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Timeline Figures I've Created

How to Homeschool History

KINDERGARTEN LEVEL

History is not important to teach at this age. There should be a greater focus on teaching the basics of reading, writing, and math. But if there's time left over, I recommend the following books for introducing the concept of history:

Then and Now
By Amery
A book about what a scene looked like about a century ago and what it looks like now. Pages include: grocery store, street, living room, kitchen, and others.

Living Long Ago
By Felicity Brooks and Helen Edom
The book has four sections: Clothes and Fashion, Homes and Houses, Food and Eating, Travel and Transport. Each section explores the theme from early man until now. Each section is short enough that it gives you a good feel for the progression of civilization. The images and facts are fun and interesting to young children.

A trip to a pioneer village (or other historical site) is also a fun way to introduce your child to the topic of history.

GRADE 1 to 4

I like to teach history in chronological order using the book Usborne Book of World History. This first introduction to history is told using stories and basic facts to create a general outline in their minds of what happened and to create a love and interest in the topic of history. We have a history lesson twice a week. We read two pages from the Usborne Book of World History and then the children draw a picture in a notebook and write a few sentences about what we read.

The drawing page of my son's history notebook
for the topic: the first settlers. Notice the world map
in the top left corner. There is a red dot to indicate
the geographical area that we are learning about.

The writing page of my son's history notebook
for the topic: the first settlers. Notice the timeline
at the bottom of the page. The red line indicates
which period in history we are learning about.

We have also created a timeline on a wall and are using timeline figures from Homeschool In The Woods to visually illustrate history as we learn about it.

This photo shows our entire timeline. It covers 5000BC
to 2000AD. Every inch is 50 years.

Here is a close-up of 2800BC to 2200BC.

Here is a close-up of 5000BC. I didn't have timeline figures
for Jericho and Catal Huyuk but felt that they were
important elements of history, so I created my own
timeline figures for them using images I found on the internet. We had initially started our timeline with figures my son
made himself. Here is his drawing for cave people
or the early nomads.

I supplement the Usborne Book of World History with other picture books on each specific time period. We have used books recommended in the Sonlight curriculum, as well as the Well-Trained Mind and general library searches.

I havn't yet read them to my children, but many people highly recommend reading the Story of the World series by Susan Weiss Bauer.

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