SCM history roll call – who all is using it, which mod, and your thoughts to far

OurJourney – Switching should be no problem, just choose where you want to pick up and go for it next year.  Perhaps begin in Module 4 (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation) so you don’t repeat the ancients after spending this year on them with SOTW?  We actually went from learning about 1840’s through WWI last year to Middle Ages this year.  It is a time period we’d skipped in the past and held some interest to my children, so that’s where we jumped in this year with SCM.  It’s been a lot of fun so far!

One tip – start looking for the books ahead of time (they’re listed by age group in the free sample of the SCM history handbook for module 4).  I got many through paperback swap or inexpensive used copies on Amazon in the year leading up to now, so when we were ready to begin we only had to buy some of them new.  Now my paperback swap wish list has the books we’ll need for next year’s module and many will trickle in over the waiting months.

This is our first year using all CM methods. We are using the SCM history Module 1. So far, we LOVE it! So much more interesting than using traditional methods.

I’ve been using the Online Organizer since 2007 & using the History suggestions but this is the first year that we bought and are following a History Module. We’ve homeschooled since before my 16 yo was born. I started in 1984 with my now 32 yo who is currently homeeschooling a K with this organizer at her house. She loves it too by the way.

Anywho, we are using HM #3 Matthew – Acts with Ancient Rome. We are loving it. Just Christy and I so we are going much faster. She is 16 and we read all the younger books when she was younger. Each day we do a Bible lesson and a History lesson plus a Geography lesson every other day. So the first week we finished two weeks worth. We are studying Latin too so it all fits together nicely. She has already finished reading Beric the Briton. She got ahead of me because I also work part time 20 hours a week and go to college too. Busy life but interesting.

Tara – Puzzles here – super great for the ones that aren’t writing well yet.

I’d love to know are you reading the Famous Men at all or just some stories or what are you supplementing?  We have the ones from Yesterday’s classics on my Kindle, so I”m not going to repurchase the specific edition suggested by SCM, but I have a daughter that is very sensitive to false gods (she asked me to stop reading a section on the Egyptian afterlife the other day and I thought it was because she was bored so I told her I wouldn’t skip, but as I was reading she put her hands over her ears, so I asked her what was wrong and she told me it gives her bad thoughts about it being true!    Needless to say, I STOPPED!!!  Poor sweetie.)  So I am a little concerned going into Module 2 in a couple of weeks – those greeks were almost worse than the Egyptians!

Rebekah

We are reading Famous Men of Rome but skip over the parts that are in detail of the gods. Thanks, Rebekah!

We are in the middle of mod 1 and loving it as well.  I plan on using them all.  For hands on things, I found this site from the forum and it has always had rave reviews.  =)  

http://handsandhearts.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=2

Thank you! I don’t know why I didn’t think of Evan Moor pockets, I get their catalogs!!!

The puzzles look great too!!!

Sarah, with my super sensitive one, we’ll see how it goes, I’m not going to skip over anything in the Bible, but since she is troubled by it, I really don’t have any problem with her NEVER learning it.  I don’t think it’s very important to go into detail, other than to just say, “they worshiped false gods” or “the egyptians enslaved people to build huge monuments to their Pharoahs because they believed their Pharoahs were gods – isn’t that terrible?”

But is there an important reason I’m missing why we need to go into more detail?

Thanks!