Which version do you guys have the 2018 or 2nd edition? Thank you!

We are finishing Prehistory combo now and I thought we would just flow into ancient civilizations. We haven’t done anything with B&R or BYL before prehistory though. Is there any reason you would recommend we do Around the World before ancient civilizations? I figured we could do the world when we get to current times, but I know I’d probably want to go in depth with USA too. Just having a hard time trying to decide the order to teach in!

Its UK based but check out Pawprint Badges for patches and activities to go with them.

Where I am it's in the 90's and 100's for a lot of the summer, so I focus on our big trips, and indoor curriculum. In the fall I plan to be much more outdoors and active, when I can handle the temperature again. I miss the west side weather! Give me some rain!

You can get apple trees now with several grafts. One tree with up to 5 different varieties!

Emily wonder lab is on youtube now, netflix was not interested in a 2nd season and she has 2 science lab books.

Thank you for the detailed review of this curriculum. I have been trying to decide between this and another math program.

Love this review! I was thinking about doing this for first grade too but I would want my daughter to grasp it. Do you recommend doing BYL first then coming back to this when they can have a better understanding of it?

Ooooh, now i want to do BYL0 next year like i planned, but in a few more years do around the world event style, that is such a good idea! Im in the PNW too, there is so much to do, im so excited now!

I wonder if Quitters Day has anything to do with books being more available. The second Friday in January is known as “Quitter's Day,” when people are most likely to throw in the towel on their resolutions.

Just curious, will you be circling back to prehistory and ancient times with your older learner as your younger one reaches those stages? are you going to be moving on to medieval history with your older learner or waiting for your younger one to "catch up" to continue them on the same curriculum?

We bought BYL over a year ago and are now in week 7 in level 0. We are loving it. My boys are 5.5 and 4. The 4 year old isn’t as involved but he loves the stories ❤

Thank you! 💐

Focusing on biomes vs an animal is a great idea.

Watching this playlist a second time. We are starting Build Your Library in September. your podcast and videos have been so helpful.

Thanks so much for sharing all your insight here! I'm excited to follow along as I plan for the same thing with my 7yo in the fall. Did you do all of this in one week? Or did you spread it over two weeks?

I know you mentioned Sci Show, but have you watched Sci Show Kids? It’s great and my kids love it. We also love Mystery Science. For around the world, we loved Travel Kids.

FYI Daniel Tiger 🐯 and Creative Galaxy are made by the same creators!

Audible does not give you the mp3 to make a MYO Yoto card 32:06

Where do you get that brochure of what you do for books

Thanks for the flip through! My older kids loved the cutting skills Kumon book when they were little.

Ms. Frizzle is still an icon; I'll never change my mind! But Arial, I'm right there with you on Herzog...why is talking so slow?! My kiddo is still stuck on Gabby's Dollhouse. Hear me out though....Guillermo Del Toro's Tales of Arcadia series. The characters are more teen age, but I didn't find anything innapropriate for a younger age unless we're opposed to fighting trolls. The one about the aliens does a have first kiss leads to babies, but BEACUSE they're aliens. I think it's worth looking into, because Del Toro's work is *chefs kiss* These were all great recomendations!

I love everything you did. It solidified my decision.

Thank you for this video! I was already planning to buy this but definitely will now.

Great review! We took a year to do other things and we'll do level 1 next year, right after my kids turn 8 and 6.5. I have already bought most of the books and they've been just sitting in my basement, waiting for the right moment. For the next level you could try using the activity guide from Pandia to go along with it. I believe it has more hands-on projects there. I find it interesting to see what are the strengths and weaknesses of each curriculum. BYL is definitely great at the history and literature part, but the other areas are not that strong.

Love all these recs! Thanks for including the links ❤

I’m thankful for BYL 0 level because it introduced some really great books. It did make me realize we aren’t literature based curriculum people, though. We love reading picture books/chapter books, but not on a schedule. I discovered The Waldock Way for Around the World and it worked way better for us. This coming year we’re diving into History Quest with the activity guide. My boys will be a young 7 and young 5 so we’ll see how it goes.

NGL it would be easier to find, if the thumbnail pic had the curriculum name on it

I came across your website and see that you have some PDF ebooks …. I’m wondering how you utilize these within the BYL format ….

