What do you use for history?

[siloam]

I am going to miss some, probably a lot. Just trying to have fun.

[Crissy]

We use the library for history. I have a timeline and we read non-fiction, historical fiction and biographies corresponding to each point on the timeline that I want to cover.

[Chloe]

I'm currently using CHOW, but plan to start Ambleside Online in a couple of weeks.

[genie]

We use K12 and LOVE it.

[WTMindy]

We did use SOTW with Activity Guide for the first rotation, but now we are using TOG.

[Karen in CO]

I am using SOTW with AG and AO. I am going to use TOG with SOTW next year.

[AudreyTN]

We're using CHOW and KONOS. I just put up my timeline to make it all fit together.

[SheilaZ]

I use WTM plan for history with 6th grader, adding the SOTW as extra reading. But for my 1st and 3rd graders, I use the Core Knowledge Books and TE's from Pearson Learning.

[OnTheBrink]

MOH. LOVE it.

[coffeegal]

Using it with all my munchkins and we're loving it. :D

[ArwenA]

I use SOTW (with AG) right now but have ordered TOG Redesign Year 1. So excited!!:D

[HollyDay]

SOTW 2 with MOH vol 2

[Patricia in WA]

I used SOTW for grammar stage and now we are using HO (modified) for logic stage. I have also just added Galore Park's Junior History for my grammar stage son. Good poll. I just love the new boards.

[karensk]

...and for early American history, we're using Beautiful Feet. The two history courses are not correlated or connected w/each other at all. This is for ds in 5th and dd in 3rd.

I really like the little checkboxes on the polls in this new format! :)

Karen K. in Tx

[sailmom]

SOTW for 1st - 4th, then Ambleside from 5th on. We'll probably do another 4 year cycle for 9th-12th. We also do lots of other history reading on stuff we're interested in.

This year, I've got one using SOTW 1, one in SOTW 4 and one in AO 7! Lots of good stuff!

[Faith]

Notgrass America and Government.

[Amy loves Bud]

I'm currently using My Father's World, but will go back to TWTM methods after this year.

[Darcy in FL]

My 2nd grader uses SOTW/AG - loves it. My 5th grader is starting to use History Odyssey. I'm probably in the minority here, but I downloaded the 3 week sample of TOG to use before Christmas with the kids....although I enjoyed that there was so much to pick from- it still felt like too much for me (personally) to try to pull together. DS (the 5th grader) loves History Odyssey and it's going well.

[Julie in MN]

My Father's World, which includes SOTW. This is our fourth year and it's going wonderfully.
Julie - first post trying the new boards

[Johanna]

My Father's World!

[WTMCassandra]

This works well for us.

[~Rachel~]

Story of the World PLUS the AG and some of the AO palns too :) DS was listening to Our Island Story this afternoon... then decided to tell DH all about it at dinner time :) I love librivox.org (http://librivox.org)

[Kim in TN]

I use SOTW for the younger children, Notgrass so far for High School.

[Serendipity]

I have finally settled on A Beka for our girls.

[Lori in MS]

We use My Father's World which includes SOTW and other books.

[Jenny in Atl]

We love history so much around here, that we use nearly everything. I'm always on the lookout for great bks on history to add in later or for review.

[coffeefreak]

This is my first post on the new board! :)

We use Veritas Press. We're currently doing Old Testament/Ancient Egypt (2nd grade). We really like the flow and I don't have to do as much planning as with other classical programs.
Blessings!

[Zelda]

We're using SOTW for the first rotation but I'm really leaning toward a living books second and third rotation.

[Ali in OR]

Biblioplan with SOTW and AG here. Love it.

[Linda (Australia)]

For elementary History, Story of the World is our all-time favourite!

For Australian History, we use 'Australia the Wide Brown Land for Me!' (yeh, yeh so I"m biased -seeings how I wrote it) ;)

For the upper levels, we're starting the 'ABCs of Christian Culture' this year; really looking forward to it, as it presents history from a Catholic perspective, and we can incorporate it with the TWISS / IEW writing lessons.

[Lizzie in Ma]

We are using for the 2nd year Mystery of History with Truthquest. This for 5th, 6th, and 7th. Regrettably I will need to find something else for 8th as MOH 4 will not yet be out.
Beginning SOTW and AG with younger one next year.

[Mom2jnb]

Hi All,

I just wanted to say this is our first year hsing. We are currently in a history co-op and we use the Biblioplans for Families as a guide.

After much research, I do believe we will be switching to TOG next year!!:p

Alison

[mellifera]

and Omnibus I with ds1 (7th gr). Omnibus has certainly challenged the 7th grader!

[Susie in CA]

We use SOTW but really think to do it justice you need to use the Activity Guide. With all the book suggestions and activities and maps and? it is so worth it.

JMHO,

Susie

[lori in tx]

Been using TOG for 3 years and love it. I feel like we finally have found something made for us, before I found it we never did history like we should. It has helped me to overcome my public school education and get over all the political stuff that was taught to me.
blessings

[Closeacademy]

We have used STOW and liked it but got bogged down in the medieval period. I tried TOG to fix that but it didn't work for us. I love TOG and want to use it for High School.

Right now, since my children basically hated the whole medieval period and they don't like Columbus or the pilgrims either. We are just sort of exploring history through good books.

