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Posted: June 30 2011 at 3:21pm \| IP Logged

I got a copy of Connecting with History off cathswap, and I was thinking of using it with CHC core this year, but will that be too much?? I'm really wanting to combine as much as I can with K, 2nd, and 5th grades..and History seemed the way to go..
I am interested in the CwH, and I'd like to know what books I HAVE to buy vs getting at the local library?? (2005 edition)
This would hit dh HARD in the wallet if I need to buy them all!
Thanks!

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Posted: June 30 2011 at 3:38pm \| IP Logged

Did that even make sense?? UGH.. I'm on overload!!

I'm guessing I want to know
1) is CwH too much on top of CHC core? or would SotW be a better fit?
2)if NO to #1.. what do I NEED to buy w/ CwH?

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Posted: June 30 2011 at 5:58pm \| IP Logged

mama2many wrote:

Did that even make sense?? UGH.. I'm on overload!!

I'm guessing I want to know
1) is CwH too much on top of CHC core? or would SotW be a better fit?

Yes. It would be way too much. Connecting With History is written in a way that emphasizes living books for history as the core of the day. If used as written, you will find poetry, copywork, selections that can be used for dictations, history reading, projects to extend the lesson, discussion points. It is a substantial part of the day's work. Add math, natural history and some humanities and you'd be done. Adding that ON TOP of CHC would be way too much!

I prefer Connecting With History to CHC's lesson plans mainly because the majority of the work of the day and the period of history is unified, but whatever your preference, I would suggest that you choose one and go with only one. BUT...and here's a big but...your kids are all still quite young, so even if I were using Connecting With History and had kids your kids ages, I'd probably only be using it with the 5th grader and maybe just a teeny-weeny bit with the 2nd grader, the K'er is too young for formal history and wouldn't need a formal curriculum for anything really (which should make your dh's wallet

mama2many wrote:

2)if NO to #1.. what do I NEED to buy w/ CwH?

The answer was yes to #1, but this is really only a question you can answer, and would depend entirely on how you choose to use the program and your family budget, both of which are very individual. You probably need to just spend some time reading through the Connecting With History book and get a good sense of their plan and format. You can use the program just to suggest books for a period, or use it for a few of the suggestions offered within each unit, or use it as written. How you use it as a family will determine the books you might choose to purchase. Connecting With History is very clear both online and in their manual about designating which books are core. Those are the books you'd want to have around all the time.

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I've use CWH and the CHC core together but I've never tried to do near everything that CWH offers.

Until grade five we simply read and discuss core readings for CWH plus my children's choice of enrichment reading (mainly taken from the library).

At grade five I start assigning map work, an addition to the BoC and two projects of the child's choice per unit of CWH. Required reading still consists only of core books plus whatever additional reading may be to do the assigments. I've found this feasible along with CHC core.

CWH is designed so that you can have a adequate course with only the core materials. As we have a good library I normally only buy the
Core books plus the occasional highly recommended book or book covering several units. I usually also check other historical reading lists as well as well as simply browsing the library holdings as there's often quite good books which are not in the CWH lists (OOP, expensive or simply too many good books to list all of them).

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