There are many memorable curriculum highlights from my homeschool days, such as History of the Horse (which I’ll write about later this year), Think It Through tiles from Discovery Toys, and the year my youngest siblings did Along the Alphabet Path. Anything involving history and literature was particularly popular with me, and many of my memories involve those subjects. Our homeschool curriculum was organized so that history was taught in cycles. If you followed the pattern all the way through high school, you’d hit different eras multiple times, going a bit deeper with each iteration. One time period we did only once was ancient Egypt, but some moments from that year stand out clearly in my memory.
Maybe you’ve built a model of the Nile River in an old kiddie pool, complete with sand and foliage and water. But have you also dressed up as an Egyptian queen, with a bejeweled collar you painted yourself and a curly wig you crafted from construction paper? It was great fun, and amid these crafts, we learned about Egyptian culture, burial customs, climate, and religion. We also had a book of Egyptian folktales, which I devoured. While it was not as engaging — for me at least — as Greek and Roman myths and legends, there was still a healthy level of wonder and mysteriousness to keep me interested.
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