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Ok I know some here will flip at the thought… BUT ….
Has anyone just waited till the kids are older to start history rotation? I just have so much on my plate right now and don’t feel like I need or have time to read to my 3rd grader. I was thinking of just watching some Drive thru histories this year and other true’r’ history movies.
I would like to just hold off on history till the kids can read on their own. We are not history buff or even interested in our home so it’s a big drag at the young age anyway.
So thoughts on just holding off till about 4/5th grade for history?
So I am newer to HSing (my oldest in 3rd, but HS’ed all the way) but I don’t see a problem with waiting to start a rotation. I would find some books about people that interest the student.
We have Heritage History CD’s and my 3rd grade DD likes many of the books a lot. She is currently reading Ruth of Boston, there are all sorts of books. She likes the fiction books about people from different times, but the first person type books she likes the best. It is not formal history, no sequence just reading books about people from different time periods. It surprises me what she takes from the books, and fun to see where her interests lead. I could see it easily working as history reading but not formal history. The Young Readers collection from Heritage History has a great selection of books, my DD likes that she gets to read on my Nook. I read the first few chapters to make sure she can read easily, and so far it is working really nicely. She also likes to be a bit in “control” of her reading. She reads and comes and tells me about it.
Misty, I think 3rd grade is a great age for them to read to themselves and narrate. That’s when I started my children on more independent reading and assigning them history and literature to be read and narrated independently. If your 3rd grader is a good reader, I see no reason for her not to enjoy some great living history books. You wouldn’t have to do a full curriculum for her; just give her some library books that go along with whatever the rest of the family is studying. It’s fine to skip history for a year, but I see no reason to unless your child just cannot do the reading on his own.
The only real issue I see is that in my state it is required by law to teach it. However, that doesn’t mean it has to be taught every day all year. Maybe you just plan a book to read aloud once each term, or even just for one term this year. Or an audio book!
I bought the Story of the World audiobook just for random listening at my house. I haven’t used it yet but have loved everything else by Jim Weiss we have. Maybe you could use something like this a bit more formally than me by having oral narrations?
Rachel
You could use the Your STory Hour stories for history— they’re fabulously done and very entertaining to listen to AND historically accurate. We’re loving the story about Irena Sendler (WWII), Garrett Morgan (firemen’s safety and traffic lights), Thomas Jefferson, etc.
I have always leaned toward CM and now wanting to implement it more. I have a 5yo girl, 7yo boy, and 10yo girl and want to do as much Family Study together as I can. Looking at HISTORY, I was aiming to do Ancients to Christ with a Biblical base to see the real world history with a timeline and notebooking. I want to keep things simple and interesting, but don’t want to drag things out too much with the age span that I have.
Has anyone “sped up” the pace to SCM modules 1-3? Any suggestions on other CM friendly curriculum that has worked well with 5-10yo? Looking for something that gives me a definite guide/plans, with minimal/light prep on my part. (We have had a hard year of transisitions last year and I (we) are still recovering somewhat…NEED SIMPLE, NEED flexable STRUCTURE.)
,Thanks,
Trish
I hesitate to suggest this, because some here say it isn’t CM enough, but I like A Living History of Our World. I am using vol. 4 Ancients. I see it as a spine and the journal as notebooking.
The main reason we are doing a formal history curriculum this year is because I realized this is a big component of our writing in first and third grades! If it wasn’t for history narrations (still oral), we wouldn’t be doing the regular composition that helps my kids learn to organize their thoughts for sharing. If I was doing a different writing program, I’d probably just cover history informally with a library book basket (for independent reading), documentaries, and field trips.
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