Creation to the Greeks - Finishing Ancient Egypt

We are over halfway through the school year now.  18 out of 34 weeks done.  We've read through the Old Testament to the book of Judges and are at about 1000BC on our timeline.  Like I've said before, this history is just as interesting to me as it is to the boys.

The boys have memorized the Ten Commandments as well as Psalm 23:1-6.  It's amazing (and unfair!) how they are better at the memorizing part than I am.  I did condense some of the longer ones so the boys would understand them better.

Christopher's Ten Commandments

(I don't know what's going on with his numbers getting mixed up.)

Matthew's Ten Commandments

We made a model of the Tabernacle.

The boys woke up to "manna" on the ground one morning.  They ate the "manna" for breakfast but were not thrilled when I told them it would be their only food for the rest of the day so we could experience what it was like to eat the same thing for just one day instead of the 40 years the Israelites ate it! 

They were happier when I told them I was joking and they could have their usual lunch of PB&J...which they eat almost everyday for lunch (although, for just 18 years instead of 40.)

And while the Israelites walked on dry land through the river, Christopher wanted to make a boat for his sisters. (Not necessarily having to do with school, but still cute.)

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Matthew has started multiplication in math and Christopher is doing all sorts of fancy stuff with fractions. 

They both really enjoy the books that I read aloud to them by Patricia St. John.  We've read The Tanglewoods' Secret, Star of Light and are about to finish up Treasures of the Snow.

Everything else we're just plugging away at.  We're due to finish in the first week of June and then we'll probably be busy with moving this summer...hopefully more to come on that soon!