Today started out a bit rough! the first day back to school after a week long vacation from school proved to be a bit tough. The girls overslept an hour, before i noticed they were not up and doing their stuff at 6:30 but we still managed to start history pretty much on time... i missed Bible! aak! totally forgot about it! not sure how that happened! So we started our day with history, which i'd been giving a great deal of though to. We are using Diana Waring's Romans, Reformers, and Revolotionaries sorta, which by the way is SUPER cheap at AIG- I say sorta because i'm also using All American History Which i do not find the readings to be as engaging as Diana Waring's RRR, (but let's be real- is ANYONE as engaging as Diana Waring? i think not!!!) So what i've settled on doing is i'm going to take 2 weeks to do our readings, some from RRR and some from AAH, instead of just one week on RRR. Then i'm going to take 2 weeks to do more extra reading instead of just one. and then we'll do RRR's 4 week plan as usual, week 3 as one week, week 4 as one week... i think... Anyway, one thing i LOVE about AAH is that it includes worksheets that help them see how well they retained their reading... AND they can be done WITHOUT ME! which i love. It leaves me time i'd have not otherwise had, to... say.... update my blog :-) So YAY AAH! Thanks for the extra freedom :-) So that is done (for me) Anna and Leif are working on starfall, and i just gave the babies who are in baby jail a bowl of dry kix to fight over, so all is well! i do need to be changing them and figuring out what they need next. We don't have much of an established schedule yet- another thing i need to work on today- but MAN am I tired! We'll see... Now that nik's schedule has changed, (he goes to the public school for math and language i need to rework things a bit. So today will be a light day- at least on the mom needed stuff. The kids have PLENTY to do... in fact, they have way too much to do. Our school day is WAY longer than it should be. I have to figure out how to fix that too.
so what are you all doing for history and how is it going for you?
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we are using Mystery of History and story of the world. Not super involved. I got the sotw on audio so we can listen to it while in the car on fridays driving to our onsite classes. Do our first time line this year. the 4 youngest are doing the young people assignments and tay is doing the older kids. We only do history 1-2 days a week
ReplyDeletesshhhheeesshhhhh.....can you tell I am tired.....random use of capitals and punctuation :)
ReplyDeleteWe use Story of the World. The kids read the entire chapter on Mondays. On Tuesdays we discuss the reading using the narration questions in the activity guide. Wednesday they do the map page themselves. Thursdays we try to do an activity from the activity guide. Fridays they take the test to see what they retained. Over the weekend, they look up the correct answers to any questions they missed on the test. We aren't doing the entire book this year because I'm stretching volume 3 and 4 out to do extra depth with American history. Those weeks, we'll add in extra reading/study from the library or online sources.
ReplyDeletei LOOOOOOVE mystery of history! we used it the last year and on ancients the cycle before that. and SOTW is awesome! i wish it integrated Biblical history like MOH does, but its still very kid friendly and EASY, which i appreciate! i think i'll be integrating some of that in as well, i do have vol 3 MOH. Right now we do it 4-5 days a week but it might have to change, i need to revamp our schedule as its a bit too demanding right now.
ReplyDeleteWe use SotW- we're about to finish Volume 4 for the first time so next year I'll be getting History of the Ancients to use with the older two. I love it.
ReplyDeleteLots of supplementary reading, too.