TruthQuest - American
History for Young Students 1
(Exploration-1800)
(Binder Builder: Maps, Timeline,
and Report Package; and
Notebooking Pages)
Michelle Miller
Truth Quest History
www.truthquesthistory.com
Most of us remember our history lessons during childhood as time spent
reading excerpts about historical
people and events summarized neatly into excerpts in our textbooks. As
we got older history became lectures
about these same people and events
with notes of dates to be memorized
for quizzes and tests. American History for Young Students 1 (Explora-
tion-1800), fromTruthQuest, is a curriculum based on living books and
focusing on the Charlotte Mason style
of homeschooling intended for grades
1 through 5. (. . .)
American History for Young Students 1 covers quite a bit of material. It
begins with the discovery of the American continent and takes us through
the founding of the colonies. We learn
about many different Native American
tribes, the discovery of the Mississippi
River, life in the colonies, the French,
the Dutch, Pioneers, the French and
Indian War, Hawaii, the growing unrest leading up to the Revolutionary
War, famous battles, and the new constitution and the founding of America
as we know it. Believe me when I tell
you that this history curriculum does
not leave out a single detail! There are
many things included here that I never
learned about in school at all.
What does a Truth Quest History
lesson look like?
Each lesson has two components.
First, there is an introduction to that
lesson’s topic intended to set the stage
for the subject. The introductions are
suitable for all ages of children and
written in a conversational tone. These
are only a few paragraphs long and
don’t take much time to read.
After the excerpt is read, the second
component of each lesson uses living
books. There’s a list of multiple books
to choose from for each lesson. This is
awesome! The books include “spine”
books that are frequently used in multiple lessons of the curriculum, such as
A Child’s History of the World. Other
books are recommended reading to
supplement the “spine” books. (. . .)
One last positive thing about Truth
Quest History? It’s affordable. The
combo price for all three PDF files plus
the spiral bound book is only $36.95.
The main book and all three PDF files
can also be purchased separately from
the Truth Quest website for individual
prices.
Our family highly recommends
Truth Quest History! If you favor a
Charlotte Mason education style and
you’re looking for something with
depth, with options to choose what
suits your family best, and filled with
lists of living books then, this is definitely the curriculum you’ve been
searching for.
—Product review by Amy Amos
Daily Bible Jigsaw App
Planet 316
planet316.com/
We all need a break now and then;
something to help us wind down for the
day—a brief moment of peace and quiet
before getting moving—or even just a
reprieve in the middle of a hectic day.
Planet 316 offers some fun games and
activities, and the Homeschool Review
Crew has been playing the Daily Bible
Jigsaw app and having a blast doing it!
(Shhhh don’t tell anyone but there is a
“fun friends” option and the Crew have
been competing for the top spot!)
This Bible games app is a free app for
daily jigsaw puzzles. There are puzzle
coins available for purchase to allow
you to play archived puzzles, which I
know you’ll want to do because as you
complete a day’s challenge it fills in a
puzzle piece on your calendar. When
you complete all the month’s puzzles,
you get to see a bonus picture, complete with Bible verse!
Here are the current options for playing Daily Bible Jigsaw:
• Google Play (Android devices)
• Apple App Store (iOS devices)
• Facebook (Mac or PC computer web
browser where Chrome and Firefox
work best)
• Facebook Gameroom (PC computer.
This is Facebook’s new PC game platform similar to Steam.)
Planet 316 seeks to connect people
across the generations for the glory of
God. They hope that their games spark
conversations at the dinner table as
well as spread the message of the gospel
of Jesus across the world through social
media and the internet. Not only do
they want to share His message, they
want to make it fun!
—Read the Crew reviews!
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