History Odyssey ?

[MissRubyandKen]

I'm wondering if those who've used History Odyssey Level 1 guides, how did you schedule it into your week? I see they suggest one week per lesson. In your experience has this averaged to 2-3 History days per week? 60-90 minute lessons? Varying depending on the child's interest in the material? I'm wondering how much time I should look forward to reserving for History next year using a level 1 guide. Thanks!

[ChristaN]

I haven't used these books, but I hope that you don't mind if I jump in here (and bump your thread up a bit -- lol!) b/c I'm looking at them as well. We are trying to put together curriculum for next year for my dd who will be a 5th grader and a friend's dd, who will be a 6th grader. We are going to have them working together on a lot, so we will be doing more 6th grade stuff in most areas. I think that I have the language arts & math curriculum in place, but am working on figuring out what we do for social studies and science.

History Odyssey looks interesting. Has anyone here used this in the earlier levels that the OP is looking for or in level 2 for middle school? Any feedback?

[MissRubyandKen]

Jump on in . Hopefully someone will have some feedback.

[LauraLoo]

We are still on level 1 and do HO 2x a week, usually, sometimes 3x for roughly 30 min. to an hour each time. We don't do all the suggested readings (we typically skip "The Story of the World" suggestions) or all the suggested activities - we pick and choose, so YMMV. We just spent an intensive amount of time on a Native American history pocket in the Middle Ages and dedicated 4 days a week on that. We probably went a lot deeper and supplemented with a lot of additional materials, but ds was very into it.

I consider HO Level 1 to be an introduction and high level, so whatever we've missed this time will be caught on other levels, so if we breeze through a few chapters in a single setting we are mainly hitting the high points. We also do the reading together, but I would imagine with older children, like Christa's, they could do the reading in advance and then spend the time together discussing or doing activities.

HTH!

[splendid]

When we used this, we did 2x per week for about 60 minutes. This include read alouds and any activities we had planned.

[kewb]

I do 3 -4 times a week. Some days for half an hour and some days are 15 minutes. If they are interested we can spend an hour on history if not I keep it short.