G informed me this morning that history this year is "cooler" than history last year. LOLOL. We are currently studying ancient Egypt in Year 1 of Tapestry of Grace. C and L are doing Lower Grammar (3rd and 2nd grades), and one of their projects this past week was to make an Egyptian paddle doll similar to ones that ancient Egyptian children would have made and played with. Here they are with their final products:

These were relatively easy to make. It just took several steps due to paint needing to dry. G is doing Upper Grammar works since he is in 5th grade, and he is planning to make an Egyptian death mask. (Of course, since this thing looks relatively involved and requires paper mache' LOL!) The three of them are in the process of creating a salt dough map of an imaginary place that shows different geography landforms.

We have all learned so much just in the few weeks we've been doing this! We used TOG last year, but it was the classic year 2. Still good, but I am REALLY liking the Redesigned!!!

In one of the readings to C and L, the book said something like, "No one really knows why the Egyptians switched from making pyramids to burying their pharoahs in the Valley of the Kings. And I'm thinking, "Duh, Moses led all of Pharoah's slaves out of Egypt, so there wasn't anyone left to build the pyramids!" It's just neat seeing how history all fits together and how God is involved in it ALL. That's the whole point of TOG anyway. ;)