We are using Beautiful Feet Books as our core outline for history this year. With the baby and the move, we are JUST STARTING our school year. We have been unschooling all year until now, and while that was nice, I need more structure to make sure we are getting things done. During that time we mostly worked on the 3R’s, and then did side learning based on whatever popped up.
Anyhow, I’m not that impressed with the teacher book, the questions and all that go along with Beautiful Feet Book, BUT I really like the books in the program so far. So we are following their order of things, and supplementing as we go.
I was happy to have been able to review Golden Prairie Press, we are using that as a supplement now, as well as Media Steaming (my kids love any excuse to watch TV since we limit their viewing) and some additional books.
Here is what we have been up to over the last month or so.
VIKINGS
We read:
We watched:
Horrible Histories – Vikings (Hulu or Netflix)
Kids Animated History – Vikings (Hulu)
Lyle the Kindly Viking, VeggieTales (Amazon Prime)
Vikings Journey to the New World (Amazon or Hulu)
Secrets of the Viking Sword (Netflix)
We did:
Making Viking shields and a Viking ship out of cardboard
You can see what else we did at our review of Golden Prairie Press
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
We read:
We watched:
Brain Pop Jr – Columbus Day
Animated Hero Classics – Columbus (available on Discovery Education)
We did:
Christopher Columbus Map Activity from EnchantedLearning.com
Columbus Day Spelling Words Activity from EnchantedLearning.com
SPANISH EXPLORERS
We watched:
Famous Explorers Series; Episode 1 (Coronado) and Episode 3 (de Soto) – Amazon Prime
POCAHONTAS
We read:
We watched:
Animated Hero Classics – Pocahontas (Discovery Education)
Disney’s Pocahontas, and Pocahontas II (Netflix)
We did:
Biography/Questions worksheet from Enchanted Learning
Free activity pages (must register, scroll down to Animated Hero Classics)
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