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[quote=Anonymous]Here is History/Social Science

APS teaches Ancient and Medieval History in 5th which is a great topic with lots of resources.  If I was in your shoes, I'd probably do that.  We aren't doing that because we did it this year with 4th, 6th and 7th.

All my 4th and 6th graders did last year for history was read and listen to read alouds or audiobooks.  Like the other poster, we used the [u][b]Story of the World[/b][/u] volumes 1 and 2. Story of the World has a tiny bit of Christianity at the beginning of volume 1, but it's a small enough portion that you can just talk about it.  There is a book you can buy that goes with SOTW that has maps to color, and suggestions for activities, and lists of novels that go along.  We didn't buy it but it gets good reviews.

Here's the link for Story of the World

https://welltrainedmind.com/c/history-geography/story-of-the-world/volume-1-ancient-times/?v=7516fd43adaa

As supplements, we also really liked the Horrible Histories books, and a series called the Story of Science by Joy Hakim.  We read those in sequence that matched SOTW, so we'd read a chapter, and then check and see if there were titles or chapters that matched.  We also did mythology from around the world for reading, and tried to make that align as well.  We also read the first part of the Bible, and talked about it as mythology.  Horrible Histories and Story of Science are secular.  The mythologies aren't, but we didn't teach them as fact.  We taught them as stories that some people believe, other than the Bible where we had some conversations that were kind of confusing to my 4th grader.

Anyway, what we're actually doing this year is Early American History, because we already did Ancient/Medieval, and because it's what the 8th graders do in the public schools here, and not taught again in high school I wanted my 8th grader to do it.  Again, I'm not up for 3 curricula, so if my 8th grader is doing it, my two younger kids can do it too.

We're going to use [b]Build Your Library 5[/b] for both History and Literature.

https://buildyourlibrary.com/purchase-level-5-curriculum/

I really like the way that the literature aligns with the history, and I like the diversity of voices in the reading lists.  It's pretty inexpensive, so I'm comfortable buying it and only using History and Literature.  The curriculum is, at its heart,  lists of books to read and prompts for talking and writing about them.  They divide the books into History, Literature, and Reading.  We'll probably do the history and literature as read alouds with all 3 kids, and then my 5th grader will read the reading books, while I substitute harder books from the same time periods for my older two.  I'm also going to have my 8th grader read a text book, but not my two younger ones.

If neither of those approaches work for you, I'd also look at[b] Oak Meadow History/English 5[/b], which is also American History.  I looked at it but I liked the Build Your Library reading lists better.  Oak Meadow would be more "open and go" though.

https://www.oakmeadowbookstore.com/K-8-Curriculum/Fifth-Grade/U-S-History-English-5.html

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