Like I've said already, we started off our history studies at the beginning of time. We use Story of the World--the book and the activity guide. Which is good because I don't have to do a lot of searching for things to do or maps to color.
In the beginning...people were nomads and ate lizards. We talked about different foods they may have eaten (there is a quiz online that Harry had fun with). We looked at cave paintings and made our own. Decided we wouldn't necessarily want to be nomads and moved into the agricultural revolution. We have our own garden so planting seeds is a normal part of Harry's life and I think that helped make sense of what we were reading. We read quite a few books about Early People and their tools and weapons. Harry now can point out a flint in any book he reads.
Now we have moved onto Ancient Egypt. We've located the Nile Delta and talked about the Double Crown King--Narmer. The boys pretend to be Egyptians now when they play. I constantly have to remind them to play nice since neither wants to be the losing king! We made crowns and collars to wear when being Pharaohs. We even made one for Annika. And then of course we've now moved into the gods and goddess portion of our studies. We will be finishing that and moving onto hieroglyphics this week.
That's as far as we've gotten not because we don't like what we're doing, but because we do. It's all interesting and there are so many books to read. Also, since Jason and I have been to Egypt, it's fun to look at the books and pictures and tell Harry what it's really like.
The one thing I wish I'd done a better job in is listing all of the books we've used to supplement SOTW. Our main book is the Kingfisher World History Encyclopedia. But we also use the Usborne First History Encyclopedia. If anyone has a source for cheap Usborne books, let me know. I love most all of them.
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