Today the boys were doing their "optional" writing exercise from their Sonlight 6 language arts program. This lesson involved writing one of the "fruit of the Spirit" (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control -- Galatians 5:22-23) in the Phoenician cuneiform alphabet. Both J and T chose the last "fruit": "self-control," and T added the extra "fruit" of "love" to his. Both boys also signed their names in cuneiform after their "fruits." Using my special dip pens and ink bottles added to the fun; the boys chose ink and pen over scraping the letters in clay with sticks as the ink would be more long-lasting and perhaps even frameable. We're really enjoying World History in every way this year, especially learning about the methods of writing in different ancient civilizations.
6 comments:
That is a great project and the special pens and ink make it even more so :)
My sixth-grader enjoyed writing in cuneiform, too, a week or so ago--but he doesn't have a cool mom with great tools like real ink and calligraphy pens!
Nice project. And I think you'll be very glad of the photos in years to come.
Looks like fun! Eldest daughter is taking japanese and I was watching her "write" the alphabet...talk about time-consuming. Cuneiform and Japanese make English look easy.
Susan
What a blast! I would love to do that with my kids. Caitrin is still working on Greek and enjoys writing the words the most. Great photos to really show how it looks. Odd writing, isn't it?
I've been thinking of switching to Sonlight next year. The more blogs I read ... the more we are soooooooo switching! :)
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