We are reading the D'Aulaire biographies, the American Girl book and a few other books about early America that you see on lists. We just finished The Courage of Sarah Noble.:)

[Cheryl B in VA]

Biblioplan with SOTW and History of US.

[4pillars]

Well, we use SOTW, but we use it within My Father's World. Love it!!
Jen

[KIN]

I use Biblioplan with SOTW for a spine and the activity guide. :)

[Night Elf]

Homeschooling 2 kids with 2 different programs as my signature describes. :)

[Sandi_NC]

We are about to start using A Child's Story of America (CLP) through the summer. Then I'm strongly considering using SOTW w/ VP (also using the AG).

That's my plan and I'm sticking to it ~ for now!! ;)

[amanda]

We are using SOTW w/ AG and Veitas Press history cards and CD for 2nd grade. Next year we will be making the switch to TOG.

[Heather in WI]

We used SOTW Ancients last year for 1st, and are using SOTW Middle Ages this year for 2nd.

[Lorna]

Our 10 year old ds will be using Gombrich's history of the World after we have finished 'Our Island Story'. We also visit museums once or twice a week to help 'keep it real'.

[Mrs. Readsalot]

I use the SOTW as a spine and also us the AG.
We use Sonlight books for readers and read alouds and I get their IG for the book reviews and questions etc. We have really enjoyed studying history chronologically.

[Beth in SW WA]

Famous Men of Rome until Natl. Latin Exam in March

Then, back to:

SOTW 1 w/ AG, CD's and tests (no craft projects)
Teaching Co. dvd's
Kingfisher outlining
tons and tons of Netflix documentaries
Beautfiful Feet Ancient History for Jr. High
lots of literature/living books

[Polly]

We use a combination of My Father's World and Ambleside.

[jedbel]

SOTW w/AG. My ds8 enjoys it so much! We are also using Trial and Triumph and some books recommended by Veritas for church history. This seems more than enough to me for the early years.:)

[Wendi]

We use Veritas Press, but we love using the SOTW CDs in the car!

Wendi

[Stephanie in FL]

We have used Sonlight for grammar stage, then Tapestry of Grace for dialectic and rhetoric levels. It has worked beautifully for us.

[Cadam]

My Father's World - which uses SOTW along with other books.

[Plaid Dad]

I'm an "other" - Child's History of the World for our 6yo dd.

[Blue Hen]

We used SOTW for the kids in the grammar years but now with one in Logic Age and one in Rhetoric we've 'moved on'. For the Logic Age kiddo he outlines KFH, does lots and lots of reading, writes topic reports---lots of them, keeps a timeline, and does more reading.

The Rhetoric Age kiddo does history as a Great Book Study as outlined in WTM. It is working quite well.

[BarbaraL in OK]

6th grader: History Odyssey Middle Ages.
2nd grader: SOTW2 with Activity Guide, aligned with HO Middle Ages for my sanity!
Both: LCC recommended reading for some American history, British history, and Rome/Greece.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Dd6 (1st) does a history curriculum I wrote (also Ancients).

[Kendra]

Me too. MOH junkies here :)

[Kristiana]

This is my first real year (1st grade) and we're using SOTW with the AG, plus a whole ton of library books to supplement.

[WTMCassandra]

I'm glad to see some other Biblioplan users on here. We used it for our first round of history, and now we're using it for our second. I'll probably switch to Omnibus or TOG for high school, though.

[St. Theophan Academy]

Discovery of New Worlds, SOTW 2 CD's and Time Travelers Explorers and Colonization Anne Marie

[cherryblossom]

We use All American History

[Daisy]

My Father's World: Adventures and it was Beautiful Feet before that. We are going to do R&S 4th grade History with MFW ECC and then we'll probably either continue with MFW or go back to BF. I loved BF so much!

[Susan in SoCal]

the SOTW series this year. It's such a fabulous history curriculum!

[Jenny in Florida]

I write my own plans, pretty much following TWTM chronology, but pulling together whatever resources I like best (and find cheap!).

--Jenny

[Carolyn in Ohio]

SOTW for grammar, WTM suggestions for Logic. I'll have a rhetoric student for the first time next year, so it will be TOG for everyone.

Carolyn

[Susie in MS]

We have used many things over the years, but currently Joshua is about to finish up Notgrass Government and we will then return to Diana Warings Ancient Civ and the Bible. LOVE IT!!

[chai]

I write my own plans too. We have completed the first rotation using SOTW as a spine. This year, we are back to the Ancients using a mixture of materials. I have the Guerber histories. We completed Story of the Ancient World (not my favorite) and will start Story of the Greeks next week. I'll add in other books like Augustus Caesar's World and Famous Men of Rome.

Right now, I'm planning to do Omnibus once this rotation is done. I'm sure that there will be other exciting things coming out in the next three years, so I won't commit to it yet.

[Ann in IA]

There are so many great history programs out there! I wish we could just do history and nothing else :p

Even though I've researched this area to death (as many of you I'm sure!) I still haven't really decided to stick with 1 program.

I'm using WP Amer Story 1 this year because I thought it was perfect for both of my kids.

But next yr I plan on going to SOTW 1 and starting that with my 1st grader and my older one will follow along. We'll continue with the series.

But I also really like Biblioplan...I see using that as a supplement with SOTW in some fashion (or the other way around).

Whatever I use I KNOW that my kids will learn way more history than I ever learned in school!