Moses and the Exodus: Reading Along with the Mystery of History text, I read Exodus, and Wonders and Miracles to the girls. These are both excellent books, especially Wonders and Miracles - it is full of stories, poems, readings, songs and incredible drawings. I consider it one of the more special books I own. The…
Category: Mystery of History: Volume One
Mystery of History Volume One Posts
I have very slowly been writing the Mystery of History posts as we cover each lesson. We are probably going at a quarter the speed we should be, but I'm thinking some is better than none. And the girls call this fun school so I must be doing something right, albeit at a snail's pace…
Joseph and his Coat of Many Colours
Joseph: Reading I did quite a lot of reading for this study on the Joseph of the old testament, including reading some articles online of character studies. It's funny, because when I started this lesson I wondered if I could make it interesting enough for the girls, but when it came to it, I think…
Jacob and Esau
Jacob and Esau: Reading I read out the lesson about Jacob and Esau from the Mystery of History text book, and we also read around the subject using the family Bible. Honestly, the Family Bible is one of the best books I own for giving the reader lots of extraneous information helping them to understand…
Mystery of History: Lesson 13 – Abraham
We had lots of fun learning about Abraham, making star globes and lots of dress up clothes for the girls' dolls Abraham: Lesson We read the lesson from the Mystery of History text book, as well as reading from the Family Bible, which gives lots of extra historical context: Our main activities were using the…
Mystery of History: Lesson Eleven – Early Egyptians
The girls have studied the Egyptians before, but they were still fascinated to revisit it again. I'm getting used to reining myself in and not doing too much per MOH lesson. Early Egyptians - Reading I read out the lesson from the Mystery of History text book. Early Egyptians: Map Work I used a map…
Mystery of History: Lesson Ten – Stonehenge
We did our Stonehenge lesson over a couple of weeks, as we had never covered it before and I wanted to learn a bit more about it! I found an excellent couple of story books which describe different aspects of Stonehenge. They were my starting point to lots of lovely hands on activities 🙂 Stonehenge:…
How to Make Historical Clothing for Dolls: Stonehenge Fashion
As we go through our Mystery of History studies, I will be making historical clothing for the girls' dolls as and when I have time. The girls still enjoy playing with their dolls, especially dressing and undressing them 🙂 I couldn't find a male doll so I massacred one of the girl dolls which now…
How to Make Stonehenge Hand Tools
I used the teacher's guide from the Stonehenge website as my source of inspiration to make some hand tools from the Neolithic period of Stonehenge. Stonehenge Hand Tools: The Antler Pick Picture Credit I drew a vague antler pick shape out of stiff cardboard: The children cut some out: Added some padding (crushed up foil)…
Mystery Of History: Lesson Nine – Gilgamesh
Having already covered Gilgamesh during our Ancient Mesopotamia Unit Study with the littles a couple of years ago I wondered if I should maybe skip it. I mean, we had studied it quite in depth. But then I began to toss around some ideas, and figured why not! They were very young before, and we…
Mystery of History: Lesson Seven – The Sumerians
I am very familiar with the Sumerians, having studied them in-depth with my older children during our Mesopotamia Unit Study. It was interesting all those years ago and I was looking forward to digging in this time. An extremely advanced people, the Sumerians built cities, created the sexagesimal counting system as well as the very…
Mystery of History Lesson Three: Tubalcain and Jubal
The third Mystery of History lesson was about Tubal Cain and Jubal. The mention of these men in Genesis shows how advanced early man actually was. Jubal, the brother of Jabal, is the second son of Lamech with Adah. He is described in the Bible as “the father of all such as handle the harp…
How to Make Bronze Age Artefacts for Imaginative Play and Learning
This is going to be a post outlining how we made our own Bronze Age Artefacts and will be mainly pictures with a few annotations. We have been learning about Tubal-Cain and Jubal in our Mystery of History lessons. They are only mentioned once in the Bible: His brother's name was Jubal; he was the…
Mystery of History Lesson Two: Adam and Eve
At the crux of the Christian message of the Bible is the story of Adam and Eve. The first man and woman of the world were given everything their heart could desire, except for the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Showing that wanting what one can not have is part…
The Mystery of History Lesson One: Creation
Creation is such a fun topic to study, and in doing so one can imagine the blank canvas of the universe as God painted His beautiful ideas into being. I know some struggle with teaching their children about creation, but not me. The very idea that we were created by a loving God, formed into…