Bede's History of ME
Meet Bede, a yarn-ball with stories to tell! This charming weekly intro to timelines, holidays, and personal history gets your child thinking about his place in God’s world.
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Bede's History of Me
Bede's History of Me introduces history in the most meaningful place possible—your child's own life. Created by Veritas Press from a Christian perspective, it helps kindergartners develop a sense of the past and present and of chronology by exploring the history they already know: their own family, experiences, and traditions.
Guiding the journey is Bede, a cheerful ball of yarn with googly eyes who serves as your child's companion on the timeline. Through one short, colorful lesson each week, your child creates a personal timeline while completing age-appropriate activities such as drawing, coloring, cut-and-paste projects, and simple crafts like paper boats and airplanes. Written directly to the child in an easy-to-read font, the lessons are engaging enough to enjoy together and approachable for emerging readers.
Along the way, your child explores family history, homes, toys, sports, holidays, maritime history, and introductory church history. Throughout the course, history is presented as God's story unfolding through time rather than as a collection of unrelated events.
Designed to be completed over a full school year, Bede's History of Me provides a gentle, confidence-building introduction to historical thinking and lays a natural foundation for a more traditional first-grade history curriculum.
- February 12, 2026
Kim
We received this as a free gift when we placed our order. We have not utilized it yet but looking through the book we are very excited to start it.
- October 4, 2024
An Amazing Introduction to History
Tasha G.
This has to be one of my personal favorites in the Timberdoodle line up. It is a great introduction to history and how it works. The material is easy to follow, gives fun examples, and gives the kids a great visual on a Timeline and how it works. It has made a huge difference in understanding future history curriculum.
- July 15, 2022
Its okay
Aerie B.
Some of the pages were helpful for my boy but not all of them. It was not super fun for him. It mostly annoyed him when i pulled it out so we probably wont be getting this one for the other kids.
- April 14, 2022
A good intro but...
Rachel H.
This book is a great introduction to history, but we got stuck because I need to get myself organized and print out pictures to accompany the timeline. Makes perfect sense and contributes to the adorable factor, but that has been the hurdle for me to get over with this one. As a result, we haven't touched it much this year. My kindergartener sits in on his big brother's history class so, it hasn't been a priority for me to get those pictures printed out.
- January 22, 2022
Great Timeline Resource
Katie P.
My kids (age 5 - 6) really love this workbook! They are always asking to get out "Bede". I enjoy that it is a good, low-stress way to introduce timelines. They enjoy the projects it asks them to complete. I think the price is very fair and I would buy it again.
- August 25, 2021
Foundations of History
Ashley D.
Bede's History of Me lays a good foundation for what history is, how timelines function and helps young children to conceptualize the last. The activities are hands-on and engaging. The one critique I've had so far is that it expects better penmanship/drawing skills than what most K/1 kids are ready for, so I wind up helping a lot with drawings. Still, the concepts are solid.
- August 12, 2021
Enjoying this book.
Danielle W.
I felt like the timelines concept was well laid out in this. My only complaint is that i feel like the illustrations could be more interesting. Overall would still recommend.
- August 1, 2021
Great Intro to History
Cheyenne B.
I like that it doesn't dive right into different history topics. It gives the child an understanding of what history is. Opens the door for curiosity so that future history lessons are easily accepted and taught.
- July 30, 2021
Adorable
Sarah P.
Great way to introduce life and timelines to littles.
- July 21, 2021
We didnt get anywhere.
DEBORAH K.
I think his mind may just have been ready for this. From the beginning I could tell he really wasn't engaged. We did the timeline activity first and it was downhill from there. I think explaining things to him as a story works better for my eldest.
