Since I am teaching history via a timeline, we learned about Stonehenge right after the Sumerian Civilization.
For most of the study we just used “Decoding Stonehenge” on Netflix.
We had tried to watch this a couple years ago but this time the boys seemed to enjoy it better.
It has a lot of re-enactments of what they think took place at Stonehenge.
Whenever I think a movie might be a little bit too much for them I always make popcorn.
Popcorn always makes them sit still longer!
They made a model of Stonehenge with the Jenga blocks.
This really helped them remember what Stonehenge was!
We also found a good article on kidsdiscover.com.
It had a quiz at the end that the boys really liked doing.
I have just recently realized they love online quizzes!
Lego men of course needed to be added to our Stonehenge model…
Since the video we watched talked a lot about Solstice, I took the opportunity to study it.
These books, “The Shortest Day, The Longest Day, and Arctic Lights Arctic Nights” were really good!
I got all three at our local library!
I also found some really good information and videos about the Solstice at the Teacher Vision Website.
My only regret was not learning all of this during a Solstice!
Maybe we will have to look into it again in June when the Summer Solstice takes place.
