Mystery of History?

[kittie313]

Does anyone have experience with this program? I have experience with SOTW and don't care *too* much for it as a stand-alone program, so I'm looking at other options as possibilities for next school year.

[elizawill]

*subbing*

i'm interested in reviews as well

[Momma Aimee]

anyone??

[mangopassion]

I don't have any experience with it, but here are some threads that might be helpful to you.

anyone know of alternatives to Story of the World?

Mystery of History vs Story of the World

pre-school or Kindy level Bible Time-line / history text?


First grade subjects and "do it yourself" curriculum

anyone use the mystery of history series?

ChristianHSers, What persp. do you use teaching Hist/Science?

HTH!

[AngelBee]

Just started using it and I love it! We are using it with SOTW. It has MUCH more Bible history included, which is exactly what I was looking for. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me

[Momma Aimee]

Originally Posted by AngelBee

Just started using it and I love it! We are using it with SOTW. It has MUCH more Bible history included, which is exactly what I was looking for. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me

AngelBee -- how are you doing them together? is it fairly easy to cover the same material in both -- or is it a lot of work seeking the connected parts? Do they both offer a good amount of unique data or are they fairly repeative?

Also Have you seen this book?

World History Made Simple: Matching History with the Bible by Ruth Beechick (Author)

and also:


Bible Timeline (Light) by Rachel Coupe (Author)

Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times by Ruth Beechick (Author), Michael Denman (Illustrator)

More Than Dates & Dead People: Recovering a Christian View of History by Stephen Mansfield

[MPsSweetie]

We are also considering this! It's a bit higher than I want to spend on one book right now, but maybe...
Is it something that I can read to the kids, like story book style? I want something I can read aloud that both kids can listen to, finish 4 years, then start again. My kids get so much more out of that than any other kind of learning!

[RidentMama]

We love it! DD1 (6yo) and DS (4yo) both enjoy starting the day with Mystery of History. Short read-aloud and a fun activity. I have the first SOTW Activity Book (which corresponds with the first Mystery of History book) and the SOTW Audiobook. Every now and then I can match up an activity from SOTW with what we read about in MOH (SOTW seems to have more interesting activities and has a pretty good selection of coloring pages) and very infrequently, I can use a chapter from SOTW to elaborate on a lesson from MOH (we've used it once for Gilgamesh and once for the Egyptians). If I had to pick between the two though, it's MOH hands-down.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by Momma Aimee

AngelBee -- how are you doing them together? is it fairly easy to cover the same material in both -- or is it a lot of work seeking the connected parts? Do they both offer a good amount of unique data or are they fairly repeative?

Also Have you seen this book?

World History Made Simple: Matching History with the Bible by Ruth Beechick (Author)

and also:


Bible Timeline (Light) by Rachel Coupe (Author)

Adam and His Kin: The Lost History of Their Lives and Times by Ruth Beechick (Author), Michael Denman (Illustrator)

More Than Dates & Dead People: Recovering a Christian View of History by Stephen Mansfield

I have Adam and His Kin. Be back and explain how I am doing/planning on doing it.

[Momma Aimee]

Originally Posted by angelbee

i have adam and his kin. be back and explain how i am doing/planning on doing it.

thanks

[NaturalFamiLEA]

We love MOH. It's the first subject Ariana wants to do every day. I love how it's geared to multiple levels. After reading the lesson (in story-book form) there is an activity geared to "younger," "middle, " or "older" students. If you do the 4-year rotation, you can use this multiple times (as we will!) and each age group can benefit. Highly recommended!

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by MPsSweetie

We are also considering this! It's a bit higher than I want to spend on one book right now, but maybe...
Is it something that I can read to the kids, like story book style? I want something I can read aloud that both kids can listen to, finish 4 years, then start again. My kids get so much more out of that than any other kind of learning!

I got MOH 1 used for 30.00. It is the readings and activity guide in one. You can repeat it ever 4 years. It has lower, middle and upper activities for each chapter that you can do. Plus extra resources in the back for each chapter.

It is written in a story book style. I read it out loud to all of my kids.

[AngelBee]

So I spent last night working on my combining MOH and SOTW.

I figured it out in a 36 week plan. Now I have to figure out the best way to type it all out. Right now it is chicken scratch.

I am also doing AO. So I have been making a plan that incorporates AO's reading and the history/science rotations.

Thinking....

[elizawill]

angelbee and others,

how long do you take for history and how many days a week do you do it? i'm just wondering how time-intensive MOH is. TIA.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by elizawill

angelbee and others,

how long do you take for history and how many days a week do you do it? i'm just wondering how time-intensive MOH is. TIA.

Depends on how deep you take it. Bare bones: 3 readings a week (each maybe 5 min) Additional if you want: Memory cards written at the end. (3 cards..so not long) Map. Color sheet. (again both are relatively brief, depending on child) Any of the 3 activities suggested for those 3 chapters. (depends on how long you want to take on them)

Readings are short. Right now my children are asking me to read more. With SOTW, they would kind of sigh and then listen. MOH is spurring questions and discussion. We are looking a lot of things up as questions are being asked.

For example, Tower of Babel: kids started asking what lang. Jesus spoke, did he know how to speak all languages in his time on earth

Dinosaurs: theories of evolution discussed and asked about, can different animals breed with other species, how about alligators and crocodiles?, what are the differences in alligators and crocs, do dragons still exist? looked up kamono dragons



It has been really fun so far. We are only on chap 9 I believe. Just started it for the new year.

[AngelBee]

Oh....kinda didn't answer you question.

So you could do all in one day or spread it out.

I am choosing to do it a min of 3 days. I am also adding AO readings that go with Ancients, SOTW readings and activities, Kingfisher World Encyclopedia, and other random things.

I have different age kids doing some things on their own. But we are including the Little Explorers (youngest 3) in the fun

[Momma Aimee]

Originally Posted by AngelBee

So I spent last night working on my combining MOH and SOTW.

I figured it out in a 36 week plan. Now I have to figure out the best way to type it all out. Right now it is chicken scratch.

I am also doing AO. So I have been making a plan that incorporates AO's reading and the history/science rotations.

Thinking....

I am choosing to do it a min of 3 days. I am also adding AO readings that go with Ancients, SOTW readings and activities, Kingfisher World Encyclopedia, and other random things.

and you are saving your daily lesson planes -- with books, page numbers and topics / activities -- and will be blogging them ALL so we can all beinfit -- riiiiight????

also are you useing: Adam and His Kin -- for you in panning, or with the kids? or _____ ??

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by Momma Aimee

and you are saving your daily lesson planes -- with books, page numbers and topics / activities -- and will be blogging them ALL so we can all beinfit -- riiiiight????

also are you useing: Adam and His Kin -- for you in panning, or with the kids? or _____ ??

Sure. I can do that.

I also want to type it out so others can use it at their own pace.

I am combining MOH, SOTW, AO along with some other sources (like Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, Usborne World History, VP cards, etc)

I haven't decided on Adam and His Kin. Have to page through it again.

[AngelBee]

Aimee...are you on the WTM forum at all? I think you will find a lot of info over there regarding Classical homeschooling.