nov05mama Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 If you used (or currently use) SOTW (any volume), do you: A) follow a specific schedule and change the order around (for example, like with History Odyssey) OR B) do you just open-and-go and do each chapter in order? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wy_kid_wrangler04 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I chose use a schedule and skip around but we also use MOH with it and do it chronologically using this schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreeBlessings Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 In order. I tried History Odyssey and wanted to like it. I did like it, just wasn't as easy as open and go. So yeah, I ended up doing SOTW in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne J Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 (edited) I used SOTW 1 and 2. For the most part I did open and go in order. However, due to time constraints while using SOTW2, I did skip some chapters and covered those over the summer (just read them and did no projects, extras etc) rather than try to cram them into the official school year. So I voted open and go--had the time issue not existed I would have preferred to do everything open and go. Edited February 13, 2012 by urpedonmommy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 We do one section of a chapter per day, 3 days per week. That gets the whole thing done in a typical school year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lailasmum Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 We did the first two books mostly as written with the Activity book, there were just the odd couple of chapters I re-ordered. This book (SOTW3) we are using history odyssey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threedogfarm Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 We are using it as an open and go book. Very easy for me. We are reading a chapter a day. We used to do just a section a day but the kids always wanted me to finish the chapter. So we started doing one a day. The kids like it and since I am starting with the kids in 2nd and 3rd grade I am going through 1 and 2 this year to "catch up". We do the narration questions daily, a notebook page once/week and I go to the library to get some of the suggested reading so the kids can read on their own. This system has worked out very well. The kids are retaining the info and they love history (it's their favorite subject). I know that they are processing the info because often times the stories/history is played out: they will play "jumping the bulls" with friends and explain where it came from. Very interesting. We do not use all the other activities in the activity book. We do not do the map pages nor do we do the coloring pages (my son does not see that as fun or particularly helpful. We will look at the pictures together). We reinforce geography using our geography placemats and usually do this at lunch time. The flip side of the placemats have the outlines of the contries, and the rivers, and oceans so they often mark the events/travels/places with dry erase markers. Once in a while we will actually do a paper map just to keep for their portfolio. We are always comparing where the different events happen and the times that they happened. When we get to the more dense histories we will definitely slow down. We do history 4x's/week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarrieF Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I voted for use a schedule because we use BiblioPlan, but it is totally possible (and easy!) to just open and go. When my older kids were younger that is how we "did" history. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I voted "just open and go in order", and I do use SOTW in order, but I add a lot of other stuff in between the chapters - history supplements, biographies, related literature studies, etc. So I don't do a SOTW chapter each time I do history, but when we do use it, we do it in order rather than trying to match it up to something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I've done both. For our first cycle, I did open and go. Easy-peasy. Then we did Bibioplan for a year. I really liked it. Then we moved to Sonlight Core G & H. They schedule all 4 books. For our next time through, we're just going to listen to the CDs. My older two will be doing Omnibus and my younger three will be doing VP Self Paced Online. But I don't want to give up SOTW, because we love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nov05mama Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 Thanks SO much everyone!! This is extremely helpful!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeeBeaks Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 In order but not only open and go SOTW. I fit the chapters into our schedule as I'm doing American History primarily this year. I keep SOTW and other chronologically in line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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