Egyptian Adventure

The next 6-10 weeks will take us to the Land of Ancient Egypt (study wise that is). There is so much available for this study it is hard to pick and choose. Our main guide will be Winter Promise. So far this seems to be my favorite one for World History for the Grammar age student (I am comparing it to Story of the World, Beautiful Feet, Mystery of History, and History Alive). For our Egypt study I will pair Winter Promise with History Pockets to get the following schedule:
Introduction to Egypt
Daily Life
The Nile
Writing and Math
Egyptian Beliefs and Gods
Egyptian Architecture
Egyptian Pharaohs
Mummies
The History Pockets pages will be our jumping off point. After reading the information pages for each of these topics we will then look at other sources for more detailed info. Mostly from the internet, but also from the many books I have and the library has on Egypt.

Egyptian readers Emma has to read.

Along with our study we will be reading some fun Egyptian themed fiction books. Our read aloud will be Golden Goblet. Emma is reading The Egypt Game and then will read Egyptian Diary. Hopefully we will get the audio book The Red Pyramid so even in the car we will be transported to Egypt. I have started rereading the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters just to keep my head in Egypt and because this is such a fun series. There is also a compendium for this series about the Egypt Amelia Peabody is part of that I might look through and share with Emma.

Some fun fiction with an Egyptian theme.

The writing and Math study will be fun. We will practice writing hieroglyphics on papyrus. But the math lover in me is really looking forward to the Egyptian math we will study . A few months ago I stumbled on Count Like an Egyptian that was really interesting. It might be too detailed to use it in its entirety but pulling tid-bits from it would be great. Another book I have that we will use for Egyptian math study is Can You Count in Greek?

Books on Egypt I collected over the years and are for free time reading.

The amount of hands on projects you can do for Egypt is astronomical, actually the amount of info out there on Egypt (books, projects, and internet) is just too great one can get lost in Ancient Egypt for years. Trying to pick and choose what we will use to study each aspect has been the hardest thing I am doing for World History. Also I do not want to get bogged down with hands on projects. I picked just a few but have let Emma know she can work on any projects she wants from the different Ancient Egypt craft books the libraries (mine and the city) have. I did find a neat Mummy making kit that we will use, but we will  try the mummified chicken project from Story of the World to end our study on Egypt.

*A note on the History Pocket pages and how we are using them.

History Pockets had a drawn and labeled map of Egypt, Emma had to draw her own map of Egypt and label it

I am not constructing the actual pocket book but instead making them part of her hands on notebook she is creating. Some of the pages we will take the idea presented and then make her own version. This way her notebook is not filled with photocopied workpages. 4th grade is when we do more writing and drawing for our notebooks. So far I have not been met with discord on creating her own pages but with enthusiasm and taking the ideas HP gives and jazzing them up Emma style.

An example of a recreated History pocket page: History Pockets had a drawn and labeled picture of Egyptian dress, Emma drew her own and wrote about the clothing.

History Pockets had a Venn Diagram you filled in, Emma made her own.