Two years ago we approached history blending Old Testament history and ancient Egypt together into one year. But we soon discovered that this would push us into Greece and Rome much earlier than our boys would be ready for it. So, we decided to repeat both and do them in the space of two years. Last year we looked at the stories of the Old testament and this year we are looking at Ancient Egypt.
I chose Mark Millmore’s book entitled Imagining Egypt to be our spine. I will read from this book regularly and fill in with more fun things as we go along. Using his chapter titles I found places for all my other resources under each heading. I will plan my daily lessons as we go from that basic outline. So our year of study in Ancient Egypt looks like this:
In The Beginning
Create a wall Map of Egypt (done)
A Child's Geography of Egypt with NP
Read The Time Travelers book
Read Egyptology
Archeology activity
Read Motel Mystery
Listen to The Great myths of Egypt by Jim Wiess
Listen to The courage of Isis by Jim Wiess
Color some pages from A Coloring book of Ancient Egypt
Kings and Queens
Read Tutankhamen’s gift
Listen to A Rival for the Throne by Jim Wiess
Paint Pharaoh Mask
Pyramids
Make the 3-D pyramid
Put the pyramids on the wall map
Read the Great Pyramid
Notebook some pages on this topic
Color some coloring pages on this topic
Listen to The pyramid builders Jim wiess
The Temples
Build the Egyptian temple model
Color some coloring pages of the temples
Build the Egyptian archway
Hieroglyphs
Notebook some pages on the Rosetta stone
Read Seeker of Knowledge
Use the Hieroglyphs message maker (comes with Millmore's book)
Do a hieroglyphs treasure hunt for the Egyptian treasure chests
Numbers and Math fun
How to make Papyrus activity
Gods and Goddesses
Play the Go Fish Gods and Goddesses Game
Make a Gods hierarchy chart
Listen to Osiris and Set by Jim Wiess
Listen to The secret name of Amman Ra by Jim Wiess
Daily Life
Read Boy of the Pyramids
Color pages from life in Ancient Egypt coloring book
Make Egyptian honey cakes
Play Senet
Do some activities from Ancient Science
Read portions from Time Travelers
Build an Egyptian house from Ancient Egyptians and their neighbors activity book
Build an Egyptian boat from AEAB pg 32
Fig Cakes AEAB pg 37
Irrigation machine AEAB pg 120
Land of the Dead
Read Mummy math
Listen to The mummies tomb by Jim Wiess
The Dynasties
Complete a timeline of ancient Egypt
At the end of the day I read out loud chapter books to the boys. This year there are so many lovely chapter books on Egypt we will be using this eveing time to get in a little bit more history as well as good stories to sleep by. Here is our list of Read alouds pertaining to Egypt.
Next in our day is Math.
Wow, this is an impressive curriculum. I am putting a link to it on one of my posts. Thanks for sharing all your work.
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