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I attended a public school until becoming a homeschooler during my high school years, and history was one of my least favorite subjects. It was dry, boring, and full of facts I had to memorize just long enough to be tested. I was a *good student* when it came to testing, but I can tell you that I walked away without remembering any of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These days, as a homeschooling mama, history has become one of my FAVORITE subjects! Why the change? It’s because we are approaching history in a completly different way. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Story of the World<\/a> is one of the few curriculums I use for my children. We have been hooked from Volume 1, and when we complete the last book I plan to start again at the beginning. In our home, we have one big “History Day” each week where we dive deep into whatever we learn that day. I will read the chapter aloud<\/a> while my children work on the corresponding coloring page. We then complete the map work together. Both the coloring sheets and maps are included in the activity book<\/a>. These books are also packed with ideas for crafts, games, recipes and other activities that relate to each week’s topic. *Volume 4 does not have coloring pages included with the activity book, they can be purchased as a supplement from this website<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After we\u2019re finished with the day\u2019s passage, my older children complete a written summary of something they’ve learned from that week’s lesson. Some of my children do best first speaking their thoughts using a voice to text feature in a note taking app. They then copy that by hand onto their paper. Over the years these pages have formed a wonderful collection of things each child has learned. <\/p>\n\n\n

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