TOS Crew Review of Apologia Educational Ministries What on Earth Can I Do? Set

Are you familiar with Apologia?  Apologia EducationalMinistries has such a variety of subjects for your homeschool. They even have a Bible Curriculum! I was excited to be chosen for this review. My family has been using, What on Earth Can I Do?,What on Earth Can I Do? Notebooking Journal, What on Earth Can I Do? Junior Notebooking Journal, and What on EarthCan I Do? Coloring Book.

What on Earth Can I Do? Hardback book  $39.00

What on Earth Can I Do? Notebooking Journal cost $24.00

What on Earth Can I Do? Junior NotebookingJournal cost $24.00

What on Earth Can I Do? Coloring Bookcost $8.00

What on Earth Can I Do Set is recommended for grade 1-6.

 

What on Earth Can I Do? Is a hardback book with 294 pages in this beautifully illustrated book. The focus of the book is, “How do we fit in the Masters plan in our world”? The main backdrop is on World War II and focuses on stewardship. This is the core book of the What on Earth Can I Do? There are 8 lessons which are broken down in several key components.

The Big Idea

What You Will Do

Short Story

Think About it

Words You Need to Know

Hide it in Your Heart

Integrated Learning

What Should I Do

Prayer

Parables of Jesus

Going Deeper

House of Truth

You can go at your own pace as the lessons are very flexible to fit in your schedule. They have a reasonable lesson plan included in the book which is around three weeks per lesson, two days a week.

 

What on Earth Can I Do? Notebooking Journal is a soft covered spiral bound book. It includes activities that go along with What on Earth Can I Do? This notebook will have questions that the student needs to write down, vocabulary, copy work of varies scriptures, mini books, word searches, and additional resources to search out to go deeper on the subject.

What on Earth Can I Do? Junior Notebooking Journal is a soft covered spiral bound book. It has a lot of the same components as the other notebook journal but is geared more towards the younger elementary grades with larger print and lined paper to write on. Fill in the blank questions, coloring pages, word and crossword puzzles, mini books, and copy work of scriptures.

 

What on Earth Can I Do? Coloring Book has 64 coloring pages of both biblical events, historical, and character traits. Each page had either a scripture verse of a general saying. This book would be for lower elementary kids who enjoy coloring. The coloring pages are very detailed.

How did I use What on Earth Can I Do? In our homeschool?

This year we have been studying World War II so it has been a nice complement to our other studies. We did the studies 4 times a week and we went at our own pace. We finished almost 4 lessons during this review period.

For the What on Earth Can I Do? Notebooking Journal we did it orally as I thought it was a tad bit advanced for my children to do by themselves. My fifth grader with her physical challenges would have a hard time with the writing lessons and the space provided. We had some wonderful discussions with the questions. I don’t shy away from the Holocaust.

For the What on Earth Can I Do? Junior Notebooking Journal my kids took turns doing various activities in the book or they wrote on paper the scripture. This broke up the activities with coloring and puzzles. Then we finished up with a mini book after each lesson. Neither one of my children are big on writing. My son is just a typical boy and my daughter has physical limitations so I really appreciated all the variety included in the notebooks.

There is a lot of reading and the activities in the notebooks and the coloring book were nice. I let them color or do some of the activities in the notebooks while I read to them.

My Final Thoughts:

I cannot begin to say enough of wonderful things about, What on Earth Can I Do? Series. I haven’t used any of the previous books from this series. This is the forth in the series. I would recommend the journals and coloring books it’s worth the extra cost. They add a lot to the program.

This is a Biblically sound program with a Christian worldview that I highly recommend. This is truly an amazing program to add to your family devotional. I look forward to adding the other, ‘What We Believe Series” into my homeschool resource.

My family loves history and the kids loved it. That says a lot to a mom when the kids are excited to do a program.

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