{"id":181,"date":"2008-07-13T13:17:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T12:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-07-13T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T12:17:16","slug":"a-little-message-for-sargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"A little message for Sargon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cuneiform.jpg\" title=\"cuneiform.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/cuneiform.jpg\" alt=\"cuneiform.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Antonia wanted to make a clay cuneiform tablet.\u00a0 It took her a little while to get the hang of printing rather than drawing and to strike the balance between representation and signs.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It reads, from top left to bottom right:\u00a0 Have Fun (fireworks); No Fighting (a man and an explosion); Really Do Not Fight (spears lying down); Go Play (a slide).<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 We have not necessarily been working through the book in order.\u00a0 During our trip to India we did the Indian sections from all four books.\u00a0 We have done some parts of Roman history when we went to Rome, some Chinese history when she began studying Chinese.\u00a0 But right now, globally, we are working on the first book.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Then we do miscellaneous projects, if we feel like it, like the tablet above or further research.\u00a0 Today we learned about Ziggurats and the legend of the Tower of Babel.\u00a0 Antonia reads the stories in the books and I read the documentary text.\u00a0 We spent quite a while mastering the geography of the places we are studying and the dating system.\u00a0 We are both enjoying ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia wanted to make a clay cuneiform tablet.\u00a0 It took her a little while to get the hang of printing rather than drawing and to strike the balance between representation and signs.\u00a0 The tablet above would seem an apt message for Sargon, whom we have been studying, and almost any number of other leaders, past &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A little message for Sargon!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}