This week, we started our journey through the Mystery of History and I love it.
You start the lesson with a short (one and a half page) reading and then move into hands-on projects. This homeschool history curriculum is easily adjustable to multiple ages as the projects are directed toward different age groups ranging from young children through middle school… maybe even younger high school.
My children love to color and create pictures from blank paper. No coloring books required. So, when I told them we were creating our own books to detail creation, I was instantly Super Mom.
Even better was the next day when I pulled out the play dough…
Making history come alive to kinesthetic (hands-on) learners can be difficult, but Mystery of History tries to make it easy. Creating our own animals and giving them names was quite fun. The names we created I do not even know how to spell.
One of the fabulous features of Mystery of History is the timeline you create… and next week I will be sharing that with you.
That sounds like such fun! Great ways to learn history there.
Can’t wait for the next post! I’m obsessed with finding a good timeline and am considering the Big Book Timeline but I want to do Mystery of History in a couple years…not sure if the Big Book will be necessary.
We’re debating about doing Mystery of History or Story of the World, or possibly a hybrid of both, for next year (2nd grade). I’ll definitely be interested what you think about Mystery of History! Specifically, I really don’t want to spend a long time prepping the lessons, since my now 1st grader is the oldest of three, and I just don’t have time for that! Thanks for posting your experiences with your curriculum choices, I love it!
We just started this curriculum too. We have only done the first lesson, but when a newly 9 year old, a 5 year old and even a new 3 year old will sit and listen through the introduction and lesson quietly while obviously listening I know that we have hit on a curriculum that we will stick to. After we read those together as a family(Dad was home too due to a heavy snow day) we discussed what we had read. Even the notoriously obstinate 5 year old had a few interesting questions that showed that she had actively listened. Which is not normal for her.
How are you going to do your timeline? That is something that I am trying to figure out. I love them up on the wall and I do have some bare wall space, but is it better to have it in notebook form in order for it to be able to be transported?
I hope that your family continues to enjoy Mystery of History.
I have another question for you. I saw that you were using or were going to use Answers in Genesis for history. Why did you switch to Mystery of History?