Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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Tagged: A World of Adventure

This topic has 11 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 7 months ago by psreitmom.

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May 9, 2012 at 3:05 pm
momof4
Member
I have my eye on this curriculum and am wondering if anyone here has used it.I would love to get your opinions.Thanks!
http://learning-adventures.org/
May 9, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Des
Participant
Yes, I have and we loved it! Do you have any specific questions?
May 9, 2012 at 3:41 pm
LyndaF
Participant
We have used it. It has everything but math. My daughter liked it.
May 9, 2012 at 6:26 pm
4myboys
Participant
I’ve glanced at this briefly, but I seldom spend too much time looking at them because the content is generally American. I’d love to see something like this with a Canadian focus. It would be nice to have everything pre-laid out for me. Has anyone used the ancients one? That would probably be the only one I could consider.
I’m not sure how I feel about unit studies in general. Though I could see how they could be interesting and fun.
May 9, 2012 at 9:04 pm
LyndaF
Participant
The first one is ancients through exploration. It is supposed to be completed in one year. We didn’t finish it in a year.
May 9, 2012 at 10:31 pm
swineygirl
Participant
I just spent my afternoon reading over the website. Very intriguing! Des, why did you stop using it, if you don’t mind my asking? Thanks!
May 9, 2012 at 11:44 pm
Des
Participant
swineygirl, I stopped using it for a silly reason. I listened to some one on another board who didn’t think it was rigorus enogh, I was trying to Classical education at the time and didn’t think anything that my kids actually loved could be good enough, I have come to my senses since then, lol.
May 9, 2012 at 11:54 pm
Polly
Participant
I used it about 10-11 years ago. Those were the best years of our homeschoo! Loved it! The only things I didn’t like about it was that the Bible was not read through and it didn’t start with Creation.
May 10, 2012 at 12:40 am
jennifer
Member
I started using AWOA this year after much thought and contemplation. At first I found it very overwhelming and I was used to making my own lesson plans based on Charlotte Mason. I had to tone down some of the writing to meet my child’s skill level. I ended up splitting each day into two days in order to get it all done. I like it but I find it is very parent involved. I couldn’t really encourage independent work. The author has done a very thorough job putting this curriculum together though. She offers an extensive list of books to get for each unit study and at first I found that overwhelming too thinking I needed to get most or all of these books. In reality, you probably need only 5 or 6 of the books to use. I found that I didn’t have enough time to use all those books. I would like there to be more Bible. At this present time, I am deciding whether or not to move ahead with it or go back to the CM plan. I have a loyalty to CM that I cannot explain and continually feel pulled back to it. In doing AWOA I still wanted to incorporate the music, art and hymn studies that you grow to love doing CM but it was difficult to fit that in. I originally sought it out because it came highly recommended and I was looking for something more hands on because I felt like my son was becoming bored with my CM plan. It is hands on in some ways but I’ve realized I can incorporate more hands on into my CM plan if need be. I often find myself scared to step outside the box. I know I am going back and forth giving you my pros and cons but these are my honest opinions. For what its worth, every review I have ever read about it was exceptional. Just pray about it before you commit to it. The curriculum is very reasonably priced. Hope that helped in some small way. There are just many things to think about before changing to something new.
May 10, 2012 at 12:52 am
swineygirl
Participant
Thanks for your thoughts, Jennifer! It really does help to hear how others have fared. So, how do we incorporate more hands-on without complicating things too much?? You know what the big problem around here is? The history spines bore us to tears. I liked that AWOA didn’t have one. But I can do that, right?! Like you though, I hesitate stepping outside the box too much. What if they miss something important?? Now it’s 1 day before my local homeschool book fair and I’m researching like a crazy woman…lol…
Gotta laugh so ya don’t scream.
May 10, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Evergreen
Member
If your history spines are boring everyone to tears, maybe hop over to the Truthquest/SCM discussion and check it out? Perhaps adding in TQ recommendations might spice things up without having to do a totally different curriculum; many people use TQ without a spine, using the commentary and then choosing books they find most interesting or applicable from the list provided. I’ve not used AWOA, though I’ve perused it several times. I was thrown off by the huge amount of material and, to me, the daunting task of planning it all. It also seems to me that CM felt that children should be doing more independent work at a certain time than it allowed, and that they should be making their own connections over time, rather than us making the connections for them, so that steered me away – though I’ve heard many love it!
Have fun at the book fair!
October 21, 2014 at 10:29 pm
psreitmom
Participant
I know this is an old thread, but I am considering using this next year. I used it with my two oldest girls more than 10 years ago, and we really liked it. I think this will be a good fit for my daughter who I’m homeschooling now. Someone on this thread had mentioned the fact that CM wanted children to be working independently by a certain grade, but because of my daugter’s dyslexia and other learning difficulties, she is not independent yet. When we did it years ago, there were others in our homeschool group that used it, so at the end of a unit we all got together for the Ancient Egypt feast, and then we all got together for the Ancient Greece olympics. Even though we may not have the same opportunity now, I think it would be fun, and it uses many good living books.