Facebook Twitter Pinterest I was never much of a fan of history back in my own school days. As a matter of fact, I’m not sure ANY world history was taught to me in my whole kindergarten through twelfth-grade experience! Some Canadian history (yawn!) was covered of course, but the Roman Empire? The War of […]
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This post contains some affiliate links through which I can earn commission. My middle kiddo LOVED the Magic Tree House books, and they're a great way to get kids interested in history. I decided to see how much it was possible to line up the Magic Tree House Stories to Story of the World. I knew it wouldn't be possible to have everything line up because Magic Tree House books don't go in chronological order, and they do have story arcs (sub-series within the greater series) that go together and are nice to read in order. I came up with several schedules to align with Volumes 1 and 2 of SOTW. For Volume 1 I made one schedule including ALL the books, excluding the Merlin Missions (though 13 of the books you would read after finishing that SOTW volume, and only one of those left aligned with Volume II). I did another schedule that just included the story arcs that had books which directly related to SOTW. I did the same for Volume II, but didn't try to fit in all the books that time, and also did a separate schedule for Merlin Missions since more of those books related to that time period. You can find the printable schedules at the links below.... (you can only access these by computer, not via most phones). Magic Tree House Reading Schedules For SOTW Vol 1 For SOTW Vol 2 More Story of the World Resources More Magic Treehouse Resources at Living, Loving, and Learning as We Go Prefer Imagination Station? Laura McKinney Adams has a SOTW Alignment Guide Shared on Dear Homeschooler Bookshelf, Throwback Thursday, and Various Other Link-ups
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Free Printable History Timeline for your homeschool 146 PDF pages. Cover choices for girls and boys. Free download
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Post contain some affiliate links, though which I can earn commission. This is part of a series where I share about our Story of the World lessons. Even if you don't use SOTW, I think you'll enjoy the ancient history activities shared (especially if you are studying the Stone Age or Pre-history). Since my son has a short attention span we did each sub-chapter of Story of the World on a separate day, and sometimes even broke that up into small parts. I decided to break up "The Earliest People - The First Nomads" into two parts, then did a special activity on the third day. We used Stone Age People, a book we found at our library, to supply the pictures Story of the World was lacking. Stone Age People is part of the Make It Work Series, which has a lot of crafts and projects kids can do related to the time period, as well as a lot of great historical information. We mainly used it for the pictures, but might do some of the crafts later. It does have info about human evolution in a few of the beginning pages. If that's something you want to skip, it's easy to when using the book piecemeal as a backdrop for the Story of the World reading, as we did. DAY 1 On the first day, we read the first four paragraphs of the section "The First Nomads" in Story of the World. We were doing this as part of "play school" today (I teach a lot of my lessons pretending to be a dinosaur teacher, and my son pretending to be a number of toy students in a pint size classroom...it works for us). So some of the other toy "students" answered the questions along with my son. My son said that he slept in the same place every night, but his toy "Lion" slept in a different place every night...we even talked about why that might be (ie, because lions needed to follow the prey). That made a great segue to paragraph two. At paragraph three I pulled out Stone Age People and turned to the page where they have a scene with hunter gatherers that made a perfect illustration for what we were reading. As we read the paragraph I asked him to find some of the things it talked about, like people gathering berries and hunting. Then we turned to the next page, where they had pictures of various types of homes and shelters, and I asked him which ones you could take with you or set up quickly if you were traveling around, which ones you could build a fire in, and which ones would be nicer when it was cold vs. when it was hot. Then I read the last paragraph and we looked at the cave pictures later on in Stone Age People (pg 36 - 37). Later we read The First Dog by Jan Brett, a beautifully illustrated story about a boy and a wolf who befriended him, and became the first dog. Day 2 On the second day we read the story of Tarak and her brother in Story of the World , looking again at page 16 - 17 of Stone Age People. Also, the older version of Story of the World actually had a nice illustration of Tarak catching lizards, one of the few illustrations I think is better in the older, un-revised version. Afterwords we started a book about Tarak and her family using a cave printable I made (free to download). You can see she made handprints on the cave wall, like some of the cave art we had looked at, and in this story Tarak had a wolf like the story of the The First Dog (and the wolf had a pup in his version). The green thing to the left of Tarak is one of the lizards she caught. EXTRA ACTIVITY - ROCK ART We didn't do