History

Last week we worked on "The Return of Assyria" from Story of the World.

We started by reading the chapter and going over comprehension questions.

We read about how the Assyrians wanted to grow their empire again. They attacked everyone around them and were very harsh to the cities that they defeated, especially those who rebelled against them.

Jayden did some map work and they both colored a picture that  showed the Assyrians ready for battle.

Their coloring page looked like this, only it was black and white for coloring.

Using Lego blocks, the kids crafted an Assyrian Seige Tower as well as the big city wall that seige towers were designed to knock down.

In this chapter one of the things we learned is Ashurbanipal- an Assyrian king- was the first king to build a library. He collected many books for his library at Nineveh. Each kids made their own book to add to his collection!

Jayden's story was about Minecraft.

Caitlin's story was about a rat and cat.