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• Fantastic Band Concert

  Posted on Tuesday December 11th, 2007 at 14:39 in band, band concert, band instruments, baritone, children family, christmas concert, family memories, fancy clothes, homeschool, homeschool band, trumpet

  Last night, we were treated to a really nice band concert!  Both Nik and Jake played in the beginning band and I was quite impressed with how it sounded.  They have only been playing for about four ...

• King Tut

  Posted on Monday November 5th, 2007 at 15:29 in akhenaten, amenhotep iv, ancient civilizations, ancient egypt, ancient history, ancientnubia, aten, homeschool, homeschool history, king tut, kingdoms of the nile

  Of course, we all know that King Tut became king of Egypt at a very young age…only seven years old! What I didn’t realize though was that he had been raised in Amenhotep IV’s home. ...

• Amenhotep IV the Monotheist

  Posted on Thursday November 1st, 2007 at 09:01 in akhenaten, amenhotep iv, ancient civilizations, ancient egypt, aten, homeschool, nefertiti

  Amenhotep IV was married to Nefertiti and had inherited the throne from his father. Like all other pharaohs before him, he was polytheistic which means he worshipped many gods. However, somewhere a...

• Hatshepsut

  Posted on Tuesday October 30th, 2007 at 14:05 in ancient egypt, ancient history, hatshepsut, homeschool

  Photo by Son of Groucho     When I was six my father Thutmose the First lifted me up to sit beside him on his throne of Amen. He said, Flower of Egypt, you will be a ruler. –from H...

• Thutmose the First

  Posted on Monday October 29th, 2007 at 11:33 in ancient civilizations, homeschool, homeschool history, hyksos, nubians, queen ahmose, thutmose i

  Ahhh….we’ve come to the time where we are going to be studying some of the well-known pharaohs! the first pharaoh on our list is Thutmose the First. Thutmose I was one of the dudes who ...

• Hyksos

  Posted on Friday October 26th, 2007 at 20:48 in ancient egypt, ancient history, homeschool, hyksos

  We have really been learning about some interesting people in our ancient history studies.  This week we did just one history section which was about the Hyksos.  This group of people were Asiatic ...

• Ancient Nubia

  Posted on Wednesday October 17th, 2007 at 10:56 in ancientnubia, aswan dam, homeschool, king tut, kingdoms of the nile, queen tiye

  Yesterday we read about Ancient Nubia which was south of Egypt. Nubia was also known as Kush. We discovered that Queen Tiye became the queen of Egypt when she married the pharaoh Amenhotep III. We ...

• Sandstorms, Camels and Tuaregs

  Posted on Thursday October 11th, 2007 at 11:42 in angry camels, camels, chewing camels, gret sahara desert, homeschool, neat, sandstorms, tuareg people

  photo by TeecNosPos So folks…I’ve been away for a bit…not a long time but just enough time to go cyber traveling quickly through the Great Sahara Desert. We’ve been studying...

• Farming in Ancient China

  Posted on Tuesday October 9th, 2007 at 10:04 in ancient china, homeschool

  Yesterday, in history, we discussed farming in ancient China. Of course we discussed rice farming, but we also discussed how rice was not grown in northern China because the land was too dry. I jus...

• Silk Worms

  Posted on Thursday October 4th, 2007 at 07:49 in ancient china, homeschool, how silk is made, making silk, silkworms

  I forced the kids to watch a video about silk. It was horrible and terrible and no one should force their kids to watch something so boring and blah blah blah….so say my kids. However, I will ...