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For those of you who do Montessori, what do you use for history with your elementary children?
What about those of you who don't do Montessori and just do Real Learning or other method. What do you use for History?
I'd appreciate any suggestions! Thanks!
P.S. I actually have more Montessori elementary questions on language, math, science, general etc., but I'm not sure where to post them. Suggestions?!
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I approach History using living books, but there are many activities we pursue along the way to make it *real* to us.
RC History offers excellent ideas and resources for Ancient History and I believe they are trying to develop more guidelines for other periods of history.
In addition to RC History, I love using Reading Your Way Through History.
For the best responses to questions on various aspects of Montessori in other subjects, just post in the appropriate forum - so math in Living and Loving Numbers, science in The Great Outdoors, etc. If your question is about a young student - Early Childhood Learning is the place to go.
I love using Montessori with my children as well as Charlotte Mason and other philosophies. Montessori is really a part of Real Learning so can be found in all fora here. There may be some useful thoughts for you here on combining philosophies in your home. And I thought I might also let you know that we've discussed a lot of Montessori here - you might use the search feature and enter keywords and see what you come up with - an answer may be waiting for you there.
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We use the Usbourne Book of World History as a "spine" and do narrations from these 2-page spreads, and supplement with living books.
What excites us most, however, is the 25-foot-long timeline we put up in our classroom last month. We're using this one from Learning Through History. We are using timeline figures from Homeschool in the Woods. These are great, ds colors them in and we tape them to the timeline.
We fill in any dates we come across on our timeline, for example when we read about specific saints, we write down their names on the timeline.
For non-readers, I have done a daily drawing of what we did "yesterday", "today", and [plan to do] "tomorrow". We use the words "past" and "future" in these discussions repeatedly.
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Thank you! I'm looking into your recommendations!
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we like Story of the World. It references the Usbourne world history. I supplement with the simply CM century book and I find timeline figures that go with SOTW. The book lists with SOTW are wonderful rabbit trails for us.
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Susana wrote:
For those of you who do Montessori, what do you use for history with your elementary children?
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I would start with the Great Lessons - these go through creation, coming of man, etc (I've adapted each and every one to my personal stance on the creation of the world - God with No Hands is fine except for reference and millions and millions of years (I change that to, "in the beginning" or "Since the beginning of time" or "in obeying God's laws" - whatever is appropriate for the section). My versions don't leave out that possibility, but don't promote it either. (I can send anyone interested the edited versions).
From there, lots of timelines, based around a subject of the children's interests. If the Great Lessons are read often enough, different aspects can be emphasized - this gives the big picture as well as focus on smaller periods. Lots of rabbit trails with it - lapbooks, studies, visits to various museums, cemeteries, etc. etc.
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"My versions don't leave out that possibility, but don't promote it either. (I can send anyone interested the edited versions)".
CatholicMommy, I would love to see your version! Thanks for your suggestions!
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