A Study of Nouns

Copywork in which "Person" nouns have been underlined in blue, "Thing" nouns underlined in green, and "Idea" nouns enclosed in red.

Where did my picture go??

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
   

Cassia's Alphabet

Cassia's first copywork. She was writing random letters so I thought I would try her out with the whole alphabet. I was really impressed with her capitals. Obviously, she's not quite ready for lower case yet.

The Assyrians

Spine:

• Story of the World, Volume 1 (The Ancients), Chapter 8
  
  • The Assyrians
    
  • Gilgamesh the King

Map Work:


Coloring Page:

Favorite Library Books:

• Gilgamesh the King retold and illustrated by Ludmila Zeman
  
• The Revenge of Ishtar retold and illustrated by Ludmila Zeman
  
• The Last Quest of Gilgamesh retold and illustrated by Ludmila Zeman
  

"The Little Girl Who Wanted to Be Dirty"

First draft narration:

A girl had a dream. She hated baths but she had a dream she was in a pig pen. She played with the pigs all day but then when it was time for supper she just got pig food and she didn't like that so she ran home and took a bath and put on clean pajamas. She told her mom all about it and her mom said, "You just had a dream!" The end.

Final (edited) narration:

A girl hated baths but she had a dream she was in a pig pen. She played with the pigs all day but then when it was time for supper she just got pig food. She didn't like that so she ran home to take a bath and put on clean pajamas. The end.

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 Lion and the Mouse"

"The Lion and the Mouse" narration 10/16/07

Once upon a time there was a mouse and a lion. The mouse stepped on the lion's tail. The lion wanted to eat the mouse but the mouse promised to help the lion someday if he let him go. The lion thought that was so funny that he let him go. One day he stepped in a hunter's net and the little mouse came to the resue by chewing through the net.