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would you bull leap for fun?

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would you bull leap for fun?

As I said Wednesday, we are really enjoying Mystery of History.  Our next lesson was just as interesting and fun as was the mummy lesson.

Have you ever heard of the Minoans?  They are a group of people that lived on the island of Crete.  They invited this crazy game call bull leaping!  What is bull leaping you ask?  Bull leaping is where you run towards a bull and then jump over it from the head towards the rear of the bull.  Crazy, I tell you!

They still do bull leaping in the south west of France.  We even found a video of a group of young men doing this!

Since we didn’t have a bull to practice bull leaping, we decided to play a game of leap frog.  It’s the same, isn’t it?  ðŸ˜‰  

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2012, homeschooling, Minoans, mystery of history

would you bull leap for fun?

Written by Joy
would you bull leap for fun?

As I said Wednesday, we are really enjoying Mystery of History.  Our next lesson was just as interesting and fun as was the mummy lesson.

Have you ever heard of the Minoans?  They are a group of people that lived on the island of Crete.  They invited this crazy game call bull leaping!  What is bull leaping you ask?  Bull leaping is where you run towards a bull and then jump over it from the head towards the rear of the bull.  Crazy, I tell you!

They still do bull leaping in the south west of France.  We even found a video of a group of young men doing this!

Since we didn’t have a bull to practice bull leaping, we decided to play a game of leap frog.  It’s the same, isn’t it?  ðŸ˜‰  

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2012, homeschooling, Minoans, mystery of history

on a roll with school..

Written by Joy
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on a roll with school..

We are back on track for the year of 2012.  We started our second week this past Monday morning and are having a wonderful time.  I am very thankful to have kids who love school and love to learn.  As for curriculum, not much has changed from the first half of the school year.  I have actually added a couple of more subjects.

For my younger two kids, we are still using Bob Jones Math, grades 1 and 2.   I have added Bob Jones Phonics/English for 1st grade.  We are still using Hooked on Phonics and I have now added their Bonus workbooks as well.  For science, I am continuing on with Apologia’s Botany.  This semester, I have added art for all three of my kids.  We are using See The Light art curriculum. I am really excited about this art curriculum and will be dedicating another post, just for it. Mystery of History is still our choice for history.  I am loving how they have short lessons and easy to do projects for the kids.



The kids really got into their lesson on Monday.  We read about Egypt, pharaohs and mummies!  The kids enjoyed hearing how the pyramids were built and how the Egyptians were mummified.  My oldest daughter showed our kids this really cool website that takes you through each step of mummification. 

We decided to do a little mummifying of our own!  The kids took a couple of their stuffed animals and we wrapped toilet paper around them until they were completely covered.
 
Then, I told the kids we were going to wrap them up just like a mummy.  Their older sister decided to help out!  How often can you wrap up a sibling in toilet paper?   😉
Samuel volunteered to go first!
 
I am thinking older sibling might be enjoying this a little too much!
 

What has been your favorite part of school so far this year? 

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2012, homeschooling, mummies, mystery of history, See The Light

on a roll with school..

Written by Joy
2 Comments
on a roll with school..

We are back on track for the year of 2012.  We started our second week this past Monday morning and are having a wonderful time.  I am very thankful to have kids who love school and love to learn.  As for curriculum, not much has changed from the first half of the school year.  I have actually added a couple of more subjects.

For my younger two kids, we are still using Bob Jones Math, grades 1 and 2.   I have added Bob Jones Phonics/English for 1st grade.  We are still using Hooked on Phonics and I have now added their Bonus workbooks as well.  For science, I am continuing on with Apologia’s Botany.  This semester, I have added art for all three of my kids.  We are using See The Light art curriculum. I am really excited about this art curriculum and will be dedicating another post, just for it. Mystery of History is still our choice for history.  I am loving how they have short lessons and easy to do projects for the kids.



The kids really got into their lesson on Monday.  We read about Egypt, pharaohs and mummies!  The kids enjoyed hearing how the pyramids were built and how the Egyptians were mummified.  My oldest daughter showed our kids this really cool website that takes you through each step of mummification. 

We decided to do a little mummifying of our own!  The kids took a couple of their stuffed animals and we wrapped toilet paper around them until they were completely covered.
 
Then, I told the kids we were going to wrap them up just like a mummy.  Their older sister decided to help out!  How often can you wrap up a sibling in toilet paper?   😉
Samuel volunteered to go first!
 
I am thinking older sibling might be enjoying this a little too much!
 

What has been your favorite part of school so far this year? 

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2012, homeschooling, mummies, mystery of history, See The Light

Sumerian Tablets

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Sumerian Tablets

Life has been so busy that I am just now getting around to posting what the little ones learned in History 2 weeks ago! We were talking about the Sumerians and made Sumerian tablets. Did you know that the Sumerian alphabet has 600 letters? They made schools just for people to learn the alphabet! The kids had a blast making the tablets and even the older sibling got involved helping the younger ones.  As you can tell, we are still loving Mystery of History!

We used the Salt Dough recipe that we used for the last project, instead of polymer clay.

You can find that recipe HERE.

Both of the kids designed their own tablets.  Samuel chose his name and a smiley face.  Older sister, enjoyed writing on the tablet for them.

Claire also chose her name and then decided to poke holes all around the tablet.  An original design as well. 🙂

  Like I said before, we are loving Mystery of History and really thank them a lot for allowing us the opportunity to use their curriculum.  I am looking forward to using more of Bright Ideas Press curriculum!

p.s.  I apologize for the poor pictures.  I am still learning to take pictures inside!
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2011, mystery of history