MY Fathers World or Story of the World???

[ejeanes]

I have 5 children, 4 to start HSing with next year. K4,1,3,6. I'm trying to combine for history and am having a hard time figuring out which of these would work best. Any thoughts from those of you who have used these? I just can't agonize about it all summer.:tongue_smilie:

[dhudson]

You know MFW uses SOTW as its spine for three of its history years? It uses every one but book one. Does that help?

[mommy4ever]

I did SOTW with 2 this spring. Grade 1 and 5. it worked well. For the little one it means being read to from SOTW, look a picture books and read them. Map, coloring sheet, participated in the AG projects. And she answered a few questions orally.

 

For dd11 it meant the read out loud, read more on her own, read some picture books to her sister. She did outlines, timelines, and map work. As well as narrated what she'd read with prompts. She got the coloring sheet, and sometimes colored it,sometimes not. And participated in the AG project, which she loved.

 

DD13 was in school, but she'd rush in to see if we did history, and look at what we did, then sneak SOTW and read it herself :lol: Sometimes she asks to do the map or made an outline on her own, as she 'gets' that it is practice for building an essay.

 

DS15 comes in from school, looks at what his littlest sisters did and complained to me that I was doing history WRONG. It wasn't supposed to be FUN :tongue_smilie:

[ejeanes]

Helpful stuff. I am also looking at Sonlight and got some of the core 3 books used to have on hand. So hard to make up my mind on this and English/LA as well.