GOAL Bible Study & Life in the Word do I have too?

You’re the mom, you get to decide.   I am really excited to use them, but my house is less full (only 3 kiddos here) and my two oldest will be 10 and 14.  Maybe you can hit them the next time around.  

Just another thought:

~My oldest will be doing Life in the Word alone.  Not sure how old your oldest is, but it’s just a thought.

Blessings,

Heather

I, too, would like to ask something about this.  I am pretty certain we cannot pull of BOTH, so am leaning toward JUST the GOAL Bible study to do together with 2 or possibly 3 of my kids–I really like the idea of doing it together.  Life in the Word looks good, too, but I felt like if I have to choose only one, perhaps only doing GOAL?

Any comments?  I see this was originally posted four years ago, so curious if anybody has drawn any conclusions on this, or has an opinion?

We’ll be studying Middle Ages this year.  I’ve decided to skip both.  We are Lutheran and I prefer to use materials from our church’s publishing company.  After looking through the teacher’s guide, I don’t see how skipping one or both of these resources will be a problem.  I’m also subbing out a couple family readers…I love that SCM is so easy to make substitutions with!

For Bible, we will be using Penny Gardner’s Bible schedule.  We’ll be reading 2 days from the OT, and 2 days from the NT each week.  On Wednesdays, we’ll be going through the Epistle reading from the history guide.  I may add some notebook pages from here.  Or we may just read and narrate.  We’ll also have our Visits to Europe lesson on Wednesday and I don’t want to overwhelm them with writing.

One idea (which I’ve used in the past) is to download the free samples of the programs you are considering.  I’ve found SCM’s samples to be very generous…we can use them for several weeks and by that time I have a good idea if it’s a good fit for my DC.