I need your help to see if I can make this work for our dc. I was starting LHFHG and Bigger with them this summer. But, now I have to rethink the plan. If I can't make HOD work to combine like this, he says he wants me to find something that I can.
There are currently 5.5 and just turned 8. Youngest will be 3 Sept. 27th, new one is due Dec. 6 (will be here earlier!). They are starting K and 3rd.
Placement chart wise, they are perfect fit for Little Hearts and Preparing.
2.5yo ID's all upper and lower case letters, some sounds, won't sit still for reading except a couple pages of pictures, loves LeapFrog videos, and mess making. Can't work on his fine motor skills due to a lack of cooperation so even if I give him things to do independently, he destroys it. Hmmm...he's kinda the root stress here. But not all of it.
5yo is on lesson 27 in RME. Starting Singapore EarlyBird Math 2A, but is ready for more (he is getting close to 6)...I might pick up the pace just a little for a short bit since he's losing interest in math. He is able to do multi-step word problems from real life using a mix of add/subt. without help or prompting, just b/c he likes to. He doens't like to listen to me read so much, but will, even without pictures. He prefers audio books and will listen for hours and can "draw" out the story (I just can't tell what it is, so he has to tell me about it
). He isn't able to orally narrate without the picture or answer comp. questions after a reading. He is ready for simple CVC word spelling but I'll let him do words from our RME lesson on the white board once a week. 8yo dd is moving up to more independent work and is ready for the work in Preparing, but we stuck with Bigger to allow her to mature and also to allow for the independence she prefers. We don't work well together, she doesn't like to be read to, prefers to read to herself or an audio book. I think the highest level book she has read and enjoyed is Little Pilgrims Progress...he comprehension depends not just on level, but on interest. She can read high level, high interest books and understand every word. She can read lower level, low interest books and not catch a thing. She is not as highly interested in the history this year in Bigger. After a quick sweep through Beyond last year since I wanted to finish before we started moving and because I chose a level below where she placed to allow us to adjust and keep our days shorter...it's just such a quick jump back to the same topics and she's getting a little bored. Had we taken a full year then a full summer break, it would be fine. She has an interest in Botany and Ancient history. She is soon to start Singapore 3A, and is part way through unit 1 of R&S 3. She is on and off in DITHOR 2/3 using the level 3 books now. She can write in cursive but not very pretty...needs some touch up over the summer. We started with BJU and she is having a hard time transitioning to a new style, so I think I'll just let her go back to BJU for their cursive for an easier transition. She can write longer passages now and sometimes writes her own fables...she LOVES Aesop and loves to model his writings. She would love to start a creative writing program now, but I want to continue as Carrie recommends and get her oral narration improved then do written narration then writing. She can't narrate well orally, but can narrate better written. I've started having her dictate an outline paragraph by paragraph to get the main idea and have her narrate from that. She's doing incredibly well with the dictation in Bigger and is on number 53 now. We've only repeated one and it was for a capital "I".
Any help?
