For Happyasamom

This post is a little explanation for happyasamom about how I used my Veritas Press Ancient Egypt books.Feel free everyone else to read,too.

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Happyasamom ,I tried to explain in with words but being a more visual person I thought maybe including pictures would make it easier for you.I hope it helps!


Here are the manuals I used.I purchased them in 2005 for my 2005/06 school year.My copy of Genesis through Joshua is a first addition 2001.My Old Testament & Ancient Egypt is a second addition dated 2004.Veritas Press has this as a second grade curriculum but I used it as a multi level class for my k up to 5th grade children.

I know that the Veritas Press teacher's manuals are NOT as specific and planned as Abeka or Bob Jone's teacher's manuals are.I would describe Veritas Press manuals as more guides.They leave a lot of room to personalize things.The class can be formal or more relaxed depending on how the parent plans things.

Since I was incorporating about 5 children in this class I first made each child a packet that included a copy of the front of the card ,a copy of the back of the card,the question sheets from the manual,the test from the manual and any project sheets that they would need for the week.(I also included spelling ,a weekly to do list and any other school related stuff, but that really does not relate to Veritas Press) I bundled each child's packet in a three prong notebook and it consisted of nine weeks.After nine weeks they had a new 9 week bundle waiting.

I would mostly read the required reading as a group and we would talk over the questions.The kids who could read and write would write the answers down and could follow along as I read.(The picture below is an example of our little packets.It is a part of our Ancient Rome & Greek year)

At the time I purchased my Egypt Veritas Press the catalog ranked their books by using different title colors of the books from the "must haves" (meaning the ones listed on the back of the cards that are needed ) down to supplements but not necessarily needed.I found when I was teaching Veritas Press just following the recomended books listed on the back of the cards was a little dull for the kids so I invested in the supplement books.The supplement books brought things alive for them.Unfortunately,the Veritas Press manuals did not specifically direct me as to how to incorporate the supplement books.What I did was match the supplement books to the card we were going through that week.So for instance ,if we were learning about the Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt I would look at the questions in the teacher's manual and use that as guide.I would have the kids find pictures of the first Pharaoh or the double crown or information on the flooding of the Nile in the supplement books.Sadly ,I did not keep a list of what books we looked at when.


Here is our timeline that Incorporated the Bible cards and history cards.I found that the cards kept falling off the wall so I copied them and did it this instead.


Here is what really made things fun for the kids.They would take the card copies from their packets and other things they found in the supplement books ( the would photo copy from the supplement books) and scrap book them into a chronological scrapbook for the year.

I know this might not help much as far as a specific guideline as how I Incorporated all my books but those extra books really made a difference in bringing things alive for the kids.There are a few books maybe like The Rosetta Stone or Walking The Bible that were more helpful for me and gave me a little more background.

I would recommend the the Veritas Press Chronological songs (although maybe a little silly for some).They are very neat.

I really LOVE Veritas Press.The reason why we are not continuing on to The Middle Ages and Chronicles through Malachi is because our family expanded and most of my time the next year or so is going to be spent getting a bunch of my non readers reading and just catching up with their grade level on the basics like math and English.I have much less time to teach more children.Maybe in a few years...