« African Photos Website | Main | The National Arbor Day Foundation Poster Contest »
Chinese Pictograms
We just finished up the section in Story of the World that deals with Ancient China. We really like Story of the World because it shares the information in small snippets and gives lots of great supporting books and crafts and it includes mapworks. I am even learning along with the kids! And I have always loved history.
We don't always do the crafts. It depends if it is something I think the kids will get a kick out of and will further their understanding of something. Yesterday they got to do their own pictograms. So we wanted to share using pictures:) (Seemed appropriate).
They are beginning to create their own pictograms. The only instruction was to come up with pictures for words and then see if we could figure them out. They used feathers we have found over the years and dipped them into black poster board paint.
Katrina happily displays her pictogram...if you aren't sure what it is, you will have to scroll down to the bottom for the anwer.
Jack then proudly displayed his pictogram. Again, the answer is at the bottom
Katrina: The large square is a house. On the 'floor' is a cat and her kittens. On the sofa are more cats.... To the left of the house is a person, with a big right foot, but Katrina says the big foot was an accident. ( I thought it was cats watching TV, so I was close, but that was after my guess of a cow and dog in a field!).
Jack: He wanted to try and make a sentence. It goes something like: A flood came because of a lot of rain. The people ran and climbed a big hill, then the sun and a rainbow appeared. Below that you see sun and moon. Okey...dokey then...now we know why archaeologists have a hard time interpreting pictures of the past! (I figured out the rain, rainbow and people running part, so I kind of had the gist of this one).
how fun!
August 30, 2007 12:19 AM
