Beautiful feet

[Kissy]

I am thinking of using this next year for my 5th grader. We will be new to classical method and this is our second year homeschooling. What can you tell me about beautiful feet? Do you like it? Pros and cons? User tips?

[Kate CA]

I am thinking of using this next year for my 5th grader. We will be new to classical method and this is our second year homeschooling. What can you tell me about beautiful feet? Do you like it? Pros and cons? User tips?

BF has wonderful history and literature books. What level are you thinking of doing? How do you want to go about history? Literature focus or timeline focus or?? :)

[Lori D.]

LOVED the Beautiful Feet Geography guide and map pack to go along with the 4 Holling C. Holling books. A wonderful unit that went along very nicely with our US history. The ideas for further reading/research were great practice for putting the IEW (Andrew Pudewa's Institute for Excellence in Writing) key-word writing ideas into practice. The mapping was very fun. My boys enjoyed all of the detailed diagrams in the margins of the books, and we all liked the overlapping geography/science/history aspect of the books.


We tried the BF U.S. history guide, but didn't care for the books it relied on as the spine: "America's Providential History" and "From Sea to Shining Sea". We did read and enjoy a few of the other books in the program. Also, I debated whether to go with the younger or the older BF history guide, as my boys were right in between ages; I went younger and should have tried the older one. However, I just didn't care for BF's focus, and felt a lot was being left out of history. We ended up using a wide range of other materials to cover US history, which worked out very well.

Best of luck! Warmly, Lori D.

[Tammyla]

They are wonderful real books. You might check your library to preview a few of them. Many of the suggested titles will likely be on the shelves. We enjoyed our history year with BF.

[Kissy]

Since we are just starting classical I am going to start with ancient and then go in rotation. This will get my oldest 2 rotations. Anyone tried the ancients?

[Kissy]

Will I need to supplement? I have the kingfisher encyclopedia but wondered if I will need more history? Does BF have suggestions for crafts or anything to go along with the history or is it just history?

[Ellie]

Will I need to supplement? I have the kingfisher encyclopedia but wondered if I will need more history? Does BF have suggestions for crafts or anything to go along with the history or is it just history?

No, you won't have to supplement as far as content. Beautiful Feet Books study guides don't really suggest crafts. It is a literature-based series, not a unit study (generally, literature-based products don't include crafts and stuff, while unit studies do).