Comments on: Trail Guide to Learning Homeschool Curriculum

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 02:33:20 +0000

In reply to Mindy. IEW is the best writing program for middle schoolers.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 03:17:00 +0000

In reply to Karyn Tripp. I just can upon your website because of this review of this curriculum. I know this is a really old review, but can you elaborate on why the language arts part didn't fit your family? And also is this a secular curriculum? I read somewhere there was a bible part to the curriculum and was just wondering if it was a Christian based curriculum?

By: Jessica Kanora

Jessica Kanora — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 00:06:07 +0000

In reply to Karyn Tripp. Awesome! That's really helpful! Thanks Karyn!

By: Karyn Tripp

Karyn Tripp — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:25:49 +0000

In reply to Jessica Kanora. The longest part of the lessons is the reading, I would say. If your kids are independent readers they could do more on their own. IF you are using all of the workbook parts, it could take maybe an hour to an hour and a half each day.

By: Jessica Kanora

Jessica Kanora — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:47:03 +0000

Hi! The Trail Guide to Learning looks like EXACTLY what I was looking for. My question is how long do the daily lessons with TGTL take? I’d plan on using and additional Science and Math tools and am trying to build a rough schedule so I can balance working from home FT along with HS.

By: Karyn Tripp

Karyn Tripp — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 10:54:45 +0000

In reply to Heidi. I loved Trail Guide! I loved the book lists and the geography that tied in with it but the language arts parts didn't fit in well with our style. I was using it mainly for their book lists, so I decided to simplify. :) Trail Guide is an awesome curriculum, though!

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 03:21:42 +0000

Just wondering – what’s the reason you are not using Trail Guide to Learning for this coming school year?

By: Karyn Tripp

Karyn Tripp — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:01:33 +0000

In reply to Colleen Woodcock. The books are a huge focus of the curriculum, so they are needed to make it work. I would look through the book list and see what you can and cannot find at your library. Some of them are needed for the whole time and others are just for shorter periods of the lessons. For instance the nature guides are used the whole year, but the novels are only used for part of the time. You can definitely find them all used, though. If you go to Amazon, they have all of them used.

By: Colleen Woodcock

Colleen Woodcock — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:46:34 +0000

Hi, thanks for your review! I have a question I hope you can answer I want to purchase this program but am afraid the extra books I need with it will drive my price way over and above what I can afford. Are the extra books needed something you could borrow from the library?

By: Karyn Tripp

Karyn Tripp — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:26:37 +0000

Yes, ours was a download and it did have two different levels. I would send an email to the company and see what they say about it. Tell them you own it but wonder about the two levels. When I got it they told me if I ever needed help doing it for different aged kids, they would give me suggestions. They were a really helpful company.
My suggestions would be to find a few books on the same topics for the younger kids and have the older ones do a lot of the reading independently. You could also have the older kids read aloud to the younger ones then they are both getting the material at the same time. Doing the Ancient, there are a lots of great books on these topics. As for the workbooks, it looks like this one is geared more towards the older kids. You could probably find some free Bible copywork for your kids online somewhere & then create spelling lists for them from the reading as you go.
Good luck!