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Galloping the Globe for 2nd & 4th graders


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Can you please let me know about this program? What you like, dislike. How it is formatted and how you put it in practice. We have the ultimate geography timeline book (wow, I know I butchered that title) but as I was looking through that I was totally overwhelmed at what I felt the teacher prep would be...deciding what to cover, what activities to choose and so forth.

 

I have been hearing good things about Galloping the Globe and wanted to know if it was set up similarly or if it was more straight forward.

 

We are currently using SOTW for history and have been very pleased (2nd grader will be finishing up SOTW I and 4th grader will be starting SOTW III)

 

thanks!

Angela

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I used this with my son in K and he loved it. We basically used the GTG book lists and read as many nonfiction and literature selections that we had time for about each country.

 

There are coloring pages for the country flag and a picture of the country that you label with the capitol. There is usually a wordfind worksheet or something like that. For older students, there are forms in the back so that they can do a country report, animal report or biography report.

 

Each week, we also did one hands-on activity for each country. There are lots of ideas recommended in the GTG book. I think they have a cookbook you can buy now as well. For Japan, we ate a Japanese meal at a low table and used chopsticks, sat on cushions and we all wore our bathrobes. My kids still talk about that and it was 3 years ago now. I usually allocated 1 - 2 weeks per country, depending on how much information was available.

 

As far as the recommended resources, I did not care for most of them. We really enjoyed Children Around the World and if I was doing it now, I would get the cookbook.

 

Lisa

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I can't really compare GTG to SOTW because I've never seen SOTW AGs.

 

We are using GTG as a light supplement and summer study (2nd grader).

 

I *do* love the recommended resources, though I'm reserving judgment on Missionary Stories with the Millers. I am very happy about the "Our Father's World" social studies workbook from R&S. It's a very nice intro to the continents.

 

The picture books recommended have really pulled ds in, and I can't wait to dive into Children Just Like Me this week. (we are only on week 2).

 

GTG is set up like a unit study, with recommended resources and page numbers listed by topic (General, History, Science, Bible, etc). You schedule it all yourself.

 

I like that there are so many books and activities from which to choose, but this unit study type set-up would drive me batty if I needed to get through the book within a certain time frame. (I am a scheduled Instructor Guide lover, ala WinterPromise).

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