A homeschooler shows the history books she made for her kids, adding a pre-history unit the Curiosity Chronicles series skips. Each civilization gets timelines, maps, and hands-on materials like real papyrus with hieroglyphics, organized so kids repeatedly locate and connect each culture to its place.
Hi everyone, I wanted to give you a quick look through the civilization books that I made for our history journey. The first one is going to be prehistory, and this is what I used to kind of decide whether or not this Rhythm and Learning was going to work for us. The book is a little bit different than what the other ones are, and Curiosity Chronicles does not go through prehistory. They do touch on it, um, explaining the definition that it is everything that has happened before the invention of writing. So with that being said, Curiosity Chronicles starts at 3500 BCE, um, with the invention of cuneiform writing. I, however, wanted to do a unit on prehistory. We were going through history in a chronological order, so it made sense for us Um, so this is what it looks like so far, I should say completed. Now you did not see the Big Bang in here because we did cover that in science, so it is in our science book. And that was done using the Usborne Encyclopedia World History. I'm not going to go through the whole thing here, but I did just grab the pictures that made sense to us, not doing everything, but the big sections that I thought he would be most interested in. Okay, then we go to Ancient History Around the World, and this is getting them used to the idea of history and using a timeline. That would be the timeline of his life. Knowing where the 7 continents are. Mesopotamia. The rest are blank for future use. We have Ancient India. As you can see, I did start off drawing the lines for him. He did ask for me to stop, which was nice. The Nile River. And this was the hieroglyphics— that's actually his first and his last name— on real papyrus paper. And then more paper for future use. Again, we're actually just in China now, but we don't have anything in here yet. And the same for these, have not gotten to Greece yet, they're blank. And then Curiosity Chronicles ends at the fall of Rome. The timeline ends at 475 CE, and again, this one is blank. Now I chose to do it per civilization. Um, Curiosity Chronicles lapbooks do offer to separate them also by civilization, and their notebooking goes per chapter. It made more sense for me and for my son to split it up per civilization because once we do the Sense of Self Geography, um, he can then see where we're at—Europe and Greece—and it gives him an additional chance for recall and understanding. And then when I go and ask him to get his civilization book. He is then understanding the civilization is paired with a group of people, a location, and he can go and find the book that we are going to need for the unit that we use. And since I ask him to get the book throughout the whole time that we are doing on this specific location, it gives him multiple opportunities. Okay, you guys, I hope you enjoyed that.
