Melissa in St Louis Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Ok, we started doing SOTW Ancients on the Biblioplan schedule this year (the events are covered in a different order, by location kind of)...I thought we were doing so well! Until I realized that I am having ds memorize the timeline events IN THE WRONG ORDER! :w00t: We are learning them according to how we have been studying them, not exactly in the order they happened. This was SO well thought out! How did this happen????:confused1: More importantly: how do I fix this? We just started Egypt before Christmas break, so there is not a TON that we (*I*) have messed up, but :tongue_smilie:! He enjoys memorizing the events, and I think it is useful....HELP!!:bigear: Melissa in St Louis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G5052 Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 There are certainly worse mistakes than this out in homeschool world! I'd tell my kid, "Mom made a mistake in the ordering of events in history, so we're going to work together to get it right. I'm sorry that this happened, but this is a good lesson for us both." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland_Mom Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 This sounds like something that would happen to me! :001_smile: At least you're discovering it now!!! Maybe you could make some flashcards of the events together and spend a week drilling the information. You could re-do your timeline and just focus on memory work. This would give you a chance to relearn the information in the correct order. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in St Louis Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 "fix" what we have done so far, then go forward exactly chronologically? I am trying so hard here and I am not cutting it! I want SOTW with Bible history included. I thought I had it figured out!:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peela Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 How do you learn timeline events in the wrong order? I mean, it sounds like they simply didn't learn them chronologically- but they haven't learned anything incorrect. I wouldn't even fix it- you could just simply spend a bit of time with the child going over your timeline from the beginning to where you are up to, which is a nice thing to do anyway. All problems healed- the child sees the natural order and gets a better feel for chronology. Then teach chronologically from now on. Hardly something to ruin a child for life :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I'm curious...how are you memorizing the timeline? We're doing Veritas Press' according to the Chronological Order that Classical Conversations (CC) puts them in...Veritas Press has them ordered kinda geographically and within that...I believe they are chronological. If I'm wrong, someone can shout that I am:-) Anyway, I don't think it'd be a huge deal to correct it back to the other way...so if you want to change it...just let your kids know... And, if you use cards or something, that might help. Carrie:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in St Louis Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 (edited) We are memorizing them in the order we have covered them in Biblioplan: Creation Adam and Eve Noah Ice Age Tower of Babel Sumerian cunieform Sargon/Akkadia Abraham Hammarabi Gilgamesh Upper/Lower Egypt is Unified Cheops How bad is it? What do I fix? :bigear: Edited December 28, 2008 by Melissa in St Louis I can't think straight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in St Louis Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 We use the timeline figures from Homeschool in the Woods (love them!). We make a card out of one of them with a short phrase to remember and make another to put on the wall timeline. TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Since you are doing ancients and using SOTW, I am going to assume that your son is around first grade. I have a First Grade History Song (I know, it needs a snazzier title) that I have been working on with my kids that covers the highlights of what we have studied thus far. I add a stanza or two every time it seems appropriate. So far we are up to Philip of Macedon conquered Greece His son Alexander conquered everything! He had the largest empire ever seen Pharos lighthouse, Alexandria It is in roughly chronological order, but (and this is a big but) I don't really care whether they know things exactly in chronological order. My kids are in K and 1st and my sole purpose with the song is for them to remember the stories associated with the events. At their ages, chronological history doesn't mean a whole lot anyway (I am teaching chronologically, but time and history are still very abstract to little kids). We're going to cover all this again in four years anyway. I doubt that the "order" in which they remember stuff now is going to matter a hoot then. I wouldn't worry about it at all. For now, I think your primary focus should be on helping your son love history and provide him with rich stories to remember. You certainly haven't ruined history. Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I have a First Grade History Song (I know, it needs a snazzier title) that I have been working on with my kids that covers the highlights of what we have studied thus far. I add a stanza or two every time it seems appropriate. So far we are up to Philip of Macedon conquered Greece His son Alexander conquered everything! He had the largest empire ever seen Pharos lighthouse, Alexandria It is in roughly chronological order, but (and this is a big but) I don't really care whether they know things exactly in chronological order. My kids are in K and 1st and my sole purpose with the song is for them to remember the stories associated with the events. What an awesome idea, Tara! