We skipped those parts :-).

We used R & S for early elementary too and I loved them, but they were so...plain!  We finally switched just to have something with a little color to it.  A shame, it was good material.  I still recommend their preschool booklet set as it's very good and so reasonably priced...Liz.

Brandy:

We have spoken of having disagreements with our husbands on homeschooling in several different discussions here. My husband and I are disagreeing on these books.

I got a chance to discuss this farther with my husband. He told me to get the one for Biology if I really thought it might be useful to us.

I am hoping to make the purchase soon.

I ordered the Biology book. Now I hope it works out for us.