Maybe you're just starting to figure out how you want to incorporate a second or third culture and language into your homeschool (Chinese) or maybe you're just curious and want to learn more or maybe you just want to do one or two books about Chinese history. Adding another strand of history, geography, language, and culture can be quite intimidating! It's up to you how much you want to do. Each family is different.
If you want to do just a little, I'd recommend starting with Storybook of China. This gives a good overall history of China for the elementary grades in 44 chapters (each chapter is a page so it's great for short lessons). There's also a History of China for older kids if you have older students. I've done 10 biographies so you could always choose one to read aloud or have your student read it on their own. Biographies are a great way to learn about people and history together.
If you want to do perhaps a bit more, you could do Storybook of China (for primary grades) and/or History of China (for older kids), a biography, and then add a geography book (either a general geography book like Where's the Yangtze? or Where's the Yellow River? or a more specific region like Shaanxi Geography, Stories from Xi'an, Sichuan Geography, A Story About Pu'er Tea Delivery, or Beijing- all of which describe geography through stories). If you live in Asia or have lived in Asia, you might do part of Birds of Asia for Kids or Animals of Asia for Kids, which describe 36 birds and 24 animals through stories about them.
If you want to regularly do Chinese history, language, culture, and geography as part of your homeschool long term, there's a page on this blog that goes through each time period or each grade level and what might be suitable (or at least have some ideas!).
In the end, it's up to you and your family. All of the books I mentioned are available on www.lulu.com or www.amazon.com.
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