Our FAVORITE Way To Learn History

Okay, it's the only way we've used, but that's because we love it so much!

If history was taught this way when I was in grade school, I would have remembered a lot more of it.

In the story, Ted and Mona are two characters that tell us what happened in different parts of the world, in mostly sequential order, in a way that's fun & engaging, and kid-friendly.

It's broken up into Ancient History, Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern History.

We started at the beginning, and are on Early Modern History right now. I kind of wanted to skip Medieval because it's always seemed so boring, but my kids would have none of it, and I'm so glad they pushed for it, because there were a lot of really cool things in there! The Crusades, The Aztecs & Inca, The Italian Renaissance, Magellan, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc... as well as things I had never heard of before, but glad to know about now!

You can get the storybook alone, or there are add-on options:

• Audio CD - this has come in handy when my voice is done but my boys want another chapter. Also great for learning how to pronounce half of the names and places I've got no clue about.

• Instructor's guide - it has really great project ideas for each chapter. We don't do them all, but the ones we have done have made those chapters stick in their minds a lot more. It also has book lists for further reading, including children's books on the subjects, which I love.

• Student's guide - we don't use this too much yet, we may in time, but it is great to have for social studies work samples to turn into our charter when we need to!

• Timeline - we made our own, and strung it around our house. It's not the prettiest decoration, but has helped so much to put things into perspective, for me as well as my kids!

Link for Curiosity Chronicles (affiliate): https://www.curiositychronicles.org/?ref=atbsuadh

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