this while studying this chapter, but later we did a rock art activity when we were learning about the prehistoric artwork in the Lascaux caves, and it's something that would fit in nicely here. To pique interest you can watch a short video about these caves here, or take a 365 degree virtual tour here (on the Lascaux FB page another cool but shorter interactive Pano). I also suggest googling pictographs in your local area or state, and sharing any pictures you find with your kids. You might even find a site you can visit. First, I collected rocks to paint on. Because of time we just used regular paint...but I tried to match the colors to those used in the Lascaux cave, and we talked about why they used those colors and what materials they would have made their colors with. You can also make your own paint using minerals or gathered material, which would be really fun. For older kids, this article has more about prehistoric paints, and they have some links toward the bottom to paint-making activities that look more at the chemistry of making paints. Here's our rock art. Our son really enjoyed this. DAY 3 - Hunter Gatherer Hike For our activity we decided to do a "hunter gatherer" trek on a nearby hiking trail. I invited another homeschooling family to come along, and discovered that they were doing Story of the World too! I made some really simple toy bows and arrows and spears. SERIOUSLY SIMPLE. Those are branches from our tree and some weed stalks (we have some really vigorous roadside weeds here in Texas...I suggest wild goldenrod if it lives near you). The string is just brown yarn, and the tips are cardboard. The bows actually sort of worked (they could shoot the "arrows" a few feet...not fast enough to hurt anyone, but far enough to be "cool." I attached the tips of the spears by splitting the top of the branches and inserting the cardboard ...then binding yarn around to make it tighter. If I had thought better I would have cut a "shaft" on the tips and wrapped the yarn around that. They might have stayed on longer that way....but they worked well enough. The kids were happy about their weapons. I've seen some other bow versions that may shoot a little better made from bamboo or PVC (And I love the idea of an eraser capped arrows). If you have older kids and want to try your hand at making a really realistic primitive arrow (with bone), there's a nice tutorial here. After making our arrows we headed for a nature trail. We didn't know beforehand that the trail had been decorated with funny scarecrows for Halloween, so we ad-libbed and wondered out-loud who had made these strange statues, and what they might mean. One of the kids found snails and we talked about how that would be great in our soup that night (No, we didn't really eat them...no wild escargot for us!). We stopped for a break of seeds and berries my friend had brought (um..."gathered earlier"), and then hiked down to a small stream. I had hoped to find animal prints near the muddy bank...we did find one dog print (um...I mean..."wolf" print), and lots of tiny fish we pretended to catch for supper. AND, my friend found an edible plant, purslane, which we tried, with mixed reactions (her daughter hated it so much she drank her whole water bottle to wash away the taste away...but I liked it. It sort of tastes like lettuce.). So, if you are trying this, it might be fun to see if your library has a book on common editable plants to familiarize yourself with beforehand (in case you don't have a friend with who just happens to know of some). Be careful...do your research well, but you should be safe with common, easily recognizable plants like dandelion (purslane actually has a poisonous doppelganger, spotter spurge, so make sure you study up on look alikes and know how to tell the difference before sampling). Also, you want to make sure to wash anything well before you eat it (you can rinse with a water bottle), and avoid collecting anything where pesticides or herbicides might have been sprayed (our purslane was found well off the beaten path so should have been safe from those). Overall the nomad hike was a great success! The kids enjoyed it and it really made what they had read come alive. RESOURSES/SUPPLIES WE USED: During Reading: Stone Age People (for illustrations) Supplemental Reading: The First Dog Rock Painting Activity: Lascaux Cave video Virtual Tour Interactive Pano Rocks Paint (or gather things to make your own paint) Paintbrushes Cave Book Activity: Cave Book Printable Crayons A stapler Nomad Hike Activity: Straight Branches (and something to cut them with) Yarn or Twine Cardboard Water plus snacks for the hike (berries, dried fruit, nuts, jerky:things available in the stone age) MORE RESOURCES Stone Age Lapbook Free Cartoonish Caveman and Mammoth Graphics Stone Age Axe Out of Paper Mache More Activities to use with The First Dog LINKING UP AT Field Trip Friday Hip Homeschool Moms Dear Homeschooler Bookshelf Country Kids at Coombe Mill Homeschool Highlights Throwback Thursday Last Lesson :: Next Lesson See All Our Story of the World Posts
Sink or Float 2 Sorting WorksheetsThere are 2 sorts, with cut and paste tasks to determine whether your students think the objects will sink or float. This activity is suitable for kindergarten through second-grade students.There are 2 sorts to choose from. The images are real-life images and a pre...
Classical Conversations CC reading correlations for Cycle 1, Cycle 2, and Cycle 3. Matches up each subject and week with SOTW, MOH, and other resources.
