This week we learned about The Sumerians, The Tower of Babel, and The Epic of Gilgamesh. For our activity we made our own cuneiform tablets using clay, a rolling pin, and a butter knife. In the book, it asks how hard it would be to erase your mistakes if you wrote your schoolwork on a clay tablet. So Anthony decided to try to erase his writings. He took the flat side of his butter knife and scraped it across his clay and it took away all of his writings.
Here is a picture of the timeline board we created. I used a tri fold science project board and colored strips of paper. We are using Amy Pak's timeline figures from www.homeschoolinthewoods.com. Making the timeline has really helped the boys understand B.C. time. It was very confusing to them at first why 4500 B.C. came before 3500 B.C. not after, but putting it on the timeline has made a big difference and it is their favorite part of history.
A closer shot of the timeline figures |
In addition to the readings, timeline, mapping, and memory cards, Chelsea also does one activity from each section. For example, one of the activities for older students this week was: investigate who Nimrod was in the Bible. Find out what his name meant and what his association was with the Tower of Babel. Write 2 paragraphs on this topic and file it in your notebook.
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