Oh BookShark makes great curriculum packs for literature-based learning, We've been using their history for 2 years now and we love it! Thank you for subscribing and stopping by to comment ❤
Hi! Loved your video! I’m currently considering this curriculum. My greatest fear is that it will be very time consuming. In your video you said you use Bookshark’s grammar as a compliment to IEW… do you not feel Bookshark language Arts is strong enough on its own fue grammar? Also, I’m looking to use Bookshark level C for History, Language Arts, Science & Math. How long do you think it would take us daily? It looks like that would be a lot of work.
You are right, it is time-consuming. That's why we didn't take the full pack. It is a very thorough literature-based curriculum but not easy on the parent at all. We never tried to use the full curriculum pack so I can't say exactly how many hours that would take every day... but we had to tweak the system as well. For history, I am giving Marc the readers to read in his free time every day and I read the read-aloud to him every night as "stories". Then during the school hours it takes us around 30-40 minutes to read from the spine (SOTW) and then answer all the questions and do the timeline work. If we didn't do it like that I estimate at least 1 hour and 20 minutes to get things done only for history. Their LA is one of the better-made ones we've tried but I can't bring myself to give up IEW. I feel IEW approaches things in a more condensed manner. BookShark's LA is more of an "all in one". We prefer working on the separate parts of LA separately (if this makes sense) because Marc isn't as strong in writing as he is in grammar and spelling and reading. We did love working from the LA guide, I only did it with no pressure and without expecting to actually finish it all in a school year because we had the other LA curriculum we did officially. The LA part was less demanding time-wise. If you do it by their calendar it would have taken us about 15-20 minutes per day which isn't much. We will try their Science as well this year. But I didn't receive our box yet so I can't say more. But all in all, expect it to take some time especially for the main part of it which is history.
Hi, we do Bookshark mostly the way you do it. The readers are read by my student in his reading slot. I read the history spine and poetry in the school day and if the read aloud is a light read, it will be read at bedtime, otherwise I allow 30 mins to do in the day.
C isn’t time consuming imo at all. I love Bookshark la, we use Rod & Staff for grammar instead of grammar ace recommended by Bookshark, you can pick ur hand writing and grammar program, you don’t have to go with their suggestions if you have something which works great :) the beauty with their la is the gentle but effective approach to writing via copywork, and then it’s application and finally the creative expression.
@@jessicajones611 We only used their upper levels. I am guessing since the books get meatier so does the time you spend on them. I absolutely adored their LA section. I think it doesn't get enough attention!
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Oh BookShark makes great curriculum packs for literature-based learning, We've been using their history for 2 years now and we love it!
Thank you for subscribing and stopping by to comment ❤
Amazing review! Very useful with great info 👍👍
Thank you so much
Hi! Loved your video! I’m currently considering this curriculum. My greatest fear is that it will be very time consuming. In your video you said you use Bookshark’s grammar as a compliment to IEW… do you not feel Bookshark language Arts is strong enough on its own fue grammar? Also, I’m looking to use Bookshark level C for History, Language Arts, Science & Math. How long do you think it would take us daily? It looks like that would be a lot of work.
You are right, it is time-consuming. That's why we didn't take the full pack. It is a very thorough literature-based curriculum but not easy on the parent at all.
We never tried to use the full curriculum pack so I can't say exactly how many hours that would take every day... but we had to tweak the system as well. For history, I am giving Marc the readers to read in his free time every day and I read the read-aloud to him every night as "stories". Then during the school hours it takes us around 30-40 minutes to read from the spine (SOTW) and then answer all the questions and do the timeline work. If we didn't do it like that I estimate at least 1 hour and 20 minutes to get things done only for history.
Their LA is one of the better-made ones we've tried but I can't bring myself to give up IEW. I feel IEW approaches things in a more condensed manner. BookShark's LA is more of an "all in one". We prefer working on the separate parts of LA separately (if this makes sense) because Marc isn't as strong in writing as he is in grammar and spelling and reading.
We did love working from the LA guide, I only did it with no pressure and without expecting to actually finish it all in a school year because we had the other LA curriculum we did officially.
The LA part was less demanding time-wise. If you do it by their calendar it would have taken us about 15-20 minutes per day which isn't much.
We will try their Science as well this year. But I didn't receive our box yet so I can't say more.
But all in all, expect it to take some time especially for the main part of it which is history.
Hi, we do Bookshark mostly the way you do it. The readers are read by my student in his reading slot. I read the history spine and poetry in the school day and if the read aloud is a light read, it will be read at bedtime, otherwise I allow 30 mins to do in the day.
C isn’t time consuming imo at all. I love Bookshark la, we use Rod & Staff for grammar instead of grammar ace recommended by Bookshark, you can pick ur hand writing and grammar program, you don’t have to go with their suggestions if you have something which works great :) the beauty with their la is the gentle but effective approach to writing via copywork, and then it’s application and finally the creative expression.
@@jessicajones611 So glad to hear someone else does it the way we do it.
@@jessicajones611 We only used their upper levels. I am guessing since the books get meatier so does the time you spend on them. I absolutely adored their LA section. I think it doesn't get enough attention!