Antonia wanted to make a clay cuneiform tablet.  It took her a little while to get the hang of printing rather than drawing and to strike the balance between representation and signs.  The tablet above would seem an apt message for Sargon, whom we have been studying, and almost any number of other leaders, past and present.  It reads, from top left to bottom right:  Have Fun (fireworks); No Fighting (a man and an explosion); Really Do Not Fight (spears lying down); Go Play (a slide).

Antonia is now enjoying the Story of the World books by Susan Wise Bauer, and I am glad that she is getting into history at last.  We have not necessarily been working through the book in order.  During our trip to India we did the Indian sections from all four books.  We have done some parts of Roman history when we went to Rome, some Chinese history when she began studying Chinese.  But right now, globally, we are working on the first book.  I usually have a web browser to hand as we are reading so I can dig up more illustrations and we discuss as we go along.  Then we do miscellaneous projects, if we feel like it, like the tablet above or further research.  Today we learned about Ziggurats and the legend of the Tower of Babel.  Antonia reads the stories in the books and I read the documentary text.  We spent quite a while mastering the geography of the places we are studying and the dating system.  We are both enjoying ourselves.