Our Week in Review - Ancient China

This past week we learned about the Ancient Chinese civilization that flourished at the same time as the Ancient Egyptian civilization. Amazing to think about the different people groups at that time that didn't even know each other existed!

We learned a lot about China's geography, and a bit about her ancient history, the dynasties that eventually were united into an empire ~ the longest lasting empire in history! We learned about Chinese inventions, language and writing, religious traditions, homes and daily life. All of the children really enjoyed their literature books for the week ~ I read a Chinese Cinderella story to C and Little Man (Yeh-Shen), L read about Fa-Mulan, a female warrior, and G&G read a collection of short fable-like stories from Ancient China. I love when there is a great lit book for every learning level! We all ended up reading them all!


On Friday afternoon we busily made paper lanterns and colored pictures of dragons to decorate our family room.



(concentrating so hard on cutting!)


We strung up the lanterns with Christmas lights, settled on the floor with Chinese food, and watched the Disney movie: Mulan!




It was a fun week! This week we have turned our attention to ancient civilizations that flourished in the Americas. This will complete our whirlwind tour of ancient civilizations throughout the world!