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Culturally-Rich Program with All Resources A $591 Value for $489 - #CAW
Reduced Program without Cultural Experiences A $461 Value for $375 - #CAW2
Older Learner’s Guide for 7th-9th Grade Students - $29 - #CAW3

Your Passport to World Cultures . . .

Prepare your passport, because we’re ready to go! You’ll travel this year through more than thirty countries, encountering their cultures and traditions, crafts and celebrations. But that’s not all! You’ll also take a mid-year break to enjoy learning about cultural and religious traditions surrounding Christmas.

Another fantastic part of the journey is learning about the plight of children around the world. You’ll learn about kids who don’t have access to basic needs like clean water or shelter for the night. You’ll see how many children must work to survive, and find out how you can help to ease the suffering of children around the globe. Along the way you’ll meet people like George Mueller, who involved himself in rescuing thousands of orphaned children, and meet people who are doing the same today.

Activities and learning opportunities this year are focused around easy cultural gatherings to prepare for your family. Prepare meals, entertainment or crafts that will give you further insight into the lands you are studying. Visit fun website links that take you instantly to other sides of the world. As always, the activities are practical, fun & full of learning! It’s all very do-able!

Yes, this program is more expensive, as some of the specialized resources are a bit more costly. But you’ll find the effect upon your family truly is a priceless treasure!

Take a Look at Features you'll love in your Program Guide:

  • Parent helps that are practical and help you “learn together” with your student
  • 36-week schedule laid out so clearly, you’ll “open and go” everyday
  • Festive cultural gatherings laid out for your family to work on and enjoy together
  • Supply ideas for cultural gatherings that will help you plan your year
  • Independent study schedules eliminate writing down long homework lists
  • Additional ideas for using the study with students older than 5th grade
  • Click here to see a sample of this guidebook

Cultural Highlights of Your Trip


You’ll Experience Thirty Countries Around the Globe!
As you drop in on “Children Around the World,” you’ll get to know the history, geography and culture of their countries. How?
  • You’ll read about and see pictures of each land and its people
  • Mapping activities help students learn about each country’s geography
  • Notebooking work has interactive pages, full-color pictures to add and more to “take you there!”
  • Hands-on cultural activities allow you to try out parts of the culture or taste its food for yourself
  • Journaling about the needs of others builds compassion and awareness of global need
  • Christmastime activities acquaint your family with traditions from all over
  • Country flashcards help students learn the locations of countries
  • Cultural experiences books take you further into regions, countries or important
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Your Family Will Love the International Notebook You’re Creating
The “Make-Your-Own” World Travels Diary allows your family to notebook all your international stops en route this year! An assortment of pages will have students illustrating pages, responding to questions, creating artwork, writing out words in other languages, and adding the included full-color pictures of landmarks around the world.

You’ll Map Your Journey as You Go Along with the “Travel with Me” Maps
We’ve created an exclusive set of six continent maps that each measure 13x19 inches. They are the perfect background for your student to add included, full-color figures each week as you visit countries from Australia to Zimbabwe! Figures show children in native dress for each country, famous landmarks, a nation’s products, or notable facts about the countries. We’ve also added a write-on/wipe-off map set so students can practice labeling countries for their geography study.

You’ll Really Enjoy Festive Cultural Gatherings (or Parts of Them!)
Your activities this year will be geared around a weekly gathering -- a Brazilian “Carnaval,” an English Tea, even a water festival called Songkran from Thailand. As always, the fun is something you’ll really love doing, and practical! Whether you complete the whole cultural gathering or just try part of it, oodles of great, flexible ideas are provided for you that everyone will enjoy.

You’ll Love How Easily You Can Add Older Students!
Your basic guide comes with some helps and ideas on adding older students, but in addition, you can purchase our “Older Learner’s Guide and Student Worksheet Set.” This guide offers many helps, including an additional resource list, optional activity resources, suggested reading list, website suggestions geared for older students, additional challenging notebooking pages to add to the Travel Dairy and much more! You’ll find more details on this resources below. Click here to see a sample.
 

