I recently received the following questions from someone interested in the program, but still confused about exactly how it works.  I've edited her questions and added my responses here:

Q:  Does the Connecting with History manual have activities for grades K-6? The sample I saw only had activities for junior/senior high.

A: Volume One has writing assignment suggestions for junior and senior high
students only.  There are brief suggestions for hands-on activities for all
ages.  We also suggest several books of hands-on activities for families who
want more of them.  Volume Two includes a lot more activities for all ages written right into the
program.

Q: Does K study Ancients, 1st grade study the next era, the 4th grader would study American History and 5th grade would start again with Ancients?

A: No, the whole family studies the same time period at the same time, but at
their own levels (although you can do some combining if you have children close
in age and/or a lot of kids to teach. So Year One the whole family studies ancient history and the Old Testament.   Year Two the whole family studies early church history/late Roman Empire/early  medieval times. And so on.

You go through the whole four-year cycle together and then year five you start
all over again.  But this time through each child is four years older than
he/she was when you did ancient/OT so they'll be studying it in a deeper way,
reading harder books, doing different projects and building on what they
already learned.

It's so much less complicated for the teacher (aka Mom) to teach one time period to everyone than try to keep track of four different time periods all at once!  And all the kids can learn from one another - and usually Mom, and even Dad, learns something new from the kids.  The whole family learns cooperatively, as a family, and that's so much more fun!!