Fun in Ancient Mesopotamia
We are enjoying adding hands-on fun to our history lessons.
Category: ancient history
Woolly Mammoth Videos
In our study of woolly mammoths we read The First Dog and You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Mammoth Hunter. Both were fun and enjoyable books for my boys, but videos made our study more complete. I took a trip over to YouTube and selected these videos. Both of my…
Woolly Mammoth Cake
For our study of prehistory we have explored woolly mammoths. At the conclusion of our study we made a woolly mammoth cake. I like to include art in our studies, but don’t have space for tons of art projects to hang around. To resolve this I like to make our…
Fun with Ancient History
We are studying ancient history through living books, activities, and videos. We are exploring what life must have been like when people hunted mammoths, lived in caves, and traveled around looking for food.
Making a Coracle – Ancient History Art Project
As part of our study of ancient history we read several pages in The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago about ancient history. The book covers several different time periods, but we are focusing on the sections on ancient history for now. On page 75 of the book it gave…
World History Instead of American History
I had planned on walking my boys through several major points of American History through unit studies in the next 1-2 years. Since we moved to Canada, I have revisited that idea. While I do want my boys to learn American History, it doesn’t make sense to cover that first…
