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1850MOD, year in review part 2

Part 2, History

Since I was teaching a 6^th and 3^rd grader in year 5, we used the younger sibling supplement.   Now I have to be honest here.  My initial reaction to the book US Facts and Fun was less than positive.  Ok.  I thought Marie (the mfw author) had lost her mind.  Then I just used the book and really liked using it.   It is geared just right for 3^rd grader to use bits and pieces of American history and culture and combines reading comprehension skills and a few fun pages here and there.   It’s just a little worksheet or two.  It is just substituting so they can have some history when the World History readings are just too far over their heads and maturity level.  And to give them their own read alouds.

We did younger read alouds for bedtime.   Worked great.

2^nd and 3^rd graders are still doing a lot of the other history in the program such as President’s notebooking, State Sheets, learning the capitals, etc.   And there are some of the student notebooking pages in the older student packet that can work for younger kids to join along.

The President’s notebooking pages.   At first I thought the cards that Marie uses were too light.  But given all of the other readings with the Presidents in the other books (SOTW, Children’s Encyclopedia of Am. History, book basket), it really didn’t need too much more.  In spite of that, my 6^th grader enjoyed reading a set of Presidents and Vice Presidents Fandex cards that my brother brought her.

Don’t be fooled by simple looking things for notebooking.  :)

My 3^rd grader learned those state names and capitals quite quickly. 

6^th grader --- wow! Did she learn to write from those outlines by the end of the year or what????   Alright!!!!! Yeah. She was so encouraged by the examples in the teacher’s manual of 2 of the Hazell’s daughters.  

Hands on stuff in the SOTW activity book.  Some of those were hit and others were miss.  I left notes on the MFW message board in the 1850MOD Ideas Forum for some ideas to make it easier and more simple.    Granted, the MFW teacher’s manual said we could skip things that were too time consuming.   But I liked doing easier stuff.   

Feel free to ask any questions on that.   My mind is trying to just do a year in review.

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8:21 AM, May. 28, 2008 .. Posted by lyntley

What a precious story! MFW is so wonderful. Not just to educate our children but as a family we are drawing closer to the Lord and gaining a heart for His people. I'm happy to hear that that same heart continues throughout the years of MFW