America the Beautiful

Being a mom of six children, this curriculum was great for our family. My 6th grade son and 8th grade daughter were able to complete their history lessons without me! My daughter chose to use the lesson review book and my son used the activity book that had crosswords and more fun activities. They both enjoyed the map book. I really liked the integration of scripture and good literature books with the history. It instilled a love of learning in both of them and a love history. It was the first subject they both wanted to do each day. It also encouraged so many great conversations! We look forward to more of your great history books this year!

Love this history. Each day you discuss a different aspect from people to nature to geography. Written very well and very easy to use.

We used America the Beautiful in 6th grade. My daughter, who was burnt out on other history curricula, absolutely loved it. I think she really liked the writing style and the explanations of things that were actually interesting to her. It's very well put-together and the supplemental material goes more in-depth.

Oh, how I wish I had found this when I first started home schooling!

We used it for three children and it was great. The older children did the lessons and the first grader listened to the chapter and colored. The family projects were fun to do together.

I thought there is everything for someone to learn. Interesting to learn from this product.
Marilyn

Notgrass is a very good and complete history curriculum. With maps and timelines and readings from historical figures and documents, there is much information here. I also really like the literature suggestions that tie in with the historical time periods. And I love that it's from a Christian worldview.

Beautiful and fascinating coverage of history, American landmarks and lifestyles. Bright, quality photos. The workbooks and supplemental textbooks (We the People) are fantastic. The lesson activities incorporate vocab, creative writing and Bible. Love it!

We tried Notgrass America The Beautiful with my 8th Grade son. It was wonderful! He knew exactly what the expectations were each week and I sometimes actually caught him reading ahead because he enjoyed the history lessons so much! We used the workbook and quiz book along with the actual texts. I was able to ensure that he understood and more importantly retained the lessons as they were presented in such an interesting way. Notgrass was responsible for MANY dinnertime discussions about American History led by my son wanting to share what he had learned. I highly recommend this curriculum!!

We really enjoyed this curriculum. I could do this with both my boys at the same time which made it very nice. I even learned some things along the way! The books are easy to use. It doesn't feel like you are reading a textbook.

My 5th grade daughter used this largely independently. I really like the writing style and the varied activities at the end of each chapter. She did all mapwork (which she enjoyed), timeline, most of the vocabulary work and sometimes the bible and extra activities. She is not a history buff as I am, but she overall liked the curriculum. I plan to keep this and re-use it with her in a few years when she is more mature and add in the student review workbook. There is a lot of material to cover in one year and sometimes I wish more time was spent on a topic, but that is something I could easily remedy.

I used this curriculum for 3 of my 5 children grades 3rd, 5th, and 7th. I did the reading out loud with all of them and then together we did the maps (which my kids LOVE) and the timeline. My 7th grader then would complete the literature and review work alone. It was a perfect fit for our family and my husband and I would "fight" over whose turn it was to teach history because we both enjoyed it so much!!!
Warning: this curriculum did cause my children to want to visit every spot that was talked about and now have a goal to go to all 50 states! We did take a big family trip up through several states and visited several of the locations that were talked about in the books. These are also great books to take with you on road trips we've found! We stopped in at Mammoth Caves because of a lesson and otherwise would have missed it completely, so glad we were able to go!
Great curriculum, can't say enough wonderful things about it! History is fun and my kids are begging to do 2 lessons every day (that has NEVER happened with history curriculum before!)

For the first time ever I enjoyed history. It kept both of our interest so much we decided to take two years to complete.

We loved Notgrass America the Beautiful, beautiful pictures, not boring, even though a textbook, no boring facts, but conversational talk. The projects were a lot of fun. The literature was great. You felt as if you were on field trips across our great country. I would recommend this to all homeschoolers. It is the BEST history curriculum we have used.