W using a clay "tablet". He preferred the picture writing of the Egyptian Heiroglyphs.
In our last post I touched upon the Egyptian Heiroglyphics and Sumerian Cunieform we are learning about through The Story of the World Volume 1: Ancient Times. In addition to W translating my written message on paper, we decided to try it with modeling clay last week on one of the rainy days.
Writing was not easy!
Our chaotic everything table. :) We do lessons here and eat every meal here, it's pretty much the center of our home since our kitchen is attached to the living room. This is pretty much what it looks like during weekdays on "normal homeschool days" (when we don't have co-ops or friends over). You may notice our math workbox at the far end and the bucket of crayons in the center. The red binder has W's history stuff. C is standing up for some reason but he always is curious about W's projects and this one was fun for him too.
Today W and I listened to the last few chapters on the CD as a review (now we are finished with Chapter 7, Hammurabi's Code). W thought many of the rules that Hammurabi set were not fair (such as killing people over stealing an animal). I love my peace-loving little guy. :) We have a couple of word finder puzzles from the Story of the World activity book which he will work on this week. I may take them along for W on Friday when C has a doctor's appointment.
This is so neat! Yesterday G was asking me how Egyptians wrote in stone, and I bet she'd love to do this.
ReplyDeleteI really need to start documenting better what we've been doing. Your boys are going to love looking back and seeing everything they did.
Amy B (in Texas)
Thanks for the comment, Amy! I was amazed at how much I found online about ancient writing. I really like Story of the World so far although some chapters have more to do than others. (There are not many kid books on ancient India at the library!)
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