Day 1
Read SOTW Ch. 2: Egyptians Lived on the Nile
Books: The Nile River, Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile
Activities: locate Egypt and Nile River on map; look here for info on life on the Nile
Lapbooks: where is Egypt, the Nile River, pharaoh
Day 2
Read SOTW Ch. 3: Hieroglyphs
Books: Hieroglyphs, The Day of Ahmed's Secret, Solve the Mystery of Ancient Egypt, started Mummies in the Morning
Lapbook: name in hieroglyphs- looked at this website and then kids drew their name
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| Top to bottom: Caleigh, Molly, Colin |
Day 3
Read SOTW Ch. 4: Old Kingdom of Egypt (Making Mummies section)
Books: Mummies Made in Egypt, Eyewitness Books-Mummy, 100 Things You Should Know About Mummies
Lapbook: making mummies, Book of the Dead
Activities: decorate sarcophagus, take turns going through the process of making a mummy here, look through this, make apple mummies
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| Sarcophagus pictures |
Day 4
Continue reading SOTW Ch. 4: Egyptian Pyramids section
Books: Who Built the Pyramids, Pyramid
Lapbooks: Sphinx, what would I find inside an Egyptian tomb
Activities: word search, play Seega
Day 5
Read SOTW Ch. 12: Middle Kingdom of Egypt and Ch. 13: New Kingdom of Egypt
Books: Egypt: in Spectacular Cross-Section, Adventures in Ancient Egypt, Who was King Tut? (Colin only)
Look at Tut websites here, here, and here
Activities: crossword puzzle, King Tut coloring page, online game
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| Colin Molly Caleigh |
Day 6
Play Mehen
Lesson 21 from Artistic Pursuits book 1: Art in pyramids
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| Crawl through the passageway |
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| Climb steps |
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| Arrive in hallway of the pyramid |
Our book said the drawings on the wall were of everyday life. They also drew things that they believed would help the person in the afterlife. They believed the drawings would come to life. Here are the kids' drawings.
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| Not really sure what's going on in Molly's picture. She said she was drawing a pyramid and it didn't look right so she did this. |
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| Caleigh has a pyramid, mummy, flower, sun, tree, & a servant. |
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| Colin drew a pharaoh and a TV with a Wii. He wanted to make sure he'd have the Wii in case the drawings really did come to life. |
In the SOTW activity guide, they have directions for making a mummy out of a chicken. I'm just not brave enough for that. I have enough trouble touching chicken to make dinner. So we used an apple instead. I sliced the apple. We put a piece in two plastic cups. We added 1/3 cup salt and 1/3 cup baking soda to one cup making sure the apple slice was covered. Then both cups were put into our pantry. This is what we found when we checked them a week later.
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| The mummified apple |
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| The uncovered apple |
The kids didn't think either apple piece looked that great. We compared the two noticing that the uncovered one had mold on it and was rotting while the mummified was didn't. The mummified was shrunken and dried out and the kids could easily tell it weighed less than the other.
Free Lapbook Resources:
Ancient Egypt unit study and lapbook from Homeschool Share
Architect of Ancient Egypt Lapbook from Handle on the Arts
Another Ancient Egypt lapbook
Notebook pages (all of these are from HSS except the picture in the bottom right corner; it was something you could print after playing the online game I posted above):
We've had lots of pyramid building going on around here. Here's one of Colin's:
5 comments:
These look great and lots of fun. I am going to go check these lapbook pages, thanks for the links.
Yah, that chicken mummy never appealed to me. I think your mummy apple was a great idea. And Wow! you fit in a lot for history this week.
I found your post through Pinterest. Awesome! I cannot wait until we reach ancient Egypt next school year. This is a wonderful post about that as helped springboard my imagination. Thank you! :)
I found you through Pinterest and am so excited to look through the rest of your blog. Thank you for sharing your journey :)
Thanks for wwriting this
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