The First Cities of India

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients)
  
  • The River-Road
    
  • The Mystery of Mohenjo-Daro

Mapwork:
Cameron's

Notice the neatness with which the water is colored. It's actually only colored at all because someone decided to make the river run all the way along the coastline. I said that that wasn't accurate and that the ocean would have to be colored to correct it. I was very pleased to see how neatly that was done. You will notice that Cassia's mapwork is not shown here. That is because her picture was entirely red. Eeek.

Coloring Pages: "An Indus King"

Cameron's:


Cassia's:

Notice her typically amazing use of color.

Favorite Library Books:

1. Once a Mouse... A Fable Cut in Wood by Marcia Brown
   
2. One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi
   

Hammurabi and the Babylonians

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients), Chapter 7
  
  • Hammurabi's Code

Map Work:


Coloring Pages:
Cameron's

Cassia's


Crafts/Activities:
LEGO ziggurat

The Jewish People

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients), Chapter 6
  
  • God Speaks to Abraham
    
  • Joseph Goes to Egypt
  
  

Map Work:

The route from Ur to Haran to Canaan and finally to Egypt is shown.

Coloring Pages:
Cameron's:

Cassia's:

Akkadia

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (the Ancients), Chapter 5
  
  • Sargon and the Akkadians
  
  

Coloring Pages:
Cameron's:

You can't tell from the scan, but the hat was very carefully colored a light peach or "flesh" color. Speaking of flesh color, before he began coloring, Cameron asked me if the people of Sumer had dark skin. I said that I wasn't sure, but I thought they did. He said, "Oh, ok. I have a brown crayon here for dark skin, but I don't think I'll use it now." He ended up not coloring the skin at all. I wonder if that is a political statement of sorts? It was, certainly, the first time he has ever mentioned skin color.

Cassia's:
(Scanner conked out! It was very red though, lol.)

Map Work:
Not interesting enough to post. ;) Just a red circle around Akkadia.

Other Activities:
*Word search on Sumerian Inventions for Cameron
*Illustrations of the list words for Cassia (click to enlarge)

Favorite Library Books:

1. Arabian Nights: Three Tales retold and illustrated by Deborah Nourse Lattimore
   
2. The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East retold by Eric A. Kimmel and illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
   
3. You Wouldn't Want to Be a Sumerian Slave! by Jacquline Morley
   

The First Writing

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients), Chapter 3
  
  • *Hieroglyphs and Cuneiform
  
  

Favorite Library Books:

• Seeker of Knowledge: The Man who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs by James Rumford
  

Map Work:
Cameron's

Cassia's


Coloring Pages:
Cameron's

The black was an artistic thing. I'm not sure what it "means" but he actually left the room to find a black crayon. He really, really wanted that man to be black as night. He wanted to do his map work in black too but I wouldn't let him because I said that you wouldn't be able to see the map if he did!

Cassia's

Crafts:

• Cameron's name in hieroglyphic letters
  
  
• Cassia's name in cuneiform on clay (plus some happy faces)
  
  
• "Mom" in hieroglyph letters on clay (forgive the faulty autofocus)
  
  
• "Mom" in cuneiform on clay (again, forgive the faulty autofocus)
  
  

Egyptian Gods and Temples

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume 1 (The Ancients), Chapter 2
  
  • *Gods of Ancient Egypt
  
  

Favorite Library Books:

• Gods and Goddesses in the Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians by Henrietta McCall
  
• Cry of the Benu Bird: An Egyptian Creation Story by C. Shana Greger
  

Crafts:

Egyptian god dolls

Osiris and Isis


Amun and Horus


Thoth and Khnum


Anubus and Seth

Egyptians Lived on the Nile

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume 1 (The Ancients), Chapter 2
  
  • *Two Kingdoms Become One
  
  

Map Work:
Cameron's

Cassia's



Coloring Pages:
Cameron's

Cassia's

Nomads & Early Farmers

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume I (The Ancients), Chapter 1
  
  • *The First Nomads
    
  • *The First Nomads Become Farmers
  
  

Map Work:
Cameron's

Cassia's


Coloring Pages:
Cameron's

Cassia's


Illustration (8/30/07):

"A house in Catal Huyuk."