Any reviews for Building Blocks of Science by RS4K ?

[Verity]

Hi guys, I'm trying to figure out what to do with my upcoming fifth grader for next year. His older brothers are covered, one in virtual school, the other in a two day a week prep school for 9th grade. So I won't be integrating multiple children this year.

We are doing Year 2, Medieval in history, Read alouds that go with that and geography reading scheduled from Wayfarers. I was considering doing RS4K Focus on Middle School Astrology and Geology (Fall/Spring) but wondered if anyone had tried RS4K Building Blocks of Science that has 4 chapters per science topic (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astrology, Geology) and goes over the whole year. I guess it's part of the question of studying many different topics in younger grades vs immersion in one topic. This year we have done almost nothing but Botany/Biology and it's been tolerable but I don't think particularly memorable or interesting for my kids.

 

Thoughts?

 

[threeofakind]

We are in our fifth year of homeschooling and I too wanted a variety of topics.  So we did RS4K Building Blocks Level 5.   My daughter enjoyed it enough and it felt like a just right amount of reading and activities.  I had my older son do Chemistry for a semester and I felt her chemistry section was just as much and we had a shorter time to work through it- so that felt a little odd to me- having my daughter just as immersed in a topic that her older brother had a semester to dig into the topic and she had less?  But, I will say we enjoyed it and glad we did it- she enjoyed the idea of exploring different topics throughout the school year.

 

I will say I think it would be challenging to use this same curriculum the following year after using BB.  Simply because I felt she covered almost as much as my son did in a semester- so I'd think there would be a lot of the same- in fact I did have my kids do the experiments together as they were pretty much the same.  It was my first year using this curriculum and it went well.