“While I strive for longer scripture study sessions if all I can fit in for the day is one minute of ‘conversation’ with God, that is at least one more minute than the adversary wants me to have!” And having a bigger “ceiling” goal gives me something to still work toward on days that I have more downtime. Knowing I have a “floor” goal for days when I get distracted or everything goes wrong definitely encourages me to still study my scriptures without feeling guilty that I didn’t do it well enough. I love this suggestion because it is the perfect solution to prevent myself from getting discouraged with my scripture study. While it would be great if it was possible every day to hit your ceiling goal, it’s important to keep up our spiritual momentum by having a floor goal that you can do no matter how busy the day is!” This may be reciting a single verse as a family or singing a hymn to yourself and pondering its meaning. But it’s equally important to have a ‘floor’ goal for those days that just get away from us. Kristen explains, “We should all have a ‘ceiling’ goal for days when things go smoothly and we’ve got time for perfect scripture study. Maps, reports, flags, and activity pages are reproducible. The CD-ROM includes all of the activity sheets, maps, and flags that are in the book, as well as other bonus notebooking pages. Employing a notebooking approach, students build a notebook as they progress throughout the course. Each country has a checklist with books to read from the core reading list as well as individual picture books, biographies, websites to visit, language arts selections, appropriate Bible references and activities unique to each portion of the world. Integrating geography, Bible, history, science, literature, and maps & flags, children will discover the famous people from each country as well as holidays and other cultural traditions. Focusing on the seven continents and some specific countries, this study is designed to take 1-3 years to complete suggested schedules are included. 298 pages, softcover, spiral-bound.įull resource list is included at the back of the book.Ĭreative and filled with ideas for traveling the world in your studies, Galloping the Globe is a unit study for kindergarten through fourth grade. Grades 5-12 may be adapted for younger siblings. Proceeding chronologically, entries include lists for Cain and Abel, Hammurabi, Mummies, Hieroglyphics, King Solomon, Hezekiah, Persian Empire and other relevant unit-study topics. Incredibly flexible in nature, families can proceed at the pace that’s best for their students as they select “spines,” biographies, in-print books, and out-of-print classics from the extensive lists. The booklists follow, with selected annotations on what pages or sections to read and appropriate grade levels for each entry. Suggestions for activities or writing exercises are often included as well. Short, very informal introductions are written directly to the student and open up each topic with a distinctly Christian perspective. Centered on “living books,” this creative approach to history integrates elements of both Charlotte Mason and Classical methods. TruthQuest History puts God back at the center of the past.
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