"10,000 BC"

For history, we followed the advice in The Well-Trained Mind and started at the beginning.  We are studying the earliest people: hunters and gatherers, cavemen, and, apparently, Paleo-Indians in North America known as the Clovis people. 

My mother, knowing that we were studying this era and also that we don't have cable, was thoughtful enough to DVR a History Channel Special called "10,000 BC" for Maggie.  This weekend, we spent a drizzly afternoon at Grandma's house and watched the 2-hour special. 

Maggie LOVED it.  Every few minutes, she turned to me with an exclamation of something like "Mommy, those kids were so strong -- they carried the dead animals all the way back to their camp!"  or "Mommy, can you believe that God made diamonds [nano-diamonds] that small!  They came in a meteor from outer space!"  or "Mommy, mammoths became extinct.  That means there are no more of them anywhere."

And, thanks to the History Channel, Maggie has changed her dream job from "Princess" to "Archaeologist."

"Maggie's Cave Paintings" 

(inspired by the Lascaux Cave Paintings)