Name: Teach Them Diligently (Pigeon Forge)
Start: 2025-05-08T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-10T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Pigeon Forge, TN

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May 2, 2017 at 8:39 am
Cathrina
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If you had to pick just one book each for upper elementary what would you want for science and history that would last all year??
May 3, 2017 at 8:21 am
Tristan
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That is an impossible question…lol! What time period are you looking for? do you have a science area you want to focus on? These things matter.
An example:
A Child’s First Book of American History by Earl Schenck Miers is what we’re using as a spine history book for most of my kids this fall (not my high schooler). It covers from Leif Erikson to the beginning of the Atomic Age in 50 illustrated chapters. BUT we will not read the entire book in 1 year, we will read up to the civil war and stop, with many books to flesh out the time period we’re reading. The following year we will pick up the book at the civil war.
Science – I’ve not used a single living book for science for a whole year. Maybe something like The Story Book of Science by Fabre? Or The Burgess Animal Book? There are so many wonderful living books for science that I can’t imagine just using one.
May 3, 2017 at 10:06 am
HollyS
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The Eyes and No Eyes series by Arabella Buckley is really good, but it’s a series of books, and not just one. I’d pick a few of these (one per term) and add in some nature study. Like Tristan said, there are so many good choices for science! If you don’t already have the Handbook of Nature Study, it’s a wonderful book. It’s written for you (the mom) to share some of the information and gives lots of questions to ask them. Both of these resources are in the public domain, if budget is a concern…although the Handbook of NS is about 900 pages, so I wouldn’t recommend printing it all out!
For history, something like Story of the World would be a good choice. Or one of the Guerber Books like The Story of the Thirteen Colonies. There are lots of other good choices here too! I’d want to add in some living chapter books for this age as well. 1-2 books per term. These could also count toward literature.