Doing your own history in elementary

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  • April 30, 2015 at 1:15 pm
    mama_nickles
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    Next year my kids will be in 3rd and kindy, with 3 year old and newborn. This year we loosely followed TQ AHFYS1, but the commentary wasn’t really working for me. I have the book, “All Through the Ages,” and am thinking of doing my own history plan for next year. Does anyone else do this? I want to still follow the timing of AHFYS2 since I may go back to TQ later, so we are planning to do 1800-1865. I have picked out for each term a history, biography and historical fiction book to read aloud. The kids all respond well to chapter books, so I am planning to try to read each one twice a week to savor them. This spring we have read Amos Fortune Free Man and recently started Johnny Tremain and they seem to be enjoying it. Anyone with thoughts?

    April 30, 2015 at 1:32 pm
    HollyS
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    I would add in a picture book or two for each term…even my “big kids” get excited when I pull out a picture book!

    April 30, 2015 at 3:48 pm
    RobinP
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    Picture books are great.  You could also just read the commentary from TQ yourself and tell it back to your children in your own words (narrate?  😉 ) just to set the topic up for them and use the TQ book suggestions.  I so that often when I want to set the stage but don’t want to simply read the commentary as is.

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