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In addition to all the above, we also love games and puzzles for geography!
Shelly, it sounds like you’re raising up missionaries! 🙂 Also, are you going to give us any hints to locate Franz Josef Land????
I realize this post is a year old, but I was wondering why A Child’s Geography Vol 2 is listed on the curriculum guide but not Vol 1?
Is it for the reasons mentioned above (that people didn’t like it?) If not, why is was it left out? Or am I just not seeing it on the guide?
Nanci
Good question, Nanci. I try to tie the geography study into the region’s continent that is being studied in history. So for module 1, Ancient Egypt, we study Africa. Since A Child’s Geography, Vol. 1, is about the entire earth, it is a little too broad in compass for that particular module.
You’re certainly welcome to use it. It’s in the Bookfinder as a recommended resource, just not on the curriculum guide.
Thanks, Sonya. That makes sense. I didn’t think to look in the bookfinder.
Just wondering…a question for everyone else. Is there anyone here that liked A Child’s Geography Vol 1? Reviews on other sites have all been glowing but it doesn’t seem like there are many fans of it here.
Nanci
We’ve done a little of Voskamp’s and I intend to finish it. It has many good books to use alongside.
There’s also the free Home Geography recommended at AO under Level 3 under “Geography” and there’s another one I noticed called “World Geography” from Geography Matters:http://www.christianbook.com/physical-geography-wonderful-revised-updated-edition/brenda-runkle/9780982527610/pd/527603?item_code=WW&netp_id=684934&event=ESRCN&view=details
Rachel
Alright, I have to confess that I’m not really into Voskamp’s book either.
We have been using it since we started school this year, and every time I open it, I hope that I’ll change my mind about it. I was really surprised that I’m not crazy about it because I LOVE Voskamp’s blog (www.aholyexperience.com). I guess I was hoping that this book would be written in much the same way. Instead, I do feel like it’s talking down to me and the children and that it takes SO LONG to get through one section. I honestly don’t feel like my children have learned anything from our readings thus far, but yet I keep getting it out each week.With the other books you all have discussed, do you find it easy to adapt them to the history/geo/bible modules, even without it being divided and suggested in the module’s lessons?
Does that question make sense?
Lindsey
We have been using it since we started school this year, and every time I open it, I hope that I’ll change my mind about it. I was really surprised that I’m not crazy about it because I LOVE Voskamp’s blog (www.aholyexperience.com). I guess I was hoping that this book would be written in much the same way. Instead, I do feel like it’s talking down to me and the children and that it takes SO LONG to get through one section. I honestly don’t feel like my children have learned anything from our readings thus far, but yet I keep getting it out each week.- The topic ‘Geography’ is closed to new replies.