Name: Thrive! NCHE Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-05-22T00:00:00-05:00
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April 29, 2011 at 12:08 am
Rachel White
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How long does it take to work thorugh BF Geography with the Hollings books doing it once a week?
Thanks, Rachel
April 29, 2011 at 12:49 am
botanicalbecky
Member
I don’t know if this is what you are asking, but on the AO yr 1 schedule one book only is listed (Paddle to the Sea) for one chapter per week and it goes the whole 36 week year. Then in yr 2 they do two books (Tree in the Trail & Seabird) and do one book per each half alternating the weekly readings with one chapter then two chapters the next week then back to one chapter.
Again, I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for – hopefully it helps. 🙂
April 29, 2011 at 1:51 am
Rachel White
Participant
HMMM…I didn’t think they would take so long. So I can’t get through all the books in one year doing it once a week?
Rachel
April 29, 2011 at 8:15 am
botanicalbecky
Member
They are pretty long and I think a little dense. I was going to try this with my oldest, but he just isn’t ready. He needs a little more practice with “literature”, ha. I know yours are older, so I think they can handle the reading fine, but to retain it ….. All of them in one year could be pushing it.
April 29, 2011 at 3:13 pm
fivestones
Member
Hi Rachel!
I looked at the BF website. It does say that using the 4 books and the guide that it is meant to be done in 1 school year using it once a week. However it does not show how that is broken up.
If you want to do it in the one year, I would look at each book (4 total) add up all the chapters, divide by the weeks and see just how many chapters you would have to read in that one day. You may find that it would be easier and doable if you read 1 chapter daily instead of many ch. in 1 day.
Hope that helps.
Vanessa
April 29, 2011 at 3:22 pm
suzukimom
Participant
A few years ago, AO had those 3 Holling books in 1 year… but decided that was too much for Yr 1 students. I would think with older students they could be done in a year… my son always wanted me to read more than one chapter in a sitting. (age 6 for Paddle, age 7 for Seabird)
April 29, 2011 at 3:46 pm
6boys1girl
Participant
I’ve been thinking about doing this for the past few years and this post motivated me to look at it further.
So after a quick Amazon check this is what I found:
Minn of the Mississippi is 20 chapters, 88 pages (approx 4 pages per chapter)
Paddle to the Sea is 27 chapters, 64 pages (approx 2 pages per chapter)
Tree in the Trail is 27 chapters, 64 pages (approx 2 pages per chapter)
Seabird is 27 chapters, 64 pages (appros 2 pages per chapter)
In a 36 week school year, it would be approx 8 pages a week to do once a week (so 2 chapters of Minn or 4 from the other books). Seems pretty handle-able to me.
-Rebecca
April 29, 2011 at 5:09 pm
houseofchaos
Participant
Hi Rachel,
Paddle to the Sea and Seabird are pretty easy – each chapter is only a page of text and a page of (beautiful) pictures, with the exception of the last chapter, which has two pages of text. Minn is a little longer, and I don’t have Tree in the Trail. I would say with your ages of children, you can definitely do the three books that I do have.
It would be too much for a Year 1 student.
Gaeleen
April 29, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Ladyofthehouse
Member
Rachel,
Please keep us posted if you end up doing the BF geo guide! I think it looks fantastic and although my kids are just a bit too young I have it on my several year plan :o)
April 29, 2011 at 11:57 pm
my3boys
Participant
We’ll be using these next year for geo at the request of my 12yo, well, and the fact we’re doing the SCM Mod 6. We have the BF guide and 2 of the books since we were going to do those 2nd semester this current school year, No Go. I was too cheap to buy their maps and did not prepare myself very well, so we’ll be doing them next school year. Let’s hope I can get all of this together by then:)
May 3, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Rachel White
Participant
Thanks everybody! I am definitely going to do the guide; still undecided about the maps. I have outline maps of the US – won’t that be enough?
Mine will 11 and 10 by then, so I think I’ll be able to get through them doing it once a week, considering there are numerous illustrations that take up many of those pages, right?
Next year I want to do Complete Book of Marvels.
Rachel
May 3, 2011 at 5:57 pm
houseofchaos
Participant
Hi again Rachel,
I was mistaken, I do have Tree in the Trail. Same layout as Paddle to the Sea. One page text, one page illustrations per chapter. You can definitely do all the books with the ages of your children.
Gaeleen
May 3, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Rachel White
Participant
Thank you. That settles that.
What about the maps? To get or not to get?(that is the question…)
Rachel
May 3, 2011 at 7:14 pm
suzukimom
Participant
Paddle has a map at the back to look at – and “google lit trips” has a trip for paddle on Google Earth (all free) which we look at.
Haven’t done the others yet…..