Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
Start: 2025-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
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Location: Branson, MO

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May 20, 2012 at 4:21 pm
BetsyR
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Can anyone point me to a previous thread or answer this for me…how do I identify books I can use in place of ones I can’t find, don’t want to pay the price to buy, etc? I know I hear people refer to being able to do this through the Organizer/Bookfinder but can’t seem to figure it out (just pull up a list of books but don’t understand what might be a replacement for say “Pyramids”-just as an example as think this is one book I’ll try to get). I’m about to look into what I need to get for the SCM Module 1 History/Bible/Geography (already have Oxford First Ancient History or whatever the title is lol) & the SCM guide but haven’t gotten anything else. Also, which of these Module 1 books would you consider essential for a 6yo knowing she will be going through all this history at least 1 to 2 more times through the years?
May 20, 2012 at 4:53 pm
sheraz
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There is a really good book called “All Through the Ages” that contains a list of these kinds of things. I am really excited to have it. It combines the book lists from over 27 curriculums into subject matter (like geographical regions, countries, continents, etc) and with that their lists are broken up into grade levels, etc. Very cool resource!
For your daughter right now I would just get the books recommended for grades 1-3. We used those, but also we just added to / substitituted whatever the library had available for that subject. We totally enjoyed Boy of the Pyramids so highly recommend that one.
May 21, 2012 at 2:06 am
morgrace
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I second Boy of the Pyramids – it was my son’s favorite history book this year! Also, if you don’t have a Children’s Bible you might consider getting one of those, since quite a bit of the history readings in Module 1 are straight from the Bible. I found it to be very nice to have both my Bible and the a Children’s Bible to read from, I did both at different times, meaning some lessons I read only from my Bible and others just from the Children’s Bible. There are times I really appreicated having the Children’s Bible to read from (Sodom & Gomorrah for example) instead of straight out of the Bible, my kids are not ready for that info yet. I bought a copy of The Child’s Story Bible by Catherine Vos before we started homeschooling “offically” because Sonya recommended it and others have said they like it as well. It was well worth it! I’ve really enjoyed the stories (sometimes I flip through and read stories myself). If you choose to skip Letters from Egypt (for geography) you would need to subistute with something else if you still want to do geography with a first grader. We skipped it and used the geography day for extra time to go through the Bible/Ancient Egypt lessons. We started geography, Term 3, with Charlotte Mason’s Elementary Geography. We won’t finish it this school year, but will pick up where we left off next year. My son does know where to find Egypt on the world map and we made the salt dough map, so we didn’t skip geography entirely, but now it’s time for more. I also should add that I did not do all the Ancient Egypt readings from the Oxford book, but that was a choice I made for my family for this year. Only because I wanted to spend most of our time in the Bible and enough in Ancient Egypt for my son to have a basic understanding of mummies, pyramids and Ancient Eyptians religous beliefs. When I felt we’d done that we moved on and spent our time in the Bible stories. But again, that’s just us, for this year, it will be different next time around!!