Chapter 21 or The Mongols Devastate the East happened fast, too, over lunch. I read, they ate. Then we did the map and I asked them to color the portrait of Genghis Khan. My son, 8, is sooo over coloring. Some days I make him do it. This was not one of those days.
A craft I found easy to do was putting history back in order. The strips of paper retelling the story had to be cut out, arranged in order, and glued onto construction paper. Now that we can do, I thought, especially because it has to do with words and reading comprehension. Continue reading