American History for 3rd graders

[tmkclscroggins]

Can someone recommend a good history program for a 3rd grader ( not Sonlight...we've already read most of the books). I like something scheduled but not too rigid.....

Thanks,
melissa

[Donna T.]

We used Adventures in My Father's World from MFW for second grade. It is also appropriate for third graders. It's a complete curriculum so it includes more than just history. We liked it very much. It's just a one-year, sort of brief, overview of American history. The child makes a timeline and does a bit of notebooking... writing down their summaries of the history lessons. It also includes some simple activities and a huge book list in the back of the TM for additional reading material. Everything is very structured and laid out for you in an easy to follow schedule.

Depending on how many of the books from SL Cores 3 and 4 you have read, it may not have as much depth as you desire. It really is intended to be a brief overview for younger children... to give them a foundation in American history before getting into the history cycle later on (at which point they would begin to study history from creation).

[Lisawa]

Can someone recommend a good history program for a 3rd grader ( not Sonlight...we've already read most of the books). I like something scheduled but not too rigid.....

Thanks,
melissa

Gosh... these are nice... but also use some of SLs books. I used the K-3 guide for our first adventure outside of textbooks... my son enjoyed it. Almost tried TQ guides, but went with SL :)

Beautiful Feet Early American History primary K-3 (http://www.bfbooks.com/s.nl/it.A/id.282/.f?sc=2&category=2) or


Beautiful Feet Early American History Intermediate 4th-6th (http://www.bfbooks.com/s.nl/it.A/id.281/.f?sc=2&category=2)


Truth Quest guides:
American History for Young Students I (Exploration - 1800) (http://www.truthquesthistory.com/store/products.php)

Jennifer Steward Unit study guides (http://unitstudies.com/unitstudy/category-study/)

each guide is good for a 4-6 week unit study. You can make them go longer, it just depends on how much you choose to read and do. They are not expensive at all.

HTH~

[siloam]

Can someone recommend a good history program for a 3rd grader ( not Sonlight...we've already read most of the books). I like something scheduled but not too rigid.....

Thanks,
melissa

Melissa,

I would recommend TruthQuest with the Guerber books: Story of the Thirteen Colonies and Story of the Great Republic as spines. TQ doesn't have a schedule, but there are several people who use TQ who have make schedules and have them in the files.

Heather

[OhElizabeth]

Well I'll be contrarian and say I wouldn't use Guerber at that age. Read the samples for yourself and decide. Instead I'd look at Child's Story of America or the Abeka4 text as your spine. I like the Abeka4 a lot. You could spread it out over two years and fill in with books from the TQ guides. At one point I made a chart correlating Abeka4 and COFA's (the Childhood of Famous Americans series, not to be missed at this age), but it's not typed, only handwritten.

My dd reads her favorite history books over and over, so don't forget that possibility.