After struggling with homeschooling the past couple years, I decided to try this with my eldest son. The basic is enough to cover all the important parts, and I gleaned a few things from the expanded kits that I thought he'd enjoy. I love the scheduler, which makes it easy for me to determine what he needs to do from week to week. I go with the weekly schedule, as the daily seems a little incomplete? Mostly in that the Mos Dos Ruby units are listed as one checkbox a week, but it's better for us to split it up over several days, and we don't have the available checkboxes for it to show up every day. But this curriculum is great, because it provides my son the opportunity to take ownership of his learning and schedule. It's had mixed results, but I feel it's a fantastic part of the learning process.