So if you aren't outling KHE--what ARE you doing with it?

[Alana in Canada]

or rather, what are you having your children do with it?

 

I had my son read his all the relevant entries for the first time today and he did and then I wondered, now what?

 

Any thoughts?

[newlifemom]

My dd is starting round two of SOTW in fifth grade. I have her reading SOTW, KFE and a History of the Ancient World. Depending on the chapters she either outlines SOTW or Ancient World. I have her read all but only outline twice a week from one source. HTH

[Alana in Canada]

History of the Ancient World--is that the Guerber/Miller book?

[Colleen in NS]

or rather, what are you having your children do with it?

 

I had my son read his all the relevant entries for the first time today and he did and then I wondered, now what?

 

Any thoughts?

 

My ds takes dates from KF to put on his timeline. He compares the map in the KF entry to our wall map, Usborne atlas, and globe to see what has changed over the years. He also picks out two topics from KF for further reading (lib. books, World Book encyclopedia).

[mcconnellboys]

Well, we read from it as an introduction to the time period under study. It gets used in report writing and timeline preparation, too. I'm having my son outline from SOTW.

[Alana in Canada]

That's interesting--you use it as an introduction? That's a great idea. I gave it to him after we did SoTW.

 

About timelines--I usually go through my HTTA figures and print them out before hand. When we do our chapter test I have him put it in our timeline book and write a small description.

 

Should I change that?

[newlifemom]

History of the Ancient World--is that the Guerber/Miller book?

 

Yes, and what the others said about timelines and maps is all good too. I just haven't added it yet.

[mcconnellboys]

No, I think that sounds just fine. I don't think it matters in which order you do the test vs. the timeline. Are you using the SOTW tests? Or something else? If using a type of test that includes more dates, then you might want to do the timeline work first, to help him with remembering those; otherwise, I don't see that it would matter.

[Alana in Canada]

We do the tests as review, mostly. If they don't know the answer I tell them to re-read their narrations. That usually triggers it.

 

Next week, I'll have him read the entries as an introduction. That's a good plan, actually, because we're doing Africa.

[Peela]

Ummmm...we never ended up using it. Reading encyclopedias runs very low on the list of desirable activities around here- we all much prefer narratives.

Makes a good doorstop?

[Alana in Canada]

I was wondering when someone would say it would make a good doorstop!

 

As the boy read it last week, he said quire excitedly, you could read this whole thing and know everything about history! I told him he would be.

[Laura Corin]

Calvin reads it as part of his history studies (also reads SOTW, Our Island Story, This Country of Ours, and more). He might use some of the information for a piece of writing, but not always.

 

Laura