I watch the frugal crafter on YouTube. She does a lot of watercolor videos, and a large proportion at nature-based. Her videos aren't intended for kids necessarily, but I've not heard/seen anything that would be a problem. She also keeps it pretty simple, so I think kids should be able to follow along pretty easily.

I read that the lessons take more time to complete in the upper levels, so I went with grade 3 so it wouldn't take so much time, and hopefully be a little easier to implement. I haven't used it yet, but will be starting it this week.

I doubt this will help much, but I also have a 4th grader, and we bought the 3rd grade level to do with her instrad of level 4. I read elsewhere that there was a significant time jump going from level 3 to level 4, but that otherwise they were about the same. We also did FLL, but quit partway and are making up for it now. If nothing else, you aren't alone :).

Ktgrok, thank you. I've looked at those, and I'm thinking of using them once my oldest starts 5th or 6th grade. I know that Light to the Nations is used with CWH in the upper levels too. They are beutiful textbooks, and I read some of the samples following my husband around the house with, "Did you know...?" And "Hey, look at this!" :) Thank you Syllieann for that link. I'm not worried about presenting differing viewpoints in the long run, but while we are in the process of converting, I don't want to confuse the kids more than necessary. I've decided that I'm going to use CWH for volume 2 unit 4 on, and the volume 4 that's available, then switch back to Biblioplan for now. That will give me plenty of time to make a decision on where to go from there. Thank you everyone for your help, it's definitely helped.

I'm more than a little overwhelmed. Before I make a decision, is there anything I need to watch out for in the 3rd volume of SOTW/Biblioplan? I'm thinking about doing units 4-7 of CWH, and switching back to Biblioplan. I'm planning to go through Tell Me about the Catholic Faith with notebooking pages from Catholic icing so I don't need something with religion rolled in right now. I'm also a big picture person so part of this is that I'm trying to process what we will do for years to come...

Thank you. Right now I'm leaning toward using cwh vol. 3 and then moving into Biblioplan early modern times once we get to 1600 A.D. And will sub in Saints for young readers instead of the missionary studies. I've read that others have used things like MODG, but I can't wrap my head around their lessons :). If nothing else, at least I know I'm not the only one struggling with this.

I've thought about using cwh exclusively, but I have a couple reservations. First, if I follow vol. 3 we will repeat some things that we have already covered recently, and we also won't get to American history until next year. Second it seems like it's very western centric, where Biblioplan covers WORLD history. Finally, she only has the first 3rd of the vol. 4 out right now, so what do we do when we finish vol. 3? She also said that vol. 4 ends at the civil war, which means there will be 5+ volumes and we can only get through history 2.5 times instead of 3x. That's a little nitpicky I know, but it means we won't touch on American history, government, and whatnot in high school unless I change curriculum again. I'm not trying to be argumentative. I've been wrestling with these things here at home, (and driving my husband nuts), and haven't found a happy medium.

Hello, I've been lurking on these forums for 5 years now, and have usually been able to glean answers to my questions without starting a new thread, but that isn't the case this time. I am in the process of converting to the Roman Catholic Church and ironically am finishing up the Middle Ages with my kids. I have been using Biblioplan with SOTW, and planned to use it for Early Modern Times as well, but I am not familiar enough with Church history to know if something is in error, or omitted. I also have the Connecting with History vol. 1, 2, and 3, but I can't quite figure out a way these would work together. I have the newer version with the lesson guides in them. Has anyone tried this before? Is there a better way to use BP without making unintentional errors? My oldest is 9, starting 4th grade and I have a 2nd grader, and a 1st grader I'm teaching this year. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you