Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
Start: 2025-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Location: Branson, MO

Tagged: geography, Visits to

This topic has 16 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 1 month ago by bethanna.

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January 21, 2014 at 4:53 pm
crazy4boys
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While I love the Visit to…series I am finding that my small and rather book-poor library doesn’t have many of the books. So far they’ve had one book for Africa and one for Europe. I’ve been able to order most of them at a reasonable price, but a few are out of my price range. I’m wondering if it would be possible to create a list, perhaps in the Bookfinder, of alternate living books that people have read and recommend as substitutes.
If this happens in the Bookfinder it would be nice to have them labeled ‘Visits to Africa’ instead of just geography. Or maybe a list of additional resources similar to what the history guides have….a separate page with ‘extras’.
Maybe this isn’t a problem for everyone else and I’m the only one blessed with a challenging library! I know I can interlibrary loan but at $3.00 a book it adds up, and is often close in price to purchasing them used.
January 21, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Tristan
Participant
Wow, I’ve never been at a library that charges for ILL! Is that common around the country??
I don’t have any of the Visits to.. yet, are you talking about a chapter book or picture books for different countries?
January 21, 2014 at 5:31 pm
Shannon
Participant
Our ILL fee was just $1 for years but recently increased to $2. – in Chapel Hill, NC
January 21, 2014 at 5:34 pm
TailorMade
Participant
Free ILL where we live, thankfully. I like the idea of creating other lists. Each family may find it useful at some point.
January 21, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Jordan Smith
Keymaster
I don’t have any of the Visits to.. yet, are you talking about a chapter book or picture books for different countries?
Each Visits to . . . book requires Material World and Hungry Planet for some of the lessons. We also recommend several optional books, usually picture books for the younger grades, to go along with the study. The full list of books for each study is listed in the beginning of the free sample.
It’s a great idea to collect alternate resources, and putting them under a tag like “Visits to Africa alternate” in the Bookfinder would work well. If someone starts a project like that, please let us know so that we can add a link to the extras page.
January 21, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Tristan
Participant
Thanks Jordan! That helps. I knew it used Material World and Hungry Planet but had not looked in detail at the samples yet.
January 21, 2014 at 6:43 pm
crazy4boys
Participant
Yes, it’s the picture books/chapter books I am having a hard time finding. I already own Material World and Hungry Planet. We used to have free ILL through the base library and they would allow up to 10 at a time but then it CLOSED. The stinking library closed!!!
Hopefully as we all work through them we can find more living books and share them with each other. It’s always nice to have others recommendations instead of checking out a stack of books you hope will work and end up with a bunch of duds.
January 21, 2014 at 9:51 pm
Karen
Participant
Wow! I’m so sorry you have to pay for ILL’s . As far as I know, ours are free – they do limit it, though. They will only ILL a book that costs more than $10 on Amazon.
Isn’t there a library for homeschoolers that’s based online? They charge a small fee for postage…..I’m sure I remember reading about it, but i can’t for the life of me remember the name or where I read it. OR maybe I dreamed it???

January 21, 2014 at 11:20 pm
my3boys
Participant
Our ILL only allows the books to be borrowed for 10 days, then begins charging $1 a day for late fees. I didn’t try to do ILL for our Visits to…optional books but I did try to find them used..they were a bit too pricey for me or just ended up not buying them.
January 22, 2014 at 1:12 am
cherylramirez
Participant
At the risk of hijacking this thread…for those of you who have done the “Visits To…” already, if I chose not to buy Material World and Hungry Planet would I still be able to use this series?
January 22, 2014 at 1:51 am
sheraz
Participant
Yes, you could. HOWEVER -since they are the spines that introduce you to various countries and their people in a personal and interesting way and there are places to record written narrations specific to the MW and HP books, removing them from it would only leave a map drill book.
You could always add in other books about countries with that portion (although that would be A LOT more work and time than simply buying the spines). I think that your decision would depend on what is most important to you regarding a more personal planned approach to geography or a straight-forward ready-to-use map drill book with you adding in what books you can find. If you haven’t looked at the free sample pages in depth, I would recommend you do. It would make the decision easier for you.
IMO, these are spines used multiple years in multiple books for mulitple ages, so they will be worth their price in the end.
January 22, 2014 at 2:37 am
bethanna
Participant
What do MW and HP typically cost? I have been afraid to look! 🙂
January 22, 2014 at 2:51 am
sheraz
Participant
Hungry Planet is selling $13.63 new for a paperback on Amazon, and Material World is going for $11.00 new on Amazon. Used ones are as little as $5.95. I personally do not think that they are all that expensive for a paperback version, especially since they are full of color photos.
The ones that are more expensive are the individual country books…those are wonderful, but you can substitute those much easier than the MW and HP.
January 22, 2014 at 3:21 am
bethanna
Participant
Oh, that’s not bad. No problem then! Thanks!
January 22, 2014 at 6:11 am
cherylramirez
Participant
Thank you for your suggestions! However, both books are carried at both of my libraries. My last student is ds11 so I hestiate to spend money on books knowing there is no one coming after him…we have so many books already!