The core of our History studies are the Classical Conversations History Memory Work sentences! The CDs for each cycle have a catchy song for each sentence and we enjoy listening to the songs in the car.

If we want to learn more about the people, places and events in our Memory Work, we read books about the topics! Usborne books are our favorites but we also enjoy the If You Were history series. CC's Timeline cards are fun too and provide more information to read.

I bought History for Little Pilgrims at my first ever Homeschool Convention. It is for Preschool to K-1st grade and is a excellent overview of the main history events from a Biblical perspective. We read through this last summer and both girls really enjoyed it. There is a coloring book as well.

This is something I added in for our history studies just this year. Little Bug LOVES history. She loves stories so she naturally loves history. While Story of the World is not biblically based, the storyteller is Jim Weiss who we absolutely adore. We have many of his story CDs and he is an incredible story teller. When I saw that he narrates Story of the World I had to buy Volume 2 of SOTW to see if Little Bug would enjoy listening to the stories.

Just about every day at lunch, I turn on SOTW and the girls listen to 1-2 stories while they each their lunch. I love that the stories are just about 5-7ish minutes long, which is perfect for the ages of my children.

I LOVE watching them eat their lunch and enjoying their story and lighting up when they hear familiar words from their History Memory Work! Almost every single day they will say, "Mommy! That was in our history sentence!" and then they will sing the sentence!

At the ages of my girls' now (7 & 5) I am doing nothing more than History Sentences and SOTW, but when they get a little older and we really start to study and learn history, I feel like it will be easier for them because they will have already heard these stories through their Memory Work and these CDs...and then hopefully the history timeline and how all the events relate to each other will just come together for them.

- Elaine