Children Around the World Resources
Highlights of Your Children Around the World Guidebook

CAW-101 - $85 - Free with Package Purchase
Click here to see a sample of this program guide.

Simple to Follow & Use
 You’ll find this program guide is laid out to be easy to follow. Each of your 36 school weeks is laid out to reduce your paperwork! This guide includes geography helps, web sites to support your studies, country flashcards to copy and much more!

Festive Cultural Gatherings Pages
These weekly planning pages give you ideas and recipes, games, decorating ideas and more for casual good times that will create family memories this year!

Student Independent Work Schedules
Each week, your student will have a schedule to help them complete the work they need to do on their own.

 

Our Exclusive Notebooking Resource:
“Make-Your-Own” World Travels Diary
CAW-151 | $19

This “Make-Your-Own” resource will help students to create their own travel diary with maps, art ideas, interactive pages, and pages from two coloring books below. New full-color pages add photos of landmarks to cut and paste. Click here to see a sample of this resource.

Around the World Resources

Children of Many Lands | CAW-201 | $ 30
WP Exclusive! Children of thirty countries will welcome you to their homes, their families, foods, lands, history and favorite things about their country. Beautiful watercolor pictures show culturally rich scenes.

Our World | CAW-202 | $20
Children share what they study, what they do for fun and holidays, and other unique things about their country!

“Travel With Me” World Map & Figures | CAW-226 | $42
Our exclusive map set, made just for this program, includes 6 big continent maps, each measuring 13 x 19 inches. Brilliant colors accent these simple maps, making them the perfect background for our beautiful watercolor figure set. Your student will add figures each week that show children in native dress for each country, famous landmarks, and other notable country facts.

“Travel With Me” Student Map Set | CAW-227| $10
This write-on/wipe-off map set allows your student to practice labeling countries for their geography study.

Student Geography Worksheets | CAW-228 | $16
These consumable worksheets have activities that help students practice finding cities and using map knowledge within each country they study this year. Also includes a large, color geography workbook that helps your student learn geographical terms and introduces information about each country or region studied.

Activity Resources

Fun & Traditions from Many Lands CAW-276 $13
Enough cultural ideas, fun and games to fill an entire year! Develop your own Scottish family plaid, make Spanish lanterns or Brazilian carnival masks, try German blitzkuchen or Lebanese pancakes. More than 100 activities in all. Click here to see a sample page of this book

Little Round the World Cookbook CAW-277 $10

Around the World Coloring Book CAW-278 $ 4

Holidays Around the World CAW-279 $ 4
Coloring books whose pages you can add to travel diaries.
 

Christmas Around the World

These books are about fun and festivity for four weeks this year,
and can be scheduled to coincide with your celebration!

Christmas Around the World CAW-291 $ 7
Beautiful pictures show Christmas celebrations in twelve countries, with a great explanation of traditions & crafts. Celebrate Christmas Around the World

Celebrate Christmas Around the World - CAW-292 $16
Fun activities, informative text and ideas for celebrations fill this 140-page resource.

Classic Christmas Stories CAW-293 $20
A wonderful treasury of stories taken from all over the world.

Plight of Children Around the World

We’d like to share with you that we feel these resources offer you one of the most incredible experiences you may ever have with your children. Your students will get to know the needs of others: their hunger, hard work, and humble homes. They’ll also discover ways that they can make a difference through prayer, awareness, volunteerism, and sharing. These resources share these facts gently in a straightforward manner, all so that your children will be able to feel the pain of other children, but also gain a passion for sharing with others around the world. Though need is apparent, so too is the bravery and determination of families making ends meet and making do with very few material goods. We feel these books will foster a lifetime of compassion and personal contentment in your children.

A Call to Prayer for the Children of the 10/40 Window CAW-251 $15
Hear stories about the lives of children in this needy part of the world, and discover facts that will help you pray for the children who call it home.

