elizabeth rose Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I'm having trouble deciding on history for my upcoming 3rd and 5th grader and beyond. Right owe are using winter promise American story 1. We really like it, and I had planned on continuing with American story 2. I just wish it wasn't so darn expensive. I also don't know where that will lead us for middle school for my older and let elementary for my younger. I need to combine them for history. I do not like stow, did that many years with,y oldest one in high school now. We found the text too dry and full of details. I also did history oddyssey level 2 with her, and I think it will be way too challenging for us for a while. I dislike anything overtly Christian like moh, truth quest etc. does anyone have any ideas for me? If I stayed with winterpromise, has anyone done children around the world or sea and sky? I would love to study ancients, then Middle Ages and so on withthemin a typical cycle but am having trouble finding a somewhat secular preferably lit based program. Any advice, I would really appreciate, thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2squared Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Oak meadow has a nice 5th grade American history program. It is pricey though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizabeth rose Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 I'll look into oak meadow, thanks. Sorry for all my typos, my laptop is down,and I am all thumbs on this stupid iPad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschickie Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Sonlight is really good and you can work around any of the Christian books. There are the occasional missionary/religious story but you could always skip them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizabeth rose Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 I do like SL. I just hate having to spend so much money on one subject. Although I never just bought the history from them, I always bought the whole core, maybe I'll look into just buying the history part. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curlylocks Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I was going to suggest Notgrass...but I'm not sure how it would work if you're looking for something secular. (maybe someone else has used it in that way and will jump in...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NittanyJen Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Although we use primarily History Odyssey, for my 4th grader, I finished up Early American History by setting aside HO for a while and pulling out a Hands of a Child unit study-- and to augment each section, I took out a large number of books from the library (plus the recommended reading from History Odyssey, which is quite good-- he loved the Landmark Book "Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia"). We have been reading some good books on Wild Bill Hickock, Annie Oakley, Sacagewea, Merriwether Lewes, the Pony Express, we watched "1776" (the old version that we all saw in school) and others. We have drawn maps of the original 13 colonies, looked at what states sprouted from the Louisiana Purchase, traced the routes followed by the Pony Express and the 49'ers. We've looked at timelines to put people and event in context and match them up to events happening in different places around the world (some of the books helped with this too-- "Mom! Ben Franklin met Marie Antoinette! This means the American Revolution must have been in the same time period as . . . " We'll go back to HO to start Modern History soon, but this has been a fun diversion from the usual routine :). And my son does remember things better when he has read them in books and taken his time to connect the events to real people he has gotten to know better through books, so it has been time well spent, even if we are "double-timing" the last part of grammar stage history so that he can start logic stage ancients in what would have corresponded to roughly 5th grade (I don't do grade levels; I am thinking ahead to my planned sequence between here and graduation, but that's harder to explain-- there is a method to my madness). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3andme Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Guesthollow.com has free curricula plans and book recommendations for Ancient History and American History that would be good for this age group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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