Monday, April 6, 2015

Ancient History: Stone Age


We started the unit by reading:
  • Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History pages 108-109
  • Story of the World: Chapter 1
Nonfiction books we enjoyed:
  •  It's Disgusting and We Ate It!: True Food Facts From Around the World and Throughout History by James Solheim (641.3 So) - pages 16-25 cover some foods eaten in Ancient and Medieval times 
  • You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mammoth Hunter! by John Malam (930.12 Ma) 
  • Horrible Histories Savage Stone Age
Fiction books we enjoyed:
  • Magic Tree House #7: Sunset of the Sabertooth by Mary Pope Osborne
  • Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age by Raymond Briggs - silly cartoon-style book about a boy who keeps trying to invent things that won't be invented for thousands of years after the book is set, and the people around who think he is ridiculous for doing so
  • Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura - a modern boy falls into cave times. Light reading with brief factual bits about what people did and ate.
  • Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel - tells the story of a boy who wants to be a cave painter even though his lineage doesn't allow for it. This one is a longer, more complex story aimed at ages 8+ but worked well as a read aloud for us.
Documentaries we enjoyed:
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams - a little lengthy for The Kid, we watched about half of this. She and I both liked seeing the video of the pristine images from so long ago.

Activities we enjoyed:

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