Material World CAW-252 $25
Beautiful photographs show what families possess in many different countries, along with where they work, what their children do, and what they most prize amongst their things. Each week, discussion questions in your guide allow you to thoughtfully discuss with your students the lives of those pictured. Very moving!

Listen to Us: The World’s Working Children CAW-253 $25
Many of us are only slightly aware of the problem of child labor. Here are stories of what children do, and why they are chosen for the work. Not all this book’s material is used.

A Cry from the Streets CAW-254 $13
A Dutch couple follows God’s call to Brazil and brings the love of Christ to orphaned street children.

Prayer & Personal Involvement Journal CAW-255 $17
WP EXCLUSIVE! Record prayers and learn about ways to get involved in children’s lives around the world.

Adventure Reading for the Family

This year’s adventure reading is full of exciting stories, imaginative tales and inspiring people. Follow the faith journey of a man who provided for thousands of orphans by prayer alone. Tend a cottage in the woods, hear homespun tales from Europe, and watch as a girl survives on a Pacific island alone. Listen to stories of kids who’ve changed the world or their own lives. It’s a great journey to every corner of the world.

George Mueller: Father to the Fatherless CAW-301 $ 8

Hidden Tales from Eastern Europe CAW-302 $10

The Doggy Dung Disaster & Other Stories CAW-303 $ 9

Missionary Stories from Around the World CAW-304 $10

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai CAW-305 $ 7

Rain Forest Adventures CAW-306 $ 8

Mandy CAW-307 $ 7

Star of Light CAW-308 $ 7

Iqbal CAW-309 $ 5

Island of the Blue Dolphins CAW-310 $ 7.

Necessary Additional Resources NOT Included in the Packages Above

IF YOU DON’T HAVE ANOTHER SIMILAR ATLAS:
National Geographic Student Atlas | #ATL | $13
This atlas is full of color, with regional maps for every continent, including geographical and political, plus views of each continent from above the earth. Introductory material includes how to use maps, different kinds of projection maps, understanding information given by topical maps and more. If you don't have another, this is the best atlas we've found for ease of use with elementary students. Clear and easy to read, they'll use it for years.

IF YOU INTEND TO SCHOOL TWO STUDENTS:
Additional Student Set | #CW-901 | $49
This set includes item #’s CAW-151, CAW-228, CAW-278, CAW-279 & CAW-255. Add one for each additional student.

IF YOU ARE SCHOOLING ANY STUDENTS ABOVE 5TH GRADE, WE RECOMMEND ADDING:
Draw Your World | #DRAW | $19
Learn world geography by drawing the continents with memory tools that help students get acquainted with the countries of the world and recall where to place the continent on latitude and longitude lines. Practical suggestions allow students to practice in small steps and gain mastery of drawing the continents with their country boundaries. This stand-alone resource can be used over the course of a year or several years for grades 5+. Consumable.
Click here to see a sample page of this book.

IF YOU WANT TO ADD STUDENTS BETWEEN 7TH AND 9TH GRADES TO YOUR PROGRAM:
Children Around the World Older Learner’s Guide & Student Worksheet Set | #CAW3 | $29
Want to include an older student in your cultural world study? This is a great way to do just that. This set offers practical helps and tips on how to include your students, independent study worksheets for older students, a variety of student worksheets and more. Your student will be challenged and have an abundance of resources to complete right at their own level. In addition, some of the resources in this set could be added to enhance your entire family’s experience. Click here to see a sample page of this resource. This resource is largely used up by the student and therefore considered consumable.

Here’s a sampling of the great things in this set:
Additional Resource List for Older Students
Optional Activity Resources
Suggested Reading List
Ways to Include Your Older Student
Weekly DVD Suggestions
Websites for Older Students
Weekly Independent Study Worksheets
Additional Challenging Notebooking Pages to Add to Travel Diary
Weekly Ethnic Menu Pages to Add to Travel Diary
Patterns and Projects for Older Students
Weekly Writing Ideas

Cultural Experiences Set

These wonderful resources will enhance your study and are scheduled in your guidebook. Each
book has information about cultural issues that relate to the regions or countries your family will
study. These are part of the Children Around the World with Cultural Experiences Set.

