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Module's for 1 child in early grades
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I am wondering if it is necessary to purchase the Module’s if I am only using it for one child in K-3. I’m surprised at how small the book lists are and lack of activities for the younger ones. I gues I’m answering my own question but, what am I supposed to do? I’ve looked in to Sonlight and their book list is way too big, I’ve looked in to Memoria Press and it seems so so, and there are others too. I have been using (very loosely) “The Story of the World” along with “All through The Ages” for Ancient chronological history but it’s just not doing it for me. All Through the Ages gives book lists but does not do anything for helping me teach, etc. The Story of the World jumps all over the place. We have MOH1 but it doesnt keep my son’s attention (probably because it’s meant for middle-school students) I’ve checked out AO as well but the books are sooo advanced and my son likes to have the book in hand not on the Kindle (although there are some books that have to be on the Kindle). I guess I feel like I need to have a guide because I want to know that I’m not leaving anything out. Here’s another question – how do youdetermine what is considered literature and what is history? Some of the books are one and the same. Since we are reading those real books, do we still need to read MORE just to say we are doing literature? Please help!
SCM has excellent book choices, and the modules lay it out very neatly so there is little to no planning required on your part. Just open and go. Ancients is a bit unique though. So much of the history read is the Bible, so it can often feel like you aren’t doing enough for history because your mind is counting the Bible reading as something other than history studies. If you finish up SOTW 1 this year you could just move on to Module 4 which would have a wider variety of books scheduled for you.
If you are looking for more commentary to take you through history, you could check out Truthquest. TQ has commentary for each topic in it’s guide and then a selection of living books to choose from. The up side to that is lots of books to choose from. The downside is that you have to do the choosing yourself! Some find TQ helpful and liberating, some find it overwhelming and paralyzing. Depends on your personality I think.
Of course, some books would be both history and literature in any given year, but I personally would get fairly bored reading only literature that takes place in the time period I happen to be studying. It’s nice to mix things up a little and have some just plain literature books to read. Maybe that is a good incentive to not overschedule with tons of history books, it keeps time for regular literature in your week as well.
What type of activities are you looking for? You can always add in a lap book project, note booking, building a mini teepee, toob figures etc. There are companies that sell lap books with everything included and you put together. Or you can watch a video on Netflix about your topic. Some activities are just busywork…or too much work for mama! I personally don’t care for busywork. You’ll see once your reading great books that your child incorporates it into play…that’s plenty hands-on!
You can see a generous sampling of each module, to give you an idea of what they are like. There is also a spot on the website (I’m assuming it is still there after the website updates) with suggested extra activities….
Personally I prefer starting with Early American. We did year 5 when my oldest was in 1st and it was a good year. Thekids still talk about the books we read that year. Then I decided to go to year 1 and start “fresh” this year (2013-2014) and it was tough. I admit it was likely me, but teaching ancients to early elementary was a struggle. So this coming year we are going to do year 4 and continue on with 5 and 6. I am thinking with some time, age and maturity… going back to ancients will be a bit smoother of a year.
But we really enjoyed “Visits to Africa”!
Oh and we do not do activities. They sometimes draw pictures about what they read and we would talk about it but generally what we would read would come up in play time as they played pretend.
They liked Boy of the Pyramids and I would overhear them acting it out in play. 🙂
Thank you for your responses. I apologize for not responding until now. I was in a car accident and I completely forgot that I posted this and then I started “searching” for help with this topic again and I found my own post- LOL! That’s what concussions do to you I guess.
mrsmccardell you asked what activities I’m looking for. I actually have been looking into lapbooking! I dont want anything too complicated for activities because if it is, I just wont do it and then I’ll probably beat myself up over it that I ddin’t get around to doing the activity. However lapbooking seems easy enough and gives us a bit of a project that seems attainable.
eawerner I thinkI’m just going to finish up the school year with reading The Boy of the Pyramids. I ditched the SOW right about the time I made the original post. I dont really want more commentary, just maybe some activities to help with my youngest (1st grade) He’s VERY hands on.
suzukimom I finally found where the literature is listed seperate from the history. I saw the list of books to read and it looks very attainable and enjoyable to read.
sarah2106 Thank you for the idea. Something to think about. The reasons why I need activities is that he is the youngest. We have a 10 year gap betweens the kids and he has really no one his age to play with at home. Activities are a must, but the activity has to be reasonable.
Has anyone found a lapbook for Boy of the Pyramids?
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