History Highway

The history of ancient civilizations has turned out to be a fascinating subject for all of us. I'm having to do a lot of digging and researching because this was not an area that interested me in school or that was taught in depth. My goal is to give Lilly and Zane a good grasp of the span of mankind from Adam through the birth of Jesus this year with our History Highway and the various texts we are reading. We found this little road and mini-cars at Lakeshore along with the cardstock notebook cards. We are using these to post important dates along our highway. So far, we have made it up to Nimrod attempting to build the Tower of Babel. I thought you might enjoy seeing the pictures they both drew depicting various scenes. Lilly was a little perplexed as to how to draw Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden. She finally decided on hiding them behind some beautiful flowers. I loved Z's drawing of God on day 7 resting on a bed. His simple stick figure of God laying on His bed makes me smile every time I look at it. Another cute drawing is of Eve picking the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. I don't know if you can tell in the picture but she has quite a loooooong arm. Lilly's depiction of Cain killing Abel is fascinating. Cain has his sword drawn up high in the air and Abel is bent over backwards. Notice the lightening bolt in the background. That is "God's anger". The yellow cars driving on the bottom of the highway have the dates, as near as possible written on them. The pictures are attached with paperclips so we can take them off and have the kids put them in chronological order as a way to test what they remember. This is a very fun way to learn about the history of the world!

We are using A Child's History of the World by Hillyer as a broad overview to world history and The Story of the Ancient World by Miller for more specific dates. We have several geography books that we are using alongside our history lessons. More on geography later...