The Story of the World Volume 1 Activity Book

As I mentioned on my review for "Story of the world book" I find it too be too much for my 6 year old. But I do love the activity book as it allows me to get great ideas for lessons. My child loves coloring so the coloring pages and maps are a win.

I wanted to love SOTW so much, but it was a flop for us.
Pros: We loved the crafts and activities that were in the activity books. Lessons and stories were usually short enough to keep my 7 and 5 year old engaged for the most part. The maps were easy to complete. I liked the questions at the end of the lessons to practice comprehension. We were able to check out most of the additional literature suggestions fro our library.
Cons: The lessons were pretty dry, and I found my children staring off in the distance not paying attention at all. The coloring pages left a lot to be desired. They didn't feel like coloring pages, instead, like black and white sketches that you *could* color. The maps were too simple, although my 7 year old didn't complain. I loved how it would have you draw lines to route the story that we just read, however, it could have elaborated so much!
Ultimately, we decided to try something different for history next year since this wasn't a good fit for our family.

We used a lot of these activities early on. Now we just mainly use it for review questions and map work. That said, I still feel like they are an integral part of our homeschool day!

I love the options this book gives, it allows to do as much or as little as we want on each chapter/topic which means we can kind of zoom through the ones my kids aren't as interested in and really drag out and learn more about the ones they are.

I have mixed feelings about this activity book. I really liked the overview of the chapters and the review questions that really showed what my children learned from the readings and helped me better explain the things they didn't. The extra activities seemed great but also seemed very time consuming and most of the time we did not even complete them. The actual activity sheets were kind of a miss for us. The mapwork didn't quite click for my kids and the coloring sheets they usually did not even want to do. I am debating if it is worth it to get this book to go along with the next volume of this history curriculum.