Is anyone having trouble with 5th grade history? I love love love SOTW. But I now have a 5th grader that needs more. I have tried following the WTM outlined schedule but am frustrated with trying to find outside reading. We are doing Vol 1, the ancients. We do a 4 day school week, so we do 2 days of history and 2 days of science, alternating. He reads to his 1st grade sister the SOTW and asks her the questions and they do the map together. Then he moves to the suggested Usborne pages and does his list of facts and the timeline. He chooses what topics he'd like to know more about and I search the library for appropriate books. And I can never find anything! Either the book I want is at another library and will take a week through request to come to me, or they don't have anything on the topic whatsoever. I find myself searching on amazon, but don't want to spend tons of money on extra supplemental reading. The outlined WTM schedule and process seems so excellent in theory, but I'm having such a hard time putting it into practice.
Anyone have any suggestions? I thought perhaps he could get some extra supplemental info from an atlas, but of course this info is current and not about ancient times.