Thanks ladies! We may give them a go then. She has just hit that spot where she is starting to read by her own choice ALL OF THE TIME so I can hardly keep her in books, and I also find that when we are busy it is our nature-study-reading that tends to get dropped. Hopefully this will help - both with giving her more reading material as well as getting that science/nature stuff in there even when it gets dropped from our family work.

Thanks!
Jen

There is a Level K book. Just FYI...

Jen, I think she could. My son, who is 7 and also a good reader, read #1 by himself pretty quickly and just finished #2, which took him quite a bit longer. I think your daughter would have no problem! :)

They are wonderful!!  I almost hate to have my kids read them independently because then I miss them!  However they are perfect for new readers and work great for oral narration.  I would say that if your dd can read them and give a good narration, let her go with it.  Just start with #1 since the reading levels do progress.

Jean

So, I was looking at some of the samples for these and wondering at what ages you had your kids start reading these independently? My dd is 6 and reads well (probably a 2nd-3rd grade level, she reads the Pathway Grade 2 Readers very easily as well as just about everything else she gets her hands on...). Would she be able to read the first or second books in this series on her own? I had looked at these before and decided not to use them..but now that she is reading more independently, I'm thinking it might be a good option for us to supplement our nature study....

Thanks for any insights, all...
Jen

I just saw some on the CBD website tonight!

My children just read the section, or part of a section depending on how long it was, and narrated it to me. Come book 4, there are questions after the chapters. They've learned a lot from these and it showed in our time out-of-doors from a Creationist perspective.

I haven't seen a guide or a blog.  I started putting one together myself and then we switched what we were doing and moved and I never got back to it.  What I would do is once a week or so, look ahead at the topics we would cover.  I did an internet search looking for coloring pages, video clips, sound clips, full color images to view, etc.  We'd read a section then look at whatever I found on the internet, do our own drawing or color a page and move to the next thing.  Sometimes we'd do all of that in one day, sometimes we'd spread it out over a few days, it depended on what I was able to find.  Some insects/animals have a lot of information, some do not.

We've just read them....

Has anyone ever seen a handbook or guide to go along with this book similar to what SCM has for Outdoor Secrets? Or maybe an example of what someone has done on a blog somewhere?

Hi Sonya,

Yes it does.  The Memoria Press guide from what I can tell, is very similar to the Greenleaf guide. 

I just feel so terrible that I'm not getting to read aloud very much in this season of life and I hate that I'm holding up the history year because of it. I don't know when life will settle. We may be putting an offer on a house today and it will need some work (which we will do) before moving in. Then comes unpacking...
 

I was just thinking that using the Famous Men books we could still cover the time period in a shorter amount of time versus the Guerber (though I love it) and keep on moving. I have a dd who will be in 9th grade next year and I would like to cover all of history with her.

I will take a look at your Rome guide.

Great, one less book I have to buy. I would rather spend it on literature. LOL!!!

The new Middle Ages/Renaissance/Reformation handbook that we're working on will be set up like the other history/geography/Bible handbooks. (You might want to download a sample of the Matthew through Acts and Ancient Rome handbook to see how they're formatted.) It will include our suggestions for the Family read-alouds, the Individual student additional books to read, introductory statements to prompt pre-reading review, narration reminders, Book of Centuries entries, optional hands-on activities, tips and comments for the teacher, end-of-term exam questions -- all of those broken into day-by-day plans. So it will tell you how much to read of each book each day. The handbook's daily plans will cover history, geography (including map drill), and Bible for one year of studies.

Probably the main difference between the Greenleaf Guide, TQ, and our handbook is that ours presents everything in daily lesson plans. I haven't seem the Memoria Press guide, so I can't speak to that difference. Sorry.

Shanna, I don't intend to include Greenleaf's Guide to Famous Men of Rome, just the Famous Men book as the Family read-aloud spine.

Does that information help? I'm happy to answer any other questions.

Is the new guide that comes our going to incorporate this guide or just the Famous Men book?

Sonya,

I'm considering switching to the Famous Men books from the Guerber books, how does your guide differ from the Greenleaf or Memoria Press guides to these books?  I'm am trying to discern whether we need to re-vamp our system (we've been using TQ history for years).  Thanks so much.