As I was saying, on Amble Ramble ....

I have two daughters, one in Year 4 and one in Year 6. We have dabbled in Ambleside for years, but this is our first year of trying to do the 'whole thing' as it were.
We are just completing Term 1.
The major change I have made is with History - we have always done history together, and as a result, done lots of fun activities, and projects, connected with 'our period'. And that is what I'm missing.
I adapted Year 6 a bit, as being in the UK, I needed more time to do 20th Century, so basically we're doing the 1st World War era in term one, the Second World War era in Term 2, then back to the ancients in Term 3.

We finished last year with the English Civil War, so I had my older daughter read through the remainder of Our Island Story in the summer, so that she filled in some of the gaps.

So we have one currently doing WW1, and one doing George III and American Independence.
By a great stroke of good fortune, the American Museum in Britain had an exhibition about the Titanic, which was interesting for one, and at the same time, we could go and look at the exhibits around the time of the Declaration of Independence .. but that was just luck!

What I'm driving at is that I feel as if we are gaining less than we did in the days of our English Civil War Diaries (one was a Royalist and one was a Roundhead!) or our Roman bread and mosaic making ... but is it inevitable? Next year, older daughter, who is actually a year behind after a rotten start at school, will start HEO and her history will be Churchill's History of the English Speaking People, and I absolutely think that's the right way to go. In order to get younger daughter on the same period, I would have to go back to year 2, and she would miss so much, next year she will get to do the Victorians! How fabulous is that!

No, I've talked myself out of it. I'm going to have to soldier on with two eras at a time. Maybe I could think of themes .. we could look at housing, for example, or food ... and compare medieval with victorian?