We are considering switching to MOH this school yearfrom Abeka History. My daughter is in 7th grade. Would Vol. of MOH 1 be too young for her? The reviews I've seen have lead me to believe that Vol 1 is used with much younger children. MOH seems like a great curriculum..much less dry than some of the others. Any insight from those who use or have used MOH would be great. Thanks
There are separate assignments for younger, middle, and older students. I don't think it would be too young for her.
We did MOH Vol. I last year with my 7th & 9th graders. We kept it simple, but there are lots of activities and resources listed to allow you to go as deep as you like. We will be doing Vol II this year. I've hear that a lot of people who start youn with their kids go through the course twice. I wish we had started it several years earlier. It is a lot of history. There was a tread a couple months ago about MOH with some interesting suggestions.
The volumes aren't leveled (like vol. 1 is 4th grade and vol 2 is 5th or anything like that). They all 4 make one continuous, chronological study, and all are appropriate for K-12th. As someone said, there are suggestions for younger, middle, and older. There are also suggestions in the back for extra reading (which I'd do at the middle/high school level, not the elementary level). You should do all the mapping and timeline activities at the 7th grade level, probably the review worksheets and tests, and then add any extra reading you'd like. You'll probably find yourself skipping around in the younger/middle/older activities. Some of the younger ones are super fun even for older kids (like baking/decorating a cake in the shape of Egypt), but some of the older ones aren't necessarily difficult, either, and would add more depth to your study. Each volume has progressively more content, because more ground is covered. The first book is the easiest from a time management standpoint, but again, none are any harder/easier than the others according to actual content.
I started MOH with my kids when they were grades 5, 3, and K. My then-K is now going into 7, and we started doing MOH with him again last year. We're not quite done with Vol. 1. It's working for him.
I searched around and the best price I was able to find was through christianbook.com for $37.99. I am looking forward to using it . I did not purchase the CD's. Are they helpful to have?
The CDs are just the audio version of the book (text only, not activities, etc.). We use them because (1) my son likes read-along books and (2) they really help with pronounciation of foreign words/names/places. They're totally unnecessary otherwise. (Oh... wait... there are also resource CDs. We didn't get those. It's the activities, etc. in printable form so you don't have to make copies. It's cheaper and easier to cut off the spine and put the book in a 3-ring or spiral binder, though.)
I have one more thing I need advice on...the MOH timeline. How important is it really? I was considering doing everything else BUT the timeline. I am not the creative type and this task seems overwhelming to me.
We did start using timeline but never finished it. I was going to put it in a notebook so we could look at it later, but then we started in JR High so it was considered boring by my tween. I think it just helps to put History together, if they are interested in it go for it, if not don't stress over it. Every so often you could make up a so many years in history posterboard for reminder of what happened when ..
I'm going to do it (well, the Wall of Fame version, not a notebook timeline) because my kiddos will love it. And if they love it, they'll be more 'into' the whole experience.
We are doing a timeline in a notebook where DS just does a simple drawing an then labels/dates it. Something to show a concrete passage of time, but simple to do. But if they are doing other activities and don't want to do a timeline, no big deal. We use the curriculum, the curriculum doesn't use us.
If I just had one, that's what I would do. But I want them to be able to collaborate without doing triple work. I decided the WOF was the easiest way to do that. AMEN!
I think I will show my dd (12) the idea in the book and see what she thinks. If she is interested, we'll do it. I don't know why I wasn't thinking to check with her to gauge her interest. For the most part, dd is not interested in schoolwork. Getting her to do much more than what's necessary is a chore. This could interest her...
ok you can do it once, just print it out. Or take turns doign the notebook. They can work together to do each page one by one or all at the same time?
Someone posted a list of books to go along with the chapters around this time last year - I think if you search the archives you'll find it. We didn't do MOH BUT we did do that period of history from Volume 1....and the historical fiction matched a lot of what we did - it was awesome to have that list!
