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!)
Well I wish you all the luck with the sugar cookies! I can't even make them for christmas! Much to my DH dismay. He just shakes his head in despair and prays that i'll figure it out by the next round of holidays. I'm much better with cookie dough I can just scoop with a spoon and plop on a cookie sheet. I am improving though, I was finally able to make pie crust, get it to roll out and have it turn out edible!!! So I guess even I can learn new tricks!!
It's just a little of this and a little of that. Basically our way of sharing what we're doing. We have been doing textbooks, and will be soon doing MFW (My Father's World)! We'll be bringing in a little of Charlotte Mason and Ruth Beechick. And a WHOLE LOT OF US!
Shiver is our School Mascot. He is an Emperor Penguin that keeps school from getting too serious. He is also where we get the name of our Home School=Shiver Academy.
T8ermomma is me! I'm a mom of 4 kids ages from 2-11! I'm also a Navy Wife of many years who has traveled the world following DH as he serves our Beloved Country-the Great US Of A!
We are an LDS Family doing our best to stay true to our beliefs, keep our family strong, and perhaps even learn more than just ABC's and 123's.
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