Category: History – Ancient Egypt
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Ancient Egyptian Escape Room
My once little Abigail has recently turned a much bigger girl twelve, and to celebrate her life I threw an Ancient Egyptian Escape room party. Now these can be as simple as photocopying the whole game and playing it as is, or going all out to the point of near hysteria… I’m sure you can […]
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Mystery of History: Lesson Eleven – Early Egyptians
The girls have studied the Egyptians before, but they were still fascinated to revisit it again. I’m getting used to reining myself in and not doing too much per MOH lesson. Early Egyptians – Reading I read out the lesson from the Mystery of History text book. Early Egyptians: Map Work I used a map […]
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Ancient Egypt Homeschool Resource: Mysteries of the Nile
I had wanted to find the perfect ancient Egyptian resource. An ancient Egyptian resource which would not only be interesting to the children, but also to me. I had already taught this era to my older three children and I needed something which would give a spark to it second time round. Mysteries of the […]
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Home School in the Woods: Ancient Egypt {Review}
What is HISTORY Through the Ages Project Passport World History Study: Ancient Egypt? HISTORY Through the Ages Project Passport World History Study: Ancient Egypt is the brain child of Amy Pac and her family run company Home School in the Woods.  The concept is a good one.  The student is given everything he or she needs […]
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Ancient Egypt Unit Study
This post includes all of the work we have done on Ancient Egypt. Â I will be starting a new unit with my little ones next year, so this will be added to. Â The children were aged about 7 when we studied Egypt. Egypt: Part 1- Resources Egypt: Part 2-Â Mummification Egypt: Part 3-Â Â Hieroglyphs Egypt: Part […]
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Looking Back – Ancient Egypt Part Five: Presentation and Field Trips
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 […]
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Looking Back – Ancient Egypt Part Four: Art
Our core books for learning about Egyptian art were: Firstly, we explored the reliefs, as this was something the children were already familiar with. We looked at examples of sunken reliefs and raised reliefs, wrote about them and the children tried their hand at replicating some: As writing was so much part of the Egyptian art […]
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Looking Back – Ancient Egypt Part Three: Hieroglyphs
I was very excited to teach the children about hieroglyphs, especially because it meant lots of lovely hands on activities. We started off with a couple of fiction books, just to whet their appetites: I then did some read aloud and we discussed the type of activities we wanted to do:  I had traveled […]
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Looking Back – Ancient Egypt Part 2: Mummifying a Chicken
The Ancient Egyptians lived their whole life preparing for death. Their elaborate belief system meant that life after death held promises of wonders impossible in this world. Death, burial and mummification seemed a good, if not unusual place to start our study of Ancient Egypt. We used these books for our study: First we learnt […]
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Looking Back – Ancient Egypt: The Books and the Costumes – Part One
I’m doing a series called looking back, documenting learning the children and I did together prior to me blogging. This week I’m starting Ancient Egypt. The children seriously LOVED Egypt and they still ask every single fun week we have ‘could we pleeeeease do Egypt again’! We did a lot, so like Mesopotamia this will be […]