Friday 29

Story of the world.  Thank you again Rachel for sending us the book on cd!   I love how Nathan and Genevieve really love listening to this story, and I think it adds some interest, as mommy is reading our language arts books, this just makes it a little fun.  The kids can do some other things with their hands while listening.  They usually start off playing something and then get involved in the story and give it 100%.   

So we read chapter 2.  Did some map work, looked on our map where the Nile delta is on a present day map, received where the Fertile Crescent was.  So we could see how close they were.  

We learned about the story of Osiris and set.  This is an Egyptian myth which explains why the Nile floods every year.  We discussed how this myth is not true but how myths like these came about.  We talked about how at that time the Egyptians did not have any scientific knowledge to explain the flooding, so this myth helped them explain why the flooding happened. 

We practiced oral narration as both Nathan and Genevieve related to daddy what they learned in chapter 2.  I really like the discussion questions that are in the activity book.  Every week we will do some review of the previous week.  Next day I plan to review nomads, where the Fertile Crescent is, the Nile delta, where upper and lower Egypt is, how they combined to 1 kingdom, Pharos, and the story of Osiris and set.  

We also practised oral math questions. 

Piano practice.  Nathan and Genevieve are practicing a duet of silent night.  I am excited this is my favorite song.  It sounds terrible at the moment :).  It is definitely a unique skill to play a song on the piano together.  They will need to practice quite a bit.