Early American History (K-3)

We left Classical Conversations, but were still using some of the history sentences to create a timeline and history curriculum at home with my six & four year olds. After reading more Charlotte Mason, and trying to follow CC for a few months, I felt the history was way too rushed, and that the timeline was leaving way many gaps. This curriculum spends the perfect amount of time on each period, with ample opportunity to go down "rabbit trails" as different topics pique different students' interests.I can't wait to use the intermediate level, but this was perfect for now.

We started using your primary grade early US history and we are very much enjoying it. My kids are retaining more information, and they really enjoy coloring the pictures that go with the books. My oldest is using US and World Modern History and she really enjoys reading biographies and stories about real people, so this is perfect for her as well. Thank you so much for helping children learn through quality literature! I’ll definitely be purchasing all of your history curriculum at some point.

For several years, my kids haven't enjoyed history and it's been a bit of a chore. And then I found THIS book. I used it for 1st, 3rd, and 5th (using rabbit trails to deepen it). It was a deep, thorough, thoughtful study that we walked through all year. My kids were sad when it ended and so was I! The books was GORGEOUS, the glossy paper & pictures are exactly what I need as a teacher. The literature books--there was only one book I didn't like...and my kids loved it even still! Can't speak enough great things about it. BF: I wanted to follow this study with the rest of American history after 1850 but there isn't one for K-3 and the middle school ones are just too old for my younger 2 kiddos. Would love to see you expand the series, but will modify yours until you do!

I purchased in hopes that this source would be free of CRT. I was a history major in college and early American history was one area I focused. It is sooooo hard to find a curriculum that doesn’t think all the founding fathers were faultless and saved Christians and is still free for CRT… I was hoping I had finally found it! But sadly… nope. I am only to “the colonies” and already I’ve had to correct a TON. I have a particular problem with “encounter” so far. Complete rubbish. The ONLY thing it was good for is to explain that different cultures have different perspectives. But the facts remain that even Germans and English were once tribal peoples that were beaten and colonized by the Romans. The Romans would refer to them as “Barbarians” just like Europeans called the tribal American’s “Savages”. The Europeans were once pretty much all slaves as well even during this time period. Which is why new land was such a big deal and why people would risk their lives for freedom!And yes, we conquered the Americas. Just like they did to each other and others did to Europeans ancestors… and has been done since the beginning.The framing of this was just so CRT and Marxist… yuck. Since it was so expensive, we’ll keep using it this year… but definitely we’ll have to find a better option in the future and I have to make sure I read and edit all the books before going through them with my kids.



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I reviewed this once before when we read “encounter “ which is complete and utter garbage, but we have now finished the school year. This curriculum is horrible. There are so many historical inaccuracies especially with how they handle Slavery and Indians. The white man is evil and everyone else is great. And it’s just Americans. The rest of the world is wonderful. I know it’s not a world curriculum, but the way the subjects are addressed is in a way that the prejudice arises out of the American spirit and not that it was the remnants of the old ways of thinking.I wonder what the authors would say if they found out about all the dark brown American slave owners… instead of going with what actually happened and looking at sources, they go with the hearsay narratives that have been going more and more “America bad” for the last 50 years.

I purchased in hopes that this source would be free of CRT. I was a history major in college and early American history was one area I focused. It is sooooo hard to find a curriculum that doesn’t think all the founding fathers were faultless and saved Christians and is still free for CRT… I was hoping I had finally found it! But sadly… nope. I am only to “the colonies” and already I’ve had to correct a TON. I have a particular problem with “encounter” so far. Complete rubbish. The ONLY thing it was good for is to explain that different cultures have different perspectives. But the facts remain that even Germans and English were once tribal peoples that were beaten and colonized by the Romans. The Romans would refer to them as “Barbarians” just like Europeans called the tribal American’s “Savages”. The Europeans were once pretty much all slaves as well even during this time period. Which is why new land was such a big deal and why people would risk their lives for freedom!And yes, we conquered the Americas. Just like they did to each other and others did to Europeans ancestors… and has been done since the beginning.The framing of this was just so CRT and Marxist… yuck. Since it was so expensive, we’ll keep using it this year… but definitely we’ll have to find a better option in the future and I have to make sure I read and edit all the books before going through them with my kids.



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I reviewed this once before when we read “encounter “ which is complete and utter garbage, but we have now finished the school year. This curriculum is horrible. There are so many historical inaccuracies especially with how they handle Slavery and Indians. The white man is evil and everyone else is great. And it’s just Americans. The rest of the world is wonderful. I know it’s not a world curriculum, but the way the subjects are addressed is in a way that the prejudice arises out of the American spirit and not that it was the remnants of the old ways of thinking.I wonder what the authors would say if they found out about all the dark brown American slave owners… instead of going with what actually happened and looking at sources, they go with the hearsay narratives that have been going more and more “America bad” for the last 50 years.