Author	Topic:   Teaching History in Foundations
Tonya	posted 8/18/06 10:41 PM     Do many of you follow a separate history study or do you study along with the history outlined with the memory sentences. This is our first year in CC and we have been learning chronologically from Story of the World which we enjoy. It is a hard decision to make for me to change or not.
Tori Ingram	posted 8/21/06 9:53 PM       We also use SOTW and love it. It fits perfectly with our Foundations curriculum. The History sentences are not meant to be used as a History curriculum, and grades 3 and up are expected to supplement. You can never know too much History!
Sara	posted 8/27/06 9:31 AM       This is the first time I've "heard" someone state "the History sentences are not meant to be used as a History curriculum, and grades 3 and up are expected to supplement." Altho I too have SOTW books, I wasn't planning to heavily use them as we simpy don't have time. I wish that had been made clearer. I agree, one can never get too much history, and there are certainly many ways to "get it", yet...that now becomes another item I need to focus on.
Sarah	posted 8/28/06 6:09 PM     Classical Conversations is simply the grammar stage memory work with art, science and presentations added to it. It's not a full program, but you can use it as a base, foundation or core if you choose to. But it has to be supplemented in all areas because it's "memory" work.
Tonya	posted 8/29/06 3:21 PM     I don't think my question was understood. Story of the World moves chronologically through history and the grammer history sentences do not. Older elementary children are suggested to give a presentations on the related history or science material they are memorizing. So for our history at home I can choose to suppplement the focus of the grammar work or continue moving chronologically through history like we have been. I am not asking if I have to teach history at home, I know I do. I just don't know about studying different areas at once, it is more time consuming. For insance, we are studying Lewis and Clark at home (which I would like my sons, 3rd and 5th, to research more as they should) but for classical conversations we are in the Egyptian period which thier presentations should focus on (or science)...so this is the decision I need to make. I am leaning toward them mainly doing science presentations and sticking with how we are currently studing history. What do you do?
Sarah	posted 8/29/06 3:46 PM     I am sorry. I should have clarified in my response. I was anwsering Sara's concern... I though Toni answered nicely! My apologies. I did understand you - I just thought you were answered!! Yes, this is totally up to you. I don't follow CC history sentences at all - it moves way to fast. For example, if you do SOW - you can follow CC or you can do SOW seperatly. We do Veritas not SOW, and I follow their 5 year cycle. With timeline, history sentences and history it is a bit disjointed (which bugs me!) but the kids to fine with it! It's not really more time consuming at all. In fact I find it easier to do my own thing. But many moms follow it!Again I am sorry to go off on a tangent! I felt I needed to answer Sara.
Sarah	posted 8/29/06 3:50 PM     Question? Are they requiring the presentations be on the history they are memorizing? Can you use the timeline cards not the history sentences? If so, you can just do the ones that coorespond with yours. Also doing a quick presentation on Egypt won't through them off to much. They are just 3 minutes. It doesn't take much time to prepare...
Tonya	posted 9/4/06 2:19 PM     Sarah, Please don't appologize, I hope I didn't sound rude. I do appreciate your answer and I saw you were addressing someone else before. I was just wanting to see more feedback from people.
Krystin	posted 9/16/06 3:10 AM     I have a 6 yr old and we use STOW. At this point we don't do much with the workbooks, but we listen to the cds in the car and during her bath time. We will add in the workbooks later, but she will already be familiar with the stories and the flow of events.
Tonya	posted 9/16/06 6:44 PM       We use SOTW & Mystery of History in a 4 year cycle. We use CC history sentences as strictly memory, unless it's something the kids find interesting and then we will spend the week researching the sentence, while taking a break from our regular history curriculum. I've done history this way for 2 years and my kids have not confused it at all. We also have a wall timeline and use History Through the Ages figures to tie it all together.
Denise	posted 9/22/06 3:20 AM       I know this is a late reply but just wanted to add something to the discussion. I have done all 3 cycles. This is our 4th year, 2nd year of Cycle 1. We did SOTW. I did not try to match up history sentences or time-line cards with where we were in SOTW. But when SOTW would over lap with their Foundation memory work, my kids would say "Oh that's......." whatever the history sentence was for that event ot even the time-line cards. I hate to say this but....I would be surprised that they would be able to make the connections themselves without being prompted by me! So they can make the connections if the info is in their brains waiting to be tapped. It works!
terry	posted 4/25/07 3:41 PM     Another very late answer but we do it with reading and videos. I am not a great fan of the Public tv group but the hx channel has wonderful videos that we watch after stuying, Knowledge quest has a great timeline which has helped us with historyterry
Heather	posted 6/10/07 0:00 AM       We are starting CC in the fall and I was under the inpression that one of the neat things about it is that for Foundations we only needed to supplement with a math and language arts program... I bought Saxon math and A Beka LA for our children...should I be purchasing other things too...if so, what ...thanks in advance...
Lizzy	posted 7/6/07 6:56 PM       THIS is a great thread... to answer you Heather, I think a History curriculum for younger ages is unneccessary as long as you have some kind of reference tool for the times when they ask about a history sentence or timeline card. However, by the time they reach 3rd or so, it seems to me that you will need to do something to enrich the history. That could be a curriculum, or SOTW or living books... because they will need to start writing about what they learn. Maybe someone with more experience than me could speak to this, but this is what I am envisioning for my future. I hope that helps?
Tara	posted 10/24/07 1:16 AM       Wow! I've learned sooo much from ya'll! Thanks for clarifying about the History Sentences and TimeLine Cards. That was really confusing me!

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