Moving Over the Old - Awesome Egyptians

Awesome Egyptians

1/3/12  We learned about the scarab beetle today and how they Egyptians worshiped it.  Ask your kids for the details.  They were intrigued yet disgusted at the same time!

11/15/11  So we had fun, tons of fun, this week!  But guess what?  I didn't take any pictures!  I sure wish I would have!  We learned all about the life of kids back in Ancient Egypt.  Everyone seemed a little concerned that Egyptian kids did not wear any clothing.  This was just too, too gross for my Egyptologist!  Afterwards, we participated in some games the kids played back in the day.  Xander and Jake dominated in the leap frog races.  Egyptian tug-of-war was a little rough on the arms!  Egyptian kids did not use a rope, they just linked arms and pulled!  Now, don't you wish I had pictures of all the excitement?  I must have just been too into the fun!


11/8/11  Today we had a great lesson on Egypt being backwards.  We learned all about Upper Egypt, Lower Egypt, the Red and Black Land and how the Nile River is backwards.  We even made awesome foldables to show how the Nile flows from south to north instead of north to south like most other rivers.  Our rivers actually move!

11/1/11  It took most of study group, but we finished our "Peek-a-Boo" Maps.  Check them out along with the covers for our Egypt books we will be adding to all year!

10/25/11  Today we worked hard on our "Peek-a-Boo" Maps.  They are not quite done yet.  Check back next week to see exactly what this is!

10/18/11  We had our first "real" lesson, and these guys and gals were awesome!  We had the opportunity to look at Kerrville and Cairo (and the rest of the U.S. and Egypt) on Google Earth.  How cool is it that these kids could see the differences of these two locations!?!?!  Next, we discussed how the hippo was an important animal in Ancient Egypt and wrapped up by making hippo amulets to help us on our journey through time!  

Here are two of the guys creating their hippo amulets!

Look at these awesome hippo amulets!  Each has the lotus flower on it somewhere - a very important part of Ancient Egypt!

10/11/11  These Awesome Egyptians got off to a great start!  After getting all the "housekeeping" stuff out of the way, we brainstormed a list of everything we could imagine might have to do with Egypt.  Next, we watched a little video to introduce us to Ancient Egypt and learned some cool things and some ewwwey things!  All in all, the kids are excited but think the Egyptians might have been a little strange.