This lesson, which covers the events leading to the Battle of Hastings, is fun and thorough. Oh, and it involves dressing up as Knights! I hated history in school, apart from Henry VIII. He fascinated me. The rest however was plain boring. In particular I hated learning about wars and battles. A list of dates…
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Make a Gas Mask Model {World War One}
I had an enormous amount of fun working out how to make a gas mask from World War One. This is junk modelling at its best. I used what we had on hand (I always have a box of junk to use for such a thing as this). I try not to plan what we…
How to Make Soldier’s Trousers {World War 1}
As you all know, we have been learning all about World War One. As is our norm, the girls will be doing a presentation to mark the end of the unit. Abigail will be dressing up as the only woman ever to fight on the frontlines in the Great War: Flora Sandes. So we needed…
Siege of Liege Activities {World War I}
World War One is complicated and convoluted, and (IMHO) should never (ever) have happened. Learning about it is like watching a line of dominoes falling over and being completely unable to prevent what happens next. I have had to teach myself, over and over, to fully understand what happened to create the breeding ground for…
Edwardian Unit Study: Resources {1900-1910}
In September we began our study into the twentieth century. Beginning with the first decade, I planned many activities around the literature written during that time period, key events/people such as the suffragettes, key inventions such as the Brownie camera and the Wright brothers' flying machine, and the artists around at the time. The following…
China and the Shang Dynasty
China and the Shang Dynasty: Reading I read the lesson from the Mystery of History text book, and gathered all our ancient China books and had the girls peruse them: China and the Shang Dynasty: Researching Silk Worms After I had photocopied a few pages of information about silk worms, Abigail read them and did…
The Israelites in Slavery
We had great fun learning about the Israelites in Slavery, and the girls experienced a little (a very little) about what it was like being a slave to the Egyptians. Israelites in Slavery: Reading Abigail read the lesson from the Mystery of History text book, and I read out everything covering the Israelites in Egypt…
Mystery of History: Lesson Eight – The Tower of Babel
I wondered what on earth I could teach my girls about the Tower of Babel. I mean, they have read their Bible. And they are very familiar with the story. What else was there? It wasn't until I began digging a bit deeper, using the Mystery of History text as my starting point, that I…
The Ice Age Unit Study
We have never done an Ice Age unit study before, so I was quite excited to be learning alongside the children. I decided to invest in a couple of extra resources to make the whole lesson more informative and interesting. As a result, it was a light-hearted and fun lesson: just how I like it…
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…
Ancient Egypt Homeschool Resource: Mysteries of the Nile
I had wanted to find the perfect ancient Egyptian resource. An ancient Egyptian resource which would not only be interesting to the children, but also to me. I had already taught this era to my older three children and I needed something which would give a spark to it second time round. Mysteries of the…
Plans for the Littles {2017-2018}
I have been in a quandary as far as teaching my little ones goes. I always thought I would simply teach them in the same way as I taught my older ones, by working our way through the history of mankind. In fact we did start with a Dinosaur Unit Study followed by a Mesopotamia…