Disclosure: I received this complimentary product through the Homeschool Review Crew.

Homeschool Bible Curriculum

5th Grade- Possessing the Land

Positive Action Bible Curriculum

Homeschool Review Crew

Do you teach a homeschool Bible curriculum as part of your homeschool?  Is it by age?  Or does everyone come together for it?  Recently we got the chance to review a new homeschool Bible curriculum geared towards 5th-grade students.  Positive Action Bible Curriculum was gracious to send us the physical 5th Grade- Possessing the Land curriculum as part of a Homeschool Review Crew run. 

About the Curriculum

As part of the review, we received the student workbook as well as the teacher book.  I love that the teacher book is in a binder so you can pick and pull pages as needed. 

This curriculum is made to be used for a whole school year.  With that said it is also customizable so that the parent can decide to stretch it into more or squeeze it into less.  There are 35 lessons within the curriculum.  If one lesson is done per week then it will last for a full year whereas if you use more lessons per week it could be used as a semester program instead. 

There are quizzes within the curriculum as well as the lessons to check on learning and how much is being comprehended by your student.  They are disbursed throughout the homeschool Bible curriculum. 

Contents

The lessons for this curriculum are out of the Old Testament. 

In lessons, 1-7 students study God’s care for Abraham and his family. 

The next set of lessons 8-17 focuses on the journey of the Israelites from Egypt through the wilderness, as well as their first struggles in Canaan.  

Lessons 18-26 we journey through the early kings of Israel, the division of the Kingdom, and the Babylonian exile. 

In the last set of lessons 27-35, we study God’s wisdom and righteousness, as revealed to us in the Poetic and Prophetic books. 

Each lesson is a week’s worth of information containing three sessions, content objectives, learning objectives plus bonus optional components that you can use.  Some of those optional things are scripture memory verses, character traits, and a hymn. 

Student Book

The student books have four types of areas to help your student study and learn about the Bible.  It’s more than just reading the Bible.  These areas are Student Exercises, Vocabulary Sections, Application Sections, and artwork/maps.  The student workbook is bright and colorful and has some really neat maps that I enjoyed looking at with my kids as we worked through the lessons.

Teacher’s Manual

The teacher’s manual comes shrinkwrapped and you get to put it into the binder it comes with.  I liked that it came with dividers to help separate the sections. 

Included in the teacher’s manual are:

• the 35 lessons
• three different weekly schedules
• the content objectives which are the Biblical materials covered in each lesson
• learning objectives or what we hope the student comes away with from each lesson
• simple devotional takeaways
• character trait activities
• weekly quizzes
• Scripture memory verses
• music curriculum
• student manual pages (these are student workbook pages with the answers filled in)

Our Thoughts

I think if you were wanting to flesh out this curriculum into a two-year or rather for us a full year of year-round schooling you could add in all of the optional components and make each week last a week and a half or two weeks. 

I did like that the course gives you a schedule for using with three or four or five days a week.  We try to do school at least four days a week but some weeks we might only get in three and some weeks we might get all five days so it was nice to be able to easily change up our weekly schedule without me having to cram or move things around.  

When you look on the website you have an option of printed or digital workbooks.  The digital is interactive workbooks and you do need to purchase one per student.  I think they’re geared towards school use but if you’ve got several kids using the curriculum I think it would be a good option. 

How We’re Using and Photos

I really enjoy how this is set up.  For my own personal use, I think I’m going to attach sticky tabs to each week or lesson so that I can easily turn to them.  The binder did come with three dividers but I’ve found that I only use two.  I separate the quizzes from the lessons.  I’ve just been keeping the student pages with answers in with the teacher’s part of the lessons so that it’s easier to go through and grade them together.  In the future, I might separate them but I would also then do the tabs for each lesson on those as well. 

The information that is given to you as the teacher is amazing.  I’m learning and digging into this with the kids just as much as they are  I love it!

Another thing I’d like to chat about is how the teacher and student copies of the student pages differ.  The only difference is the answers and the color.  I like having this for ease of checking answers though I think you could get by without them unless you had a question.  

The color maps are amazing and I love to go look at the student book when we’re looking at them so I can see them in color too!

I have been using this with my 10-year-old.  She’s been the one using the workbook.  But I have to be perfectly honest here and let you know that all of my other kids sit around and go through the discussion portion with us.  I’d love to see a print option where you can download the student book and print it out from home so everyone can have their own print copy.  

Learn More

You can learn more about what others thought of the 5th grade- Possessing the Land homeschool Bible curriculum by reading all of the reviews linked up on the main blog post over on the Homeschool Review Crew blog.  Find the ones with the keyword of 5th Grade. 

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