Today, I have 12 pick up and go homeschool kindergarten history curriculum. Also, grab my other tips, ideas, and crafts for kindergarten on my page Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum.
Teaching history to a young child can be daunting.
And sometimes we may not have a handle on what is and isn’t important to teach in kindergarten.
Additionally, you want to understand what pick up and go means. It can mean different things for each person.
For me it means the resource gives me in a capsule the important parts to teach.
Day-to-day lesson plans are what some families thinks of pick up and go.
With the resources I’ve listed, you’ll have a chance at both of those approaches along with others.
First, you need to determine what is the best way for you to teach history to your kindergartner.
For example, kids this age do best by hands-on learning.
That lesson was a hard one for me to learn because I felt comfortable with worksheets.
3 Ways to Make Homeschool Kindergarten History Relatable
And was comfortable thinking that completing a worksheet equated with understanding. It does not as I learned.
Worksheets do not teach anything, but they can guide you as the educator.
For instance, worksheets can condense important parts into smaller parts, and you can use them to construct a lesson plan for the day.
Or you can use the worksheet question and answers to summarize important points from the curriculum.
However, beyond choosing homeschool kindergarten history curriculum it’s more important to make history relatable to your child.
Look at these 3 ways to make history relatable to your young child.
1. Use a story telling method.
Because young kids don’t really have a significant grasp of time like the past other than the day they were born, a story is a fun and relatable way to bring history to life.
For example, Story of the World uses a reader to tell the story.
The rest of the work in the activity guides can be saved for next year when a child can write.
However, the activities can guide you how to flesh out the topic.
Too, living books are some of the best stories.
The Geronimo Stilton series of books is about a scaredy mouse Geronimo who goes on many adventures through history.
He’s a timid single guy afraid of new adventures yet finds himself reluctantly traveling the globe with his friends and family solving mysteries and completing research for his next big story.
They bring history to life without too many details which can be distracting to young learners.
2. Do Hands-on Activities.
This next point is hard for new parents to accept. It was for me.
I didn’t have enough experience to know that hands-on activities makes learning stick.
True I was quite judgmental thinking crafts was fluff learning.
But when you know better you do better. My kids showed me the way.
When we did hands-on activities, points in history stuck.
Also, we would do coloring, lapbooks, and use these hands-on lap packs.
Next, is one of the most important ways although I didn’t fully appreciate it in the beginning.
3. Through play learning.
Play is how children use their imagination to connect information.
Simply, children are learning about the world around them when they engage in play.
Use a diorama like Rocky Mountains Oregon Trail Fun Large Diorama Craft for Kids to teach kids about the early pioneers, learn about Daniel Boone through creating an edible cabin, and learn the difference between myth and true happenings by making the lost city of Atlantis diorama.
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Finally, look at some resources for teaching kindergarten homeschool history.
12 Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum
12 History Curriculum for Kindergarten
You can get as much help as you need or as little with these resources. Sometimes we want lesson plans laid out and other times we want just a framework.
Available in paperback, this four-volume narrative world history tells the story of the entire globe, from the earliest nomadic humans all the way to the Persian Gulf war at the end of the twentieth century. It now includes the Revised Edition of Volume 4. Told in an entertaining, engaging style, The Story of the World uses the stories of women and men, countries and empires, rebels and rulers, peasants and presidents, to walk young readers through a continuous, chronological account of human events.
This is America! And this is its glowing, epic story, from the days of the Viking expeditions to the birth of the Atomic age. Here are the explorers, the Indians, the settlers and fur trappers, the soldiers, the statesmen, the men and women who have shaped our country and its destiny. It is a continuous take of adventure, of wars, of industry and invention, of hardship and growth; it is an unparalleled tale of courage, high ideals, hard work--and a precious thing called Freedom.
Sure to ignite curiosity about our nation's history, this Early American History Through Literature study will take you and your K-3 homeschooling students through the first Indigenous people of the Americas, the Vikings discovery of America, the exploration, colonization, settlement, and establishment of the United States
A simple and fun introduction to American history.
Each Lap-Pak contains projects on a topic for one complete lap book, as well as a text booklet, making this a complete topic study.
Bring history alive as students explore the fascinating past by making the interactive projects in History Pockets. Students store the projects in easy-to-make construction paper pockets
that are wonderful portfolios for assessment and display!
What's Inside History Pockets-Native Americans, Grades 1–3, contains nine memorable discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of the tribes in North America that are featured. The other pockets focus on food, clothing, shelter, and family life of eight Native American tribes.
Explore short biographies of historical figures so you can read aloud or if your child is already a fluent reader, he will short these engaging storeis about people and events.
On April 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase Agreement between France and the United States was formally signed. President Thomas Jefferson paid the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte approximately 18 cents per square mile for a vast wilderness territory (more than 825,000 square miles) stretching from New Orleans to the Canadian border and west from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The Purchase effectively doubled the size of the young United States.
Supplement your social studies curriculum with 180 days of daily practice! This essential classroom resource provides teachers with weekly social studies units that build students' content-area iteracy, and are easy to incorporate into the classroom. Students will analyze primary sources, answer text-dependent questions, and improve their grade-level social studies knowledge.
This is a unique kindergarten social studies course, introducing you to family and culture, what it is to be a good citizen, basic geography, and basic economics.
History Quest Study Guide contains everything you need for a full year’s history curriculum for elementary-age children. Each weekly unit takes a chapter of History Quest: Early Times, the narrative history series, and turns it into a robust unit study with a week’s worth of engaging activities. Your student will gain a broad and deep understanding of early civilizations through readings, geography activities, discussions, writing assignments, coloring pages, crafts, and more. Also included throughout the curriculum are four weeks of warm and cozy ancient literature study, where parents and students snuggle up together to enjoy time-honored tales from four ancient civilizations across the world.