Ireland: The Culture CAW-801 $ 8
Find Out About Spain CAW-802 $ 13
Find Out About France CAW-803 $13
World of Ballet CAW-804 $ 9
Italy: Ah! The Sweet Life CAW-805 $ 7
Biography of Bananas CAW-806 $ 9
Look What Came from Mexico CAW-807 $ 7
Amazon Adventures CAW-808 $ 7
Biography of Cotton CAW-809 $ 9
Biography of Vanilla CAW-810 $ 9
Oil & Gas CAW-811 $10
Find Out About China CAW-812 $13
Biography of Silk CAW-813 $ 9
Australia: G’Day from Down Under CAW-814 $ 7

What Consumables are Needed for Extra Students?

“Make-Your-Own” Travel Diary
Around the World Coloring Book
Holidays Around the World
Prayer and Personal Involvement Journal
Draw Your World (for fifth grade and up only)

 

Perhaps you’d like to see the Language Arts Programs
that coordinate with “Children Around the World:”

Pre-K/K “Basic Phonics” Language Arts
Advanced K Language Arts
Accelerated Reading Language Arts
First Grade Language Arts
Second Grade Language Arts
Third Grade Language Arts
Fourth Grade Language Arts
Fifth Grade Language Arts
Sixth Grade Language Arts

 

Frequently Asked Questions Regarding this Program

What else do I need to add to this program to complete all the subjects?
We recommend that you add a language arts program, a math program, and a science program. We offer all of these, but this program will work fine if you use components from another program as well. It may help to know that our science programs are designed to be easy-to-use and a great complement to the in-depth nature of our themed programs. Additionally, our language arts are designed to be the perfect partner to our themed programs, as you’ll see in one of the questions below.

I have an older student. How can I integrate him or her into this family study?
You’ll find excellent suggestions right in our basic guidebook as to how to integrate a student from 7th through 9th grade, however, you’ll love our Children Around the World Older Learner’s Guide & Student Worksheet set. Details on this resource are given above. You’ll find many fantastic ideas and practical helps in this resource that are perfect for older learners. As to language arts, reading list ideas are included in the Older Learner’s Guide for these students, or they can take the initiative to build their own reading list, and still use one of our own language arts programs. Creative writing ideas are included in the Older Learner’s Guide, which may not directly correlate with LA assignments, but can easily be adapted to be used with our LA 7 through HS 1.

I’ve already got a few of the items in the package. Can I still get the package price and leave them out?
We love to offer our package prices to our parents to help them purchase a great program with a great discount. We do, however, have to sell all the items in the package in order to honor the discount. Usually the discount outweighs the value of the resources you might already have. If not, you can choose items individually to build your program, but remember -- the purchase of a themed program package ensures you also get free shipping, another discount you’ll want to take into account as you look at your total purchase.

How do the Language Arts coordinate with this program?
We have several language arts programs that coordinate with our Children Around the World Program. One of the wonderful features of our LA guides is that they are hole-punched on the right side so they will lie directly across from your themed guide so you can see your week at a glance. “LA 1” and “LA 2” each have reading lists right at their respective grade levels to enable students to experience comfortable reading growth. “LA 3” through “LA 6” share a common list that will be a mixture of reading levels. You can expect that most students will read comfortably through most of these books. A third grader may find one or two of the titles challenging, while a fifth grader may find one or two on the light side. Creative writing for younger students is covered by many of the interactive resources in the main program. For third through fifth grade students, they are expected to do a brief country report for each week. These can be traditional reports, imaginative displays, or artwork completed with parental input. You can link to any of these programs in the section above these questions.