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Hi Everyone!!
Newbie here who has some questions. When you are teaching history do you go in chronological order or do you hop around? We have been using Story of the World vol.1 since the end of last year and we are only on ch 7. I like the concept of it but for some reason we just can't get through it.
We started reading The First Christians The Acts of the Apostles for Children by Marigold Hunt. This is during ancient Rome. Do I start pulling books from there and start learning about that era? Maybe pull some of the projects out of SOTW activity book? Next I wanted to read On to Oregon by Honore Morrow. Do we then start learning about that period of time. How do you all do it? Any help would be appreciated!!
Hope you all have a Peace filled day!
Kirsten
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We read alot, discussions, go to museums...I guess you could say we do history by interest and living books.
Currently, we're reading SOFW, vol 1, too, and liking it. We're on Ch 10.
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I don't think there is a right or wrong answer regarding teaching history chronologically or by interest. As long as you are using living books and your children are making connections, right? I think the benefit of teaching history chronologically is that the children see the picture as a continous narrative. Yet, even if you choose topics of interest and study history out of order, you can accomplish the same thing by keeping a book of centuries or a wall timeline. We are using Hillyer's A Child's History of the World this year. So this year we are studying world history in chronological order. But next year I plan on covering British history (An Island Story and Our Lady's Dowry), so we'll be studying by topic next year. And who knows what will strike a cord with my children from now until then...there's no telling what rabbit trails we'll hop down along the way. 
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We study history totally randomly and really like it that way. We do, as Katherine suggests, use a Book of Centuries to see how it all fits together. After much trial and error with various systems, this is what works for us for now.
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I do a more random study in the early years - reading books taking advantage of rabbit trails, etc. I don't worry that it is out of order or what not - but do try to give context. When they are older, I try to go more sequentially to make sure we have covered time periods that dc haven't necessarily browsed before and to make sure that context really is there. They, by then, have a lot more to tag stuff to from all that they have read and we can read a bit more on the areas of real interest from the past without bogging down in that time period. Ie we seem to alternate between an in depth study of some particular passion/interest - and then a more traditional, sequential approach - using a textbook guide but with lots of living books too.
Different ones of my children have fared better with one approach or another - but I cannot wrap my brain around 6 different time periods/approaches so hopefully we cover everyone this way.
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Reading books
Timelines
Museums
Discussions
Videos
We jump back and forth so much in our reading but somehow ds keeps it all together. It must be young brain cells... 
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I look at our timeline and see what we are missing, this year we had zippo Ancient History so we are starting at the beginning - literally! Moving forward slowly, we'll approach the Greeks and Romans after Christmas.
To actually study history we check out all the books in the library on the topic, from easy reader picture books to coffee table non-fiction adult books to magazines. We do crafts and activities, I try to select meaningful crafts, like making an ancient gameboard and playing it vs. crafting a pottery vase. Nothing against the vase understand - I just know my dd and we would have to keep it and there is no way we have room for trinkety stuff. So we don't make it!
One of the most popular activities for Egypt was the Shaduf, popular because everytime a visitor comes visiting dd sets it up again to play with. We love visiting historic sites and museums whenever we can. And don't forget the costumes and food! I'm in the process of making an Egyptian outfit for her currently, wish me luck!
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WOW!! You all are so inspiring!! I am going to run with it!! We do have a wall timeline that I will use. I love the Book of Centuries idea for each child also.
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Thank You for helping me along this journey!! This is our second week without the workbooks and so far it is very freeing!! We are continuing on with the math workbook, but also taking the time to play some math games. Anyway, thanks again.
Peace to you all,
Kirsten
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Kirsten,
This deviates from the topic of history, but you mentioned that you are continuing in your math workbooks and taking time to play math games. We're using Math U See and I have just recently declared Fridays to be Math Fun Day. I found a great list of living math books from a site called Living Math and have checked out many titles from the library. The kids love them.
Ok, sorry...back to history. 
This year I ordered the blank book called Book of Time from Sonlight. I liked the quality of the pages, but I ended up taking them out of their spiral binding, whole punching them and putting them in a 3-ring binder. I wanted my dc to have the ability to insert their narrations and illustrations into each century. It's no longer a perfect, measure of time (each section being an equal amount of pages), but it's much more personalized and they'll never run out of room.
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Hi Katherine,
I just checked out Living Math. It looks like a great resource. And I just ordered a Sonlight catalog, I have heard they have some great books in there. Thanks!
Peace,
Kirsten
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We do the same as Janet going more randomly in the earlier years, and more sequentially later when they delve into history more deeply. 
We also stay with more American History (for the most part) during the earlier elementary years. My 6th grader says that Egypt is icky and weird, and she doesn't like learning about it. I'd like her to tell me how she REALLY feels about it!
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