This school year,  we are using a curriculum called Sonlight.    It's an wonderful blessing complete with lesson plans mapped out for us that is rooted in world history from a biblical perspective.  It's a literature-rich education that engages kids through history, geography  literature and bible study as a coordinated whole.  Other pieces of the puzzle are Language Arts, Science and Electives. We use Math-U-See as our awesome math studies.   Included in our boxed curriculum are real books ( historical fiction, biographies, fiction and non-fiction), rather than textbooks so that the experience is broader and deeper providing a far richer tapestry of study than you would get from memorizing dates from a boring textbook. 

Our focus this year is digging deep into World History.  We are now finishing up our studies on Vikings.  Our spines for this time period has been the Usborne Time Traveler book and Children's History of the World.  We are about to complete the reader titled  Viking Adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla which is told through the eyes of a young boy.   We have learned so much about the geography of Scandinavian countries where the vikings got their start and the countries they found on their voyages.  One fun extra I have added is The Story of The Vikings Coloring Book from Amazon.  This is no ordinary coloring book!  The pictures are very intricate renderings of the Viking lifestyle with accurate historical details on each page.  For my on-hands learner, this is helping to 'cement' all that has been learned!!!

This is a scanned picture of her first Vikings Coloring page this past week which shows the Scandinavian beginning:

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