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Maryan
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Posted: April 26 2012 at 6:23pm \| IP Logged

I'm doing my planning for next year (American History) and I just wanted to share that I ordered three of Homeschool in the Wood's Time Traveler's CDs... and I'm really enjoying exploring them! The CD is *packed* with many individual files, so it is a little time consuming to explore it all, but very organized. Their 7 CDs span the Explorers to World War II. They list the recommended age as 3rd - 8th grade, but my younger kids will listen in and join in on the coloring and projects as they are able.

Jessica from Shower of Roses had posted that she was using them for her school year and posted beautiful pictures of projects they had done using it. I was planning on using Evan Moor history pockets until I saw her post.

Time Travelers has sample pages on the website so you can see several samples. Each time period has samples of their notebooking, project, lesson plans, intro pages, etc. There's lots of notebooking, projects, "text lessons," timeline and timeline figures included right in the disk. It's $30, but you can print for everyone in the family.

This year I had compiled my own notebooks from various sources for the Middle Ages from Jen's notebook recommendations and while they were worth the effort and kept us on track, it was TIME CONSUMING. So to have quite a bit of the compiling and organizing alread done is $30 for 5 weeks of money well spent!

There's a lot of printing involved, so if you don't have a great printer (love my laser!!) this may not be the resource for you.

Homeschool in the Woods gives a 5 week lesson plan suggestion (which is packed!!), but you could pick and choose and do less... or stretch it out for longer than five weeks. They also have a list of books and videos to complement their series.

I'm planning on making notebooks for each time period (using Jen's notebook proclick recommendation) and have their narrations for the various level books in these notebooks. Then we'll keep the lapbook materials in a ziplock bag (their suggestion) and create those separately. They also provide a timeline and figures... and I think I'll make a notebook separate for that for the entire span of American History? Not sure. I think the smaller amount of timeline figures will fit our schedule!

For visual people, this is very visual!!

I have not preread all of the text yet, so do not know if there are "text lessons" that we may skip from a protestant view point, but nothing jumped out at me.

RC History, Emmanuel books and Jessica have a lot of book suggestions for adding Catholic sources, and we're going to use the new Catholic textbook series as our spine.

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