happynurse Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 Has anyone ever used the Bede's series from Veritas Press? It starts with Bede's History of Me (Kindergarten) and then Bede's History of US (First Grade). Any thoughts on these books? Interesting? Age appropriate? Content rich? Reviews are tough to find.Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myloveisasailor Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 I will be watching this as I'm trying to decide on a history for next yr for my ker. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
u2006kids Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 watching too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExcitedMama Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 DS loves Bede. We've only been using the first book, History of Me, but I think I will get the next one when we are done. It is a very basic book with very simple text and exercises/crafts. The only problem we had is that DS always wanted to keep going so we were were moving past the holidays that haven't come up yet, like we did St. Patrick in the fall. Obviously it would be better to do those pages at the right time of year. Some of the tidbits have fascinated DS like about planting corn with fish in the pilgrim section. I'm not sure where we left off when I put it aside to catch up with the calendar so we could be in sync with the holidays referenced but so far it's served its purpose. It's been interesting to DS and requested. Honestly I'm not sure if he paid attention to the point of some of the exercise about timelines but he enjoyed them. A lot of the first ones gave information, like dates and places for the colonies or timelines of first toys and then had it put in a timeline. I don't know that he could follow the dates and info on colonies to really put it in a timeline or do the same with toys but it was interesting to him. For that reason maybe it would be better for an older child? Not sure really when a child could do that. You could always buy it and decide about doing it now or later. If you do buy it just know that it seems to be intended to be used with a school calendar starting in the fall unless you want to skip around to match up the holidays. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorisuewho Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 I'm doing Bede (US) with a first grader and kindergartner this year. I feel very neutral about it. The topics are good ones for the most part and the activities are mostly at their level. I think the actual pages vary between being too simple or over their heads. I don't think it really hits the sweet spot for us. I find myself often looking for a picture book to substitute instead of reading the information on the page. I'm not sure I could have done better though, so I don't want to be too hard on it. If I had youngers coming up through, I wouldn't do the program again. But I don't dislike it enough to change mid year. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teneo Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I enjoyed History of Me as did my son. History of Us wasn't nearly as interesting. We gave up and moved on to something else. I think the writing itself could be a bit more lively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davysmom Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 (edited) Edited June 26, 2016 by Davysmom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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