Using strictly Yesterday's Classics books or Heritage history for history and literature

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  • Wings2fly
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    Many of those books are free for kindle at Amazon. Are these HH versions worth buying then? Are any of these Young readers collection books duplicates on their other collections like the early american set?

    Des
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    Wings2fly–i’ve not seen all of them on Amazon for free, few  yes, but not all 86.  I know that the HH collections come with a Teacher guide/study guide.  I do believe that some are duplicates on the Yesterday’s Classics collections.

    Des
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    Sheraz do you load all the books onto your devices or do you just load the ones you’re going to use for the term?  Thanks

    cedargirl
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    I learn SO much on this board!!!

    Wings2fly
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    For science, are they creation based or evolution?

    sheraz
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    @Des -I am not loading the duplicates of the YC collection, but will probably load all of them for me since I am pre-reading so many as I plan our history and because history fascinates me and I am a fast reader. 😉

    I am still trying to decide how to handle them all on my dc Kindles. I want them to have access to them all, but don’t want to overwhelm them either.

    @Wings2fly – I’d buy the collections for the sheer time restraint factor in locating them all on Kindle, lol! I get so distracted on Amazon!! Seriously, though, since the entire collections are only $25 total and come with so many books it is worth it me.

    Another huge factor for me is the HH’s study guide – it has broken the books into the major time eras (including which chapters from each book), given you lists of the major people and who they are, timelines of lots of things, broken the books into catagories like comprehensive, biography, military, etc., and included illustrations and maps. The maps are both complete and blank outline for many different uses.  Since I am not an authority on Acnient Civilizations, these are invaluable in helping ME understand what I am reading and learning. =)

    About the science collections on them – I’ve only started 2-3 out of all of them, but the ones I have seem to be creation-based. I haven’t really looked at them indepth, but you can read all of them for free online at their site.

    Can you organize books on the original or Paperwhite Kindles? I think I remember hearing that, and am curious. On the Fire, you cannot group them into folders — very frustrating since I do use it a lot for books. 

    I would love to be able to group books into folders… either like history, free-reading, science, etc.; or even by when we use them: School Books (being actively used), Later This Year, Free-Reading, Archived. I am still considering getting 2 Kindles for my kids to use (still reading on defunct smartphones with the Kindle App), and the folder organization capability would be a selling point for me.

    sheraz
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    I have organized my books on my basic Kindle into folders known as “collections”…you can make as many as you want and even have them in more than one “collection”. So I can have one book appear in both my Ancient Greek and Rome collections.

    Wings2fly
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    Thank you for helping me understand the HH collections. The one I want is the free Early America set special with purchase since ds 9 loves that time period. I am deciding on what to buy though. The young readers has 20 of the same titles as the Early America. I could see us having a great interest in module 4 so I may get the Middle Ages set. But it will be a few more years before we need it. We are finishing module 6 next year and then the ancients in one to two years.

    I have a kindle touch (before paperwhite came out) and I can group them into collections so I can make a collection on my kindle with books for ds 9 to choose from without overwhelming him.

    kimaslone
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    I am preparing to use American History Stories.  Please help – I know we should have the children do narration, but is there any where someone has a list of review questions or even activities (eg similar to story of the world) to help spark the memory?  I could write, but if already done, would rather use that.  Thanks so much!  (can you tell I’m a newby?)

    Tristan
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    SCM has basic narration prompts on a handy bookmark free here.  You might also be interested in this post from SCM: 5 Steps to Successful Narration.  Narration is not so much prompted by review questions or activities. Here is another great post from SCM on what narration is: To Narrate and Discuss.  I hope that helps some! 

    Laurie
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    I am so overwhelmed by all these book choices.  While I like free, I don’t want to spend all the time reading from teh computer, I prefer book in hand.  And with all these suggests from SCM, AO, and all the folks here I don’t even know where to start now.  I wlll be starting from the begin with 1st grade and am not sure I like the ancient history first with all the difficult names to get through (Ok I admit, I can’t pronounce many of them myself).  I do like the AO of intorducing famous people anda little world adn american history, but where to start!

    sheraz
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    @ Laurie: The YC and HH collections are availale for download to an ereader. The HH collection is also available as printable PDF’s as well. Both come with printable synopsis/guide of each book that is that collection. It has been very helpful for me to narrow down what I want to use for history.

    HH has a collection called the Young Readers Collection. It has 86(?) books in that are aimed to introduce young children to major people in history. It has people from Ancient Greece to America. There are lots of the Twin stories to introduce children to lots of different countries and cultures. You couuld get that and just read any of them. As you start a more formal program later, the children would remember individuals and make connections to their place in history. I think that it is a good (inexpensive) collection for introducing young kids to history.  

    Many people also just read the wonderful picture books available in most libraries for American history at this age, 

    I don’t think there really is a right or wrong place to start when they are so young – so start where you personally are comfortable in history. 

    Laurie
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    @Sheraz. Thank you. that helped calm my way to organized mind.  I like ht eidea of just introducing people and places in the first few years.

    Plunca
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    I have the Yesterday’s Classics and there are usually several different books to choose from on each topic. With the E-books it’s nice to skim a couple and decide which will work best for your kids. Also, if it’s not working it’s easy to try a different book right away. For my 2nd grade son this year we did Fifty Famous Stories and Among the Forest People for his narrations and he listened in with his older sister on Ancient history as well.

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