Time Goes By

And progressing with history....

We have also learned about Ancient Mesopotamia. I am going to assume you either know the names/places we talk about, or really don't care (because you don't have to. If this was about engineering or something I would skim read and just look at the pictures too!) To complement learning about people moving from a nomadic lifestyle, to the fertile Crescent and into settling villages, towns etc we have learned about the first writing - cuneiform, hieroglyphs etc; and as an extension of that we have made our own version of some Sumerian seals.

First, we make the negatives, and wait for them to dry.

Then you have left over clay to create with....

Then when the negatives are dry, we roll clay over the top to make the positive 'seal's.

Then one has to paint...

And somewhere in here we learned about Hammurabi and his Code. So we made our own... they are one the kids walls. We gave them the first three, then told them to make up some more (within reason - Mum and Dad can veto!) The last few laws get a little silly....

I am MOSTLY happy with this list!

1 - Obey and honour your parents.
2 - Treat your siblings as your best friends.
3 - Love Jesus with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.
4 - Respect everyone's property.
5 - Don't lie.
6- Don't go into anyone else's room unless invited by the owner or parent.
7 - Change your underwear everyday.
8 - Ignore rule number 8 if you don't have any underwear.
9 - Say 'please' and 'thankyou'.
10 - Be nice.

If HE can be silly, so can I!! I won't type these out because she used a marker and you can see them. And you may enjoy the phonetic challenge. I despair over spelling regularly, but if one would rather not waste space in our head on things like that when it could be used for singing, dancing, drawing etc.... We'll get there... eventually!!