nertsmommy Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I will be starting SOTW Ancients in the fall with my 1st grade and K children. We have a very small library (think small house converted to library) in our town. I'm having a hard time finding books to go along with what we will be studying (at their level) so I will be buying some. I'm looking for some suggestions on which books to buy. In other words, what are some good books for my kids age level that would go well with SOTW Ancients and would make a good addition to our library? Thanks. Hopefully that makes sense. I'm typing with a horrible headache and three kids running around. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandylubug Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Our library is large but stinks book wise, imo. I picked through what books they had for a while and then just stopped. We read the story, do the coloring and mapwork. If it is an interesting topic I will use the internet to find interesting pictures and facts, netflix to find an interesting documentary, etc. Or we look in an encyclopedia. If I don't add anything to the SOTW spine, so be it. To me history at this age is just an introduction and should be fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy M Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I'm doing SOTW w/ my first grader now, and I find it as much as I can do to finish the history, coloring, mapwork, review questions/narrations, and maybe 1 hands-on project a week. That to say, I doubt you'd want much more than 1 extra book a week, just my thoughts for this age. I would look at Tapestry of Grace's Lower Grammar book lists for good ideas for those books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Five More Minutes Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I was glad that we had our own copy of D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths and Sutcliffe's Black Ships Before Troy when we did SOTW 1. Almost everything else we just got through inter-library loan -- is that an option for you? We have a really small library here, too, but they work hard to bring in books for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralloyd Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I have a whole list of book that I will read to ds when we start our history cycle over. I only chose books that his sisters really enjoyed when they did Ancients. For Read-Alouds: The Shipwrecked Sailor The Boy of The Pyramids A Grain of Rice Tutankhamen’s Gift Usborne Greek Myth or D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Aesop’s Fables To go along with history: Usborne Book of World History Archaeologists Dig for Clues The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible Seeker of Knowledge Ancient Egypt (Treasure Chest) or Hieroglyphics (Treasure Chests)- (These are not books, they are hand on kits) Mummies Made in Egypt The Trojan Horse Tut’s Mummy: Lost and Found You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Greek Athlete Alexander The Great by Demi The Great Wall of China Cleopatra You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman Gladiator Pompeii: Buried Alive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nertsmommy Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 Thank you. I don't plan on adding a lot, but they like to be read to throughout the day and I want to have some books on hand that goes along with the time period we are studying. I'm going to check on inter library loan. I'm not sure ours does that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceFairy Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I'm doing SOTW w/ my first grader now, and I find it as much as I can do to finish the history, coloring, mapwork, review questions/narrations, and maybe 1 hands-on project a week. That to say, I doubt you'd want much more than 1 extra book a week, just my thoughts for this age. I would look at Tapestry of Grace's Lower Grammar book lists for good ideas for those books. that is what I plan on doing. Thank you for your post because now I do not feel bad for not planning more :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maela Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 If you get the Activity Guide there are lots of books that go along with them. Also Biblioplan has a book list My library has about half of these. Also, we use Classical House of Learning for Literature, which is basically literature lessons (notebook pages and book lists, review questions, vocab lists) to go with each chapter of SotW. I've liked 90% of the books recommended there. I think she might have Amazon lists... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 We love all the ones that coralloyd mentioned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 My kids have really enjoyed the fantasy type stories that go with the times and people of the chapters (but are made up stories, not regular history books). There are lots listed in the SOTW AG, and if you even just go to a few of them on amazon, you get ideas for others too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 My kids enjoy the supplemental books way more than just SOTW so we try to do a lot. I posted a list for ancients on my blog. http://onemagnificentobsession.blogspot.com/2011/08/first-grade-history.html The ones highlighted in gray we bought. We read most of those and more on the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Anything You Wouldn't Want to Be... Is the biggest hit at my house! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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