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This comprehensive, 8.5" x 11" curriculum guide and activity book contains map activities, coloring pages, games, projects, review questions, cross-references to illustrated encyclopedias, and extensive book lists. Children and parents love the activities, ranging from cooking projects to crafts, board games to science experiments, and puzzles to projects.Each Story of the World Activity Book provides a full year of history study when combined with the Textbook, Audiobook, and Tests each available separately to accompany each volume of The Story of the World Activity Book. Activity Book 1 Grade Recommendation: Grades 1-5.
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Susan Wise Bauer is a novelist and educator. With her mother, Jessie Wise, she co-authored The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home (Norton, 1999), a book which has rapidly become an educational standard. Susan teaches at The College of William & Mary in Virginia. She was home-educated herself; she and her husband Peter now teach their four children at home as well.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good ideas but they should have hired an artist,
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This review is from: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor (The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Vol. 1) (Paperback)
I really liked the "Story of the World" volume and eagerly ordered this activity book to go with it. There are good activity ideas in this volume but the coloring pages and other graphics could have been drawn by a 3 year old. For the price, which is more than I would have paid if I had seen it, I expected a quality product. I guess if you are using it for an older child and don't care about the graphics it is a good resource for someone who just wants quick ideas and doesn't want to research their own. However, I don't think the original volume "Story of the World" would be that great for an older child so you end up with activities for one age group and text for another. If I wouldn't be out shipping both ways I would return this book. I highly recommend that you view it somewhere before purchasing.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Next time hire a proofreader...,
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This review is from: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor (The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Vol. 1) (Paperback)
This book is full of spelling errors which makes me really wonder about the authors. I mean, they're telling us what to use and what to do to educate our children and they can't spell! The projects are nothing more than busy-work and half the time, if you follow the instructions word-for-word, the project does not come out correctly. About the only good thing in the book is the narration questions and the supplemental reading, but SOTW barely scratches the surface of history and if you do all the supplemental stuff and the activities there is absolutely no way you'll get through the book in the time that you're supposed to (one school year).All in all, save your money and go to the library. Look in the reference section or ask your librarian for both fiction and non-fiction books on whatever period of history you're doing and then read, read, read. The kids learn more by reading and discussing than by trying to mummify a chicken which does nothing more than stink up the house for weeks and the chicken does not end up mummified. I will NOT be buying any further volumes in the SOTW series (either the text or the Activity Books) and I very quickly sold my copies of both.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
I am returning the copy of this book I just bought,
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This review is from: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor (The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Vol. 1) (Paperback)
At first glance, this seems like a nice supplement to the book, Story of a World. However, the more I looked at the book and read through the pages and "projects" - the more I do not like it. Most of the projects are quite unrealistic for homeschoolers. Two weeks to mummify a chicken? Making a Greek ship out of ice cream? What do kids learn from these? I want my children to learn classical education at home - not try to create time-consuming projects that do not really teach them anything. Education takes a lifetime - Dr. Adler is right on that. I am going back to the time-tested classics of the Great Books - books that have been loved and used for centuries and not use a book like this.
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