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  • October 28, 2008 at 1:15 am
    Nancyt
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    HI everyone this is my first post, my question is, History, how do you put all the living books together to come up with the facts of history? I love all the history living books, but dont know how to tie them together? Is my question making any since?

    I guess I have too much public school in me that I am trying to get out. But, I am afraid!!! That I will not give the correct info. Thank you for your replies, God bless, nancyt.

    October 29, 2008 at 5:03 pm
    Karen Smith
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    Good question, Nancy.

    You seem to be dealing with two things that are tied together: organizing a history study and making sure your kids get all the facts. There are many good resources available to help you organize living books for a history study. Sonya’s curriculum guide is a big help in selecting books and knowing when to use them. Another great resource is the book All Through the Ages by Christine Miller. This book is organized chronologically by time period and suggests books for each time period by book type (historical fiction, literature, biography, etc.) and by grade level. It also has timelines after each time period so you can easily see how to organize the books you want to use.

    By reading a good variety of books your kids will get many of the facts. Personally, I’ve found that I’ve learned far more about history by reading living books with my kids than I did when I was in school studying from textbooks.

    Does that help?

    November 1, 2008 at 12:45 am
    Nancyt
    Member

    Thank you so much, yes that helps, I was just afraid i was going to get something out of order, or leave something out important I am using the curriculum guide, we are doing the medeivel time period. I guess my main fear is not knowing myself what the order of that time period was, I dont even remember studying it in school. Thank you again, God bless, nancyt.

    November 1, 2008 at 11:12 am
    CindyS
    Participant

    Nancy,

    One thing that was helpful for me was to let go of my expectation that success meant that the children have all the facts down. I found, and continue to find that as the children ‘live’ in an era through living books, they are much more able (and desirous) to understand the flow of history and see God’s hand in it. Charlotte Mason even said that living with one person through a biography for a long period of time did more to teach about a time period than any text. Now, that is my own paraphrase, perhaps someone more knowledgeable can correct it.

    The other thing I had to let go of was my fear of ‘gaps’ and one big bonus of learning this way is that the children leave their schooling career with a love of learning and the ability to go get answers when they need them. Not they they are not learning facts, it’s just not the focus.

    As an encouragement, I have heard my children talking with other children and sometimes someone will toss a ‘fact’ into the conversation. It has been heartening to hear my children being able to actually discuss the people, places, and times surrounding that ‘fact’.

    I agree with Nancy; one reason I’m thankful for our homeschool is that I’m learning so much! 🙂

    Blessings,

    Cindy

    November 6, 2008 at 11:22 pm
    Shanna
    Participant

    I cannot recommend Sonya’s curriculum guides enough. They have made my life and school so much smoother and much fuller with God’s word.

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