Ancient Times Study with Story of the World

 I LOVE history and couldn't wait to share more about the past with our kids. I purchased Story of the World Volumes 1-4 on a sale a few years ago, the books and the audio. We have LOVED the audio. The kids ask for it in the car all the time. For at least a year, we would play that and not do anything else with history. We were still figuring out our groove with homeschool and I wasn't ready to add anything to our morning time, language arts and math routine yet. 

This past fall (2020) seemed like a good time to start diving in more. I decided to start with the beginning: Ancient Times. I looked up lots of lists of books to go along with this volume and grabbed a bunch from the library. Pictured here are the ones that we used the most. We already had lots of ancient Egypt books because it is a passion of Bridger's! It's been fun to study and see them recall stories that we've listened to already.

I kept these out September-late November in a big basket in the living room until they were replaced with Christmas books on December 1. We listened to SOTW together, looked at maps and read these together. My kids are 8 and under so we didn't get too intense or deep with our ancient times study. I mostly wanted it to be about exposure. My plan is to work through the rest of the SOTW volumes (one a semester) and then loop back around to Volume 1 when we "finish" them. So this won't be the last time we study this. 

You can use this list for your library holds:

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Diana Bentley

Atlas of the Ancient World by Anne Millard

Pyramid by David Macaulay

First History Encyclopedia (a DK book)

Ancient Civilizations (DK eyewitness)

How the Sphinx Got to the Museum by Jessie Hartland (her whole series is great, we have them all)

Of Numbers and Stars the Story of Hypatia by D. Anne Love

Pompeii by Richard Platt

Pompeii (DK discoveries)

We did not read get around to reading The Golden Goblet or The Bronze Bow but I kept them here to remember when we come back around to ancient studies in a couple of years.

There are lots of books about mummies and ancient Egypt out there so I won't bother listing the ones we have. 

You'll find so much just searching "ancient times" or "ancient _____" in your library's search engine. And in my experience, librarians are so happy to help you find what you're looking for or even things you didn't know you needed!

And if you can't find them at your library, Thriftbooks is another great place to check. 

Others I didn't get a picture of before returning to the library: 

Mesopatamia by Phillip Steele (a DK book!)

Pompeii: The Day a City was Buried by Melanie Rice

The Trojan Horse by Warwick Hutton

Ancient Civilizations by Joe Fullman (another DK book!)

And here is Read Aloud Revival's ancient times book list.