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I was coming on here to ask that exact question!

I do one of three things. 1.) don't worry about it and just plan on our school year being a little long... pick back up Monday morning. 2.) school on Saturday/Sunday 3.) do more than one day of school in a day... this is especially something I do if I know beforehand that I'll be missing a day, but ...

We start with the school year kinda... sometime late July / early August... we take breaks off when we want to and work on Saturday's when we want to. After we get finished and until the next school year starts we do unit studies. Last summer we did geography, summer before we did lighthouses, who k...

I'm doing it with my 2.5yo and she loves it.... Even the Bible isn't over her head! She also wants a memory verse like her sisters so I pick one of the key ideas each week to have her learn and tell someone. (Like "God made everything" or "Noah built the ark") but she's having a lot of fun.

I'm assuming you mean in Pioneers and Patriots? How you'll do the intro page and then the page at the end that tells the steps to something? I don't know if this is the reason or not, but for my dd it really helps her pay attention and understand the other stories if she knows a general overview, an...

Have 3 out of 4 children be early birds... that'll get ya going... I have to get up around 6 every morning to have a chance to sip at least 3 sips of my coffee in peace and quiet. Then 6:15ish is all hands on deck, except for my baby... my beautiful, early to bed, late to rise wonderful baby ;) Seri...

Thank you that is what ours turned out like too (except we are still in the "markers are absolutely the most fantastic thing in the world" stage, so ours are just wonderful colors )

ok... thanks... just making sure I wasn't missing something and it was supposed to be a bird shape I know they really won't care, but I didn't want to have it wrong.

We do the Bible and history first so that I'm sure to get that in every day... everything else is second to stay on schedule in my mind. Science, math, spelling, poetry, copywork, etc. can fairly easily be caught up just by doing a little extra one day. The one thing in Beyond that I leave out if ne...

ok... I cannot figure this out... I tried it (luckily) before I had the kids do it and all i get is a triangle... is that it?? am I doing it wrong? pictures would be wonderful

We just randomly throughout the day break into song, so I've started just randomly singing anything they are having trouble with. 2's, 3's, 5's, 10's... address, phone number... anything I want them to learn.

ETA: we tried the whisper thing and my kids just started randomly whispering numbers

If he's only 6 months behind with the academics, and the problem is attention, then I think LHFHG will be great! We get through with the left side of all three programs (Beyond, LHFHG, and LHTH) in about an hour of straight work... so if you are just doing LHFHG and do a more active portion in betwe...

I would also do the left side of LHFHG with both and fix the right side to meet each of their needs. My 4.5 yo is doing all the K additions to LHFHG, and my 2.5yo LOVES the history and Bible and poems, etc from the left side of LHFHG. She can't do the right side at all yet, but loves the left side a...

I was talking to DH about this the other day :) And for us I think it is great... they'll get through with HOD at the end of 7th, then 4 years of 'high school', then an extra year to either apprentice someone or study specialized things, do an internship, or take some cc credits before it's time for...

I'm using three, but my three are LHTH, LHFHG, and BLHFHG... it's going well now. I can see it going much much better when we are doing LHFHG, BLHFHG, and Preparing. I'm going to assume (haven't seen the preparing TM) that they are layed out much the same. My biggest issue right now is that my LHTH ...