Hi Christy!
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If you do the Kindergarten handwriting for your ds when you do LHTH, I think whenever you finish it, you could easily have him do the First Grade handwriting. We did "A Reason for Handwriting K", and then when we finished that we did "A Reason for Handwriting A". I did modify "A" a bit, and told my ds that as long as he had about 3 neat letters on each line, and traced the word and wrote it very neatly 2 times on each line, that was enough. I wanted quality over quantity. He did very well with that, and always tried his very best to write very neatly, as he knew he'd have to do more if it wasn't done well. So, that may be something to have in the back of your mind when you have him do the first grade handwriting later. As far as the first grade "Thinking Skills", he will do just fine with that. "Finding the Answers" and "Do It Carefully" will be a good stepping stone for "Thinking Skills" and will easily prepare him for that. For science, I'd personally choose the K science. I think both of the sciences are excellent, and I got them both because I couldn't decide.
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They are not all that different, and the "K" science plans are in the daily two page spread, so I'd go with the "K" for that reason - though either one is very good.
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HTH!
In Christ,
Julie