General ideas for Creation to the Greeks

[Marie]

General ideas for Creation to the Greeks.

[sewardmom]

My children have really enjoyed the science projects this year. They look forward to doing the experiments and are disappointed when they don't work as expected. However, that is a great learning experience in and of itself!

Thanks for the fun science projects :D

~Terri

[Shelly Best]

Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:22 pm

I would like to share a book that we use. The title is "24-Hours of Peace-&-Quiet!" Clever title, isn't it?

"A unique coloring book consisting of optical illusions and geometrical shapes."

You can download it free on the following web:
Raisingsmallsouls.com

[sandi]

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:28 pm

My favorite part of MFW is the awesome book baskets! We are one of those families that get the books and try and read them together. It takes time but it is well worth it!

This year they have recommended some videos to go with our study. Our library does not offer a very good selection and I could not afford to buy all of them.

We signed up with netflix.com you can rent dvds from them. So far we have rented from them two of the videos that have been recommended. I am so glad that we did it added so much to our study!! Netflix is not a Christian company but has some educational videos to rent.

We also purchased Ancient Civilizations for Children tapes from libraryvideo.com once we ordered from them they sent us a really neat catatlog with alot of neat videos for the kids. You cannot rent from them, you have to buy them.

Well, thought I would share

[Eve]

Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:55 pm

I am finding Netflix WELL worth the cost for the many MANY educational video options. Netflix has just about all of the videos listed in the TM.
Eve

[sewardmom]

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:08 pm

Just wanted to share a neat book we are using for CTG.

It is called Unwrapping the Pharaohs by John Ashton and David Down. It basically addresses how Egyptian archaeology confirms the Biblical timeline. It includes a DVD - which we have not yet viewed. Very interesting stuff.

- Terri

I received this book for Christmas last year. We LOVE it!!

[NOTE: This book is included in MFW's High School package, AH&L]

[dhudson]

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:56 pm

My family has loved the Drive Thru History series from Focus on the Family. They combine history with the journey of Paul and the Bible times. We have used them in conjunction with RTR and CtoG but also just on their own. The information might go over the heads of the little ones but the host is funny enough to keep their attention.

[Julie in MN]

(1) English From the Roots Up
For reviewing the Greek root words, I sometimes created a crossword puzzle using a site such as this one:
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/


(2) Sheep
While studying shepherding in CTG (King David, Psalm 23, etc.), I ordered a nice, free teaching resource from Pendleton:
http://www.pendleton-usa.com/jump.jsp?i ... C197%2C220

Both the chart and the booklet have actual samples of wool, and the chart includes wool from its initial stages all the way through finished product, plus a small vial of lanolin that is also made from wool. It always helps kids if they can "touch" the materials.

I added all the other books we had on wool in the Pendleton envelope & Voila! a kit about sheep :o) For instance,
- Charlie Needs a Cloak, by Tomie dePaola
- A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 (I condensed some of it, but it was excellent!)
- All About Wool, Young Discovery Library

(These are just books we happened to have; you may have others. As Tina has figured out, I am a bibliophile - oh, you'll have that vocabulary word in CTG :o)

P.S. There are misc. cool sheep videos here: http://homeschoolingaddkids.com/blog/

(3) Free Flashcards
These aren't necessary but they're pretty :)
Click on the "old testament English" button in the "free PDF" column
http://www.ebibleteacher.com/children/c ... hcards.htm
Follow the instructions for printer settings - "Fit to Printer Margins" should be changed to "None" and "Auto-Rotate and Center" should be unchecked.

Julie

[dhudson]

Hi !

We are reading Jotham's Journey as an Advent Celebration this year and I thought it would be a perfect addition to C to G during Christmas. It is a daily reading through out Advent and it deals with the coming Messiah and His subsequent birth.

It's great even though we are in a different year but I think it would be particularly meaningful during CtoG.

[hsmomof5]

I just wanted to say that my high school son has been viewing this video series and they are wonderful and I am planning to use them with my younger sons during CTG in the upcoming year. The videos cover Biology according to the days of creation. They are very colorful and the author has such a great sense of humor.

The site states that they were written for 15 and older but I think my sons would really enjoy these. They are very understandable. My sons LOVE science so they thought these videos were really neat. I think k-3 may have difficulty sitting still through these. I have a 4th and 5th grader but my 4th grader is advanced.

The DVD includes a guide and quizzes. The guide is a lesson plan for the DVDs including some nature studies. Anyway, I know that CTG does Creation Science so we are going to enjoy viewing these as supplements. Just wanted to pass it along.

http://www.the101series.com/

You can find them a little cheaper at christianbooks.com and a few other online book suppliers.

Here's the content info: http://www.the101series.com/contents.html

[cbollin]

I just watched the free intro on that site. Kinda long for youngest viewers, but... this thought popped in my mind....

For those who are in EX1850 (or might be), the intro to the series could be nice for week 2 science

or in ECC, week 15 with the hands on activity in science

or even those in Apologia General Science in module 9 and/or 10.

I obviously haven't seen the whole series or anything. just the online stream of the intro.

-crystal

[Julie in MN]

OK...for the last few months I've gone to the CTG Ideas board, and there's...NOTHING! And there's not a whole lot of extra history going on since we've been focusing on Saul/David/Solomon.We are on Week #25.

I'm not very creative, busy is my only adjective right now. We've only thrown in a few VeggieTales and coloring pages lately. Just wondering what all you creative moms are adding in?

Well, if you're already *busy* then why not enjoy your shorter days for a while?!

But if you really *like* extras, I think we touched on a few things at that time in CTG:

(1) Priestly garments -- looking more closely at the significance of each. Here is a page to look at, or you may be able to find a coloring page if your child likes that.
http://www.bible-history.com/tabernacle ... rments.htm

(2) Sometimes I'd add to a specific Bible character I like such as Rahab You can usually find things online at Calvary Chapel or DLTK's Bible Activities, or I may find something around our home to read/do. We also did a chart of the kings of Judah & Israel, which should be coming up for you. Ds colored one color for bad (most of them!) and another for good, and a few he decided to color both.

(3) My son did a big project of making a King Tut mask somewhere in the latter half of CTG. We considered it review, I guess?!

(4) And then just general extras - ds learned a hymn or two on the piano, we visited the Orchestra & afterwards studied the works we saw, I inquired about spring Feasts that we might visit in the area, review all you've learned this year, take nature walks, field trips...

[tkrapfl]

Would anyone who has completed this year care to share how you did your timeline? Just curious for some ideas that people have found work well when making a timeline that you add to throughout the year. Thanks!

[Julie in MN]

Our CTG timeline is photographed here: viewtopic.php?t=1976
We just used the spacing method of "put the next thing up next." I considered it just a general introduction to history in order, and the timelines will get more complex in 1850MOD & high school.

You might find more CTG samples here:
viewtopic.php?t=1217
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1903

Have fun with it!
Julie

[hsmomof5]

I know this site has been around but for those who don't know, I use some of the movie titles here to support our history study.
http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/movies.htm
We watched the Ten Commandments while we studied about the Ten Commandments. Netflix has many of these titles and you can view some of them instantly on your PC if you havea membership. We pay $8/month for this and it's been well worth it for our homeschool.