How long are the History lessons supposed to be?

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  • August 22, 2018 at 8:06 pm
    Fiat Lux Academy
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    Hi! I’m a new homeschooling mom trying to organize our school day with appropriate blocks of time for each subject. Are the History lessons supposed to be 20min like most other lessons? Or have you found them to take longer? I have a 6, 4.5, 3 and 1 yr old. The plan is to do this as a family while the younger 1 or 2 play. Suggestions and tips totally welcomed 🙂

    August 23, 2018 at 9:22 am
    Melissa
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    In my experience, I find that cutting the lessons in half is frequently necessary to keep the SCM history lessons to 20 minutes, including narration time. The content from the spine books would be too difficult for my 6yo to handle. My 8yo is just now really able to understand the material and narrate. This is based on my use of Genesis-Deuteronomy & Ancient Egypt and the next two time periods. If I were you I would enjoy only the recommended picture books with the ages you have and begin with some gentle expectations of narration with your oldest. Or maybe wait until next year and start with the recommended grades 1-3 books then. Perhaps other have had success reading Letters from Egypt to a 6yo but for me that seems like a bit much.

     

     

    August 23, 2018 at 12:49 pm
    Monica
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    For a 6YO, I would do ten minutes a day.  I also wouldn’t necessarily follow a spine.  For kids that age I would probably read biographies and living books of the time period you wish to study, including books from the D’Aulaires, Jean Fritz, and others.  Make use of age-appropriate and interesting videos; take field trips; follow the “rabbit trails” that naturally develop.  Instead of oral narration, have them illustrate a story you read about, act it out, make a Lego construction of it, etc.

    These are the fun years of history, when it is just exploring and reading good books and preparing the mind to be enthusiastic for more!

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