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I have a First Grade History Song (I know, it needs a snazzier title) that I have been working on with my kids that covers the highlights of what we have studied thus far. I add a stanza or two every time it seems appropriate. So far we are up to Philip of Macedon conquered Greece His son Alexander conquered everything! He had the largest empire ever seen Pharos lighthouse, Alexandria It is in roughly chronological order So, are you going to share the whole song (thusfar) with us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inashoe Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Since you are doing ancients and using SOTW, I am going to assume that your son is around first grade. I have a First Grade History Song (I know, it needs a snazzier title) that I have been working on with my kids that covers the highlights of what we have studied thus far. I add a stanza or two every time it seems appropriate. So far we are up to Philip of Macedon conquered Greece His son Alexander conquered everything! He had the largest empire ever seen Pharos lighthouse, Alexandria It is in roughly chronological order, but (and this is a big but) I don't really care whether they know things exactly in chronological order. My kids are in K and 1st and my sole purpose with the song is for them to remember the stories associated with the events. At their ages, chronological history doesn't mean a whole lot anyway (I am teaching chronologically, but time and history are still very abstract to little kids). We're going to cover all this again in four years anyway. I doubt that the "order" in which they remember stuff now is going to matter a hoot then. I wouldn't worry about it at all. For now, I think your primary focus should be on helping your son love history and provide him with rich stories to remember. You certainly haven't ruined history. Tara WOW ! You are so creative ! Would you be willing to share this song with all of us ? We would all love to have such a fun way of memorizing history. What tune do you sing it to ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathie in VA Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Here's an idea: continue following the lessons as already ordered. Whenever you have a new thing to memorize stop and determine where in your current list it goes. It's not such a bad idea to review what came before and after a given event. Then memorize the new list. I'm guessing there won't be too many changes but the good thing is that kids are REALLY good as memorizing at this age! So don't worry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Ok, here is the First Grade History Song thus far. It's sung to the tune of Frere Jacques (so it's not really that creative ... more like very repetitive). First the Big Bang, then the earth formed Blue-green algae*, then sea life Next came the dinosaurs, then came mammals Then came people, hominids Australopithecus, Homo habilis Homo erectus spread from Africa Neanderthals, Homo sapiens That is us, Homo sapiens sapiens Tigris, Euphrates, Fertile Crescent Jericho, the first town Mesopotamia, Sumeria The first writing, cuneiform On to Egypt, Nile River King Narmer, King Menes Hieroglyphics, gods and pharaohs The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx Hammurabi, Babylonia Ashurbanipal, Assyria Dido, Phoenicia Bull skin, Carthage King Minos, Minoans, Crete Theseus, Minotaur, Linear A Can't be read by anyone today! Mycenaeans came to Crete, they were from ancient Greece Trojan Horse, Linear B Greece got an alphabet from the Phoenicians Iliad, Oddysey, written by Homer Athens was cultural, Sparta was warlike They fought each other and the Persians Philip of Macedon conquered Greece His son Alexander conquered everything! He had the largest empire ever seen Pharos lighthouse, Alexandria Greeks had Olympics and created drama Marathon, a long, long run Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Sophocles Oedipus Rex had bad luck *My kids regularly sing this as "Blue-green allergy." (I forgot that I had created a new verse to teach the kids after winter break.) So, like I said, complete chronological accuracy is not my goal. I'm sure that this song reflects my own biases about what's important (I mention lots of different writing, but no history of the Hebrews, which we will cover more when we study religions when the kids are older), so if I left out something that appalls you, feel free to add it to your own version. ;) The song is basically just a skeleton, but it contains enough cues that the kids remember more of the story. For example, King Narmer and King Menes are the same person; he was the first to wear the double crown after he united Upper and Lower Egypt. My kids remember his whole story just from his name(s). They remember Hammurabi's Code and Ashubanipal's library at Nineveh just from hearing the names. We rehearse the song at least once a week and I ask the kids questions about various verses just to refresh their memories. Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5Youngs Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 You are amazingly creative! I'm now convicted to be more imaginative and fun~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 That is so cool! You should write one every year and offer them on lulu! It would make me feel better to have it, since I know nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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