When you don’t want to make a mummified chicken, you do the next best thing and mummify your daughter! Well, not really. The mummified chicken project didn’t appeal to me at all, so I went in search of something else and decided to wrap up my daughter like a mummy.…
I’m going through the Story of the World series with my daughter at a leisurely pace. We are using the Story of the World audio book and the Story of the World Activity Book as our main resources and adding in some videos, books, and projects. On this post I…
My 6 year old finished up her prehistory study with a fun project. We had planned to make arrowhead cookies, but we still had a ton of Christmas cookies in the house so she and I looked for another option. She likes having fun in the kitchen so we looked…
Several years ago my boys and I spent the school year studying ancient Egypt. I am going over ancient Egypt with my youngest now and I went to find my former plans on the blog and couldn’t find them. After searching on my computer a little while I found them…
We just spend a couple months learning about prehistoric people and really enjoyed the story of Maroo of the Winter Caves. The book gave us a good idea of what life must have been like for people who lived long ago. We don’t have a cave around here to use…
I’m going through the Story of the World series with my daughter at a leisurely pace. We are using the Story of the World audio book and the Story of the World Activity Book as our main resources and adding in some videos, books, and projects. On this post I…
I put this study together to help my children better understand the symbolism in the Old Covenant and how it relates to Jesus. It is primarily designed for my 7th and 5th graders, but my 1st grader will also participate with an abbreviated discussion time. It digs deep into the…
This post is part of the Virtual Curriculum Fair. The topic this week is social studies and science. We have enjoyed exploring social studies and science through unit studies. Our love for unit studies all began when my oldest child was 5 and very much into dinosaurs. As we embarked…
When my boys were younger, we made a woolly mammoth cake as part of our prehistory study. I couldn’t really find an example of a woolly mammoth cake online, so I adapted an elephant cake. I plan to make this cake with my daughter this school year. If you want…
My boys are studying part of the ancient world this school year. The past couple of years we have focused on ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. This year our focus will be on ancient Rome. In Bible we are also covering the same time period. My boys are very different…
