Creating a Tablet {History Class}

I am so sorry that I have been so horrible about posting anything regarding to our homeschool. That has not been intentional I can assure you. I find myself thinking of all these great pics and posts but then when I get a sec to sit down it all seems like it's going to take forever to post so I say "ok later". Sadly for me later never comes. That also is true for all the homeschooling links and such I want to add to this blog. ugh there just seems to be so much! I need more time in the day. Yep... or a tighter stricter schedule, but that is a different post in and of itself! lol

Tonight though I am going to attempt something school related... Wish me luck!

This week we have had some fun in school...  History in particular.

As I had mentioned a while back we had been talking about Cuneiform. So to see how easy (or difficult) it would be to write in this form of writing I thought it would be a lot of fun to go through "the process" the Sumerians would have had to go through just to document something.

So...

We made the dough {we used the baker's clay recipe}

We got everything ready

and got to work.

Then we baked it and let it cool

Then we thought painting it would be cool to give it more of a red clay kind of look

Viola! It's done! 

We all had a lot of fun with this project this week. My daughter thinks that Cuneiform is 100x easier to write in then Hieroglyphics, but when asked she would much rather carry a scroll around than this tablet! lol Making a scroll is one of the next items on our to-do lists along with making a model of the Nile and mummifying a chicken. :) {and some other fun things as well} 

How about you? Any fun projects gracing your homeschool or home this lately??? 

School has been going great! 7 weeks in homeschooling independently and we LOVE it! The last 2 years have been so stressful and unfun {I realize that isn't really a word but it's the best I got lol} through the virtual academy. It is so refreshing being able to do what we like to do when we want to, and really being able to explore what we are learning. 

Homeschooling Rocks! Just in case you were wondering! lol