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Solomon, Hatshepsut, Spartans, Jonah, & King Tut

10/31/2014 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

The timeline we are using speculates that Hatshepsut could be the Queen of Sheba that meets with Solomon.

I think it is an interesting theory so we learned about Hatshepsut at the same time we were learning about Solomon.

We used the action bible for Solomon.

“Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself” and “Hatshepsut: The Princess Who Became King” were similar books so we just read through one of them.

We also watched “Unwrapping the Pharaohs” by David Down on Hepshetsut.

We read “How the Sphinx got to the Museum” before and the boys liked it a lot.

It is a nice intro for younger kids.

The boys read these top three books on their own.

It is nice and sad at the same time.

We can get through a lot more books but I miss out on some now.

I got this book with the grand plan of doing lots of fun things while learning about Egypt.

The only reason any of the projects in this book got done is because of the boys though.

My youngest insisted on making this house.

All that prep and he spent maybe 5-10mins on it…

I asked if maybe he wanted to put a little more work into it but he insisted it had everything the picture did.

He also really wanted to make the chest in the book.

I just let him go at it.

For King Tut, I had the boys read “The Curse of King Tut’s Mummy” and “Who was King Tut“.

There are some documentaries on Netflix also but I have still not gotten to them!

I have no clue why, it happens.

For Jonah, I thought I would mix it up a bit and bought the Adventures in Odyssey episode about him to listen to.

It was really good and helped the story come to life!

We watched the documentary from PBS called “The Spartans” also.

It was well done and very interesting but you might want to watch it before letting your kids watch it.

They mentioned the Spartans love life a couple times in a way that may not be appropriate and I learned things that I never remember learning about the Spartans before.

Like the city elders got to decide if your baby was worthy of being a Spartan or not, if they decided they were inferior then they would throw them off a cliff…

They also took boys away at the age of 7 to turn them into super soldier/killers.

Apparently Hitler was a big fan of their society if that helps.

We only watched the first episode.

I was pretty scarred from just that.

My boys being typical boys thought a super soldier society was awesome…

They glossed right over the infanticide.

We talked about the drawbacks to being a Spartan though.

I think they realize raising little boys to be killers might not be fun or the best thing for a people.

Boys…

Homeschooling

Samson, Eli, Samuel, David, Saul and Iron

10/22/2014 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

For most of our bible history we are using this well used Action Bible.

The boys know that we do not always agree with their interpretation though.

They add stuff that is not in a KJV, I guess to make the story more interesting?

For our study of David I also had the boys read “Showdown with the Shepherd”.

I really enjoy the Imagination Station books and so does my 6yr old.

I tried out a way of learning history that I want to use later on.

The boys learn by answering questions to do with that time period.

I saw a curriculum that taught with this method and thought it was awesome!

I of course can’t remember the name of it now.

If you know could you let me know?

That would be great!

I wrote down one bible verse that they had to look up to finish and the rest could be answered with the action bible.

It took a little bit of time but it was quicker than trying to read all about David.

I knew they probably already knew the information anyway.

My oldest proved that by answering most of these from memory.

We finished up our metal study with another science experiment.

This one involved pouring bleach and vinegar in with steel wool.

We used distilled water this time so we would have a better control.

Our last rust experiments seemed to prove our water needs filtered…

The reaction was so fast!

We ended up going to visit family for the last week of our study of metal so I do not have pictures for that week.

The boys did get to see metal melted down for making bullets though!

I am counting that as part of their study.

UPDATE!

My mother in-law took pics!

I left the above experiment sitting on our table while we were gone.

I was hoping to document when it rusted completely.

My youngest ended up knocking the cups over, spilling them all over the table and the groceries so that idea was scrapped.

Maybe next time.

Do you have a favorite historical bible novel for kids?

Homeschooling, Museums/Events

Homeschool Day at the OKC History Center ~Oklahoma City, OK

10/20/2014 Danielle Huddleston Leave a comment

This was our second year attending the Homeschool Day at the History Center in OKC!

There were at least twice as many tables this year but some of them were more geared towards advertising.

We did see a couple of museums we would like to check out though.

We have seen this man who plays musical instruments at so many events!

He always does an amazing job!

Listening about life as a Civil War Soldier.

What it would be like during a dust storm.

My youngest said he could still see…

We really need to visit the Museum of Osteology.

The Surveyor did an amazing job.

Making their brand.

Looking for fossils.

There was so much to do that we did not even visit the main part of the museum this year!

I was too worn out!

I am a wimp, what can I say?

This is an amazing event and they do a great job!