TheModestMom Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Does anyone know if there is any sort of study guide that goes along with the Child's History of the World book? I want to read it out loud for history this coming year, but I'm not aware of any books that go along with it. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morosophe Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Well, Sonlight supplements it with Usborne as the basis for its Cores B and C... Or there's the Calvert School set. I think it all depends on what you want! I did Sonlight B this year, and had my son just do notebooking. Then again, he was in first grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheModestMom Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 Thank you! I will be using it for second grade so maybe just reading it out loud is enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I would have the child give a narration and maybe draw a picture for each reading session. Just me, though. The Calvert set is a wkbk full of partially filled in outlines and some (we thought) lame 'enrichment' activities for some of the chapters. Not worth the full price tag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Calvert offers a book of fill-in-the-blank outlines for each chapter. (We did this years ago, and while I liked it mostly, I did find a few were less-than-intuitive and required me to squint a bit at the chapter before I figured out what they were asking for...) The set also includes some simple puzzles (word searches, etc) and a few ideas for projects. I don't recall the projects being anything special. The poster-timeline that Calvert sells is nice too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheModestMom Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 I was really impressed when I looked at the samples of the Sonlight Teacher guide. Now I'm thinking of maybe just purchasing the teacher guide and using it. Has anyone done that? I'm not terribly familiar with Sonlight and I know I don't want to do the whole curriculum, but the history part looked so good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mert Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 :bigear: We have this and are thinking about using it next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeeBeaks Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Calvert offers a book of fill-in-the-blank outlines for each chapter. (We did this years ago, and while I liked it mostly, I did find a few were less-than-intuitive and required me to squint a bit at the chapter before I figured out what they were asking for...) The set also includes some simple puzzles (word searches, etc) and a few ideas for projects. I don't recall the projects being anything special. The poster-timeline that Calvert sells is nice too... We had this too, and I liked it. It is not nearly as good as the SOTW activity guides, but it does have some similarities in the activities part in the back. I had my son fill in the blanks for the outlines after we read and discussed together as reinforcement. He looked the answers up in the chapter to get the visual learning component as well as the auditory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyR Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Love Child's History of the World. Its my favorite history book. Reading it out loud is enough. We never really did use the Activity book that went along with it. We did do some lapbooking , such as when we read about Egypt, we made an Egyptian lapbook. That was actually more fun and my girls got more out of it. I don't recommend the Activity book that goes along with it for a 2nd grader though. Its really geared towards children in 4th grade and above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meet me in paris Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 We used Sonlight for many years, and the teacher guides are fine, but there will be MANY more books scheduled in the guide, so if you're looking for something that's just for CHOW you could find a cheaper option. SL IG's are expensive, and really only worth the money if you want the guides for each individual book that are included, and the full schedule for readers & read alouds along with the history books. History Odyssey Level 1 uses CHOW as their alternate spine (we switched to HO Ancients after starting SL Core 1 and not liking it - we liked HO much better for that age). It follows the 4-year history cycle, though, so you won't be covering the whole book in one year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwahomeschoolmom Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 This is an old question, but yes, there is a study guide / workbook available that I published recently: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1111024438/a-workbook-and-study-guide-to-a-childs . I used the book and workbook twice with my son, about 2.5 years apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Zombie thread!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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