Ancient History

Our scrapbook is finished. It was my son's idea, sort of. He wanted to scrapbook and I wanted to review Ancient History. We used the beautiful time line figures from Homeschool in the Woods as the basic skeleton, and then added maps, drawings, paintings, narrations, puppets, and paper dolls. Everyone colored and cut and pasted time line figures and maps. Then each added their own contributions.

Edison made a colorful Sumerian ship that actually moves up and down the Tigris River map with the help of a popsicle stick; he illustrated his retelling of how silk was discovered; and he illustrated a fascinating description of the building of the Great Wall of China.

St. George included a drawing of David fighting Goliath, a retelling of Aesop's The Lion and the Mouse, and some Chinese brush paintings.

Rose cut and colored Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman paper dolls; she wrote How to Make a Mummy in Four Easy Steps; retold Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; she illustrated Alexander riding Bucephalous; and she illustrated a story that takes place in the Colosseum.

At the last minute Rose added a monochromatic drawing done in brown marker and entitled Chinese Dancers With Fans and Edison decided that the book needed a better representation of the architectural marvel that was The Great Pyramid. He built a hollow pyramid out of legoes (inside was the tomb of the pharaoh and an intricate maze to confuse potential grave robbers). We photographed the marvel and then St. George accidentally sat on it. Todd and I spent several hours reconstructing the marvel with a tearful Edison. But all is well. The structure was restored and this morning the architect himself dismantled it to build something else.

And so it is finished. We read through it today and as I closed the back cover St. George asked, "What's next?"
"Next?"
"What comes after the fall of Rome? When are we going to read about what comes next?"
Silly me. I thought we were finished.