How we use America’s Story from Master Books | US History Unit Study Spine | Curriculum Review
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Can you make a video with read aloud a you used for America’s Story 1, 2 and what you plan if you’re using America’s Story 3?
I’ll add it to my list! (I’m taking a break from filming, so it might take me a bit.)
This was so helpful! We’ve use Notgrass history and really enjoyed it in the past. For my 6 yr old we’ve been doing masterbooks “my story” and Gods design for Life and they have been good fits - so I’m glad to hear the America’s story and the Physical World go well together for future years!
I’ve heard really good things about Notgrass too! I’m glad you’ve found some resources that work really well for you. We have really enjoyed America’s Story and the God’s Design series - they’re just great fits for our family. I hope what you’re using continues to be a great fit for yours too!
Thank you for sharing. I'm going to try this one. You were very informative.
I hope it works well for you! :)
Do you use America’s Story, are you checking it out, or do you have another History curriculum you love? I’d love to hear all about it!
Thank you for this!!!! We’ve been torn between Notgrass and America’s story. I think we have made up our mind now.
I’ve heard great things about Notgrass too. :) I’m glad this was helpful for you and I wish you a great year of history ahead!
Thank you for sharing! We use America’s story but we take out the art and some of the writing in the teacher’s guide… we add read aloud books throughout the year!
It’s such a great base for history and so adaptable. I’m glad you are enjoying it as well!
I love the idea of pairing the science with it…how creative! I’m thinking we’re going to forego the teacher guide too 🙃
I think the teacher guide works well for some families, we just do better without. :)
It’s so much fun to pair science with it, and it keeps both my history buff and science lover engaged. :)
@@TicketToLearning agree on the teacher guide. Maybe if mine were older! I’m gonna think more on how to pair science and history 🧐 not sure it will work with the science units we chose this year but we’ll see!
@@thepracticalhomeschooler I bet at least some of them will work well. What science units do you have planned?
@@TicketToLearning units from the good and the beautiful…mammals, Arthropods, space and ecosystems
@@thepracticalhomeschooler space could go at the beginning because explorers used the stars to navigate. Mammals or ecosystems would go well with Lewis and Clark and moving West. Mammals could go well there too.
Thank you for sharing!!💕💕
We don't use the teachers guide for America's Story either. We do purchase the additional timeline resources, which are color pictures. We add read alouds, too! What are some of your favorite read alouds that you use with AS2? We do the Evan Moor history pockets, too. Sounds like we are very similar in how we use it.
I should really look into the timeline. That might be a great resource for our timeline book. As far as read alouds for AS2, I think these are the ones we’ve read so far. I might be missing a couple: Riding Freedom
The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps
The Great Turkey Walk
Various Heroes of History Biographies
John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy
Little Women, The Prarie Thief
I’m still working on a list for the rest of the book, but here’s the list of books I had in my initial idea set:
Tales from Maple Ridge (series)
Soun Tetoken: Naz Pierce Boy Tames a Stallion
City of Orphans
Starting from Seneca Falls
The Forty Acre Swindle: George Washington Carver
Dog Diaries #9 - Chicago Fire
Prairie Lotus
A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
Billy Bud and the Breadbox
Sarah Plain and Tall
Some of these would be the earlier part of AS2, but that was my brainstorm list.
And my oldest has read several on his own. He likes books by Avi (Iron Thunder). I can look up the other ones if that would be helpful too.
@@TicketToLearning this is awesome! Thank you so much.
@@HomeschoolwithJen you’re welcome. I hope you find some great books that are perfect for your family
We have been using America's Story as a spine text while doing Sonlight D &E. It is a more engaging text and we have enjoyed it.
It’s so well written. I would have never thought to use it with Son Light, but I bet that’s a really fantastic combination. Do you replace it with one/some of Sonlight’s suggestions or do you add America’s Story as an extra?
I start with AS and add the SL books where they fit with the topic. Any books that don't fit neatly I evaluate to read or not. I think we have only skipped 2 or 3, and added some also. Sometimes we do 2 AS lessons in a week, other times with great reading books if might be 1 lesson a month.
@@rrichards1210 that sounds fantastic!