Early American History (4-6)

I taught this to a 6th grader and 4th grader this year. They loved every minute of it! We learned so much, and we had many great discussions and opportunities to think critically about our history and see both sides. It was well-balanced and exciting. Looking at the scope and sequence, it takes more time than 1 hour per day. We averaged 2-3 at least four days a week and barely got finished. We did some projects, wrote a report, and did most of the notebooking and the timeline. I also added all 40 episodes of Liberty Kids while we studied the Revolutionary War. The kids loved it; it was a great visual compliment to our reading. For sure, a 5-star curriculum!

We have been loving this updated edition of Early American History Intermediate! The teacher book is beautiful! Much more information - I especially appreciate the Rabbit Trails booklists as my son is a voracious reader! As with all BFB studies, this is perfectly customizable! You can make this exactly what you want it to be! It's positively excellent and I look forward to moving onto Modern American next school year! Oh - and I was positively overjoyed that this study ended with Robert Smalls! Because his home is here in my hometown! Perfect field trip ending for this study! And, AND it goes perfectly with the new American Geography! Thank BFB!!

We have used Beautiful Feet before and were pleased, but this set of curriculum has been disappointing. First of all, several things were not included in the shipment. Secondly, many, not all, of the books are incredibly boring. My children struggled to enjoy many of the books. We are such a reading family so this was a huge disappointment to us! Each time we would pick up a new book, they would comment how they hope it’s not a boring one like many of the others. There is so much deep and wonderful literature so I do not understand this selection of books! It’s an expensive curriculum, and I am doubtful that I will order Beautiful Feet again. Hopeful that improvements will be made so that many children would learn to love reading and history and not dread it!

We haven't started using this yet so I can't speak to how it will work for us. However, I am very disappointed that a required book isn't included in the full curriculum package. In Lesson 72 the Teacher's guide asks us to read Path to the Pacific: The Story of Sacagawea. This book is not included and must be ordered seperately. Frustrated that I had an all-in curriculum that isn't all-in.



*BFB REPLY - "You're correct, the book Path to the Pacific fell out of print but we replaced it with Of Courage Undaunted by James Daugherty. We also added an addendum to the guide to replace these lessons with notes on this new book. If you did not receive Of Courage Undaunted or the study notes please let us know and we would be happy to send them to you.

Our family is not a book loving family. So, I went out of my comfort zone and ordered BF Early American History Intermediate. History has always been very dry for us. I read to my kids every day and they actually learned a lot and enjoyed history for the first time! I plan on doing Modern History this year. BF provides all the books and an easy book with lesson plans making this curriculum very easy to use.