This is my final post on Ancient Egypt. We did lots more, but I don’t have any fun photos, just lots and lots of notebook pages. If anyone wants more information on everything else we covered, drop me a line in the comments section. This post contains all the rest of the photos I took at the time, covering their presentation and the couple of field trips we took.
At the end of each study we do a presentation. This was by far our most favourite! In fact everything about Egypt was our most favourite – it was just so much fun! The dress up are home made from a sheet, some woven material for T’s belt and card cut out for a collar and coloured in. We also allowed them to wear make up! (They are never allowed to wear make up-very exciting!!).
We also took a trip to a pottery place to try our hand at forming clay on a wheel:
And a trip to the British Museum:
And that is the end of our Egyptian study. We revisited Egypt in our studies last summer. We did our own Egyptian dig; solved an Egyptian mystery; explored the morality of mummies on display in museums; delved much deeper into the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb and read Carter’s biography (Man who discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb) Click here if you’d like to learn more about what we did!
I love the photos of them dressed up. They looks so happy. The displays are wonderful!
I am blessed to have very enthusiastic children, so we all get caught up in each other’s enthusiasm!
I like your display a lot, especially showing off all the kids lovely work.
Thanks Sarah!
I loved going through the British Museum on my honeymoon. I think the danger would be if I lived anywhere near there I’d want to always go there……
I know! Thing is, when you take the children it definitely loses some of it’s appeal in terms of staying there a long time! My older ones can manage about an hour before flagging. Me? I’d be there all day given the opportunity (and peace!)
What a fun Egyptian study! I am pinning to my Hands On History Pinterest board to refer back to later. Stopping over from TGIF, wishing you a wonderful weekend!
Thanks for visiting and for pinning!
We just finished up a very long study of Ancient Egypt. My son likes to completely immerse until he can’t learn more. 🙂 Looks like yours was a fun and informative study as well.
Stopping in from Living Life Linky Party
Egypt has to be the most fun country to study! Thanks for popping by and commenting!
Such a great study! Love their costumes. I am so jealous you got to go to the British Museum. I guess my kiddos will have to settle for the ones stateside… but I remember being in awe at the British Museum!
Thanks for linking up at TGIF! Hope to see you linked up again tomorrow =)
Beth
We’ll be there! And I agree the British Museum is amazing!
I’m very impressed with your Egyptian study unit! The displays are awesome, and forming clay on a wheel looks like fun. Actually I wish I was there, too! 🙂 Thank you so much for linking at the Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop #3.
Thanks for having me!
Thank you for another great link up to the Creative Kids Culture Hop – I love reading about what you and your kids have gotten up to. It is giving me a lot of great ideas for our homeschool. I especially like your homemade dress ups!
Thank you so much!
Loved what I saw. I’m a first year teacher–a little overwhelmed, but want to do something engaging and fun when we study Egypt. Any beginning suggestions?
Are you a 1st year home school teacher or a first year classroom teacher? What are the ages of the children you teach? And what sort of resources do you have?