Have you ever wondered what it was like to live in the Stone Age? Here’s a hint… They lived in caves, hunted wild animals, and cut holes in their own skulls to cure headaches (ouch!). Check out my Savage Stone Age Unit, and discover more of the Stone Ager’s savage ways!
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Savage Stone Age {Horrible Histories} by Terry Deary
Savage Stone Age by Terry Deary discusses how Stone Agers lived, the type of animals they hunted, and their savage solutions to every day problems. We also learn about how they cooked their food, their weird beliefs, gruesome burials, accidental discoveries, and stone circle legends.
Suggested Schedule:
We only had four days during our first week of school, and followed this reading schedule:
- 1st Day-
- 2nd Day-
- 3rd Day-
- 4th Day-
This book could easily be stretched over a whole week (or more) if that would work better for your family. Remember- the beauty of homeschooling is flexibility!
Extras…
This year I am using the whole Horrible Histories set with Julia and Jack as our core history curriculum. As I am sure you have already figured out these books are not a curriculum on their own, so I will be adding extra materials to our schedule to take our learning a step further. Want to join in on the fun? Here is everything I added in this week:
Books
In addition to Savage Stone Age, we read:
- Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura
- You Wouldn’t Want to be a Mammoth Hunter! by John Malam
Since I am using this unit with two of my children I try to mix in a variety of materials for both of their grade and ability levels. These books were more for Jack, and he absolutely loved You Wouldn’t Want to be a Mammoth Hunter! by John Malam.
Videos
This week we watched Horrible Histories, Season 1 Episode 2 on Prime Video. Just like the book this episode is full of humor, fun facts, and mini quizzes!
Wondering what the answer is? Guess you’ll have to watch the video! Just kidding… The answer is: “A: Crawl through a hole in a boulder”.
Every week we have a family movie night. Here are the movie choices I allowed my children to pick from to go with our Stone Age Unit:
We have seen all of these movies before, but this week we decided to go with Encino Man. I am sure we will watch the others again soon too though!
Websites
This week Julia is working on he writing skills, and focused on how to summarize an article found on a website. She read Paleomythic: How People Really Lived During the Stone Age at the beginning of the week, and submitted her final summary on Friday.
We also took a virtual tour of Stonehenge before taking on our STEM challenge.
Thank you for checking out my Savage Stone Age Unit…
Make sure to check back for more of our Horrible Histories Unit Studies soon!
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