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Category: history
How to Mummify a chicken
Or as my husband likes to call it, the undead chicken. My family has a weird sense of humor. But, in all seriousness, as I update this post 5 years later, this has made for one of our most memorable homeschool history lessons. When we cover Mystery of History 1 again, I plan to do…
Battle of Jericho
I made the mistake of telling my kids that in a few days, we’d be building the city of Jericho as part of our homeschool history lessons and then destroying it (I’d never do this as a Sunday School lesson because too much chaos for our class of 30). As you can imagine, that immediately led to…
Cookie Cutter stamping with Westward expansion picture book
Future Ticia here, years ago I found an amazing book called Wheat Doll, it’s a great story about some pioneers living in Utah during the time of Westward Expansion of US history. The kids and I thoroughly enjoyed Wheat doll, and made three crafts with it. I’ll go into the most detail about our cookie…
How to teach your child to follow procedures
As part of my update on the chicken mummy, I’m going to show how I went about teaching the kids about following procedures. A very important lesson for homeschool science lesson, and one my kids have learned over and over again. Following procedures: Make observations We got the chicken out of its bag of salt…
Making a mummy
We started studying Egypt this week in our homeschool history lesson, and what do you think of when you think of Egypt, but mummies. So, taking a page from the Story of the World Ancient History, we’re making a mummy. Warning, not for the easily grossed out, or germ-o-phobes. (This post has affiliate links) Supplies…