Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Day 2 - History Curriculum

Good Evening to my fellow Australian friends and good morning to my round the world friends welcome to the Schoolhouse Review Crew 5 days of ... blog hop.

The theme for my 5 days is Curriculum Choices. My aim is not to list every single resource out there (That in itself would be almost impossible as the Internet is an ever changing place). My aim is to give you some ideas to start you off.

Today's theme is History.
My personal passion is teaching/learning history chronologically. My reason for this is that dates help us to anchor our learning. I loved the stories of history from school and loved even more seeing the cause and effect of history but hated memorizing dates. My love affair with history grew when I started home educating.

Resources
On Pinterest

A Living Book approach

Sonlight has compiled  years of Chronological history with living books and readers
  • Sonlight B {Explore the story of the world from Creation through the fall of Rome.}
  • Sonlight C {Journey from the fall of Rome through modern world history!}
  • Sonlight G {Witness the rise and fall of ancient empires.}
  • Sonlight H {Explore the ever-changing world of the past 500 years}
  • Sonlight W {Journey through the highlights of World History}
Simply Charlotte Mason
Trivium Education
Well Trained Mind
Mystery of History by Linda Lacour Hobar
  • Volume I – Creation to the Resurrection
  • Volume II – The Early Church and the Middle Ages
  • Volume III – The Renaissance, Reformation, and Growth of Nations
  • Volume IV - Wars of Independence to Modern Times 
Tapestry of Grace by Lampstand Press

 Classical Conversations

From a Christian Perspective
Sonlight has compiled  years of Chronological history with living books and readers
  • Sonlight B {Explore the story of the world from Creation through the fall of Rome.}
  • Sonlight C {Journey from the fall of Rome through modern world history!}
  • Sonlight G {Witness the rise and fall of ancient empires.}
  • Sonlight H {Explore the ever-changing world of the past 500 years}
  • Sonlight W {Journey through the highlights of World History}
History Alive

Diana Waring has published history from a biblical perspective
The Mystery of History 

Written by Linda Lacour Hobar
  • Volume I – Creation to the Resurrection
  • Volume II – The Early Church and the Middle Ages
  • Volume III – The Renaissance, Reformation, and Growth of Nations
  • Volume IV - Wars of Independence to Modern Times 
Unit Studies
Truth Quest History
Speaking God's Truth . . . embedded in the flow of history! This has multi levels to choose from and you can choose from a 1 - 8 year plan.

Homeschool in the Woods
Konos
 Primary/Elementary
High School


  • History of the World Year I: Ancient World (hard copy)
  • History of the World Year II: Medieval World (hard copy)
  • History of the World Year III: Renaissance and Reformation (download)
  • History of the World Year IV: American History (download)

Time Lines
FREE on the internet

"In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction,
drawing the materials of future wisdom 
from the past errors and infirmities of mankind."
Edmund Burke

What are you favourite resources for history ?

Tomorrow I will share with you some of my favourite Science / Biology resources.
Blessings
Chareen
Day 1 Geography

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Curriculum and our year ahead 2013/14

Welcome back to the Homeschool Help Series. For the next six weeks six homeschool bloggers from around the globe will be your host.  Today we will be sharing the curriculum we are using for 2013/14.

I have been home educating for  15 years and really love quality literature with a Wholehearted Child / Charlotte Mason Approach.  This year life has become rather busy and as much as I would like to put together my own curriculum I find I just do not have the energy to pull through so I am using a Sonlight Core B as my spine with a few eclectic things added in.



Our Year Ahead


Language Arts

Readers
Read Alouds


History / Geography

Science


Math

Bible


Fine Arts
  • Music Appreciation: SQUILT Vol 1 Baroque Era (Super Quiet UnInterrupted Listening Time) This is a digital product written by Mary from Homegrown Learners and covers ten pieces of music along with notebooking pages, musical term definition and musical history.
  • I will be using The World's Greatest Composers by Confessions of a Homeschooler.
  • The Classical Kids Collection Vol 1 & 2. These are produced by The Children's Group and cover the lives of eight famous composers.
  • Classical Composers Monthly as a supplement to whichever composer we are studying.
  • We will continue with The World's Greatest Artists Vol 1 in which we will cover eight artists.  We have already studied Monet and will continue and learn about the other seven artists in the unit.
  • We did Shipwrecked earlier in the year and really enjoyed it so we will work our way through Bible Stories by See the Light
What will you be using this coming year for your homeschool ?  If you are in need of some inspiration don't forget to pop on over to see what the Homeschool Help bloggers are planning for 2013/14

Blessings
Chareen

This week
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Monday, 5 August 2013

Day 1 - Geography Curriculum

Good Evening to my fellow Australian friends and good morning to my round the world friends welcome to the Schoolhouse Review Crew 5 days of ... blog hop.

The theme for my 5 days is Curriculum Choices. My aim is not to list every single resource out there (That in itself would be almost impossible as the Internet is an ever changing place). My aim is to give you some ideas to start you off.

Today's theme is Geography

Over the years I have found that this is one area that is mournfully neglected in the home school community.   There are a few ways of teaching this interesting subject after all everything that has ever happened in history happened somewhere in our amazing world!

Incidental Geography 
One way is to do incidental geography. This is done a couple of ways.  One is to have a world map on which you mark the countries you learn about in history or your current read aloud. Sonlight uses this method. Another is to pick a continent and do it the traditional school way which is to start memorising the countries and their capitals. It's all simply a matter of drill work.

Books
There are some really great books to work through here are some I've used

The Geography Puzzle is a fun thing to build and learn the countries and capitals of the world.

Pinterest is one of my favourite Geography resources
Mapping 
  •  Megamaps.  I love this website.  You choose the size (as small as one page or as large as 7 feet accross) and then print on A4 sheets of paper to create the map of your choice.  Best of all it's FREE!
  • Wondermaps from Bright Ideas Press.  Love this.  You add Geography skills to any lesson.  You can chose from historical to modern day maps.
  • Uncle Josh's Outline Map Collection has over 260 printable Maps.
 Curriculum


Expedition Earth

Sir N and I are currently working through Expedition Earth: A Journey through God's World. This curriculum was written by Erica from over at Confessions of a Homeschooler. We have been working our way slowly through this download watching YouTube clips, cooking and extra Notebooking pages. Sir N is enjoying it so much that he calls it our Travel School.


Trail Guide to World Geography


Trail Guide to World Geography  This particular package is my all time favourite.  You can purchase this as a book or an eBook download.  This little big book is chock full.
If you do this book with your children they will have covered geography from A-Z in three years.  You do each section once.  Once in primary school, once in middle school and once in high school. Each time your student does a year they go deeper learn more and practise more.
Each level is a complete 36 week school year course.  The teachers manual comes with everything you need to successfully and comprehensively teach geography without any prior knowledge of the subject.  There are also student work books available for each grade level.

On the www
Milk and Cookies has the most comprehensive collection of Homeschool Geography resources I have seen on the web.

Homeschool giveaways has an excellent resource list of printables too


FREE on the internet


What are some of your favourite resources ?

Tomorrow I will share with you some of my favourite History resources.
Blessings
Chareen

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