Homeschool With Tracey

Let me first say that you don’t have to supplement My Father’s World.  Their home school curriculum is definitely complete in itself.  However, this year I decided to add the Activity Books 1 & 2 from The Story of The World.  Activity Book 1, chapters 1-25, can go with My Father’s World - Creation To the Greeks; while Chapters 26-42, along with Story of The World, Activity Book 2, can go with Rome To The Reformation.

My Father’s World doesn’t use The Story of The World Book 1 (I’m not talking about the Activity Book), but they do use The Story of The World, Book 2 in their Rome To the Reformation package.  They also do not use the Activity Books from Story of The World (until later years…they use Activity Book 4 in their 1850 To Modern Times package) .  They feel that it isn’t necessary.  I suppose it really isn’t, we could definitely get along without them.  However, I like them, especially for my younger children. 

For instance, my 4th grader isn’t very good at the mapping that My Father’s World recommends.  It is a little over her head.  The maps in The Story of The World Activity Book are much easier (color Italy blue…things like that) for her.  There are some great coloring pages, too, that my 7^th grade daughter likes as well.

There are also additional activities, if you would like more choices in that area.  I haven’t used any of those yet.  I need to check those out more.

Now, the tricky part is that you need to match up the weeks in the Activity Book 1 with the weeks you are doing in Creation To The Greeks and Rome To The Reformation.  As I get further into this, I plan to type up a list of corresponding pages from SOTW (Story of The World) Activity Book 1 for the weeks in Creation to The Greeks and Rome to The Reformation.  I’ll definitely display those here.

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