Tuesday, September 29, 2009

American History: Study of Early Peoples

We are currently studying a few of the Early Native American People groups. We are using The Complete Book of United States History for our studies.

One of the most interesting things about the early native Americans were the marks they left. Hieroglyphics (little pictures to represent words), Petroglyphs (hieroglyphics in stone), Pueblos (stone apartment type structures), etc.

(Also, Justin is really excited because there is a section about Indian sign language. He, of course, had to browse ahead in the book and find that).

Here are some of the boys' drawings of Hieroglyphics, petroglyphs, and pueblos.

Click the pictures to see the details. Justin drew pueblos with petroglyphs on the walls.




Jonathan's (he explained his)


We watched the clip below to see it in "real life". Very interesting. If we were rich, we'd head on over there for the weekend to see them. But I'm really thankful we have Youtube as an alternative. :-)

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