Why You’ll Want to Travel to 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, and enjoy full-color bonus ebooks!
• 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
• Other cultural celebrations are featured throughout the year
• Country flashcards help students learn the locations of countries
• Other cultural books take you further into regions, countries or important products

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 full-color country or regional maps that you’ll just love. 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 Diary and much more!  You’ll find more details on this resources below.

What Will We Study?

You’ll study the geography, culture and history of thirty countries!  Here’s a sampling of the topics your student will encounter this year!

Students will also love our unique study included within this program, the Plight of Children Around the World.   A few of our resources help bring home to your family the challenges some children face.  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, 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.  We feel these books will foster compassion and personal contentment in your children.

Introduction

• Hello World

Europe

• Introducing Europe
• The British Isles
• Ireland
• Switzerland & the Netherlands
• France
• Germany & Poland
• Russia
• Spain & Portugal
• Italy
• Greece

Christmas Traditions

• European Christmas
• American Christmas
• Non-Western Christmas
• Asian Christmas

The Americas

• Introducing the Americas
• The United States
• Canada
• Mexico
• Brazil
• Peru

Africa

• Introducing Africa
• Libya
• Kenya
• Cameroon
• Zimbabwe

Asia & the Middle East

• Introducing Asia & the Middle East
• Saudi Arabia
• Iraq
• India
• China
• Japan
• Thailand

The Pacific

• The Pacific Islands
• Australia

Hmmmm . . . .

Wondering why you don’t see Israel or Egypt among the countries studied? It’s because the history, geography, and culture of both these countries are studied extensively in both our Middler and High School versions of Quest for the Ancient World. This allows us to have time to visit other countries that receive less time studied overall.

Children Around the World Resources

This program is designed for students from 2nd to 6th Grade.  The materials are easily understandable to young students, yet offer challenge for students working at a higher level.  The Children program includes so many interactive resources that provide students with many different ways to experience cultures in faraway places!

We’ve divided Children resources into bundles so you can decide what you’d like to buy or what you might be able to borrow from a library.  You’ll find it easy to choose which bundles you want as you read below, then go to “Build Your Children Package.”  You’ll need all the resources listed below if you are going to complete the Children Around the World theme in its entirety.

FIRST:  Choose Your Children Exclusive Bundle
The “Heart & Soul” of This Theme, Available in Ebook, Mixed, or Print Options

• GUIDE:  Children Around the World Guide
• HISTORY:  Children of Many Lands Culture, Geography & History Book
• CULTURE:  Working Children
• JOURNALING:  “Make-Your-Own” World Travels Diary
• JOURNALING:  Prayer & Personal Involvement Journal (WP Exclusive)
• ACTIVITIES:  Cultural Gathering Planning Guide for Family Activities
• ACTIVITIES:  Fun & Traditions from Many Lands Activity Book

PLUS, These Additional Items are Included When You Choose an Ebook or Mixed Bundle!

• ACTIVITIES:  Faraway Places Doodle Placemats
• ACTIVITIES:  Native Costumes Stand-Ups
• GEOGRAPHY:  Student Geography Worksheets
• CHRISTMAS:  Classic Christmas Stories
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  Touring the United Kingdom
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  An Irish Jig & Other Irish Stuff
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  Sightseeing in the Swiss Alps
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  French Cafes, Pastries, Chefs & More
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  Germany:  Black Forests & Fairy Tales
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  Russia:  Land of Tsars
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  Spain:  Running with Bulls & Throwing Tomatoes
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  Let’s Eat Italian!
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  It’s All Greek to Me
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  Let’s Visit Brazil
• COUNTRY FOCUS EBOOK:  Australia:  A Walkabout Down Under
• SERVICE & CULTURE EBOOK:  Bold Believers – The Wurmbrands in Romania
• SERVICE & CULTURE EBOOK:  Bold Believers in Chiapas
• SERVICE & CULTURE EBOOK:  Bold Believers in Nigeria
• SERVICE & CULTURE EBOOK:  Bold Believers in Saudi Arabia
• SERVICE & CULTURE EBOOK:  Bold Believers in Iraq
• SERVICE & CULTURE EBOOK:  Bold Believers in India
• SERVICE & CULTURE EBOOK:  Bold Believers in China
• SERVICE & CULTURE EBOOK:  Bold Believers Among the Hmong People in Thailand

THEN:  Decide on Children Theme Essentials
The Resources Your Theme Requires

• Material World
• These Are My People
• Celebrate Christmas Around the World
• Christmas Around the World
• “Travel with Me” World Map & Figures (WP Exclusive)
• “Travel with Me” Student Map Set (WP Exclusive)

NEXT:  Think About Unique Children Add-Ons Resources That Customize Children For Your Family

Add Any or All of These Books and You Can Use Optional “Extended Trips” Weeks in Your Guide!

• Africa for Kids:  Exploring a Vibrant Continent
• China!  40 Activities to Experience China
• Japan!  40 Activities to Experience Japan
• Mexico! 40 Activities to Experience Mexico

OTHER STEPS:  Resources You May Want or Need to Add
Check Out Steps 5 to 9 to Add These Resources

• Adventure Reading:  Fictional Readers to Enjoy Together as a Family
• Geography Resources:  Helps to Complete Children Mapping
• Consumable Resources:  Adding Items for Additional Students
• Other Subjects:  Considering Language Arts, Science, and Math

How Do I Use Ebook Versions?

The I’m Ready to Learn guide is the only item available in ebook for this program.  It makes it easy to print student pages from one section, and can be utilized from a tablet, laptop, or computer.  With the ebook version, simply click on website links and away you go!

It displays the guide in full color, and can be printed if you like.  Plus, you can print out extra student sheets if you are schooling more than one student, or if you want to use the program again in a few years with a younger student.

I’m Ready to Learn FAQ’s

I Have Other Older Students.  How Much Time Will This Program Take Every Day?
This program is designed to be completed in small chunks of time, so it works neatly in between the work you are doing with other students.  It can be done while the older kids do morning chores, just before nap time, or while you are folding laundry.

How Much Prep Does This Program Require?
It requires very little to none, depending on how you use it.  It is possible to go through the program and never prep a thing, just “Open & Go!” everything, so long as you have a reasonable set of supplies in a craft cupboard such as crayons, glue sticks, scissors, glitter, paper plates, paper bags, etc.  Some assignments that require “prep” are actually just having you collect groups of items from around the house, which can be done with your student, or you can have an older student participate by helping you gather the fun stuff.  Plus, your guide provides ready to use worksheets, projects, and other paper crafts, all ready to go.  So the answer is — little to none.

Explore articles, reviews and blog posts related to our Children Around the World program to help you learn more about it!

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