Last Day of History Class

At the beginning of this school year we joined a homeschool co-op.  Every Friday Jovi got to go to a history class that did map work and activities based on our weekly history reading from The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor (Revised Second Edition) (Vol. 1) (Story of the World) (we love this history book by they way).  Then she had PE and sign language classes.  We had a lot of fun as part of the co-op, but we lost our building and the co-op fell apart in December.  The PE and sign language classes were fun, but extra in my opinion.  I felt the History class was important, Jovi was enjoying it and I really wanted her to finish it in preparation for the upcoming school year.  I could have just bought the activity book and done the map work and activities on our own, but many of the activities are more fun with more kids, SO I started a history class on my own.  We met every other Friday for an hour and a half with three other children (we had two more for a month and a half before their family moved).  We had so much fun and the families we came to know are great!  Some of the kids' favorite projects were, practicing Chinese calligraphy, acting out the story of Remus and Romulus, making a crown like the Roman emperor Nero (the first to have a heavy gold crown with points) and enjoying a Celtic feast.  We had our last class the first week of June and ended with the fall of the Roman Empire and a swim party, very appropriate since the Romans invented swimming pools (aka Roman baths).  Here the kids are working on making barbarian heavy bracelets before we went swimming.




I learned a lot about ancient world history as we read and did activities, hopefully Jovi and the other children learned just as much and had fun doing it.  Next school year we will be part of a new co-op and I get to teach history for Preschool-2nd grade (not all at the same time).  I'll also be teaching an art class at my home and the kids I taught this year will hopefully be part of it.  There are lots of fun things to look forward to this coming school year.