Story of the World questions

[StormySar]

I am considering using this for my first graders history. My question is, how many days/week did you do history, and how long did you focus on each chapter?

[JMDRAD]

I used SOTW Vol.1 last year as a reading supplement to Sonlight Core 1. We liked it so well that we plan to use Vol. 2 as our spine this year with Sonlight as our supplement. I plan to spend one week on each chapter. That will leave a few extra chapters as there are over 36 in the book. We will either double up here and there or just finish over next summer. This year we will spend at least three days a weeks about an hour a day. That will include reading the SOTW, doing any narrations and activities, and reading extra books.

 

I hope this gives you some ideas.

[Tam101]

I am considering using this for my first graders history. My question is, how many days/week did you do history, and how long did you focus on each chapter?

 

We did a section a day 4-days a week with any addtional reading/crafts/cooking projects at the end of the chapter. We finished before the end of the school year.

[StormySar]

jmdrad, how did you coordinate two curriculums for history? does SOTW need a supplement for 1st grade level or was that your preference?

[Catwoman]

We listened to the CDs and it worked out very well for us. In the early grades, I was more interested in exposure to history, rather than having my ds memorize a lot of facts and dates, and listening to the "stories" while we had a snack was a nice way to break up the school day.

 

The SOTW on CD was great for me, too, as it was one less book to read aloud!

 

Cat

[KrissiK]

We read a section a day. The first day of each chapter we'd read the section, do the questions, do a narration and do the map. The second day of the chapter we'd read the next section, do questions/narration and do the coloring page. If there was a day 3 we'd do that and then one of the extra activities and Usborne History of the World. I took as much time in each chapter as there was interest. Egypt, of course, was high interest. We did the chicken mummy, read bios on Hapshetshup (sp?) and King Tut as well as looked at lots of library books on mummys and pyramids. Other chapters we'd just do the minimum and move on. It took us approximately 1/2 hour each day and we did history 3 days a week, and science 2 days a week.

[Whereneverever]

We do one chapter a week, doing history 2x during that week.

[Mom2J112903]

We will do a chapter a day and only do 1 or 2 chapters a week. It will depend on how many sections there are in each chapter. If there are two sections to a chapter, the first day will be the coloring page with the first section. The second day will be the map work and then the activity.

 

We hope to finish SOTW by June. We school year around, but I want all 1st Grade level work done by late June, so we can start 2nd Grade work in mid July.

[thepoteetteam]

I agree with Catwoman where we just listened to the audio for exposure to history in the early years. :D

[robsiew]

I schedule SOTW 3-4 days a week. We do one chapter a week. We read 1 section the first day and do the coloring sheet and questions. One section the 2nd day and do a narration and questions. The third day is map work and extra reading. If there's a project I'm just dying to do with them (not all that often) I put that in on Friday our "lite" day. We school year round so I'm not worried about the extra chapters.