See this box full of stuff? Its my current project. I've been trying to find something that has the correlation between the chapters in the Story of the World and the Classical Conversations History timeline cards. Can't find one. So... What do I do when I can't find what I want? I make it myself! I've been painstakingly working my way through the Ancients book and cross referencing them with the timeline cards. Its a process, let me tell ya! I'm up to chapter 22 so hopefully soon I'll be able to post a sheet for everyone to reference. We, curriculum-wise, are in the Middle Ages so I'm linking the two as we go through the book. The Ancients I'm having to go back through in my "spare time." UPDATED 7/16/13: Volume 1 - Ancient Times is done. Here is the link. UPDATED 8/21/13:Volume 2 - The Middle Ages is done. Here is the link.
The story of the tower of Babel explains how we have so many different languages around the world that did not evolve from one to another. It also explains God’s tender discipline as He interrupts the people’s plans to build the tower that represented their own pride and self-sufficiency. God didn’t strike the building with ... Read more
I am using Story of the World Volume 2 for grade 2, 4, 6, and 8. We will spend 1-2 years on it, exploring things that interest my boys in depth.
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When I think of the world that we live in and how many colors are all around, I am truly amazed. Rainbows, fish, butterflies, flowers...there are many colorful things in our world. So, when it comes to teaching colors to my little learners, what better way than to let them know that these colorful things come from God.
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This week I tried something new with the vocabulary in the story. I got the idea at a First Grade Conference in December. The student writes the vocabulary word in the middle of the sheet and then there are four things to do with the word. We completed two of the boxes together as a class and they finished the last two boxes independently. The kiddos sure had a great grasp of the vocabulary after this. When we read the story they had fantastic comprehension.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest I was never much of a fan of history back in my own school days. As a matter of fact, I’m not sure ANY world history was taught to me in my whole kindergarten through twelfth-grade experience! Some Canadian history (yawn!) was covered of course, but the Roman Empire? The War of […]
Spruce up your History notebooks with these printable notebooking pages for Story of the World Volume 3! Each notebooking page features the chapter title, section headlines, an illustration, lined space for writing narration, and a blank space for your child to draw.
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Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Listen. Tick the correct pictures. Colour the picures. Exercise 7 Match the sentences parts to tell the story. Write out the story in a paragraph. Copy the story in the exercise book. Exercise 8 Solve the crossword puzzle. (based on the phonemes 'ow' )
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Free Printable History Timeline for your homeschool 146 PDF pages. Cover choices for girls and boys. Free download
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Up, up and away! Miffy and her balloon is one of her most iconic images. The simple illustration and bold, bright colours of the poster make it a fun-filled addition to your child's bedroom wall. Or even on the wall of your own sitting room, perhaps? Dick Bruna's iconic Miffy illustrations are instantly recognisable across the world. The bold colours and simple lines have also made Miffy a bit of a design classic!The yellow background is joyful and fun, and the balloon itself is an image of childhood innocence and play. Miffy, of course, embodies all these qualities, so it's no wonder that this is one of our favourite Miffy prints! Printed in the UK, our mini posters are printed on 11" x 14" semi-matte 280gsm gallery grade paper, for the utmost quality of print. The size is ideal for the image, considering that when mounted and framed, it looks much larger than it is. Kids and adults alike delight in Bruna's relatable stories and beautiful drawings, and have done for over sixty years now. Here at the official Miffy Shop, we have everything you need to bring a little Miffy magic into your life, so why not pass on your love for Miffy to the next generation?
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How dreamy it must have been to be sit around the radio and listen to stories before bed time on a radio. I grew up during the 80's where I would watch nick at night before bed. My Grandma used to tell me stories about how she would sit and listen to the radio with her twin sister. I drew this picture of radios after listening to War of the Worlds on NPR. It got me thinking about what kind of radio I might have listened to if I grew up in that era. So these are the radios I might have liked to have. This is part of my collections series. I started this collection series because after moving into a tiny space I realized there are many things that I can't physically store in one spot, but I CAN hang them on my wall. :) I hope you enjoy this collection of radios. --- This is a reproduction of an original doodle by Ms. Jodi Lynn. This image is part of the "things" series. The original was done with pen + ink --- Image is printed on archival matte paper. Image is 8.5" x 11"
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The story of the tower of Babel explains how we have so many different languages around the world that did not evolve from one to another. It also explains God’s tender discipline as He interrupts the people’s plans to build the tower that represented their own pride and self-sufficiency. God didn’t strike the building with ... Read more