The standard 1st grade curricula I've checked over have each started off with precolumbian or pre-European history. That's good - but they've only had two or so topics before they moved on to European explorers! Instead of jumping right over our hemisphere's heritage in that way, I'm planning on studying native cultures with Carbon all year.
We aren't following any particular order, and Carbon started off interested in pictographs. We read a couple picture books about petroglyphs and pictographs, and that led to a book about the ancient southwest cultures. Reading that book, Carbon thought it would be a fun project to make a model pueblo from "mud and stuff". Not being too keen on that idea, I ordered this paper model kit, published by Dover.
Next we will read about the Maya.
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