Well, I really fell off updating this, but that’s okay, we were keeping busy. We’ve sort of hit our stride with schooling and I think it’s going well.

No recaps, but today we’re focusing on Mesopotamia which is Chapter 3 in Curiosity Chronicals. We’ve built the notebook pages with a map of Mesopotamia, learned about the Tigris & Euphraties rivers, and the impact of Agriculture and Hearding on the development of Civilization.

Reference Materials

• We’re using Curiosity Chronicals as our base curriculum.
• We read a few pages from Ancient Mesopotamia Inside Out by Ellen Rodger which is also available online through the Toronto Public Library.
• Khan Academy - Ancient Mesopotamia
• We used this map to help identify the various important parts of the area, and the kid also coloured a map of mesopotamia

And finally, we did our nature journalling which led to some great conversations about properties of water (we found some ice in a metal bucket!), pressure, atmosphere, the impact on the weather, and what the difference between gravity and atmosopheric pressure is.