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Posted: July 09 2014 at 9:17am | IP Logged Quote nightgalaxy
What would be your top recommendation for the most open and go, easy on everyone history or social studies curriculum that could combine 4th and 6th grade students with a Catholic influence? Looking for a curriculum written at a 4th-5th grade level, mostly workbook style. I will supplement as I can with literature (and movies!), but I do not want a literature based or classical curriculum.

I am thinking Land of Our Lady Series, starting with Founders of Freedom. Is this a good choice?

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My personal recommendation for a workbook style course would be using theCatholic Schools Textbook Project textbooks plus workbook CDs.   The texts are engaging and the workbook CDs would be handy when teaching more then one child (and it makes it easier to pick and choose from the worksheet offerings).

I found the books quite easy to just 'open and go' particularly when using the teacher's manual :-) My children are not fond of worksheets so we just used the end of chapter questions as discussion guides which worked well.

From Sea to Shining Sea is recommended for grade five and there are samples available on this page.

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Posted: July 09 2014 at 11:32am | IP Logged Quote nightgalaxy
Thank you for this recommendation.

We are just finishing a unit on American History and I would like to shift gears a bit. DO you think All Ye Lands would be too difficult for a 4th grader?

I wish I could see Founders of Freedom. I have heard the Land of Our Lady Series is written very much to grade level and is easy for a child to pick up on, whereas some of the Catholic textbook project books are a challenge at the grades listed.
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I am planning to use All Ye Lands with my fourth grader after Christmas this year. We will use it as a spine- I will read aloud from it for both kids, and then they will go on to do their independent reading.

We used FSTSS last spring, and my dc really liked it. We did not do any worksheets, since narration from the independent reading covered that.

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Maybe if it was done as a read aloud? You could try it out with the sample chapters and reading a book aloud is a simple way of sharing a text.

Founders of Freedom might be a bit basic for grade six but it's not a bad book for for 'pick up and go'.   The exercises at the end of the chapter are designed for discussion and notebook work.

Kolbe sells an answer key which could reduce your workload.

The text I'd use for grades four to six world history _The Old World's Gifts to the New_ by Sister Mary Celeste is unfortunately out of print right now.
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Hillside Education just repubilshed The World's Story by Elizabeth O'Neil. It is not expressly Catholic but includes Catholic history in a favorable light.

You might also consider Famous Men of Greece or Famous Men of Rome as published by Memoria Press. Not Catholic, but for the time period, it doesn't seem so relevant.



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