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in Charlotte Mason· Language Arts· Literature· Living books· Unit study resources

Beautiful Feet History of the Horse

Do you have a horse crazy kid at home? Want to be able to fuel this love AND make it part of your homeschooling? Then you must check out Beautiful Feet’s History of the Horse!

Beautiful Feet Books History of the Horse is a Christian, living books based unit study for grades 3-7 with  tons of great literature & activities for your horse lover! A review from The Curriculum Choice

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Beautiful Feet History of the Horse

sketching horse Black Beauty

The History of the Horse is a Christian, living books based unit study published by Beautiful Feet (BF) Books.  I bought History of the Horse for my fourth grade daughter, and I am so pleased with my choice! It was a huge hit with her! She mostly loved the great stories and the drawing assignments integrated into the lessons. I felt it was a great curriculum for introducing her to more independent learning and research skills.

The term “history” in the title is a bit misleading. The teaching guide does order the books in chronological order, and there is information about horse breeds and the history of them. However, BF History of the Horse is not truly a history program. Since the bulk of the work is reading novels, answering questions, notebooking, sketching, researching, and writing reports, I consider this better classified as a language arts program.

sketching horse
Sketching Horses

The course is organized into 91 lessons. The guide recommends the student cover  three to five lessons each week. However, I found that the assignments for one lesson were actually quite short. So I generally assigned my daughter two lessons each day. Doing eight lessons per week, we completed the program in about four months.

Each lesson includes a reading assignment and an activity related to it. The activity may be sketching a horse, answering some comprehension questions, researching something that was mentioned in the reading, writing a report on a famous person or event, copying a Bible memory verse, or mapping the location of the novel.  Usually all of the assignments are put into a History of the Horse notebook.

You do need to know that History of the Horse is a very Christian program. Besides the Bible memory verses and copywork, many of the discussion questions are written from a Christian perspective.

Books Used with History of the Horse

Beautiful Feet Books History of the Horse is a Christian, living books based unit study for grades 3-7 with  tons of great literature & activities for your horse lover! A review from The Curriculum Choice

The core of the program is a set of horse novels written by Marguerite Henry:

  • King of the Wind
  • White Stallion of Lipizza
  • Justin Morgan Had a Horse
  • Misty of Chincoteague 
  • Brighty of the Grand Canyon
  • Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West

In addition, there are Black Beauty and Black Stallion as well as three non-fiction books:

  • Album of Horses
  • Smithsonian Handbooks: Horses a DK book by Elwyn H. Edwards
  • How to Draw 50 Horses by Lee J. Ames

There is also a set of regular playing cards that feature images of various horse breeds. The idea is that as you play other card games, you will learn some of the names of horses and be able to identify them by sight.

Beautiful Feet Books History of the Horse is a Christian, living books based unit study for grades 3-7 with  tons of great literature & activities for your horse lover! A review from The Curriculum Choice

Beautiful Feet recommends this unit study for 3rd through 7th grades, but actually most of the books are written at a 5th grade level. If your child is reading comfortably at that level, she could easily do the reading assignments independently. That’s how we chose to use this unit study, and it was a first for my fourth grader to read alone in her room and do her assignments by herself.

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More Images of History of a Horse In Action

Beautiful Feet History of the Horse - Horses Flickr

Be sure to check out my Flickr Set where you can see more images of my daughter’s History of the Horse notebook in action!

More Beautiful Feet Reviews Here at TCC

  • Teaching History Through Literature with Beautiful Feet Books
  • Beautiful Feet History of Classical Music Curriculum
  • A Literature Approach to Modern US and World Hist
  • Literature Based Ancient History for Junior High

Originally posted June 2009, written by Jimmie, Charlotte Mason flavored mom of one.

Jimmie (18 Posts)

Jimmie is mom to one creative teen. Jimmie's Collage is where she blogs about their Charlotte Mason styled homeschool. Her second blog, The Notebooking Fairy, features free notebooking printables and how-tos plus the eBook Notebooking Success.


Filed Under: Charlotte Mason, Language Arts, Literature, Living books, Unit study resources Tagged With: beautiful feet, history of the horse, Language Arts, unit study, updated by Heidi C, Written by Jimmie

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  1. Monica says

    July 28, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing the review and your pictures of your study. My daughter was so excited to see them and is even more excited to begin her horse study with BF!

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  2. Jennifer says

    February 24, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    Hello. I purchased BFB History of the Horse and have yet to use. I didn’t think it could replace our history studies which already included read alouds. So I’ve been stumped when and how to incorporate into our homeschool life. I noticed you mentioned that it was better classified as a language arts program. Did you take a break from the usual language arts program you were using and replace with this unit study? I would love any suggestions you could give. Thank you!

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