbooks we didn't do every page, but it was nearly every page. Do It Carefully has lots of practice pages writing their name and stuff and those are the ones that were skipped. Of course you could do them if you and your child have interest. You could certainly read "The World God Made" as you have interest too, but what's so great is the way the activity/experiment usually relates to the Bible/History or devotional reading, then the reading in "The World God Made" brings in a new concept for them to grasp. My children learned and remembered it very effectively this way. If I was putting these things together on my own I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to make them work together as well as Carrie has done. Or I would have had to spend a lot of time thinking through it, which she's already done for us.

I wondered the same thing, so I actually went through the whole LHFHG guide and wrote down all The World God Made pages to see. All were used except maybe 3-4.

Dustybug wrote:I wondered the same thing, so I actually went through the whole LHFHG guide and wrote down all The World God Made pages to see. All were used except maybe 3-4.

thanks - I'm nitpicky enough to have done that but hadn't had time! Now I know!

Thanks everybody

mom2Gracentwins wrote:

Dustybug wrote:I wondered the same thing, so I actually went through the whole LHFHG guide and wrote down all The World God Made pages to see. All were used except maybe 3-4.

thanks - I'm nitpicky enough to have done that but hadn't had time! Now I know!

Thanks everybody

no problem! I'm like that too. In fact, if you wanted, I could look at the list and tell you which pages weren't used. lol