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Aug. 27, 2008
MFW CTG week 3
With all the excitement of last week I am a bit off on our plan. we are supposed to be about mid week on week 4. however, we just finished up week 3. Not too bad, but we're skipping the celebration this week and we will reschedule the celebrations when they are normally celebrated through out the year. I've made notes on my calendar so that i know which week they were originally scheduled for quick reference.
We just learned about the Old Sumer civilization. we created clay tablets, cuniforms instead of the original 'sugar cookie" ones scheduled. You see, sugar cookies and i don't get along. LOL, and that is putting it mildly. i can not make sugar cookies to save my life. It's jsut a sad lumpy sticky mass of goo that turns out. Someone gave me the suggestion of using sugar instead of flour to roll them out on once and they did roll otu finally, but they were so sweet even the kids wouldn't eat them. So, we opted for clay!
They turned out wonderful. however, we found that as we were using air dry clay, they cracked really easily. This led to the explanation of WHY clay tablets are not still used today as recording devices. lol, they just don't last. dd 11's even started losing it's impressions as if it had weathered away a bit. Truly a great opportunity to show the effects that time can have on them!
Here are some pictures to show them off; (the color is from the colored craft sticks they used. they thought it was so neat that they could transfer the color as well!)
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| DD 11's clay tablet |
DD 8's Clay tablet |
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| DD 4 Clay tablet |
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