Comments on: Resources Post – History

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:57:14 +0000

Ah, we spent quite a while on the war of the roses after watching a bit of the first series of Blackadder, lol!

I am planning to get them to do a bit more writing during book 2

By: HHaricot

HHaricot — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:51:00 +0000

i do like the galore park books alison. SB is keeping step with SoTW with hers, so I am getting her to do a bit of the writing. I think one of the values of the chronological approach is that it avoids the ‘trap’ of thinking there are stone age, egyptians, greeks, celts, romans, vikings, tudors, victorians and the world wars as the most important bits of history. Because there are lots of resources about these chunks – and, TBH, they were ages with specific things to discuss, we do tend to find these are what we pull out and look at with more detail. However the our island story cd made sb want to find out more about the war of the roses, so we had quite a look at that and SoTW with the civil war and the ‘founding’ of america. also ‘big interest’subjects, but less common to find good books for kids.

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:17:30 +0000

Ooh, thanks Michelle – will watch that this week with the kids.

Gwenny doesn’t want to do any formal history, but is starting to think that having an idea of what happened when might be helpful! Was going to see what she thinks she might be interested in and give her some historical fiction to read.

I am reading GP Junior History (coming towards the end of book 1) with the other two. We just read it and talk about the questions, and pull out other books or look stuff up for anything that comes up that we’re interested in. I like that it’s chronological, and that they are starting to get an idea of things going on simultaneously in different places, rather than just learning about an isolated period/place.

Violet loved history at home and nearly always had a history book on the go, but has been gradually turned off it at school I don’t even know what she’s studying this year, and she’s not planning to do GCSE.

By: HHaricot

HHaricot — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:05:18 +0000

thankyou KNorman, my girls love the horrible histories and the Dead Famous series are good too.

Michelle, we have enjoyed it loads, but actually haven’t had the girls watching it for some reason, i think because of their david attenborough current obsession! but we should try it out.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:03:50 +0000

We have really been enjoying Michael Wood’s “Story of England”. If C were here she’d enjoy it too. Wonder if you’ve picked up on it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tw231

By: KNorman

KNorman — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:56:19 +0000

Can’t get my 7 year old interested in SOTW – but she loves history generally. She loves the first story – but the rest bores her!
We do lots of Horible Histories, and getting a whole load of books out of the libary on a particular time period and then reading through those.
Also we mix in lots of historical fiction too. There is a suprising amount once you start looking!

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:51:59 +0000

yes I’ve been very good and got some library books instead of using my fave store lately.

I may have accidentally ordered a chemistry set (one you had said about – had a look at it irl at toy shop today and think will be good enough as a start) and some workbooks just now though…. Went through your link so hopefully some money back!

Historyetc at camp would be fab idea. If Nic doesn’t agree we’ll do it in secret – shhhh!

By: Daddybean

Daddybean — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:51:43 +0000

Our Island Story works well a CD, you can listen to it just like a story. I think it would work less well as a source book like we use SOTW I can ignore the dodgy bits of OIS easier aas well that way.

By: HHaricot

HHaricot — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:33:32 +0000

well, we were contemplating asking nic if she could cope if we did the dec historyetc at niccamp one morning [mostly Phoenicians ] – just crafts nic!!

By: HHaricot

HHaricot — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:30:58 +0000

I didn't say we *owned* all the viking books... We have really enjoyed Our Island Story audio CD's which i managed to pick up for a song from ebay years ago. And the 120 history projects resource book also really useful [i think jax got mine from the works donkeys years ago!]