LunaticChipmunk Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 What year do you start a history cycle with your kids? K or 1st? What do you like to use in the early years and follow through on? I am pretty confident in other areas for K right now but am baffled on history. I always found it boring and therefore didn't like and did not excel at it. I want something my children will enjoy and be left wanting to learn more. Unlike me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguistmama Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 We started Sotw 1 this year in 1st grade. DD loves it! Last year we just got books from the library with stories from different cultures. DD liked that too. We plan to do a level of Sotw each year in elementary. I've seen a lot of other posters do US history in K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 We started SOTW1 in first grade. I wouldn't suggest any earlier than that. We love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 We use HOD and the history cycle starts in 5th grade and goes through 8th (the way we are using the guides)....then starts over again for high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I started my oldest in SOTW1 in first grade, and he LOVES history now. :D SOTW is very well done. My middle son isn't ready for history, though he just turned 5, so that could change when he's in 1st grade (he's technically "K4" this year, "K5" next year). My plan is to do some American history the next couple years (since DS1 has read all 4 volumes of SOTW and is retaining various pieces of information from them), and keeping it very light and easy for DS2. We'll start the 4 year cycle again when oldest is in 5th, middle is in 2nd, and youngest is in K. Youngest seems to mature quickly due to having big brothers, so I won't be surprised if he's ready for SOTW1 in K, though I woudn't normally recommend it for K if the K'er is the oldest in the family. I prefer K to be a focus on the 3Rs, because without that foundation, the kid will have a hard time in history/science later. ;) If your K'er is already reading and writing, then go ahead and throw in some content. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Shhh...don't tell anyone...but I plan to have my kids start the history cycle in 5th grade (starting logic stage). :blushing: My 1st grader is working thru Prairie Primer (unit study based on Little House books) right now...and my 3rd grader and 4th grader are stuck in the American Revolution. Edited to say: I don't really like history, either. We're math and science people. Don't tell SWB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jillian Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I have a kiddo that's going to be 4.5 when we start first grade work in every other area (math/science/language mainly) so we are doing an overview of world history with CHOW and Lesson Pathways and then we will be doing the following year Elemental History for US History. After that when she's really supposed to be starting school and officially we will begin with WTM suggestions. We are doing the reading suggested in WTM this year for history....Odyssey, Illiad, etc (she enjoys them now and understands). Seems like a lot but I'm not going to really require a bunch of written work from her but we will color and do art projects (from Lesson Pathways) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 We started SOTW 1 this year in first, we will be using Biblioplan next year (I think!) ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 I started with the ancients in 1st grade with a very academically advanced child. In K we studied world geography and a bit of American history. I really liked doing it that way because the geography gave him a good base of knowing where things happened and the American history allowed him to enjoy the great and vast selections of books based in American history written to a K-2 audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 We're planning on starting Ancients next year. I'm anxious to get it going, but am holding off so we can really enjoy it next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrightmom Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Our goal is that the kids have a strong four year cycle in logic stage. This will look different for each kid in our family though. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAutumnOak Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 Shhh...don't tell anyone...but I plan to have my kids start the history cycle in 5th grade (starting logic stage). :blushing: By default, this is what we have done...My oldest is doing a history cycle for the first time in the 5th grade because we weren't using classical methods before... I would start in 1st before starting in K though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAutumnOak Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 The horror! :eek: :D :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momling Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 We started homeschooling in second grade, so we started with ancients then... First Galore Park Jr History, then SOTW and now OUP. My daughter loves history and has trouble leaving a period. We're going at our own weird pace. My younger will start maybe in the spring, I think (at age 8). We've had a few false starts and she is not really very eager or academically oriented... We're just focusing on the basics -- reading and math right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahliarw Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 We just started hsing this year, and ds is in first, so we started in first. I would have not done SOTW in K, though. If you're doing the 4 year cycle 3x starting in first is logical. Now, when ds2 starts first we'll be on year 3, so he'll start there and I'll probably give him easier supplemental readings and projects as need be. We'll figure it out as we go. By the time dd is in first we'll be on ancients again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didadeewiththree Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 We started in yr 2, Tapestry of Grace, which is in the Middle ages, with my 6th, 2nd, and Kindergarter. The younger two enjoy hearing abt Marco Polo, knights, crusades, martyrs and monks in the lower grammar stage, while my 6th grader reads books on his own in the logic/upper grammar level on the same topics. Its nice having everyone learning abt the same things, just at their own level. I chose yr 2 out of the sake of the older two, since they would have into the 4 yr plan nicely starting out in yr 2 this yr(by the time we get to high school they will both go through yr 4 in their senior year.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted November 5, 2011 Share Posted November 5, 2011 We started SOTW1 this year for 3rd grade. (I know that seems late for the usual users of WTM materials) My ds just would not have gotten it any younger than that. We're still going at a snail's pace with it because he actually does have more of an interest in Am.History. So we do Ancients and take breaks to read Am. History fiction and non-fiction. I'm trying to pick up the pace though. My 4 year old enjoys doing the coloring pages and has done some of the activity projects with us. He was way more into pretending to be an archaeologist than my 8 year old son was!!! :tongue_smilie: Some of the suggested reading books have been good to share with my 4 year old too. But he pays no attention at all to the actual read aloud SOTW text. When my 3rd grader is through with one cycle I may just have him do a second cycle through at an increased pace. Mainly sticking with independent reading and writing. I'll be busy then starting it with my middle child and will want to add Story of US--- so we'll see.... One year at a time. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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