Oak Meadow 3-syllabus only?

[craft_media_hero]

Hi, Oak Meadow users, can you weigh in on this with me?

I am looking at OM for 3rd grade but wondering if I can get by with the syllabus only? We will not use the recorder and have some of the supplementary books (Peter Pan, Little House, etc.). I'm pretty sure I can get the others cheaper than the whole package. Is it very essential to have their folk tales book or can we sub? We have a ton of folk tale books. Ditto with the cookbook and woodworking--is it going to be super inconvenient to not have those? 

I am planning on not buying the Heart of Learning and Teacher Manual either. I'm pretty curriculum savvy, but I am wondering if they refer to the Teacher books for specific information (like, go over the ____ on page 15 of the TM). Can you use the curriculum without these or do they just kind of explain the mode of OM (which I'm pretty sure I understand, gentle holistic learning, etc.).

Thanks for any feedback!

[onyxravnos]

you can totally do it with only the main book. i actually don't care much for their choices of fairy tales and they can all be found in other places, the teachers manual i found was completely useless and hearts of hands is lovely for inspiration but totally un-necessary. 

[craft_media_hero]

Thank you! I will probably end up tweaking it beyond recognition anyway  but I think I'm going to go ahead and get the syllabus as a framework for next year.