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How to teach history with multiple ages chronologically?
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I understand that Charlotte Mason believed History should be taught in chronological order. Does this mean that you should start at the very beginning with the Book of Centuries? How long should it take you to go through the history – at the beginning they would be too young to make their own Book of Centuries, so they would need to revisit the early years correct?
This also makes me wonder how you do chronological order when you have multiple children. I’d imagine you aren’t going to restart at the beginning every time a child reaches school age. Can anyone explain how this part works?
If kids are young, I don’t think it matters too much what cycle you start with….as long as you keep going chronologically. They’ll cycle through again from the beginning at some point. I think most people who want to keep the family together generally start teaching the oldest and the youngers just jump in when ready. I only have two, but my plan is we’re starting over w/ancients now w/my 7th grader and will end w/American her final high school years. My youngest (currently 4th) will follow along w/her, and then for his last few years we’ll start over w/ancients again. That’s the current plan anyway:) HTH some. Gina
P.S. As far as Book of Centuries, you can just use a timeline or Family Book of Centuries until they’re old enough to do their own.
Ok, it depends on you. A child doesn’t generally begin their own BOC until they write decently (4th grade or later). Before that you may want a family Book of Centuries.
Some homeschool families really do start history fresh with each child. For a Charlotte Mason version of that check out Ambleside Online, that is what they do.
Simply Charlotte Mason is set up to keep the whole family together in a time period, with a family read aloud and then books for each age range to do with mom (for 1st-3rd) or independently if able (4th-6th, 7th-9th, and 10th-12th).
For my family it is simply not practical to start each child over and be in separate time periods (7 kiddos age 11 down to 7 mos). We stay together in a time period, read one book aloud as a family, and have separate titles on appropriate levels as needed. For example, when studying the Vikings we had daily read alouds from Famous Men of the Middle Ages. Then my younger children listened to me read a few pages of Leif the Lucky each day. My older child read The Vikings by Janeway about 1/2 chapter to 1 chapter a day. (These are from Module 4 here at SCM).
This year we went out on our own for history and have simplified even more. I have a meaty historical fiction series we’re reading as a family (The Work and the Glory). Then as things interest them we find books at the library. I have a few primary sources we’ll use along the way, more with my older (6th grade) than with the youngers. They are notebooking or doing oral narration as we go.
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