We also use SOTW. We tend to use it more as background and dig in on the internet and at the library. I do like it. It is not totally secular and has a slightly Christian bias. But I do like that it covers africa and asia a bit too. We use the workbook somewhat, but that would totally not be necessary. Especially if you do some map work on what parts of the world you're talking about. Even my 4 year old likes the stories and talks about them for a long time afterward. We're absolutely crawling on this curriculum - we'll have to push through to the end of the book! But DS is in the process of putting together a many many page visual report on ancient eygpt, so he's getting something out of it.
We also use current events and historical events locally to look at different pieces of social studies and (American/state) history.
I was also going to say, as a reference we have the Usborne encyclopedia of world history. This goes back to evolution and has a format my son really likes. Which is more in the DK book style - labeled diagrams, highly visual.
Last edited by kimck; 04/02/09 05:47 AM.
