Here is The Girl with her river. We will "flood" them once a week and watch in hopes that the grass grows along its "banks".
This is The Boy and his Nile river. I"m not sure if they had more fun collecting the rocks and pebbles to line the model or "flooding" the river!
This week, we are making our own cuneiform tablets and learning about the first forms of writing. Next week we will move on to PYRAMIDS!!!
I also stumbled across a wonderful blog by another homeschooling mom named Carrie. Her blog, "Live, Learn, and Love Together" is an incredible resource of homeschooling ideas and insight. So I did what any creatively-challenged homeschooling mom would do and "borrowed" some of her great ideas! Her idea for an Independent Notebook/Folder was perfectly timed - we were having trouble making the transition from waking up/breakfast to school and the notebook idea fit right in! And her pictures of the projects that her children did when working through Story of the World, Volume 1 help me think beyond just the basics (compare her pictures of their Nile rivers to the pictures of OUR Nile rivers and you'll see what I'm talking about! She's much more creative than I am.).
So thanks, Carrie, for the incredible resource that is your blog!
For now, it's quiet time here in our house so I'm off to read a book!
Pau.
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Ah, for pyramids, you can modify what I did for igloos: build with sugar cubes and icing! They love the building and snitching a taste here and there. It is a good lesson in engineering too --- figuring out how to make your brick walls as strong as possible with only these two supplies.
ReplyDeleteWe were all over the King Tut exhibit a couple of years ago when it visited a city nearby. I love the look of hieroglyphics and printed out door name plates for both of them!
Fun! Enjoy!
Yep - plans for a sugar cube pyramid are in the works. I wish we lived somewhere else and could get to a substantial museum in order to see some of these things up close and personal. C'est la vie.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow, we're going to make cueiform tablets out of modeling clay. Should be fun!
When I'm working at home I drive to Starbucks and back to have a "commute" and a transition from home to work ;)
ReplyDeleteThe kids seem to enjoy our Starbucks interludes. Almost as much as I do :)
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