Egypt Week

This week we are studying Egypt in depth. We made our usual wall charts to illustrate the country and its prominent features. I had Haley color a few printout of pharoahs and the Nile River valley as well.

Another useful resources for things like this is Discovery Channels

United Streaming. For about $129 or a 30 day trial you can access 1000's of educational videos geared towards any age level. I found 3 or 4 on Egypt that were actually animated- so Haley watched those to supplement her book work. We learned about these key points:

1.) Egypt's geographic location and terrian

2.) the ever important Nile River

3.) The Nile River's role in farming and yearly flooding

4.) Egypt's kings as Pharaohs

5.) the practice of mummification and its purpose

6.) The real use of the pyramids, and how they were built

7.) Heiroglyphics- we printed out the alphabet and wrote our names

We also have a few early reader books on Egypt which Im having Haley read to

me.