History

For the Love of History


*Be Still My Heart*
I don't even know how to put into words our family's thoughts on "The Story of the World." We love it. Love it. We really like it a lot. We all, parents included, love history. Susan Wise Bauer has done a wonderful job and telling the story (History) of the world in story form. Easy to listen to, easy to read, easy to remember. We listen to the audio books in the car. She has broken the history down into four parts to tell her story. The first part, book one, Ancient Times, we covered last year. I bought the second book this school year - but we listened to it all over the summer! I try and listen/read the book four times through to make sure the stories sink in, but my kids are already asking for the third one.

*Soap Box Moment*
I try and introduce American Heroes every chance that I get. I feel like they are important to our history, but I also look around at the heroes of today and question if they are who I want my kids looking up to. Who is it that our media gives the most attention to? Athletes that make millions of dollars? (okay, that's a pet peeve can you tell?) So I nonchalantly place books like these in front of my kids, leave them laying around in the car or bathroom or where ever and low-and-behold they read them, they like them, they remember them.

My random fact child, loves information in short spurts.
Fandex Field Guides makes a whole selection of these "fans" of information. Detailed enough that I feel like he's learning. Not so in depth that he gets bored with them. Great-have-around-the-house-trick-them-into-learning books.