We enjoyed the Robin Hood by Tony Allen. It's an Usborne. I read it aloud this year to my 7 year old and she really enjoyed it.

I used BiblioPlan Middle Ages this year and it scheduled SOTW chronologically. I believe it does for the other 3 years as well.

I served in the military, and on the terrazzo at the Air Force Academy is a statue called the Eagle & Fledglings. I used to walk by it several times a week when I was running various errands and it has, on its plaque, an inscription by Austin Dusty Miller that reads, "Mans Flight Through Life is Sustained by the Power of His Knowledge." I LOVED that quote and it has been etched in my mind ever since.

Oh, My, Goodness. That cursive thing is brilliant. It was one of the things in the very beginning that kind of made me steer away from aBeka. They introduced cursive in K and I thought that seemed like it would be too hard. But, now, my 7yo makes a lot of her letters "wrong" so learning cursive this year has been a nightmare! Thanks for the list, I hope to see what other people think!

Thank you so much! I had CAP stuff sitting in my shopping cart for a couple of days now! Not anymore! I just took the plunge and bought it! :laugh:

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Hi! I am using BiblioPlan Year 2, getting ready to finish up for the year. I used it with my 3rd grader this year (and a Kinder tag-along). I like the variety of choosing spines. The Companion had really interesting readings in it and it is pretty colorful. The biggest drawback to it was that a lot of the reading was over my daughters head and she lost interest. But- some of the sections were really interesting and not something that we read about in SOTW so I would pick n' choose what we wanted to read from the Companion. (I really enjoyed the reading for myself) The cool history questions were interesting. I originally purchased the Cool History for Middles (I believe it said it was for grades 3 to 6) but we found them too hard so I went back and purchased the Cool History for Littles and that was a little bit more our speed. (There was not much difference in the questions other than the way they were phrased, short answer vs. longer) We do it this way: We read SOTW. We use the SOTW questions/narrations. Then we read selections from Cool History that are interesting. Then we answer the Cool History Questions (the downside is that you can't always answer them all if you didn't read all the selections it recommended). We did the Giants of the Faith activities, keeping a Giants of the Faith notebook. We didn't do all of their geography in favor of doing the SOTW maps which I felt were less cluttered. The maps with BP would be better for older children though in that you can label quite a bit more than you do with the SOTW maps. We did do the oral geography questions at the bottom of the cool history though, it was a little more hands on. Some Pros of BiblioPlan IMO: I love the variety it schedules. Optional spines are a great resource and we really like SOTW. I also like that they offer free eBooks with links as some optional reading The crafts were about 50/50 for us. Many of the activities were fun but some, like creating chain mail out of paper clips? Uhm, no. They schedule the Classical Conversations timeline cards and the VP timeline cards as well which is nice. There are recommendations for Drive Thru History and other videos. Plus-you are not locked into reading any literature in particular in order to answer questions or do a worksheet, you can sub/tweak to your hearts content. 3-day a week schedule is pretty nice I read ahead and enjoyed reading the MOH selections and Famous Men series and I think they would sub SOTW selections nicely for bigger kids. Some Cons (for me anyway): The Companion is over my daughters head and I found myself skipping the readings from it...which meant I skipped the cool history questions. Or I had to read ahead to find the answers so I made sure to read the sections that had the answers to the questions in it... The Timeline is not nearly as nice as Sonlights (I really love Sonlights Book of Time with the stickers). Several of the family read-alouds were over my daughters head and at least 4 of them (so far) were just pretty boring for us. (I ended up choosing readers from their 3-6th selection as read alouds) Not to mention several of the read alouds were more obscure and my library just didn't have them, even though inter library loan. The read aloud, The Shadow Spinner, is about a girl who lives in a Harem and I found myself explaining what a Harem was to my 8 year old...I wasn't quite prepared for that conversation. LOL. I'm a box-checker personality and it was hard to read SOTW out of order for my Type A personality. Again I worked a level ahead and didn't find the writing portion for older students to be very rigorous and for the youngers we just skipped it (mostly copy work and we get plenty of that across the curriculum) For the older kids reading you will need to purchase Lit guides of some kind, they do not provide anything for you. I didn't buy the family question guide but I bet that would add some rigor to the program. I think BP will be awesome for older kids, but for my littles... well, it was good, but just not great. I was really torn between TOG and BP and after a year of doing BP I'm considering trying TOG next year to see what I think. Or just using SOTW and filling in my own readers. I liked the BP schedule for sure, I loved the options and variety, and the 3-day schedule. I'm not sure if I helped any or not since my daughter is younger and I can't give a great opinion on the Middles-Uppers? Probably not so much. :confused1:

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