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This year I will have a K and 1, and so I'm planning to do their history together. Well, I'll be predominantly working with the 1st grader while the K-er just sits in with us. I understand that, following the typical CM history timeline, you would go in chronological order starting with creation, ancient history etc. My question is with U.S. History. I live in New York State, and U.S. History is a requirement for grades 1-12. I have to submit an IHIP and quarterly reports accounting for these things.
I'm struggling to figure out how to go about doing world history and US history simultaneously. I have great spines for both, but am struggling to find living books that can be used at such a young age (since most CM websites do not list resources for US history for that grade level). I'm sort of in a position where I need to acquire books for our home library for history. Our tiny public library really has a dismal selection of living books for early history ... mostly limited to little encyclopedia-type books.
I'm also not sure how to organize things for them without confusing them with the two different time periods. And then ... today I was thinking maybe I could just do biographies of early Americans instead of an actual "US History" curriculum. I was thinking of Blessed Kateri, Johnny Appleseed, etc. I want to give them a taste for American history without overwhelming them with too much history.
...or am I just over-thinking this? As you can see, I'm really struggling to organize my thoughts, which is really frustrating because, after all, it is only first grade. 
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You know at that age.. US History can be your LOCAL history. So that rather than an overspanning US History, you're covering the things they see on a daily basis and talking about how your area was settled and what people did there and stuff like that.
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The Simply Charlotte Mason website has lesson plans for teaching US and world history together. The lesson plans cover all age ranges, K-12, and so can be used with different aged children at the same time. There are books suggested for K-3 that you would be able to use.
I am using the early US history guide at the moment. At first I was really unsure about teaching US and world history at the same time. However, I am finding it makes complete sense. Two days a week we cover US history, and two days we cover what was happening *during the same time period* in other parts of the world. One day a week is geography.
I really like the way that puts things all together. In school I learned US history and world history separately, and I had no clue about what was happening in Europe when Lewis and Clark went exploring, etc.
Anyway, you can see the living book lists at the SCM website and just use those as a starting point...
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We live in NY and I had the same question when I started out  . If you send me a pm, I can tell you what we do with those requirements and I can also give you book recommendations.
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SeaStar wrote:
The Simply Charlotte Mason website has lesson plans for teaching US and world history together. The lesson plans cover all age ranges, K-12, and so can be used with different aged children at the same time. There are books suggested for K-3 that you would be able to use.
I am using the early US history guide at the moment. At first I was really unsure about teaching US and world history at the same time. However, I am finding it makes complete sense. Two days a week we cover US history, and two days we cover what was happening *during the same time period* in other parts of the world. One day a week is geography.
I really like the way that puts things all together. In school I learned US history and world history separately, and I had no clue about what was happening in Europe when Lewis and Clark went exploring, etc.
Anyway, you can see the living book lists at the SCM website and just use those as a starting point...
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I just checked the SCM store ... is the the Stories of the Nations book that you're referring to?
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We are using Stories of the Americas and Stories of the Nations, plus the separate teacher's guide that has lesson plans.
You could just read the stories in those first two books and have your dc
draw pictures to illustrate them. You could title and date each drawing and collect them into a history notebook. Easy- and the stories are very interesing 
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