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We will be starting our first Beyond in a couple of weeks. I would like to start the day with Bible study, but I also like how the daily lessons are tied in to the history reading for the day. Would it work perhaps to do the Bible study first and then say we will see in our reading history today how (for example), "Even though the pioneers had a long, hard trip ahead of them, they knew the Lord was watching over them."
I really want to start the year out using the curriculum the way it was designed to be used, so if Bible really should come after history, then I will do that!

Along those lines, was it designed to be used in a specific order? Like, History, then Poetry, then Science or Art or whatever, then Bible study, then Music, then LA, then Reading, then Storytime, then Math? I saw the pinned post about everyone sharing their schedules, and there was a lot of variety there. Of course people weren't just posting about Beyond, though. I'm thinking that for my best chance at success with this I want to start with using it the way it was intended to be used, then make changes if necessary.

Thanks!

Cindy

You can really do it in any order, but most of the left side activities are focused on the history reading, so it makes sense to do it first. I do think you could bible first, and just pull in the connection later OR use it as a jumping point for history, like you mentioned. That would totally work!

I usually go from top to bottom, left to right, like reading a book. But that is not required, it just works best for me.

I often do the Bible first, or separately. For me the most important thing there is the memorization and understanding the verse being memorized. What you could do is when you do read the history, bring the verse back in (even review it again if you want) and say "this relates to the verse we studied earlier because...."

The only things I think have an order that really needs to be there is History and the Rotating Box because the Rotating Box is connected to the History reading and it is more "fun." I like to discuss the History in more depth while we do the Rotating Box. Otherwise I have done all the other boxes in various orders and they all seem to work out okay.

You can do the boxes in any order you want. I don't even tell my kids about the connections. They are able to make the connection themselves in their minds. You can tell them if you want though.

Wonderful, that's so helpful! Thanks everybody.