Building Mohenjo Daro Buildings

Step one, turn air dry clay into bricks. This will be WAY more tedious than you envisioned and you will think you have made poor life choices in your choice to do a hands on history program…

You will begin to find out which of your mi ions is a perfectionist, which a slacker, and which is a goofy Gus who would rather be doing anything but making bricks. You will also discover which kid things making bricks makes them an Egyptian slave…drama queens!

Next you wait a week while your minions ask 18 times a day when we are using the bricks. You will repeat the same “whenever I decide to” also 18 times a day. This is part of the process.

It’s a good idea to have them prebuild the buildings so they realize you aren’t kidding when you say you can’t make it 10×10.

They soon realize they should have listened to me and made all the bricks I was suggesting… once again natural consequences are like a ping pong ball to the throat!

Once again you realize you love the end of the project and should keep making things, but you are secretly glad you are out of air drying clay and aren’t planning to purchase any more in the next couple weeks. Mama needs a break!

You can paint with kids and not hate it

Today we focuses on art projects and the activities from our history and science book.

First we painted a model solar system for our space unit. halfway through Little Man says “ Dad! They named a planet after your chicken Uranus!” Lol. So he doesn’t know the order of that naming.

Then we worked on Cuneiform and hieroglyphics scrolls. These took forever. The kids each wrote out a message and then translated it into whichever language they liked and then put it on the scroll. Note: If given the choice of language to write in, go with cuneiform. It’s WAY easier.

The funniest moment of our day came when Miss Comedian saw a truck out the window and said “Dump trucks are just ice cream trucks that have had a rough life!” That kid cracks me up.

Oh, and the secret to painting with kids and not hating it is to put down placemats and do all the painting in one day! Git R Done!