I agree...We love BYL, but for us, BYL 1 has worked best for all of my children for the 8-10 age-range, quite honestly. As such, we just focus on other things from age 6-8...It all turns out fine in the end (in our experience). : ) As for Torchlight 1, some of its literature skews younger (so, definitely appropriate for the 6-8 age-range) and some skews older (books that I would absolutely wait until my kids were in the 8-10 age-range to read)....Kind of a mixed-bag in our experience. If I were going to do an Ancients curriculum with my children in the 6-8 age-range, I would probably go with Torchlight as the base, really, and just drop the books that skewed older, as I found it easier to scale down for the suggested age-range....But we do prefer BYL, so, for us, waiting is best (though we do pull in a few resources from Torchlight 1 still alongside BYL 1 when we do go through it). 💚 Regardless, even though we are mostly beyond you (I do still have one more to move through Level 1 with, though : ), I just love your videos because of how thoughtful and thorough they are -- and, too, I love watching the pair of you homeschool as a team....It isn't my experience, but I wish that it could be everyone's. 😊 Thank you, Ariel and Matt!

The History Quest and Story of The World activity guides have tons of hands on activities and crafts to add to this. Great review guys!

First off, congratulations on finishing up your school year!!! 🎉It sounds like you had an amazing year- your kids are very lucky!! This series has been SO helpful and so fun for me- thank you for sharing all your hard work!! We are planning to start BYL1 with my 6yo and almost 8yo and your experience has really helped me with how to plan!! First off, I’m going to start with the prehistory unit study so my 6yo will be closer to 7yo when we start Level 1! I’m also l planning to add in the projects from the History Quest instructors guide to make it a little more hands on! I’m also adding in the book ‘Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories: A Children's History of Art’ to connect the art to the history more. And we have another lighter science curriculum we’re going to add in alongside the nature study. Thank you again- I SO appreciate you sharing your experience to inform my planning!! I’m just bummed you won’t be doing Level 2 ahead of me!! 😂

My son is 5 1/2 years old so we just started around the world from BYL and we are headed into week 3. He’s loving it a lot at this age although I would say he’s advanced for his age. He really enjoys looking at the Children just like me and the atlas by himself reading the little tidbits of info. Little brother is about to be 4 but I might come back to it in 2 years. My question is, if around the world is completed in the next year he will be 6 1/2 Do you think I should do something like pre history in between?

Layers of Learning would be a really good resource to pair with this. Lots of hands on "explorations," Very nice maps and timeline pieces. They also curate a KZbin playlist with each unit that is really good from what I've seen. They also have a whole writer's workshop piece (that is a separate purchase from the history) and each history unit has some suggested writing projects for each of the writing units you may be working on poetry, descriptive, stories, essays, etc.

My daughter is obsessed with escargot books. We’ve done a snail unit study bc she loves them so much lol

Thanks for lauching this out! Byzantine History is my passion! One of the main reason is because contrary to most people know, and even in history books, Byzantine History is really, Roman History but in Middle Ages. The people continue to call themselves as Romans, speak Rhomaic (which we call as Koine greek or Medieval Greek), and has the continuity of the Roman government from Emperor to Emperor from Augustus to the Last Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI. It has so much contribution to history such as retaining extreme majority of what we know about the Greco-Roman past, military science, law, Christian theology, and most important of all, the use of knives, spoon and fork in the table!

Not a student, but just wanted to say that these books seem fantastic by your analysis. As someone keenly interested in History, I may look into these items for people I know looking to get more into History.

We're not even close to where you're at in curriculum, but these videos give me an insight into what's to come and what I should keep my eye out for in ways of resources for upcoming years. As always, I appreciate you and Matt's dedication to your channel and podcast, such a valuable resource in our homeschool journey.

So this takes a year ? Do you know of anyone else experience if they can finish earlier

Thank you so much for this review! I think this will be a good match for my daughter!

My kid loves Explode the Code, but hates Beyond the Code and refuses to do it :-( I think it's cute and has good reading comprehension. Maybe I'll try to reintroduce it during the summer.

Love y’all’s podcast! I’m starting formal education in the fall and I’m between Right Start Math and Math you see. Do you all have a video review or resources I can look at to help me decide between those two? Thank you so much for what y’all do for the homeschooling community!

If you were to do them on consecutive years, which one is the best stepping stone?

This was great to hear! ❤

Does it teach counting up to 100? What are all the coins taught? By the time they are done do you think they can actually recognize pennies, nickels, and dimes? How much calendar teaching can I expect?

Ancient Aliens 😂 Have you been talking to my husband??

Zoey and sassafras 10 will be coming out in the fall!

Just wanted to stop in to say I really appreciate you both making these videos. I have been watching since last end of summer with BYL/B&R prehistory into BYL level 1 We are at about the same spot country/time I could go on for a while Lots of great ideas and recommendations. Thank you

Oh my goodness...we need this in our lives! I would love to see a video on how this looks in your home for house projects and homeschooling!

Have you watched the movie Nim's Island? It was good, but like all books to movie versions, some details were left out, I'm sure. We didn't read the book, my kids weren't interested in it.